I viewed a home with my realtor last night and as anybody in the market for homes know, the owners leave while the realtor shows you the home. Anyway, I was looking at a very nice house and noticed a crock-pot filled with beef stew on the counter.
I went to view this home right after work so did not have time for my supper. While the realtor was going through his checkpoint of the home I grabbed a fork and helped myself to a fair portion of the beef stew directly from the crock-pot (I did not want to dirty any dishes).
I placed a bid on the home and from what I understand by far the highest. However, I got a call from my realtor stating the owners refused my bid because they knew I ate some of the beef stew in the crock-pot. Realtor stated they were "disgusted" I ate the food.
My question - is this legal? Can they NOT sell me the house just because of this?
2007-03-22 05:55:04 · 22 answers · asked by Rick Martel 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
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You have some serious issues. They were right to bounce you - your agent should do the same.
There's more to an offer than price. The sellers are committing to a long and complicated transaction with you. If the buyer is a slimy amoral self-centered user (I think I'm being generous) then the transaction will not go smoothly.
2007-03-22 06:17:30 · answer #1 · answered by sdmike 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didn't your mother teach you any manners? Even if you were so ravenously hungry that you just couldn't politely wait, you should have asked at the very least. Would you want someone to come into your home and help themselves to your family dinner?
Did you grow up in a barn? Even rudely taking some of their dinner, you even ruined the rest by eating directly out of the pot with a fork. I'm sure you wouldn't feed your children strange-germ-ridden leftovers either. It might have been at least a bit less insulting had you bothered to dirty a plate instead, but not by much.
So, I think they were completely in the right to deny your bid. I would have too. No one wants a rude, ill-mannered, nasty man ruining a home they care about.
2007-03-22 07:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by Karma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LMAO!!!!!!!!! You did not relatively try this did you? i does not settle on your bid the two! And that is criminal. A supplier has the ultimate to refuse bids without justification. ingesting suitable from the Crock Pot and that is not even your place? you haven't any couth or decorum. i might have chucked that stew into the rubbish. Who is conscious the place your mouth has been or what illnesses you carry? i'm an previous military guy and theory I had heard of each disgusting ingredient yet this.....it relatively takes the cake.
2016-10-19 08:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by thedford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Completely legal. My wife and I put in a bid on a house a few years that was rejected. Our agent called the seller's and asked why. They said that although our bid was higher they accepted a different bid because the seller was in the army and he noticed that the other offer was from someone also in the army so they took his offer. The seller has the right to accept whichever offer they want regardless of differences in price, etc.
You made a stupid mistake by doing this. Why did you think it would be ok to eat their food? Would you have wanted someone to look at the house you sold and eat your food?
2007-03-22 06:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by Matt M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can do whatever they want to do--they own the house. If they discriminated your offer because of your race, age or any other factor then yes, it would be illegal--but your bad behavior and their refusal based on that is not illegal.
I am shocked that your realtor even let you get away with this type of behavior. Most would have stopped you.
By the way...that is disgusting and totally rude. I hope this post was a joke.
2007-03-22 06:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my mom is a realtor and...
ONE: as people said, they can choose any bid they want even if its only $1.00 compared to $100,000,000. for ANY reason they may have.
TWO: someone posted that they would have done the same because sometimes they put out food for their guest.
--this only happens when it is an OPEN HOUSE. in regular viewing home owners don't put out food because they never know when someone is coming until 30 min to an 1 hr before.
---even if they left out food they would have paper plates/bowls and plastic utensils out for the viewers... and it would be set by the door or dining room.
what you did was wrong, i am sorry. it is sort of like going through private property.. that was the home owners meal... not yours...
this is legal what they are doing .. period..
and as someone said before.. drive thru's and snacks...
Sorry, but i went and looked at your questions..
you need to think before your actions.
SERIOUSLY.
2007-03-22 06:07:53 · answer #6 · answered by pinkfuzza 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are the owners and can say no to any bid or yes that's is why they are called bids. Not a guarantee.
I would of ate the stew too, simply because when people do open houses they usually have appetizers and I would of assumed maybe they were concidering the time of day it was and wanted to do dinner. Did you wash the fork?
2007-03-22 05:59:34 · answer #7 · answered by brndbradsh 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
That was pretty rude that you did that & probably pretty embarassing now. You realize that they probably threw the stew out when they realized that you ate out of it.
I am not sure on the legalities of it, but remember that it is a buyers market and you shouldn't have any problem finding another house.
2007-03-22 05:59:37 · answer #8 · answered by Jo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The seller has the right to accept or reject any offer they receive.
It was very disrespectful for you to help yourself to the meal they had prepared for themselves.
If you REALLY want that house, then maybe you should send them a letter of appology along with a gift certificate for a nice restaurant in the area.
2007-03-22 06:10:13 · answer #9 · answered by Laurie D 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
do you know most home owners put something in the oven to make the houses smell good. be it cookies or a crock pot full of THEIR dinner, you would not want some stranger eating your dinner.. how rude...next time grab a burger on your way. legal or not i would not sell to you.
2007-03-22 06:05:06 · answer #10 · answered by montanamom 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋