My mother is in the process of selling their business property in Ohio. The original listing contract that she had expired months ago.

Now she has an interested party wanting to buy it, but the buyer's agent says that he will not submit the offer unless my mother signs a listing agreement with him.

He also said that if any other realtor is involved, he will not present the offer.

This is NOT the way that Realtors are supposed to operate, is it?

This realtor is from a totally different brokerage than the one that mother had originally used. Mom doesn't want to go thru a realtor. She just wants to use her Attorney.

Thanks for any help and/or suggestions.

That sounds a little strange, but you really haven't given enough details to size up the situation.

Doesn't sound like anything I've heard before, but it seems every day I learn something new, so that doesn't mean much.

Maybe you can give more details about it. I haven't heard of anything like this before. I would think that your mom could sell it to the buyer without an agent.

something sounds a little fishy with that situation. Sounds like someone is trying to make as much money as possible off of the deal.

Is there any update on this? What happened? Did the house sell, and did you get to the bottom of the buyer's agent and their strange demands?