After finding a house in Michigan both my friend and I liked we placed an offer on the house on Friday. The selling realator refused to show our offer to the sellers till Sunday after their open house. The offer was shown to them sunday night along with 3 others obtained at the open house. They came back on all four offers with a counter offer and the terms were to be met by close of business on Monday. My friend and I were the only offer of the four that followed thru with the counter offer and signed the new paperwork at noon on Monday. Tusday durring the day my realator called and told me we did not get the house. The selling realator had taken our offer and went to another office and placed an offer matching ours plus $100 more for another family that was not part of the original four. Then showed their offer to the sellers, who accepted it. She did this so she could keep the selling and buying commision. The excuse we were given was that our mortgage comapany was not as well known as theirs, even though we had a pre-approval letter. After our realator complained about this to the management of the Real Estate company both realtors worked for, the selling realtor had to take her selling commision and donate it to a charity. I still feel my friend and I were jipped out of our house. Is there anything we could of done or can do?![]()

