A buyer appeared and went directly to the owner

At the end of April, the owners told me that an interested buyer had contacted them.

He had viewed the house and offered 30,000 euros.

At first glance, this was good news.

Only after the viewing, the buyer decided to continue negotiations directly with the owner.

This happens sometimes. A person gets access to an object through the work of a broker, meets the seller and then decides that the broker is no longer needed.

The problem was not only the commission.

At that point, the parties had agreed only on the price.

Everything else was still open:

— who was buying the house: an individual or a company;

— which equipment and items were included;

— who would pay for transport;

— when dismantling could begin;

— by what date the house had to leave the plot;

— when the keys would be handed over;

— what would happen if the buyer paid part of the price, started dismantling the structure and then failed to pay the rest.

I had to bring the transaction back into one clear process, collect the details of both parties and start preparing the contract.

The buyer turned out to be a company. That also had to be entered correctly in the documents: company name, registry code, representative and authority to sign.

One of the email addresses did not work. The message bounced back as undelivered. By phone, the buyer answered irregularly.

I had to look for an alternative address, resend materials and at the same time explain to the sellers that silence did not yet mean the transaction was off.

Sometimes negotiations in real estate do not rest on a complicated legal structure, but on whether someone manages to find a working Gmail address.

When contact was finally restored, a new conflict appeared. The parties had agreed on the price, but they imagined the payment schedule very differently.