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Alabama - We're the home seller. Got 2 contract offers same day (few hours apart) that were only $100 difference in price, but needed to counter for a longer date before possesion on both. Our realtor suggested we counter both offers with the new possession date and select the contract offer of the party that responded back first. I asked if that was OK to do and was told yes. Our realtor then faxed our countered date to both party's realtors representing the prospective buyers with note whoever responds first will get the contract. These realtors told their prospective buyers about our the "first come, first serve" plan and the party who did not get the contract has now filed an an injunction against our home stating we sold the home twice. We only followed realtor advise and did not know this would create a problem. What can we do???? What kind of injunction is on our house? Who is responsible for this situation? Should we get an attorney? What are our options?

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Originally Posted by skeebo

Alabama - We're the home seller. Got 2 contract offers same day (few hours apart) that were only $100 difference in price, but needed to counter for a longer date before possesion on both. Our realtor suggested we counter both offers with the new possession date and select the contract offer of the party that responded back first. I asked if that was OK to do and was told yes. Our realtor then faxed our countered date to both party's realtors representing the prospective buyers with note whoever responds first will get the contract. These realtors told their prospective buyers about our the "first come, first serve" plan and the party who did not get the contract has now filed an an injunction against our home stating we sold the home twice. We only followed realtor advise and did not know this would create a problem. What can we do???? What kind of injunction is on our house? Who is responsible for this situation? Should we get an attorney? What are our options?

**A: your idiot Realtor created a huge problem. Go and talk to the principal broker to see if their attorney or E&O will handle this problem. If not, you need to hire your own atorney.