By Amy Gamerman | Wall Street Journal
Q: Have you ever had to referee a tug of war between buyer and seller?
Jonathan Schulz
Real-estate agent, The Corcoran Group in New York City
It was the worst closing I’ve ever been involved in. My clients were a couple with a child who needed more space, so they were moving out of their lofted studio apartment. The buyer was a single woman who was an attorney. Sometimes attorneys get into the nitty-gritty more than other people.
The contract had standard language about items to be left behind and one was “mirrors.” It’s boilerplate stuff, it refers to things like bathroom mirrors that are bolted to the wall. The sellers had mirrors in the bathroom and they also had two very large decorative mirrors leaning against the wall, and a sit-down vanity which had a mirror attached—an inexpensive thing, like from Ikea.
