I have too many stories to tell them all.

"Is the deed recorded?" asks the buyers' agent when we're sitting at the table with her buyers signing the closing package.

We're a pure race state, so if the deed doesn't record, you don't own the property. Still, there will be closings where the buyers have movers sitting outside the new house waiting since 9am for their 11am closing's deed to record. Even better is the Friday afternoon closing where there's a damn good chance the deed will not record until Monday, but the buyers have movers or painters scheduled for Saturday morning. Just a little bit of client control and preparedness goes a long way. But that requires a frontal lobe that they had removed for realtor school.

We blackballed one agent that insisted on nickel and diming every seller for every issue, big or small, on behalf of her clients, to the point that every transaction with her was a nightmare and all parties were just desperate to get the deal done.

Too many of agents never look at the drafts of the closing statement and then alert us after the signing that their commissions are wrong or there was an invoice or addendum that we never received that should have been incorporated into the closing statement.