bloody sucker

My dad totally got undercutted by some asshole property agent.

At least, he suspects so. But really, if you look at the timeline of events, things were just way to coincidental to not be at least suspicious.

(This is what I think happened based on my dad's convo with the owner)
First Asshead called my dad to view this apartment that he's marketing. After viewing, Asshead said the buyer wanted to view the place, so my dad gave him the information. Because my dad wanted to minimise disturbance to the tenant (the place is tenanted at that time), he gave a lot of information to Asshead. Suddenly Asshead said the appointment was off. So ok fine. My dad continued to market the property. Then my dad got a potential buyer to view the place. But SUDDENLY the owner calls and says that his wife manage to sell the property, supposedly directly to a buyer. The funny thing was the buyer had with him an option-to-purchase! Which is totally weird! I mean really, how many people buying property would walk around with an option to purchase? And it happened in such a short span of time after Asshead cancelled the appointment! Plus, when my dad called the tenant, the tenant said that Asshead called him too to arrange for viewing!

That's too much of a coincidence don't ya think?

And now, after spending so much effort screening potential buyers and money advertising and marketing the property, my dad basically has nothing. No commission, no compensation.

Zero. Zilch. Nada.

Sigh, why does my dad meet such assholes all the time?

My dad's really had a tough life. That's probably why he lost his faith. Yet, he still presses on each day, of course grumbling occasionally (who can blame him really?), but presses on nonetheless.

Oh fuck, I'm tearing up.