Question on possible Agent mistake
I am going through the home buying process. We recently put an offer in ($5k under asking) and my agent told us that the sellers were accepting our offer. The sellers wanted until 7/10 stay in the house, that worked in our favor since we aren't in a rush. Our initial offer had them paying us rent for a month after closing. They countered by pushing the closing until 7/10 instead of paying rent. That was fine with us, except we are going out of town 7/10 so the agent suggested changing closing to 7/9. By amending their offer of closing from 7/10 to 7/9, we apparently reopened the negotiating window and they received more offers in that time. According to our agent, our previous offer was going to lose so we upped the offer to $1k over asking (from $5k under). We ended up getting the house and are happy. But I recently heard that we don't have to be at the closing in person so we didn't need to change their offer and basically lost out of $6k. I agreed to the change and we made the decision to up the bid $6k but I can't help but feel our agent made a mistake here. At the very least she should have know the change in dates would have opened up the negotiating window and she should have suggested closing not in person. My question for you is, did my agent make a mistake? Is this a big deal and should I take any measures other than not recommending the agent to friends in the future? This is in Ohio, apologies if I got some terminology wrong.