The possibility that you could be responsible for any damage to properties close to, or attached to, your rental home
complete the reality that many of us are one
disaster away from
financial devastation.
If a seller instructs the listing agent not to show the property after a transaction is firm, then the agent must obey these instructions, but the agent should advise the seller that firm sales can collapse before completion for a variety of reasons (death of the buyer or one of the buyers, loss of job,
financial disaster, unforeseen problems with the property itself, etc.), and the transaction is not a certainty until the transfer of title is
complete and the money is in the seller's hands.