It's ok when you are choosing candy to snack on....go ahead...play that jingle in your head..."Sometime you feel like a nut...Sometimes you don't..." This candy comes in plain and peanut...choose whatever you feel you are in the mood to eat....However....when you are buying a house...there are rules...not the listing agent's, not your buyer's agent...not the sellers' and not the buyers...they are rules that the state in which you live has made to protect all parties....the contract has rules about times you can and cannot cancel, object, ammend...the rules are there for a reason...they are legal rules. Your agent is the messenger...listen to him/her and understand what your rights and obligations are and are not...and what the consequences are for not performing according to the contract.
In Wisconsin...there is a time for earnest money, inspection, loan committment....and of course, closing...know the times...if you are the least little bit unsure of what you can/cannot do...ask your agent...not your friend, your relative, your neighbor...ask the person who does it every day and does it successfully. Do not decide that because this is how YOU want it and your agent cannot facilitate that that she/he is not working for you...she/he is the messenger and must abide by the rules....and you have to do the same. Some day you will be a seller and you would not appreciate the "I want it/I don't" happening to you....Use common sense...ask your agent...and know you are getting the advice the law has provided.
Now that song is going to be on my mind all morning -- LOL. I regularly have Clients who come to me saying,
"My friend said I should/should not do this?"
"Are you paying your friend?"
"No."
"Are you paying me?"
"Yes."
"Your choice."
Again...common sense.....who knows best....gee ya think it could be the person who does it for a living ?