Your agent may not be asking the right questions. Before a seller accepts an offer, we either ask the buyer’s agent directly or we call the buyer’s lender directly. And this is one of the questions we ask:When can we expect conditional approval? And just to be clear I’m not trying to play lender. I’m doing this to protect the seller and make sure the deal actually gets to the closing table. Here’s why that question matters. Conditional approval tells us how far along the buyer really is in the l