If you are going to spend your time not only hunting for a house but also crusading to eliminate unfairness from the world, or at least the world of real-estate transactions, I hope you don't plan to hold down a job in the meantime, Don Quixote.
Get over it. Your offer wasn't accepted. Maybe the bank saw it, maybe they didn't. Maybe the listing agent is an evil orc who just flushed your offer down the toilet because he didn't like your face or the spelling of your last name.
So? What are you going to do about it? Don a mask, hunt him over the rooftops, and carve a Z in his face with your blade? Spend your life savings suing him? Organize a mass street protest?
If you think the listing agent was dishonest, don't deal with him again. Publish his name and warn other people not to deal with him. If you think your agent wasn't forceful enough or clever enough, fire him and get another. If you think BofA was defrauded by the listing agent, write them a letter if it makes you feel better. If you think they were idiots and failed to give the listing agent firm instructions about presenting all offers, sell your BofA stock. Or if you are a major shareholder, talk to your lawyer about a shareholders' lawsuit against the board for failing to execute its fiduciary duties.
And then go put your energy into finding a house. Buying a house isn't something to which you're entitled, once you dot all the i's and cross the t's, any more than you're entitled to go to the prom with the Homecoming Queen if you're the most polite and talented guy who asks her. It's a lucky coincidence when two parties reach mutual agreement. There are a million ways that can fail to happen, a million combinations of self-interest, accident, and sometimes ill-will, and if you attempt to correct them all, you'll never get anything else done. As they say when the girl rejects you, move on already.
Sorry to be harsh, but you sound like you need a little slap upside the head. The sooner you fully appreciate buying a house is a business transaction, not a morality play or dating scenario, the more cool-headedly effective you'll be in your next attempt. So BofA and/or the listing agent were idiots? Well, ha ha on them. That's a little less comish for the agent, and a little less bread for BofA to prop up their pathetic bottom line. If both continue that way, doom awaits, as the market remorselessly weeds out the stupid and inefficient. You're going to take your good money elsewhere and leave them to their fate. Your living well in some other, better house will be your revenge.
