Realtors / Real Estate Agents

[Hungary Jack]

I think most are cognitively impaired.

We are half-assedly considering moving from our awesome but little house on a great street. So we hired the agent who helped sell auntie's house when she passed 5 years ago. Seemed like a good choice.

We finally got the house all spit-polished and listed it. The first week of showings, our agent decides to go on vacation! Maybe it did not occur to her to wait a week until she got back.

So junior agent handles the showings while we are out in CO, and she promptly leaves the house unlocked--for 4 days until Mrs. Jack returned (I stayed an extra week to climb).

And while we were away during the showing, it rained hard and some water came into the unfinished part of the basement via the basement stairwell due to a blocked drain. Really no big deal, but our agent, who was away, made it sound like Noah's Ark was floating by the furnace. In her hysteria over the matter, she threatened legal consequences if this flood issue was not properly disclosed.

After all that, it took about 2 seconds to fire the dumb-ass.

[slide_into_first]

Aren't you bound to her by contract for 90-180 days? Did you take it off the market?

[jim]

I feel your pain

We got through all the [expletive] and are now 2 weeks from closing with no issues in sight. I do agree that realtors are either unethical/stupid or both in a great majority of cases. Used car salesman is the standard for slimy jobs, but I put both real estate agents and dentists above them.

[IMADreamer]

At noon today we went to talk to a realtor about some lots we are thinking about buying. I swear the guy was Saul from Breaking Bad. I'm a bit skeptical about working with him.

[Hungary Jack]

Aren't you bound to her by contract for 90-180 days? Did you take it off the market?

Cancellation fee is 350, but Mrs Jack negotiated it down to 175 in spring. If we relist with the agency, they will waive it.

House is off the market but we have had several calls from sell side brokers who all claim to have buyer. So we jacked up the price by 50k and said "make my day." These brokers are like a bunch of horny teenagers.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I just looked at the assessors office and found that a house i put an offer on last year sold for about 5% less than what I offered about 6 months prior to the closing date listed online. Funny thing is, I told my realtor what I thought the house was worth, and she assured me that was too low, so I upped my offer to 'not be insulting'. The house sold for, to the penny, the value I said it was worth. So, my realtor [expletive] me.

There was a little back and forth on the price and the seller refused to come down an extra insignificant amount (in my opinion, less than 1% of the asking price). Had he done that, the deal would have been made. But, I'm sure his realtor was whispering that they could get more and declined the offer.* So, I walked away.

Shortly after, the house went off the market and the guy must have sold it by himself as I never saw it listed again.

Thing is, my realtor tried to get me to pay more. His realtor refused to let him take less (this is an assumption, but a good one based on what he got for the house). Crooks. [expletive] shady realtors.*

I made the mistake of telling my realtor what I would pay for the house, and wouldn't you know it, that was the price he wouldn't move from. I'd bet my realtor told his realtor and the realtors agreed the price would sell at what I said my max was so that was the price they tried to get me to agree to and wouldn't let the seller dip below. Shady.

[mikechamp]

I could rant about this topic for hours, but have 1,000 more worthy things to do with my time.

At noon today we went to talk to a realtor about some lots we are thinking about buying. I swear the guy was Saul from Breaking Bad. I'm a bit skeptical about working with him.

You don't need a realtor to do any of these transactions, but especially when it comes to buying dirt, just use a real estate lawyer. You'll save quite a bit of cash.