I Hate Realtors
a Post Entitled I hate Realtors...
Ok, I've had probably the worst luck with realtors. When we sold our last house, we used the "Mind Team" (name change). Turned out, they started backing out of agreements of rates for using them to buy as well. They tried to deny participation in our banks relocation service which gives us $2000 after selling or buying if we used them. The Mind Team daughter was our agent for buying. She never once found houses for us. Mrs SgtRedline found all of them, and in most cases called the agent to arrange showings.
That sucked, but I thought all that was behind us. Nope. We of course moved to Louisiana and needed to sell our house in Saratoga,NY again. We call our bank and get the relocation agent they recommend. I forget her name... mostly because of her fault... she never called us. We spoke one time. We called her numerous times after to which she never responded. WTF? You can't give some people money.
So we decided it wasn't worth the relocation bonus to have an agent we have to hunt down and go with one of the most well know agents of Saratoga. We'll call him "JustJack". Well known because his face is plastered everywhere.It starts out well.
He and his team were very responsive and during the showings they called us to give us all the details (we had already moved at this point). We finally have an offer we accept and suddenly the communications stop.
Ooookay. Seems like this is the point we need the details the most. Where did you go JustJack? We finally get the details that the inspection had been done and all that. But no word on a closing date. Mrs SgtRedline starts calling around trying to get details again.... to sum it up, the Office Manager for JustJack's Agency is actually arguing with her about what their responsibilities are.
Responsibilities such as: Letting us know the buying wanted something else. When the inspections would be done. etc. etc. etc. I mean really arguing. Thankfully our lawyer had the details, and decided it was best to just handle things from there for us.I mean.. if someone was about to pay me $15,000 for maybe a day or two's work over a 3 week span. I'd give them the best service I could. I guess when your mug is plastered around town like JustJack, you don't care about word-of-mouth referal. Maybe none of them care. I dunno.
