I have come to the conclusion that some Real Estate agents are pathetic and completely useless. I will not mention any names in this paragraph (pssst - somewhere on this page is a suttle hint as to a Real Estate agency that I think are crap, bet you can't find it). After interviewing five Real Estate agents I experienced the lowest form of marketing ever. Here are some of the things I experienced:
- One Real Estate Agent drew a sad face to describe how I would feel if I did not get and offer, then proceeded to draw a passive face to describe how I would feel if I got offers that were less than I wanted...I stopped her 1/3 of the way through the smiling face and refrained from using her pencil to assist in an uncomfortable medical examination.
- One Real Estate Agent spent over an hour talking about how good she was and the fact that we were getting free advertising. This turned out to be one add only, then you had to pay for everything else. I was also told that we would get a free listing in their mail out to over 10,000 houses (after much probing I finally found out that it was only quarterly and that my porperty would not be in the mailout for three months!!).
- One Real Estate Agent told us to sell extremely cheap to sell the place.
- The Real Estate Agent that we went with just had an offer on our place. We called him around for a meeting and we asked if there was any reason why he thought we should not make a counter offer as we did not want to miss out on the sale. He failed to mention that only one of the couple looking at our house was interested and the husband actually wanted another place. He had a written, signed unconditional offer in his hand and for the sake of A$5,000.00 looks like he may have costed us the sale.
Should you see someone on the streets in Tasmania with a AK47 with a postal look on his face, do not be afraid, he will be hunting Real Estate Agents!
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