So I'm On The Market For A New House.

[Hoon]

So the last few months I've been looking for a new house.
My biggest pet peeve was realized yet again yesterday.
The realtor took my wife and I too look at this one house.
A beautiful 2 story home completely redone.

We get there and the house is full of people.
It was the tenents. (It's currently a rental property)
The realtor not only didn't warn the tenets about the visit but it was the first time she'd even seen the house.
See this house doesn't seem to yeild enough profit for her
So we're looking it over, babies are following us, talking to us, the tv was blaring but overall it was pretty neatly kept.

We go upstairs to look at the bedrooms and there's this 12 year old girl sitting on her bed w/ headphones on just staring at us. Like she's some object in a meuseum.

I went down cellar to check out the man things.
IE: Furnace, water heater, leakage etc.
And the mother comes running to the basement door and slams it saying something about her babies falling down the cellar stairs.

We put an offer in on the house just to piss them all off.

[GonzoStyle]

Your realtor is a moron.

[Hoon]

So unprofessional.
Before I sign anything I may require that she dance like a monkey for me first.

She'll do it if it means a commission.

[GonzoStyle]

Well I was a realtor before I went over to mortgages, has the realtor been doing this for any period of time? Ofcourse they can lie and say they have, I know I did. Did he/she explain all the fiduciary responsibilities, realtor relationships, etc to you when you first met? Plus they probably aren't the listing agent since they never saw the place. I'd be careful if they are fairly new because they can fuck up paperwork for you and cost you money. They also don't know certain things like at closing if the current owner of the property hasn't filled out certain forms like a current property evaluation you are owed 500 dollars at closing from the owner. When you get an attorney get a real estate attorney, if you need a number for one let me know.

[Goatweed]

when I was house hunting, there were a few times where it felt that we were obviously unexpected when we went to view the house, and it felt awkward as hell. We also got to see that people are generally slobs, though there were even some slobs that didn't bother to neaten things up depsite the fact that they knew we were going to be visiting.

I don't miss that experience at all - the only thing that could possibly be worse than house hunting is the moving process, especially when you deal with shady Russian movers who were referred to you by your wife's teacher-pals.

[GonzoStyle]

yeah the friend of a friend referals, I hate those. especially when people call me and they have a friends brothers, brother in law who is in the business, then fuckin call him for your needs why the fuck you wasting my time? I never deal with those types cause they will take you almost to closing and then pull out and waste all your time.

[Hoon]

Well I was a realtor before I went over to mortgages, has the realtor been doing this for any period of time? Ofcourse they can lie and say they have, I know I did. Did he/she explain all the fiduciary responsibilities, realtor relationships, etc to you when you first met? Plus they probably aren't the listing agent since they never saw the place. I'd be careful if they are fairly new because they can fuck up paperwork for you and cost you money. They also don't know certain things like at closing if the current owner of the property hasn't filled out certain forms like a current property evaluation you are owed 500 dollars at closing from the owner. When you get an attorney get a real estate attorney, if you need a number for one let me know.

Well they've been in business for quite awhile.