Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Having sat in an Estate Agents office on a number of occasions I have seen both sides - but the process is built to bring out the worst in the best of people.
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Estate Agents.....are they all low life scum?
- Thread starter swindonseagull
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Poyetry In Motion
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Don't know about Fox, but Glenn Mishon was alright. He always seemed to run his agency with great professionalism, so bit surprised to hear that.
I have no idea who you are Westdene Seagull, but thank you for the sound bite there. Feel free to tell my boss also...!
The Wookiee
Back From The Dead
Nice grown up reply ! I was only questioning why you would come on here a call the estate agent scum, yet you are prepared to give them more time ?
If you are that unhappy with them and you feel they have not acted appropriately perhaps report them to the property ombudsmen and go find another more professional agent to sell your house ?
Or as I suspect you just jump on the estate agent bashing bandwagon and instead of raising your concerns appropriately, you resort to calling them names on a football internet forum.
Well done you !
pork pie
New member
You should be more careful who you appoint. Clearly, they have not made their reputation as a "profession" based upon fair trading practices. However, I must say that I have dealt with a large number of reputable Estate Agents over the years. Look for those with RICS accreditation, rather than those who are a lower form of salesman than Arthur Daley.
They always over-value houses by at least 10%, if not more, or at least, their other branches used to. They like upper-end houses.
Completely agree, on both points.
Finding potential buyers. Not so many of them out there, these days.
You're very welcome Ben ! People will probably now think I have some financial interest in Dean & Co
greyseagull
New member
I work in PR; we are pretty low life too.
Skaville
Well-known member
tetchy. yes they are sweeping generalisations, ones that seem to be pretty consistant with others experience. i know my grammer was poor and was trying to edit it, but t'interweb is a bit wonky here so gave up. i work as a sometime sys admin
Ah yes, systems admin. They're all useless, lying bastards. The systems admin guy at my work lost two days of work email because he said he knew far more about Microsoft Exchange than he actually does. I'd have been far better off picking up a manual and doing it myself. Plus he has bad breath. Why can't someone teach these long haired freaks to clean their bloody teeth?
They're meant to support us but they would far rather the server room be in a cave in Afghanistan. That way they could avoid all human communication. One systems admin guy I'd had dealings with on an internet forum can't even spell grammar let alone use it correctly.
Skaville
Well-known member
Work hard? You're posting on here at 17:03. Go and do some work!
fratsomrover
New member
They're certainly not my cup of meat ! I got 5 quotes for my house. 4 quoted around £1,000,000, saying anything under should go quite quickly, say £975,000 - £950,000. MM valued it £600,000 !! Got me wondering what their angle was as it was so obviously a false valuation. Got me thinking that they deliberately undervalue a property, get an associate to bid the asking price, get it, sit on it for a while, and then sell it at the real price. Not saying they are all low life scum, but go into any transaction with your eyes open and go with the ones you trust and who give honest valuations. For me it certainly wont be MM.
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
Our estate agent phoned last week and left a message on 1571 to ask if we wanted to reduce the price. The market is absolutely dead at the moment and the few properties that are selling locally are 2/3 bedroom terraced houses in the £60k to £80k bracket being snapped up by BTL investors. With a 4 bed detached house to sell if we get a local buyer its very possible there will be already 4 or 5 in the chain. If we reduce the asking price it won't leave much wriggle room to get at least the same as we paid back in 2003.
Bob!
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beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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probably because his recruitment agent told him to. or just put it on his CV for him and he went along with it.
My sister just bought a house which was on Fox & Sons books. She had trouble getting hold of them to BUY a house. She put in an offer which they forgot about, then took days to answer the phone so as she could chase them about it. If they gave her the runaround as a buyer, what hope has a seller got?
Finally after numerous days of the phone being ignored, she went into their office and was greeted by a smiling man, who's face dropped as he shat himself when she told him her name.
I would NEVER sell my house with them, and would be reluctant to buy through them even if they had a house on their books which I really wanted. I just wouldn't want to put myself through the torture of dealing with such a bunch of incompetents.
Finally after numerous days of the phone being ignored, she went into their office and was greeted by a smiling man, who's face dropped as he shat himself when she told him her name.
I would NEVER sell my house with them, and would be reluctant to buy through them even if they had a house on their books which I really wanted. I just wouldn't want to put myself through the torture of dealing with such a bunch of incompetents.
Skaville
Well-known member
Yep. This is exactly the kind of thing I do all day long. Just make shit up and hope nobody notices. It's been thirteen years now, mainly with the same clients. Do you think anyone will ever find out?
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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you may not, unfortunatly many recruiters do. from experience as a job seeker and participating in recruiting, i'm afraid its the majority.
anyway, we're supposed to be bitching at the estate agents, recruiters can have their thread another day.
