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damn realtors (a rant in two parts)


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2011 Sep 9, 12:34pm   27,676 views  83 comments

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(I just drank a pear cider (*hic*) so I apologize in advance, but...)

Part One: I have been waiting, patiently, saving up my 20%. I've been good. I've played by the rules. I made an offer on a house. Four weeks ago. The realtor isn't returning my calls. (Ok, so it was a lowball-- but lord have mercy-- I am not buying "potential"... I am spending the next 30 years of my husband's working life on a roof and some windows and some walls that haven't been painted in a hundred years, as far as I can tell... and do not tell me that it is a legal two family-- the second kitchen was ripped out and never replaced, the wiring all goes into one meter... I would have to go into even *more* debt to make it worth what you want me to pay now. Plus, you raised the asking price by 50k after you listed it. Who in their fucking right minds RAISES THE LIST PRICE... "in this economy"(tm)?!...)

Part Two: So last night I see a new listing; the house is in better condition, better location, and lower priced-- i wouldn't need to lowball it to offer a reasonable amount. I contact the broker, who isn't actually listed by name.

Today I hear back from the broker! It is the same realtor that isn't answering my offer email! With a generic "this house has been sold, but I look forward to talking to you about your needs and finding you another property..." note! Flocking joy and wassername! Clearly you are a lying cuntmuffin (pardon my anglo saxon), because you *aren't* interested in talking to me.

God damn it. Seriously. I am about ready to take my down payment and buy art or something that takes up less head space than a mortgage and is at least pretty to look at...

When I go to the theater, I accept that I am being bamboozled, lied to, invited to live in cloud palaces and then be told, with a sigh, that it was all a dream. We're all in on it, and I am willing to suspend my disbelief to be part of the spectacle. We're all in on it, is the key, and we're all getting something of value from it.

But this housebuying smitchfest... this is being told to spent $699000 or my children will be Doomed (doomed I tell you) to never... whatever golden dream having a mortgage gets them... and it seems like Everyone Else in my life is shaking their heads and telling me I'm nuts if I don't do this risky thing... not risky but with potentially high rewards, risky that there will be no reward at all...

...I say that glibly, but I was (briefly but memorably) homeless as a kid because my parents got kicked out of our apartment and weren't mentally sound enough to find another one... so I take aspersions on my sanity as potentially valid concerns.

I could really use some reassurance that the realtors are bastards, that I am neither too mean nor too nice, and that it is better not to overpay by 200k than it is to no longer have one's gladiolas mowed over by the landlord's son because he thought they were corn...

*weeps for my gladiolas*

Thanks in advance,
alia in astoria

ps: I did try to work with buyer's brokers, btw. they aren't returning my calls either. maybe it's my colorful language...

#housing

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77   investor90   2011 Sep 18, 8:34am  

Thanks for the nice comments. Realtors tell me that I show "NO RESPECT" to the profession. Guess what? THEY ARE CORRECT

LETS STICK TO THE ALL CAPS---blog the REALTOR WAY.

SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THIS LINK----> http://www.lumbleau.com/ SINCE 1947 they have produced more Realtors than anyone else in their mail order or online "Crash course GUARANTEED TO PASS or your money back!"

Also try YOUTUBE search channel "JIMTHEREALTOR" GOOD FOR laughs when you are looking for some entertainment --- video updates most days. Excellent insiders scoop on lying. He is serious---he thinks he is on "the outside"...but all he does is rat his "team" out.

78   investor90   2011 Sep 18, 9:15am  

HOSTILE! uttered by a REALTOR!!! Most Realtors that I have met have privately admitted they are LYING CHEATING BASTARD's who would cheat their own mother. Besides...if you just listen to one of them yakking away about all the "great features and amenities" of that old 1940 rat trap held together with glue nails and termites...you will hear a SUBTEXT THAT IS ALWAYS IN THE "CONVERSATION" :

Here it is :

CAVEAT EMPTOR! I AM A LIAR you better conduct DUE DILIGENCE---and I WILL LIE EVEN MORE IF I GET CAUGHT.

IT'S CALLED PASSIVE- AGGRESSIVE personality. THIS IS WORSE THAN "HOSTILE"... HOSTILE implies anger---emotion upset.

PSYCHOPATHS are DEADLY...it is alligator smiles, OPTIMISM spelled
F A N T A S Y L A N D . PONZI --- LIES AND MORE LIES.

REALTORS---" Characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are responsible for our housing crisis viua hyped house prices by people who "qualified" without underwriting. Though lacking empathy and emotional depth, they often manage to pass themselves off as normal people by feigning emotions and lying about their pasts. YES! LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE.

80   FortWayne   2011 Sep 19, 2:46am  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5qKYfqALE

(Barney Frank, "What Housing Bubble?")

81   Truthplease   2011 Sep 19, 6:09am  

A man's word meant something and now we just sputter out nonsense like Barney Frank has done many times in the past.

82   aliag   2011 Sep 29, 12:36am  

Update: Just got a call from realtor. Price reduced. If I hadn't shifted my obsession from Real Estate to the Wall Street Protestors (they are adorable and I love them and I've been feeding them for over a week and if anyone has questions about them and their adorableness I am happy to comment more but I don't want to spam, either....), I might be dancing even more in my seat. As it is: *jazz hands*

83   JG1   2011 Oct 16, 4:15pm  

thomas.wong1986 says

Nomograph says



There's no such thing as an "offer email". An offer is a legal contract, signed by you as the potential buyer, which may then be signed by the seller.


An offer and a contract are two different 'events'. While the 'Final' legal expression of the transation (Contract) per Common Law are required to be written, offers/counter offers/advertising/expressing of interest can be verbal or written... email, phone, face to face, etc etc.

Written communcation is verbal, too, unless you are communicating with symbols. You mean oral.

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