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Ridiculous Realtor Quotes


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2007 Apr 23, 2:57am   44,621 views  392 comments

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As Suggested by Muggy:

Post your most ridiculous realtor quotes. Even better if they're from the web and you can post a link. (It's a good chance to practice using TinyUrl while you're at it).

FAB (FormerAptBroker) gets us started with:

We had a great realtor quote in [the last] thread from Big Brother:

“Any banker, consultant, lawyer, doctor with 10-15 years experience (i.e 30s to late 30’s) can purchase a 2-3 million dollar home. Think about how many of those guys there are…. and these are just the simple workers, not the Venture Capitalists, Internet millionaires etc… but the normal man.”

McKinsey and Bain must be paying a lot more than they did when many of my friends from Business school worked there and I be SF Woman’s husband’s firm is the only one in SF not paying guys with 10 years experience enough to buy a $2.5mm home and my friends must be the only MDs getting screwed by HMOs…

He also said that all "normal professional people" in their 30s are easily earning from $300K to $1.5M. Really, I'm laughing on the inside.

That sets a high bar. But if you can top "Big Brother's" ridiculous quote, have at it...

Randy H

#housing

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368   Peter P   2007 Apr 24, 2:06pm  

Yep, that’s astrid, she’s against little kids, old people, motherhood, and probably apple pie.

What if it is apple pie a la mode? :)

369   Peter P   2007 Apr 24, 2:21pm  

From that post:

can i ask you all something?

do you guys think renting is throwing money away?

does debt = wealth?

are they making any more land?

Too funny! :)

370   Malcolm   2007 Apr 24, 2:26pm  

I guarantee that her buyers are now shopping a lower price because they could no longer get the larger loan. 500K was it?

371   Malcolm   2007 Apr 24, 2:28pm  

Reminds me of the days when you had to actually qualify and prove it. 5 or 10 thousand is more than enough to no longer qualify when you are at you maximum approval.

372   Steveoh   2007 Apr 24, 3:06pm  

Hey all,
Remember that FL Realtor "Becky Troutt" quoted in a recent topic/post? I've been watching her campaign of mis-information ever since. Here's her latest load:

"Yes folks, despite what the media is saying, home sales are on the rise! Below are actual sales stats taken directly from the Manatee MLS of homes that have sold and closed in the past few months in Manatee County.

...The media tends to lump all the markets together and gives an average of what is going on. That is NOT factual information. Real estate is local, and every city is different. The above numbers don't lie! Now is a good time to start looking if you haven't already. Feel free to visit my website and search the MLS to see what is currently available."

http://tinyurl.com/284b4f

She is becoming something like a realt-whore posterchild to me. Or at the very least, an interesting subject.

373   e   2007 Apr 24, 3:18pm  

Well, I think our medical system should allow people to die.

RING RING, RING RING

Oh, it's AARP calling!

They're telling me that you probably supported Hitler and his eugenics campaign - and that's why you hate our seniors who have devoted their lives to helping the world and now want to kill them.

Why do you hate our senior citizens' Freedom(TM)?

374   e   2007 Apr 24, 3:23pm  

The U.S. still has the good stuff, even if it’s painfully expensive.

My richer foreign associates regularly come to the US for cancer treatments especially. Though I've heard that many now go to Europe because getting a visa to come here is frickin hard. (Especially folks from the Middle East)

Just think - you've got cancer. You feel awful. And now you get to deal with Homeland Security at Chicago O'Hare. Yuck.

Maybe that's the future: high end complicated stuff like cancers - come to the US. Really boring stuff that's low end, stay in the US. Semi-routine elective stuff like boob jobs, complete dental makeovers, hip replacements - go abroad.

375   StuckInBA   2007 Apr 24, 3:24pm  

This is too funny, crashing in on their phoney world and dropping the bomb on that self righteous realtor.

Bad bad revengeofaone ! Kicking them while they are down. Bad boy, bad boy.

I have to admit these choice pickings from "that" site are freaking great. It gives so much insight into what non-Pactrick.netters think.

376   Steveoh   2007 Apr 24, 3:28pm  

In another of her blog topics, Miss Troutt equates buyers to "Sitting Ducks", just waiting for the bottom. She also writes;

"The news media brings a lot of the negativity on themselves. If they'd just shut up and let people see the facts for themselves, I guarantee you many more sales would be happening. Are the news reporters in the MLS everyday? NO! Are the newspaper journalists in the MLS everyday? NO! But, I am! I see first hand that things have started to swing in the other direction. The snowbirds are here now, and activity is starting to pick up!

http://tinyurl.com/284b4f Scroll...

Notice that there are 0 comments to her posts. ..not that I haven't tried.

377   StuckInBA   2007 Apr 24, 3:37pm  

“I Know You Listed this POS Last Summer”

It’s absolutely perfect. It has all the ear markings of a sequel when the “original” wasn’t all that freaking great to begin with!

Oh please don't diss that one ;-) Movies like that make it possible to have a outrageous movie like "Scary Movie" ! IMO "Scary Movie" was very smartly done. It does a great job of making a parody of another movie "Scream" which had some self-parody moments in itself. And to me "Scream" was one of the rare horror movies that actually have a believable surprise ending. "Scream 2" has a character that complains about horror movie sequels, which unintentionally turn out to be true about itself.

I find most horror movies very funny. So "Scary Movie" was riot for me.

Anyway. I am thrilled to find movie references here. Movies are as dear to me as food.

378   skibum   2007 Apr 24, 3:52pm  

Stuck,

If you like horror movies, how about "The Grudge": there's even a bit about a realtor (Japanese, though). They sell the family that house knowing it was full of scary-a$$ dead people. Now would an American Realtor (TM) have done something so unethical? Of course not! The worst they would have done was to make up a phantom bidding war to get you pay over asking for the place.

379   skibum   2007 Apr 24, 3:54pm  

Hence, you have three available for those who want to live in Pac Heights, The Marina, Cow Hollow area, but you have way more people looking.

Hey Big Brother, I guess we just all need to FACE REALITY and stop being CONFUSED RENTERS, because MARINA IS PRIME!

380   StuckInBA   2007 Apr 24, 4:05pm  

Hey Big Brother, I guess we just all need to FACE REALITY and stop being CONFUSED RENTERS, because MARINA IS PRIME!

Good one :-)

381   StuckInBA   2007 Apr 24, 4:11pm  

skibum :

I will watch "Grudge" if it's truly C-grade. Speaking of Realtor movies, the best is perhaps "Glengerry Glen Ross". Another favorite of mine is "American Beauty" which has a lead character as RE agent.

382   Peter P   2007 Apr 24, 5:36pm  

Secondly, these people shouldn’t be buying if they can’t afford a basic down payment.

Honestly, you should not care whether they can afford or not. That is their problem. They should know better.

However, the risk issue is very real. I would rather take a 5-10% cut then 25% owner-financing. It is VERY likely to be the 25% that you will never see again.

NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE

383   HARM   2007 Apr 24, 5:49pm  

Hey Big Brother, I guess we just all need to FACE REALITY and stop being CONFUSED RENTERS, because MARINA IS PRIME!

Hey, I just think Big Brother is a LITTLE WORRIED that, while us CURIOUS CATS are all just WONDERIN AND WAITIN for that correction, an unstoppably HOT MARKET is about to go BOOMTIME and open a can of WOOPASS on us. He thinks we're just being delusional FAKE Procrastinators, only fooling ourselves.

Ok, top that one! :mrgreen:

384   cb   2007 Apr 24, 5:59pm  

Some random thoughts on topics in this thread.

When I was a undergraduate student in Ontario long time ago, the student loan program was called Ontario Student Assistant Program (OSAP), but was frequently dubbed the Ontario Stereo Assistant Program, it was generous back then because there were grants given that did not have to be paid back, frauds were not uncommon.

One of my undergrad engineering classmate who graduated top of our class became a radiologist at Boston General, but the guys that are making the most money are mostly the top-tier MBA guys.

I also heard of someone (2 degrees of separation, friend of a friend) that traveled also to Thailand and raved about the treatment. The US used to be an overflow supplier of medical treatment for Canada, that provincial government would pay US health facilities to treat Canadians, not sure if it is still true.

There is a RW who sold over 20 houses last year in our neighborhood, she bragged about getting a record high price for one of the sellers in her newsletter, we try to hit her up for donation for the neighborhood schools, she would have none of it.

385   HARM   2007 Apr 24, 6:45pm  

It just occured to me that “Spring Broke” ™ would be a pretty good label for the spring of ‘07. Maybe Senor HARM could even dig up a nice ‘Realtwhores Gone Wild’ graphic to go with that theme…

SP

Ask and ye shall receive!
New thread: Spring Broke 2007!

386   apostasy   2007 Apr 25, 7:39pm  

@HARM
Thanks for the verification. I'm in TX, and the purchase money agreement loans are non-recourse to borrower (lien holder cannot go after borrower for deficiencies, though IRS still can as you noted) here, while home equity loans are recourse to borrower. The activity I'm seeing in deed records is insanity. We're lucky in Austin because deed records are free to the public and online, while in the Bay Area, San Francisco makes you pay for each deed record pulled.

Another question for the veteran home buyers in this group. I'm going through a database of recent sales in my area, and noticed that a lot of recorded sale prices are minutely specific. For example, the price will be something like $311,254, while I'm starting out my contract at something that looks like$355,000. In other words, the last 3 digits are rounded off.

What are people using to negotiate sellers into dickering over the last significant digit?

387   MAGA   2011 Mar 3, 10:22am  

"I think you should make a full price offer". From a so called buyers agent trying to "help" me. This was over three years ago.

That house is still for sale. Sellers are over 65 and trying to extract their money for retirement. I think they are going to die in that house.

http://www.bradfieldproperties.com/property/property.asp?PRM_MLSNumber=854673&PRM_MlsName=SanAntonio

388   MAGA   2011 Mar 3, 10:49am  

Mr.Fantastic says

I don’t know much about the San Antonio market, is $260,000 for that home considered bubbly?

Something is wrong if the house has been on the market this long. It does not have high ceilings and the 1 acre lot is mostly rock. The listing has been through a number of agents.

Per a local Realtard, no one is buying anything unless it is an REO or a good deal on a short sale.

389   American in Japan   2011 Mar 3, 11:03am  

“I think you should make a full price offer."

>LOL!

390   FortWayne   2011 Mar 3, 11:11am  

I love it how the broker in the original post did a "Begging a question" fallacy. Also known as circular reference.

First he stated a false fact, (aka one that has no proof). And in next statement assuming its validity quickly went to prove his next point.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/begging-the-question.html

The more I hear politicians or sales people the more fallacies like that I hear.

391   FortWayne   2011 Mar 3, 11:32am  

My wife and I were driving home one evening and saw a lot of signs for a place in our area. This was interesting to see because a realtor told us that all houses that are over 600k must be represented by an agent. So naturally after we saw a sign we wanted to see what this 600k thing in our neighborhood looks like.

It was an old average house, had some chandelier in the entrance not sure why. The asking price was 685k. This was just after the crash mind you, so prices started going down all over already at least half a year prior to this.

Realtor: "What do you think?"
Me: "I think its too overpriced."
Realtor: "You are right I think it should be around 650, 685 is a bit high. ...." She proceeded in trying to get us as clients... that was the end of it.

That thing sold a year later for 350k to some ahole who wanted to flip since it went back on sale for 399k instantly. It's still on the market with properties nearby priced at 320 and going down. I guess someone should have told him that this area is in low to mid 200's when it comes to affordability.

392   bubblesitter   2011 Mar 3, 12:31pm  

ChrisLA says

My wife and I were driving home one evening and saw a lot of signs for a place in our area. This was interesting to see because a realtor told us that all houses that are over 600k must be represented by an agent. So naturally after we saw a sign we wanted to see what this 600k thing in our neighborhood looks like.
It was an old average house, had some chandelier in the entrance not sure why. The asking price was 685k. This was just after the crash mind you, so prices started going down all over already at least half a year prior to this.
Realtor: “What do you think?”

Me: “I think its too overpriced.”

Realtor: “You are right I think it should be around 650, 685 is a bit high. ….” She proceeded in trying to get us as clients… that was the end of it.
That thing sold a year later for 350k to some ahole who wanted to flip since it went back on sale for 399k instantly. It’s still on the market with properties nearby priced at 320 and going down. I guess someone should have told him that this area is in low to mid 200’s when it comes to affordability.

As some one here said, Bubble seller sells it to a bubble buyer.

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