I come from the Automotive trade and I worked with used car salesman and we used to say that guy…read morewould sell his Blind Grandmother a car what a Cockroach, depicting the type of unscrupulous, lying Salesman they were. Well Gary Becker is one of those Realtors and you know what they say, Realtors and Used car salesmen are one in the same.
So I made the huge mistake of dealing with this Realtor, he tried selling me a house at night in Brookswood, that's right in the pitch black of night. Now I know that yes I expressed interest, but then after seeing the place, it was a dump. The house was one of those do it yourself reno`s you just want to get away from, the poorly designed bathroom off the master was mold ridden. So I let him take the time to write the deal up and then let him know that I was not interested. But you see the problem I have with that is you didn't give a rats ass what it looked like or even cared what I thought, you just wanted to close the deal as quick as you could and that is not working in my best interest. Oh hang on that's what you did with the place I finally bought.
The guy phones me at work and says the Realtor is sitting down with the Sellers, I said I am at work, he replied well it has to be now I couldn't believe it neither can the Real Estate Board. But I had no choice time was of the essence and I had too, if it weren't the case I would have told him to take a hike, he is a fast talker kind of guy. I am thinking now that this is why they Concealed the defects in the place I finally bought because all the other places I looked at had no clutter, this place was all dolled up and packed with items covering damage to walls and carpet all because I wasn't doing things quick enough for him as they couldn't just slam me into something quick enough, they sent me to five places that were just garbage very poor reno's and it showed, but this place looked great and then they removed the items.
This guy is as crooked as crooked gets, Lying, Unscrupulous, Prolific Lier he tried to claim that a Family of nine lived in the house that I purchased, too bad for him I knew they only had one and then the guy is an Electrician. When I confronted them about the Defects, they claimed the Sellers moved away and then got caught in their Lies, because I knew who they were and told them no they didn't move away! Unfortunately I didn't have the time as time was of the essence being that the market was changing for the worse with all the speculation tax announcements, so I really had no choice...... but you now do.
He did not disclose about the Racoons in the attic also lied for the owners that there was no carpet in the basement bedroom, but we remember that there was. I believe like everything else in this house they moved a piece of furniture and discovered that the carpet was in bad condition, but instead of replacing it they just would rather lie, I guess it is easier for them to lie than to be responsible and replace it.
The listing stated "Move in and do nothing" Well I haven't stopped doing repairs and also it stated "Relax in your own Hot tub after a hard day. But what they didn't say is that, that Hot tub leaked and was in disrepair basically a piece of junk. Just another thing I had to get rid of at my expense.
If Concealing Property Defects and lying wasn't enough for these guys, they then tried to extort money out of me for something on my place, even when I didn't try to hide it. The new owners missed it when looking at my place and then Steve Klassen tried to Extort the money from me to repair such item all because I complained about the condition of the house they sold me and wanted money from them. That didn't work to well for these two hero's.
"Warning" if you are dealing with this Realtor I suggest you pull everything out from the walls and look under area rugs and move furniture and look very, very closely at everything.
You don't want to be left holding the bag like I was!
Now I know your going to look to Steve for instructions and he is going to instruct you to just put "I remember things differently" But unfortunately we all three (3) remember it just the way it is stated here.
I will never use Remax or their agents ever again and don't suggest you do either!!