This review represents my experience with Daniel, one of the realtors with the Forney Group. I cannot speak for other members of this group.
Daniel was quite helpful when helping us to find our home. In fact, we were quite happy with him. Things went sour rather quickly once we'd put our money down and Daniel had already pocketed his share of the commission.
The first thing I found odd was that during the final walk-through, I pointed out some items to Daniel which the seller had promised to take care of, but which did not actually occur. I was rather shocked that Daniel didn't provide any guidance as to how to rectify the situation. It was at that point, with both Daniel and the seller's agent present, that I realized that the two agents were basically done with the entire transaction, patting each other on the back for the money they had pocketed from me. It was a bit of shocker. I thought that Daniel actually represented my interest, but the only interest he represented was his own.
Needless to say, absolutely nothing was done to rectify these issues.
Then I had problems accessing one of the doors to my garage. I asked Daniel to help figure this out for me. He said "I'll look into it", and I never heard back about it.
Fast forward to a few MONTHS later. I once again asked Daniel to find out how to access this door. Remember: this man was the actual realtor who helped me buy this house! Once again, "I'll look into it." Needless to say, I still don't know how to get into that door.
The real kicker came when I had two professionals troubleshoot one of the myriad undisclosed issues with the house, this one regarding my landscape lighting. I could already tell the seller was miserly to the point of psychosis. While moving out, he removed the tennis balls hanging from the ceiling of the garage which show you when you can stop your car. He also removed all the plastic caddies for the garden hoses around the house. I mean, are you kidding me?
Well, the landscape lighting worked just fine when he was living there. We know this because we saw it working while shopping for the house. However, it no longer worked once we moved in. I tried figuring out the problem for myself, but eventually hired professionals to diagnose the problem. Both of them told me the seller had actually stolen the transformer to the landscape lighting! They showed me very clearly where the transformer had been mounted in the garage and where the wires had been cleanly cut. I use the word "stolen", because removing a fixture once you have sold your property is theft. I was completely irate, to the point of seriously considering legal action.
You would think that my realtor Daniel, who had made a fat stack of cash off of my sale, would try to come to my rescue. Nope. Actually, he tried his best to prove me wrong (as did the seller's agent - see my review of Carmel Homes Realty). He accused the landscape lighting pros of stealing the transformer themselves! Then he told me it was my fault since I hadn't noticed it during the walkthrough! When I reminded him that he hadn't done a thing about the issues I actually DID notice during the walkthrough, I was met with stony silence.
Finally, I got the usual "I'll look into it", and haven't heard anything since.
Actually, that's not completely true. I did ask him one more time about how to get into the side door of my garage.
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