Buying a house in a new area is extremely stressful. Buying one in a new area as the country is starting to shut down for covid-19 is even more stressful.
I want to set this up as fairly as possible since this is not an overall "good" review. I am extremely decisive, I move fast and with purpose. I had been reviewing houses and making lists on my own. There was a listing on redfin I wanted details on and that connected me to Keri Jackson. I never sought her out or had any recommendations.
Keri offered to send me MLS listings, which were nothing more than I was finding across all the real estate sites. I figured to view homes I would need an agent, so why not her.
Keri is very personable, very pleasant. The 2 days we went out to see the houses I had selected, were efficient. Like I said there are things I make calls on right away and can parse the remaining into ranks of desirability. On day 2 my husband joined us and this a very different dynamic. Keri also almost ran into the shoulder barrier on I35 because she was texting and driving with us in the backseat.
After we selected the house, Keri was on things until the contract was signed. From there, things started to slide rapidly until it felt like she was a completely different person.
My issues:
She never found any houses for me to review, it was always a 1-way exchange, me to her.
She had me drop of title payments instead of her, she left me to deal with the title company.
She wasn't there for the closing. Never got that "awesome" cooler I was promised.
She highly recommended a painter who went over budget and time and was no help in solving.
She was supposed to deal with a disagreement about Water Softener, which no paperwork that was promised to show settled was ever presented to us.
She never even came back for her key lockbox, after a year I threw it away.
She sent more than 1 request for a review, never having asked if I was happy with our relationship.
I felt like once the contract was signed, she secured her money and she moved on. She never really cared about us and our needs.
The manner of the relationship left my husband and me feeling like we had been hustled, and that is a great way to ruin a new home in a new area during the covid experience. She was one of the few people we now knew in the area. We put our trust in her, felt like the next contract, and how busy she came first to her.
Again I accept my own faults in the situation but felt an obligation to share our experience since it would have been useful to me. read more