While I may not doubt that this man would be useful to have as your own realtor, if you're on the opposite side, this man missed his true calling as a used car salesman or lawyer.
He originally listed our apartment as the incorrect address. The address he gave us didn't even exist technically. I'm guessing 5502 Guadalupe sounds better than 502 West 55th? I don't get it. So after moving in I had multiple checks from clients bounce around for weeks while I had to wait on payment. We also had to pay to reissue the titles to our cars, since we had those lost in the system and mailed to the wrong address.
Our understanding when moving in had been that our pet deposit was just that, a deposit. The lease it turned out, had it as a fee.
There I am, money in hand, family in from out of town, and if I don't say yes to this new fee I'm really left out hanging. Don't get me started on how ridiculous it is to even think of charging $300 as a flat fee for a cat. What kind of damage is a cat going to do to concrete floors? This was simple gouging.
When it came time to move, the owner was selling the property. Perry and his worthless assistant came through and complained about the look of the place, then suggested some cleaners to us that we could pay, to come clean the house... so he could sell it faster.
You want me to pay cleaners, so that you can sell faster? Are you insane? I did my cleaning when I moved out, and that's fine. If he had wanted to pay cleaners to come through, we easily would've kept the place clean. Hinting that we should pay to help his bottom line was beyond arrogant.
We then went through the process of 20+ people deciding to come through the house. Perry put on the listing that we needed 24hrs advance notice, and that we should be contacted. Sounds reasonable, right?
We were the people that got to do all of the scheduling. Instead of Perry, or his assistant managing who was coming when, EVERY realtor called me, as early as 8am on Sunday mornings, hoping that "Hey just maybe could you make an exception this one day?"
I work from home, and literally can't work from a laptop in a coffee shop. So when people had to come through during the middle of the day, and I was expected to vacate, I had to put my foot down at a certain point and say no.
I then proceeded to get an angry call from Mr. Assistant, scolding me like a child for not letting people through when I had work to do. How dare I!
Look. I worked in the real estate business for about 20 years in a family home inspection business. Realtors have been my friends for years, and I've known hundreds through that profession. I'm not new to selling a house, and I know what it's like.
This guy expected myself and my girlfriend to do his job for him, insulted us, and talked down to us, then ended up costing us money through what he claims was his ignorance and honest mistake with "Oh I didn't know that wasn't the address."
For the record, they had been informed that was the wrong address, and a year later when they went to sell the place, they still had it listed under the wrong one.
Never once in my life have I met a realtor so rude, arrogant, misleading, or shady. read more