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Anonymous01/20/26, 01:27No.2971891share your RE Agent horror stories! :)
or "whore stories" if you have any.
butt mostly "deals gone bad" and how RE Agents fucked someone, or you, and how The Process generally sucks ass and should be fed into a wood chipper.
I need these examples, and I figure this is best place even though not technically DIY, I'm doing a project that needs this info from mostly a DIY friendly perspective, not a Trophy Wife perspective.
Thx in advance, when my Project's true nature reveals itself you will like it.
Bascially, right now, I need examples to show a few people how the existing "Process" needs to mostly end and be replaced with new regime.
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Anon01/20/26, 04:13No.2971928
>selling house
>require 24 hour notice before any showing so I can deal with things
>agrees to this
>proceeds to attempt to disregard it, literally, every single day until it’s sold
They’re like children.
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Anon01/20/26, 15:25No.2972025
Borrowed money from my parents to buy a house. We aint rich, it was 60k that they inherited and refused to invest.
>Realtor needs proof of funds, which we provide
>Realtor does not pass this along to bank that owns the property or her boss
>Contract almost falls through because of this
>I get snarky emails from realtor's boss about how any idiot can say they have 60k
>Have to scramble to fix their fuckup, while at work.
In the end the realtor did slip me a $50 home cheapo gift card, which is more useful than an apology. I truly hate bossbitches though, they think leadership is rudeness and operating off assumptions.
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Anon01/20/26, 15:41No.2972028
>buying my first house in June
>use the inspector my agent recommends (whoops)
>doesn't check the AC because it was "too cold to even turn the system on, couldn't risk damaging it"
>it was 50 degrees that day
>doesn't notice that the freon line inside the house has been cut, even though he flagged several other issues with the ceiling in the basement right near it
>ends up costing me $1500, my agent says there's no way he could have possibly checked it and I should be lucky an AC repair isn't more expensive
>after a lot of yelling at people, my home warranty eventually reverses their determination and covers the whole thing out of a "gesture of goodwill" after I give them even more money.
I'm finding a male agent ext time, fuck women.
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Anon01/20/26, 16:35No.2972037
My realtor tried to hook me up with her daughter and I should have accepted because she's a model now
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Anon01/20/26, 20:43No.2972081
>Poor as shit but I can read a room
>Economy is recovering after the 2008 meltdown and I know housing prices are gonna spike
>Paying half my income on rent/housing insurance
>Fuck renting, I need to get off the treadmill
>Work with RE agent and clearly state my desires and price range
>Small house, big lot, pre-1970, fixer-upper, not in a cookie-cutter neighborhood, limited road noise
>He keeps showing me 3-4-5 bedroom homes that are too large and well outside my price range
>Tiny lots, huge garages, newer homes, big developments, near major highways
>After refusing a ton of homes over several months he pawns me off on a junior agent
>I tell her what I want and she's able to find several of 2 bed/1 bath homes on the marketI ended up with almost exactly what I wanted. A 1950s fixer-upper ranch house in an old neighborhood on a decent sized lot. It was the smallest, cheapest home on the street. The only major upgrade was someone installed vinyl dual pane windows at some point. Half the lot is a backyard for my dog. Its quiet enough that I generally don't hear anything with the windows closed. Total I was paying for the place was slightly higher than the rent in a duplex of the same size. A few years later I refinanced when rates were low and it shaved 15% off of my monthly payment. Meanwhile, the place I was a renting is now charging almost double what I was paying. Renting is a fucking scam.TL;DR find an agent that is hungry, not chasing big commissions. Buy whatever you can as soon as you can. Rents keep going up but your mortgage stays the same.
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Anon01/20/26, 21:18No.2972086
real property should be exchanged over a handshake between the owner and buyer with the paperwork assisted by the county clerk
insisting that the transaction be buffered by 2 premenopausal holes is beyond irrational. and then allowing them to collude to maximize their 7% take is insane
the entire thing is fucking wack
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Anon01/22/26, 17:40No.2972359
Not the RE but my bank.
You have to get an appraisal and then the bank itself sends someone over to check if it's what the report says it is.
So I sent it to them and I hear nothing for like a week, maybe 2. Then I get an e-mail saying that the house is nowhere near the asked price and that it requires massive renovation to even be livable.This was very surprising since the people I was buying it from were living there, and it looked fine. Turns out they sent their guy to the wrong house, nr 4 instead of 104. I went to look at nr4 and it was a while away, turns out it was a literal ruin of a house.
Dumbasses wasted about a month by doing this. It was on top of a bunch of other nonsense that caused delays. Another great one was saying I could get X amount of mortgage, me doing all the necessary things and then saying I suddenly can't, I can borrow about 30.000 dollars less. So I had to refile the entire thing now with my fiancé added to the mortgage, just to be able to get the right amount.The entire experience of buying a house was stressful. I had the sellers bothering me asking me what took so long. I swear I went up one rank on the norwood scale from that entire episode.
But it ended up working out
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Anon01/22/26, 22:45No.2972408
Wife and I looking for a nice house because we live in my tiny-ish flat
visit dozen houses with several realtors, only one catch our eyesWe meet the agent, we almost mistake here for a prostitute
>high heels, skimpy dress, too much makeup, butterfly tattoo on the shoulder, visibly dumb
>typical 70's house built by boomers
>big, very well built, not much "hard" work to do, small but nice garden
>BUT, ugly textured walls, ugly wallpaper that's peeling, fucking discolored stickers (picrel), the laziest paint job I've ever seen
>also, over budget
Heartbroken but we move on
>fast forward a few months
Holy shit, it's still for sale but 20% cheaper, we can afford it
>contact agent, we want to visit again
>come to the house with the agent, she didn't asked the owners, they are visibly pissed
>we visit again and still like it, but we want to price the paint job a few other things
>book another visit with artisans, only wife can go
>agent is not there, but the angry and now drunk angry owner is there and yet again had no idea a visit was booked
>owner rightfully throws a fit
>we want to buy the house but need to price a paint job, ms Agent, do you know a painter?
>yes, of course
>can we book a visit with said painter?
>...
>no answer for two weeks, despite chasing her multiple times
>as a desperate measure, wife goes to her boss
>she send a message to a painter, call the owners
>visit is tomorrowGiving 15+k€ to that bitch who almost made us miss our dream home left a bitter taste
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Anon01/23/26, 03:34No.2972439
I just had a death in the family how do i make sure no fucking darkie ends up owning the property
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Anon01/28/26, 14:17No.2973324
sorry have never had problems. my realtors jumped through hoops to get my houses sold, and for buying my new house. they earned every dime.
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Anon01/28/26, 18:57No.2973364
Female realtors are all whores. Simple as.
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Anon01/29/26, 04:27No.2973441
Tell agent I only want to see houses in county x not county y. Keeps suggesting me houses in county y because she doesn't feel like driving to houses in county x since they're 10 minutes further away. She doesn't like the house I picked, years later asks me if I want to sell since my house is actually in a nice area w/o an HOA so the value skyrocketed. No-wayfag. Keeps e-mailing me retarded marketing shit years later.
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Anon02/02/26, 18:50No.2974265
Is there any decent way to search for a realtor that isn't some flunkie whore? Everything I've read online is "go ask your friends," but what if I don't have any? Then just ask Google? Yelp? The homeless guy on the street next to mine?
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Anon02/03/26, 10:51No.2974394
I usually never deal with realtors, but the last time I was minorly involved in a property sale I met one that felt like shie came out of a horror story. She had a billboard in a nearby city and I had seen plenty of time. Her face on it always gave me the creeps, but it didn't do her justice. It looked like she was wearing a flesh mask and her eyes had a slight eery glow.I mostly avoided talking to her, but she did catch me alone for a minute and asked me a few questions about some of the work done on the property. She then went back to her clients and said the exact opposite of what I said. Not that it matter, this was just a formality and buying at price regardless of anything.
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Anon02/06/26, 13:52No.2974989
Are you saying that we're supposed to think that frumpy wine aunt dressed like a highschooler is sexy?
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Anon02/08/26, 01:50No.2975226
>RE Agent horror stories>be me
>Spaniard peasant in rural Spain
>be night time
>Spanish cops pull up at my farm house where I'm making dinner
>One gets out to piss, pisses on my nice flowers
>He gets lost in the dark, dumnbass townie
>American looking guy gets out to look for his dumbass friend, flight jacket, starts walking towards my house
>Breaks into my house, I'm scared
>He bursts into my kitchen, I meekly ask him if he wants some dinner in Spanish but I don't think he hears me or speaks Spanish
>He starts talking to himself, then I go to take his coat off and let him know he can stay for dinner
>He freaks the fuck out, turns around
>Shoots me in the head, america.jpg
>Loots my basement
>I get back upGotta be my worst experience with an RE Agent.
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Anon02/09/26, 12:54No.2975477
any horror stories of non-Agent "by owner"/"by buyer" transactions where you later thought "shoulda had an agent"?Or when an Agent legit saved you from making a mistake, and lost a commission in process?
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Anon02/09/26, 16:46No.2975509
It makes me not want to improve the exterior of my house at all. Why replace my faded siding if its going to cost a lot of money to do AND make my taxes go up?
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Anon02/09/26, 17:55No.2975528
I have an odd question, but it might be relevant enough to all the real estate talk ITT to post. Say I wanted to buy back my childhood home one day, how do I make this happen? Just watch zillow every single day until it's for sale, and then what, tell the owners they're living in my house? That doesn't seem like any way to do things. It's already been 15 years, do I really have to wait it out until the current owners eventually decide to sell or just fucking die?? And how do I avoid the RE agent being a fucking nightmare to deal with/listen to? Has anyone ever bought back their home?
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Anon02/09/26, 21:03No.2975558
>297547sven
>297555won
>obvious disgusting roastie parasite agentshill is obvious
go spew your vile inflation apologist trash on moron pl*bbitors and zuckbergspace
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Anon02/27/26, 21:44No.2978789
Broker's perspective here. Both sellers and buyers often have unrealistic views and goals and negotiating between them requires experience. They underestimate the amount of things that are required to be known (by law or good business practice) that affect a home's value (up or down) and they often have no clue where to get those data and how to interpret them. You have to handhold several of them, like in psychotherapy, especially sellers who struggle with letting their home go.
RE is a professional industry and they're laymen coming up with their own ideas and understanding, educating them about at least those things that are relevant to their specific case is important. When you have foreigners (can live here since decades, doesn't matter) who bring their cultural habits with them, things can escalate at the last minute and break the deal.Those shady brokers who're in it for the quick buck often don't stay in business long. While some bad apples are successful long-term, it's rare. The majority of brokers who do it for several years found their niche and do what's required -- depending on the niche it's either dominantly a people business (most of it), a number business (for wholesale and commercial), or an engineering business (construction). The majority of the work happens in the background and people usually only experience and remember the meetings on site.
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Anon02/28/26, 14:21No.2978889
Literally everyone would be better off selling "as-is" for cash. Real estate agents and middle men should be illegal except for a trusted escrow party with a nominal fee.
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Anon03/09/26, 07:16No.2980277
bro juts walk around with a copy of the communist manifesto
its literally that easy
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Anon03/09/26, 08:33No.2980281
