UPDATE: Advice re myhome.ie and Estate Agents

Re: Advice re myhome.ie and Estate Agents

ps.. my nose is at me as they say down here,i'd love to know where the property is....
 
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Right, so the muppet EA comes down today - on his own. My mum's taken the morning off work been in the house all morning hoovering and tidying as you do for a viewing, and he turns up with no viewers. She asks when they'll be here and he says 'what viewers, I never told you there was people viewing today'. Eh? He called her on Saturday and said someone wanted to view at lunchtime today with their husband who couldn't view it on Saturday. So my mum asks well why are you here? He said he'd 'very kindly taken time out of his busy schedule to come down to talk to her today'. So she asked him was that not part of his job? NB, she never asked him to come down, I'm convinced he only said he had viewers so he could intimidate her when she was on her own. She's getting pretty p-d off at this stage when he plonks himself down and starts banging on about dropping price again. She asked him about the advertising and no brochures and myhome etc, which he rubbished all over again. Then tells him she's going with the other EA and that's when he started freaking out. He started shouting abuse at her saying that she's a fool to be going with timewasters such as them and slating them to the ground calling them lazy a**s, telling her not to 'dare' remove the sign from the garden and stormed out into the garden shouting 'well that's it is it? If that's the way you wan't to play?' My mumwas very upset by it all, but at least it's confirmed that he's a complete looper. I am livid at him for speaking to her like that and am going to be a lot more involved with the next EA. Oh he also slated me I had told him that I was in Sales myself on the phone to him last week, and he said to tell me that 'I was hardly in the same league as him, that he'd done negotiation classes and everything'. A Nutjob altogether.
 
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What a nasty piece of work, turning up in someones house and shouting the odds like that. Fair dues to your Mum for standing up to him - and hopefully the next EA will be a nicer character all around.

Is there anywhere you can make a complaint to I wonder?
 
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stresshead said:
What a nasty piece of work, turning up in someones house and shouting the odds like that. Fair dues to your Mum for standing up to him - and hopefully the next EA will be a nicer character all around.

Is there anywhere you can make a complaint to I wonder?
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Thanks for the support SH. Here's to hope, I am really starting to lose faith in them altogether after him, and yet the one who sold us our house was really nice. Maybe it's different with buyers and sellers. I was wondering about the complaint think myself I think they franchise though, and he's the manager of that office. Jeez, could be worse, imagine working for him!
 
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roxy said:
Thanks for the support SH. Here's to hope, I am really starting to lose faith in them altogether after him, and yet the one who sold us our house was really nice. Maybe it's different with buyers and sellers. I was wondering about the complaint think myself I think they franchise though, and he's the manager of that office. Jeez, could be worse, imagine working for him!
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I think it's just the luck of the draw. The person who sold our house for us was fine, but the estate agents (well, some of them) that we've been dealing with as vendors have been appalling.

Still, you're better off without him. It's not a matter of whether the price is too high or not. It's down to whether the EA will accept your instructions and treat you with respect. If not - lose them.
 
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Witchfinder said:
I think it's just the luck of the draw. The person who sold our house for us was fine, but the estate agents (well, some of them) that we've been dealing with as vendors have been appalling.

Still, you're better off without him. It's not a matter of whether the price is too high or not. It's down to whether the EA will accept your instructions and treat you with respect. If not - lose them.
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Thanks for all your advice too WF. We have one another EA also valuing tonight for us, he has been recomended in the area, so we'll make our decision overnight.

Does anyone know the answer to having more than one EA selling at the one time?
 
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In theory, you can get two estate agent to sell at the same time, but they an refuse to, and if they do agree will probably demand a higher fee (possibly double) because of the risk that they will do the work for nothing. Very few people do it, and I cant see that it is a good idea.
 
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huskerdu said:
In theory, you can get two estate agent to sell at the same time, but they an refuse to, and if they do agree will probably demand a higher fee (possibly double) because of the risk that they will do the work for nothing. Very few people do it, and I cant see that it is a good idea.
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Thanks for that, I thought it would be a bit dodgy, if anyone has experience of selling their house in Tallaght area, please PM me so I pick brain over the EA's to try and choose one to go with!
 
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Roxy,

if he is a member of the IAVI - you can make a complaint about him -
see .

While I doubt just one complaint like yours would cause any severe sanctions against him, a number of compaints may have some beneficial cumulative effect.
 
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I would also be glad to hear if anyone has dealt with any decent estate agents in Tallaght. We just took our house off today after 3 months of our EA wasting our time. He would ring us after viewings and tell us the viewers had offered less than the previous offer, and pause to see would we consider (?!). I feel so naive - I printed off lots of information about the area, articles in the newspaper saying how it was up and coming etc., I kept updating him on prices of other properties etc. and I finally have had enough after having to chase him for over a week to see how a viewing went the Tuesday before last. However he is a new EA and way cheaper than the main ones, 3,000 cheaper. Friends all say to change our EA but what is the point if they are all that bad, maybe we have to accept that the market is, as everyone says, slowing down and we are just going to have to settle for 20,000 less than we expected to get. Thankfully we have a little time on our hands as our new house probably won't be built till before Christmas. I don't mind paying an EA if they get a good price but if I go to a different EA and they are as bad and I've to pay them more I will regret the decision. Anyway sorry to hijack the post, it just made me so annoyed to read how that EA treated that lady. I know the EA you're talking about from the thread I will NOT be going with them.
 
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if the EA is a franchise thenyou should be able to go back to the head office and write to the CEO,what he will do about it is a wild guess but if you know anybody else who went with this ea and had the same trouble as you mum then try and get them to write in and phone as well.These guys,especially the Sherry Fit and DNG,won't like their reputations tarnished
 
UPDATE: Re: Advice re myhome.ie and Estate Agents

Hi guys,

Well the house is now on the market with the other more well known EA. If anything, things are worse. He's had 4 viewings and no offers. The house is at a lower price. The very first guy (not the muppet) we dealt with in the first EA's has contacted us to say that people who have sold their house through one of their offices want to buy our house but will not deal with the new EA as apparently the put in an offer with him and he never got back to them on numerous occasions. He says that they told him that new EA said there was no rush at all on selling the property and that we are holding out. Not the case at all. We have had little or no contact from new EA and certainly no mention of any offers. The first guy wants us to go back with him and is falling over himself to be helpful and reassuring that these people want to buy with him and he reckons he can get a good offer price from them and that they are ready to go, so to speak. What to do now?
 
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what i would do is get the first guy to bring these people who are interested but be there yourself ..but tell him in no uncertain terms that he has one chance only and you want no messing about with offers and counter offers.
i would also say to him if a deal is struck that you will not let him hold any deposit and all dealing will be done through the solicitors ie let their solicitor convince yours that they are ina position to buy... tell teh 2nd guy then that u sold it through your solicitor
 
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Sell it yourself.

As you will see from earlier posts, I wasted months on an idiot EA and am not willing to go to another idiot to take half an interest in trying to make a quick buck. I've thought about it and spoken to people about it and have made up a brochure myself and read alot of the private seller websites and have decided to do it myself. As, i think it was Ballyman, said earlier in this post, it is the market that decides the price of the property not any EA. My EA kept getting annoyed with us for not accepting offers 20,000 below what he had agreed he could get us for the property. We will be putting our house back on the market in September and I've done way more research and made a better brochure than the EA had (he left out major selling points on our house and used rubbish photos). At least I know when people come to view our house that I can tell them all the extra things which are important and why my house is better than one say around the corner due to whatever. I have far more of an incentive to get a better price for my property than any EA has. Plus, it really isn't rocket science, I know what to expect for my property as I've been watching prices for the past few months. Hiring an EA is certainly not going to get me any more. Anyone looking for a house searches on the internet, it's not like years ago when you needed your property to be in a window.

After your experiences, seriously what have you got to lose?

Also that bit about those people not wanting to deal with the new estate agent - what a load of bull. If they wanted the house they wouldn't give a sh*t who they bought it through.
 
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