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Incompetent Estate Agents

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  • 29-10-2013 7:02pm
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    Paddy Fields
    Registered Users Posts: 346 ✭✭


    As I’ve said in another topic on here I am getting totally frustrated at ringing an estate agent’s office only to be told that Tom, Dick or Harriet will call me back only to be left waiting and waiting and waiting.

    Any estate agents or their secretaries reading this then can you please get your act together. In less than 2 weeks I have rang regarding SIX houses where I was told that they would ring me back, also leaving voicemail on a mobile number only to be left waiting and waiting and waiting. I’d hate to think what the total number of un-returned calls has been over the past 6 months.

    Anybody selling a house then it might be worth a phone call to that suit that you employed to sell your property to ask when the last phone call was showing an interest in your property because your house might have been the one I was interested in and we could have been done and dusted by now had it not been for some incompetent estate agent.


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    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Drop a letter in the door of the house telling the owner that you have been trying to contact the auctioneer and he is not returning calls


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    Carsonstown123
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Carsonstown123


    Hi paddy it's not OliversEstate agency you are referring to by any chance? I'm having similar problems also....


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    Paddy Fields
    Registered Users Posts: 346 ✭✭Paddy Fields


    Carsonstown123 wrote: »
    Hi paddy it's not OliversEstate agency you are referring to by any chance? I'm having similar problems also....

    No actually it is more than one estate agent in 4 different counties.


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    Belkin1975
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭Belkin1975


    Anyone interested in a house in the Killybegs area, Co. Donegal?


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    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    Paddy Fields wrote: »
    As I’ve said in another topic on here I am getting totally frustrated at ringing an estate agent’s office only to be told that Tom, Dick or Harriet will call me back only to be left waiting and waiting and waiting.

    Any estate agents or their secretaries reading this then can you please get your act together. In less than 2 weeks I have rang regarding SIX houses where I was told that they would ring me back, also leaving voicemail on a mobile number only to be left waiting and waiting and waiting. I’d hate to think what the total number of un-returned calls has been over the past 6 months.

    Anybody selling a house then it might be worth a phone call to that suit that you employed to sell your property to ask when the last phone call was showing an interest in your property because your house might have been the one I was interested in and we could have been done and dusted by now had it not been for some incompetent estate agent.
    From my experience over the past 18 months, if you get a 10% response rate from EAs, you are doing well.

    I am now dealing directlt with the vendor and things are speeding along - so far.


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    Paddy Fields
    Registered Users Posts: 346 ✭✭Paddy Fields


    As Santa Cruz said above I was going to start dropping letters in letterboxes hoping to deal with the vendor directly. A house I am interested in tumbled by €20,000 today; if the EA cannot get me in the door this weekend then I give up on them and I will try and contact the vendor myself.


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    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Very good advice from Santa Cruz above. I wish we had thought of that when we were looking at houses. We couldn't fathom why EA weren't bothered to reply to our emails and voicemails. Absolutely infuriating.


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    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    The main problem with EAs is that they have a monopoly on the sale of any particular property.

    Very rarely will you find the same property for sale with more than one agent. Thus the EA knows he will get his commission when the property is eventually sold. Thus, he will sell the property to someone who he thinks will buy it and by doing the least amount of work.


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    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Incompetent Estate agents

    Otherwise known as Estate Agents.


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    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,394 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    It is a lesson to be learned when ever you go to sell a house.

    The way commissions and estate agents charge mean they really aren't bothered about the price they sell as it doesn't make that much difference to them.

    I think a certain company got in trouble for this in the US. The model is really a franchise and they are about quick sales not top revenue for the customer. Effectively they difference of €20k might only be worth €200 to the agent so they aren't going to kill themselves for it. It is just human nature would you spend an extra few weeks for €200?


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