Real Estate Agents of the World - you're ALL NUTS

The BBQ Pit
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Seriously, can someone explain these behaviours to me?

Agent # 1. Has a house. We like it. We apply for it. They ring up our work references, to see if we’re lying about how much money we make. So far so good.

I get an email from my boss (I’m on maternity leave) saying along the lines of “What’s the address of the house you applied for? Because they won’t let me give them any information unless I know that.”

:confused:

and I say again,

:confused:

What in the purple fuck is THAT all about? You won’t let him TELL you what I earn unless he knows what house I’m applying for?Why, WHY would I have ever considered that I had to give him that information? When I don’t even know if I’m actually going to end up living there? (as it turns out, the answer’s no. I got another mail from my boss the next week, saying “so, did you get it? The estate agent told me it had been leased”. Geez guys, nice if you’d told US. You know, like you SAID ON THE APPLICATION you would do for rejected applicants). You are so nuts you’d be banned from preschool.

Agent #2. Has a house. We like it. We already know we like it even though we haven’t seen it, because it has four rooms and is about two steps from my daughter’s kinder. But…it’s not available till the 21st of December. It’s been up on the website for two weeks or more already. And they’re not going to do any viewings before then, and they’re not going to let anyone take a punt and just apply for the damn thing without seeing it. And why is it on the website SEVEN WEEKS before we can do anything about it? To “generate interest” in the property. Translation: to PISS PEOPLE OFF who can’t afford to spend the best part of two months rejecting almost-as-good properties just on the off-chance that they might be the lucky LUCKY winner of the estate-agent-lottery who gets into this place. Guys’ get that lovely, attractive, seductive house OUT of my face and off your website before it drives me round the bend already.

Posted in the pit because I do so LOVE house-hunting.

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Because of the current rental boom agents are secure in the knowledge that if potential tenants balk at being treated poorly there’ll be 30 more people eager to take their spot.

I’m sure there are great real estate agents in Melbourne - but I certainly never came across any of them when I was house hunting.

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That process seems quite odd.

Here in the US, prospective homebuyers often pre-qualify when they get serious about their search for a house. Buyers find a mortgage broker, and get pre-approved for a specific mortgage amount; the mortgage broker does all the work of income, asset and work verification.

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While the agent must have balls to do something like that, I wouldn’t go so far as to say he’s all nuts.

:stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t understand this. Who or what prevents your boss from giving your salary information to the real-estate people if they don’t have the address? Some dumb personell rule? And if so, why is that the real estate agent’s fault?

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My thought too. I figure, maybe the OP works for a real estate agent? :dubious:

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Read for comprehension, folks. The OP said her boss e-mailed her saying the real estate guy wouldn’t accept any information from the boss unless the boss knew the address of the property the OP was applying for.

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My boss’s exact quote was “What is the address? Would you believe they would not let me give you a reference without knowing the address you are applying for?”. Which leads me to believe the problem wasn’t on his end.

Oh, and just for clarification - renting, not buying. Kayeby was on the right track there…

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It all makes sense now. Thanks for the clarification.

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Hmm, could be the real estate people have the apps filed by address and would not know who it was for unless they knew what property to look up?