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- crashy wrote:Has anyone ever sued their agent?
my agent has diplayed gross negligence, such as:
– failing to erect signs for open home
– failing to highlight the homes features when walking through
– failing to turn up to an open home
– failing to run an ad in the paper
– failing to change marketing when client complains
– turning up 15 mins late to open home
– planned holiday on the very day auction was scheduled
– advertising a 2 1/2 week auction campaign when the client requested a 4 week campaign
– failing to include open home times on internet ads
– telling the client there were no bids at auction when there wereand I could go on and on…….
do I have a case? oh…….and this agent claims to be #3 in QLD!
Put simply you have no case for "gross negligence". Sure the agent has failed to do a lot of things. Communicate your disappointment to the agent, & if they don't fix it, & you're so annoyed by it, sack the agent. I work in the R/E industry & agents do this a lot & if a seller doesn't like it they'll get another – no big deal! The way you were reacting, I'd think you were a lawyer wanting to prosecute everyone for every conceivable thing. Get over it & get a new agent!! I mean; big deal if they turned 15 mins late for an open home; big deal if they failed to put open home times on Internet Ads. Like I said; get a new agent!
Thanks everyone for their comments so far – I like the ideas about giving good tenants movie tickets or gardening vouchers.
Col
Hello,
Maybe I'm one of the few forumites outside capital cities, but the Far North Queensland market is still pushing ahead strong (sure not like the boom times of 30-50% gains p.a. a few years ago, but that's probably like everywhere else in Australia). Cyclone Larry has had an upturn effect for the real estate market with prices jumping up. The thing I see is that the market here is playing catch up with the capital cities & I think it'll keep going for the next 3 years, then possibly fall.
Col
Hi Redwing,
By the way do you fix for a long time like 5 years or just 1-2 years??
Cheers!
Col
No worries Redwing – Many thanks for your comments.
Col
Many thanks to AmandaBS & Duckster for their comments. I've just spent 4-5 hours on this website researching & reading advice from others on investing…lots to learn.
All the best!
Col
Many thanks Derek for your advice. I've just spent 4-5 hours on this website researching & reading advice…so much to learn.
All the best!
Col
Hi everyone,
It appears everyone would buy & keep the property if the return was right & just use the increased equity in the property to continue buying properties.
Cheers! [cap]
Thanks everyone for their comments thus far. [thumbsupanim]
Thanks Marc for your detailed comments.
Yeah, that was my thoughts as well. The thing I see between people that sell the property & people that keep the property is that in the first instance, they can physically see that they’ve made $35,000 profit (or whatever the figure is), & in the last instance where they keep the property, they’ve STILL got $35,000 in equity sitting there in the property, but they can’t physically touch it so to speak. A bit of maybe lateral thinking is required possibly.
Col [cap]
Many thanks Sanjiv for your comments.
