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Thank you everyone. For some reason I didn't see these responses until just now. It's all a bit small on the iPhone
Carpet is replaced. We bit the bullet and did the whole house as all the bedrooms were old and daggy and mismatched so we didn't want to make this worse. We paid a little over $2000 and it sounds like that is on the high side reading the above however we upgraded a little so it wasn't the lowest grade that reminds me if office carpet seeing as we wee spending the money anyway and the property is hard to rent. I called all the carpet places in the area and this was by far the cheapest. The downside of being so far away meant I couldn't get more involved
We almost did as freckle and a few others know.
Daniel did a good first meeting that got us pumped and made us feel important. We were 90% of the way convinced but something didn't sit right with me. I did some research and also asked some of the members on here privately for their opinion. There were some concerns over vals among other things.
We expressed our interest in proceeding with the $10k buyers agent fee with a list of about ten questions. Unfortunately for Daniel he mistakenly sent an internal salesforce memo about us to us…thank god!! Apparently I "asked too many questions", "stupid crap" like "how many clients have you aided in purchasing ten plus properties?" And "do you take credit card for the fee?" as a couple of varying examples. I could not believe my eyes when I saw it!
Essentially the memo was for the secretary or whoever to give us a call and tell us that they were full and not taking on anymore clients (because I asked too many questions). It's funny as during our meeting he had talked about a couple who had been really skeptical and how he didn't have time for that. He told us that to get rid of them he told them they weren't taking on anymore clients…sound familiar? Basically it was to make us feel like it was an exclusive opportunity and I guess to prep us not to ask too much.
The whole experience Made me pretty cranky but we were relieved it happened at that point rather than later.
in fairness Nathan had the guts to call me to apologise. Apparently Daniel had a bad week. I told him that Daniel shouldn't write things down that he doesn't want clients to see and that he should brush up on his salesforce skills. Nathan did offer his personal help which I politely declined.
The positive out it all is that I realised there is some lovely people who will offer advise – eg freckle who spent two hours of his time on the phone and didn't charge $299 an hour. I still think you are one of the most intelligent people I have ever spoken with Freckle
anyway that is our experience!
I have found Toowoomba City Realty to be fantastic over the past few months.
After two years with LJ Hooker our tenant decided to vacate and that's when the true service there became apparent. It was not part of their policy to work weekends…as an agent I think this is crazy when a result is not being achieved and they also do not advertise their inspections times because…wait for it…"a whole lot of people might show up at the house". Apparently this could be unsafe and if I didn't like this, the Principal told me, I could take my business elsewhere…so I did.
TCR was one of the only agencies in Toowoomba to advertise inspections times (top on my priority list) and when I called and talked to the owner, he gave me answers like my Sydney Agent (Carly Collins from Cunninghams Balgowlah…absolutely amazing. I actually called her 'Number One' when I talk to her). All the answers to my questions made sense and when he did mention that they don't work weekends he said "at the moment because the vacancy rates are so low, however if that changes then we will adapt". That's the kind of attitude I like!
To end my waffling, they have been great and the flat fee is such an innovative idea. No stress of loosing a week's rent to letting fees in between tenancies when the risk of lost rent is highest. I have even suggested the system to Number One
Can't recommend them highly enough!
I hope your travels are going well Freckle
I went to the 'Think and Grow Rich' seminar about two years ago. I must say I enjoyed it and found the hype a bit inspirational. Also took little tid bits here and there from each speaker.
BUT, I made two mistakes…I took my credit card and I took my mum!
On the way in I pre-warned her 'mum what ever you do don't sign up for anything'.
Fast forward to the end of Dominique Grubisa's session and there is my mum saying 'Hurry, get to the back. You would be crazy not to sign up'.
The fear of the financial world collapsing combined with me knowing nothing at all about asset protection won…of course fuelled by my mum telling me I would lose everything if I didn't sign up! I power walked my way to the back and $4000 later I had a piece of paper which we have yet to use and two tickets to a weekend seminar which didn't float our boat.
Oh, and a very angry husband
You live and you learn.
