Recommendations for a realtor please. (Homer: foreclosure, condo, credit)

[akravenlady]

Yesterday I contacted a realtor about a property I liked. I asked 8 questions about the property. When he answered me he not only would not answer any of my questions but only wanted to know if I was going to meet the listed price on the property. I sent another message to him asking him again to please answer my simple 8 questions and he refused.

Obviously I am not going to be talking with him again. He needs a refresher course in customer service, or possibly take his first class.

Whatever...the dude is history.

So, can someone here recommend to me someone they've personally dealt with and liked?

Thank-you.

[Moose Whisperer]

What area are you looking at?

[AKStafford]

If you are looking at the MatSu Valley, I highly recommend Dody Kettler.

[highlife2]

What were the 8 questions? He could have been unprofessional but on the other hand he is also trying to weed out tire kickers or snoops which is why I wont do an open house. The realitor is trying to feel people out to make sure they have acutal money down and are serious about buying, then you can get to the questions about the property.

I am trying to sell a condo right now and its stressful enough trying to keep the house in model home condition. I dont want to put all that work into it and tie up the realitors time for someone that is not a serious buyer with a 20% down in their bank account ready to buy.

It is a difficult job for a realitor to separate internet snoopers who dont actually have any money from a serious buyer. You dont want to offend a potential buyer but at the same time you dont want to play 20 questions with someone that has no money and is not pre qualified.

[akravenlady]

I was looking in the Homer area.

And yes, that particular realtor did offend me. He was very rude and condescending, didn't say hello, thank-you or anything. Just wanted to know how much $$$ I was going to spend. He said he didn't have any files at his office that he could even look at. It was all very unprofessional.

He obviously knew how much money I was going to spend by the property I gave him the MLS# for. It wasn't like I was asking stupid questions for a million $$$ property. It was for $145,000.

Thank-you AKStafford.

[akravenlady]

Simple questions like:

Was there a W/D hookup.
How close the closest maintained road was.
How motivated the sellers were.
Recommendations for a local lending institution.
Average cost for heating the place.

And so on.....nothing unreasonable at all.

[highlife2]

Originally Posted by akravenlady

Simple questions like:

Was there a W/D hookup.
How close the closest maintained road was.
How motivated the sellers were.
Recommendations for a local lending institution.
Average cost for heating the place.

And so on.....nothing unreasonable at all.

You got the rude response because you asked how motivated the sellers were. Why should they show you there hand so that you can low ball them. If I were a motivated seller I would allow the property to go into forclosure or negotiate a short sell before I would ever write a check to sell the property. Credit is not real money and real money is too hard to come by these days to throw it in a burn barrel.

Also because you asked about recommendations for lending that means you dont even have financing secured.

So between thoes 2 questions that tells the realitor that you likely dont have a substantial amount of money in your account for a down and you dont have financing for the remaing ballance AND that you were going to potentially make a low ball offer that would be offensive to their client.

I full expect my realitor to protect me from such interactions with low ballers and tire kickers because someone making an offensive offer would stress me out and I pay the realitor to insulate me from stuff like that. It is already stressful enough bringing the home to "model home" condition and having to leave for viewings.

If you confirmed you had the money to spend for the list price and the financing secured you would find out all the other questions when you did a viewing.

[blueflames50]

Originally Posted by akravenlady

I was looking in the Homer area.

And yes, that particular realtor did offend me. He was very rude and condescending, didn't say hello, thank-you or anything. Just wanted to know how much $$$ I was going to spend. He said he didn't have any files at his office that he could even look at. It was all very unprofessional.

He obviously knew how much money I was going to spend by the property I gave him the MLS# for. It wasn't like I was asking stupid questions for a million $$$ property. It was for $145,000.

Thank-you AKStafford.

sent you a DM with her name! she's great! also an artist!...I know her personally as does another here....
think I know who you talked with...stay clear...send me a DM with the listing # as I looked at quite a few properties in Homer this summer....I did look at 2 or 3 around that price range.

[freezengirl]

Originally Posted by blueflames50

sent you a DM with her name! she's great! also an artist!...I know her personally as does another here....

Tee Hee. Another recommendation.

[highlife2]

If you want rock bottom prices you should go after a foreclosure, although banks are not letting them go so cheap these days because they know they cant get the difference out of the original owner. Usually because "motivated seller" means laid off.