Real estate agent again

[Caliban]

unless the house self destructs like the haunted one on the Simpsons

[jackiew]

a friend just got a letter from the real estate agent he's been renting from for 6 years. They just came and did an inspection so he was expecting it to be connected with that. Nope. It was asking if he wanted to sell the property. He'd love to sell it except he doesn't actually own it.

Ok so it only cost them a 50c stamp, piece of paper, printing, and an envelope but multiply that by the number of properties they handle in their local area ( 200 ish I suspect) and they just threw a hundred bucks down the drain - never mind the properties they mailed out that are rented via different agents. I have to wonder whether such a blanket approach to advertising actually pays off.

[craigb]

Don't know about those mail outs. I mostly bin the ones we get.

However one of the agents sends us a quartley list of the properties that have sold in then area including a picture and description of the property and how much it sold for.

I find that pretty useful for keeping abreast of the market.

[himzol]

A friend of mine worked as a real estate agent for a while, didn't need to know much about the product just get the best and quickest sale and move on. He didn't like it when I told him that I considered real estate agents slimy leaches on society, since leaving that job he says he understands how I felt, - He's now a used car saleman, what can you say :confused:

[Wongo]

A friend of mine worked as a real estate agent.... - He's now a used car saleman, what can you say :confused:

These thing takes time but he is improving.

[oges]

1. According to what I saw on telly about it, they do not have to tell any prospective new owners of the history of a house. I guess it comes down to more of a moral thing. But it cant be the only place around Australia that has been sold where something has happened in it.

I read a book once on Australian murders and people had moved into the house where some of the Snowtown murders occurred and they did not get told of it either.

2. No I wouldnt move into the place, there isnt a lot to do in North Ryde . Seriously it wouldnt overly bother me as long as the place was cleaned up. My wife had rented a place once where the previous tenant had hung themselves and there was nothing odd about the place .. apart from the neighbours .. you could still see the marks in the stair railing caused by the clothes line wire that he dragged through to house and used to swing on.

[Barry_White]

I wasn't going to buy into this but have taken exception to the dispersions made about used car salesmen. I sold new and used cars for about five years and people trading in car were much bigger liars than any car salesman I ever knew.

The worst liars were the ministers and priests trying get more for their tradeins.

[Caliban]

Barry
I think you might have just killed this thread.