Dumbest things your realtor has said to you.

[Timothy W.]

Alright, let's admit it. We've all heard some pretty dumb things out of realtors. This just happened to me this week and is easily my favorite. I would say only what he said, but you need the background story to get the full scope of this.

I was out of town this week in Florida for a family funeral and I had to close on two houses - a purchase. The closing was supposed to happen at the beginning of the month but title issues pushed it back to this past Wednesday. Luckily I had the day free Wednesday to do all the paperwork and my bank had a branch location in Florida to wire the funds from.

As I'm out of town, I call my Realtor to ask him if by chance he did a final walk through the day of or day before closing. I hadn't asked him to do that but I figured since I've given him about 20 closings, he might think to do that as a service to a repeat client. His reply, "Well it doesn't matter on this one because you're buying as is. That and I didn't want you to find a reason to not do the transaction. I really wanted the transaction to go through." I'm not kidding.

Now to clarify, I wasn't mad. I don't believe him for a second anyway when analyzing deals so his lack of real care about my businesses' performance doesn't negatively impact me. I was mildly shocked and very amused at his level of honesty. My response literally was, "Aaron....I know all you care about is your commission but can you at least pretend to give a rip about the property you're getting me into? I know your full of sh** whenever you're talking to me and I can respect that you're just trying to sell me on something but don't ever say this to another client. Geeze man, you have truth tourettes."

I'd use another Realtor if I knew of one in my area that operated differently but they don't and frankly what he lacks for in smooth sales operations, he makes up for in flat out drive that the "diva" Realtors lack.

So what's the dumbest thing your realtor said to you?


Tim

P.S. This thread isn't meant to insult the "good" Realtors out there. It's meant to be fun while educational and make the point that YOU are responsible for the quality of your investments.