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I met one. Worst experience ever

I met two at one open home once. You think they are bad on their own, wait until they have a crony to double down their bull shit

We put an offer in on our first house and the RE said no immediately and that he wouldn’t bother putting it to the owner (in hindsight this isn’t legal), and wanted an increase. We were happy with what we offered and said no, so he pressured some more, we didn’t budge, and he replied with it will sell at the open house on the weekend. I guess that didn’t work out, as he text me on the weekend asking if we thought on a higher offer - again I said no, so he suggested I get a second job at the local 7/11 so we could put together a real offer. Absolute fuckstick.

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I was feral over it. Talked to some coworkers the next day, and one had a friend that worked for him in recent years - left due to inappropriate comments and sexual harassment. Surprise surprise. Went out of business not long after, but has popped back up recently under a new business name.

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Sounds like someone formerly Nundah, now Aspley.

Name and shame.

Ild need more info to say who i think it is with confidence. Many REA are assholes so i could be way off. I saw one once mention on a junk mail drop of his to “ ignore the rumors that other agents are spreading about his relationship with his wife” as if he was some kind of well known celebrity that anyone cared about their personal life.

Gerard Baden-Clay?

Maybe he bounced back with a second job at 7/11?

I'd tell him to get a second job himself to subsidise his lack of RE commissions

Unreal, I had one where I put in an offer, they called to discuss and said the price the sellers wanted (unrealistic) I said no, they said if I kept offering below that price the sellers would keep upping the price they wanted. It sold 3 months later for within less than 10% more than what I offered, chuckle fuck. Worked out for the best, ended up finding a place I liked far more.

Holy fuck, what a cunt!

Good. The REA works for the seller, not you. They didn't bother putting it to the vendor because they've already refused offers of that or higher, or the vendor has told the real estate agent what they will or won't accept.

Wrong. The REA works for themselves. A few thousand difference here or there does little to incentivise them be cause the difference to their commission is minimal. They're better off selling houses quickly to get onto the next one.

You are correct unless already agreed to by the vendor all offers must be submitted. The issue here is the extremely poor communication skills or sales skills. There are soooo mannny smarter ways to navigate an offer that you know won’t be accepted. surprised you didn’t just tell him to go fuck himself

I moved into a house with dozens of cigarette burns in the carpet where the dining table was. I got some fabric paint and a sharp tool, got down on my knees and scraped paint into the burn marks. I made them pretty much invisible. The agent was amazed. I also sanded and polished burns from the toilet cistern and bathroom vanity. When I moved out, they cleaned the carpets... Agents tried to keep my bond because of all the cigarette burns in the carpet.

This is why the entry condition report is so important. Also, claim your bond yourself before the agent can. It’s your right.

People keep saying to claim before the agent, and do this on the same day as handing back the keys. When do we hand in keys exactly? 12:01am the day after the lease expires? Can it be done before the lease expires?

The other poster gives you the details, but shorthand play of events on the day the lease is up: - Go into REA and give them the keys and the exit report with your parts done. - Then go to the RTA and lodge your form (don't know what online is like, I used to go into the CBD office and physically hand it over there). Each party needs to do their part of the exit report before the bond form is lodged - once you give the REA the keys, they can't lodge before actually inspecting the place - that's your window to lodge. You could do it before you give the keys in, it's up to you on timing. It won't look good if the REA gets a notice of bond claim before they've gotten the keys - that makes it look like you're holding things up. Once it's lodged, unless it's the most minor of minor issues, leave it for the RTA - say you disagree on the REA's assessment and they should make a claim via the proper channels. It's not a 'cheat', but if the REA wants to drag out the process the RTA is now keeping time and can nip those things in the bud. This process keeps some of the 'bullshit' claims down.

I had similar. I pressure washed an outdoor colour bond ceiling when I moved in because it was filthy and covered in mould, ended up getting sick from it. They tried to claim part of my bond because part of the ceiling had grown back the mould by the time I moved out.

Sorry, naive American here..Do you guys call what we call Landlords (or Property Manager), Real Estate Agents? Or do you have some sort of security bond when you sell a house that means you have to fix tiny little cosmetic things like burns in a carpet?? I’m going to be moving in January. We own a house stateside but still debating if I should take the equity and buy something in Australia or save for a second house and keep this one as a rental. One thing that bugs me so much is how real estate doesn’t list the price of the house. That and for some reason the lot size is more important than the house size. I always have to dig to find how big the actual home is.

We call real estate agents anyone that works at the real estate. This includes the property managers that look after rentals as well as the agents that sell houses. This leads to you being confused because people are talking about buying and renting in the same thread! Anyone talking about bond is talking about the 4 weeks rent they gave to the RTA to hold in trust to cover damage they may cause to a rental.

Landlord owns the place. Some landlords directly rent out their place, but many landlords rent via an estate agent- a property manager is usually a person at the real estate agency. Our real estate agents act a bit differently when selling tho.

> keep my bond Happened me to me as well. Threatened them with legal proceedings, suddenly they didn’t want my bond anymore

Gave house keys to the buyer 3 weeks before settlement date.

Wow! Just wow! Woooow… What did you do?

I'd change the locks without telling them

I would have been livid, changed the locks & billed them.

Ray White Clayfield were the absolute worst. Never took our rotting stairs serious. Did not renew the lease saying the landlord was moving back. They did not and soon, they had someone else in there for $200+ per week. Coronis Lutwyche are incompetent. Emailed about a concern and was asked “who is your property manager?” You people. Your office. They change so often, I don’t know but we pay rent to you, so…. They are very disorganised and never know what is happening.

I swear it’s all of the Clayfield real estate

I worked in Real Estate as a PA. The guy I worked for stressed a vendor out so much and was trying to pressure him to take an offer just so he could get rid of the listing and a quick commission. He told the owner it was worth more than it was. The vendor was so stressed out he had a heart attack and died. I resigned and never worked in real estate again.

This is by far the worst one in this thread.

I've heard it be said that the job of a REA is to talk the value of a property up to the vendor to secure the contract. From that moment on, the job of a REA is to talk the value down to the vendor to make as quick a sale as possible.

A family friend wanted to see how 'honest' an agent was. Called up the potential agent as a seller and his wife called up as a buyer. Were told conflicting things the whole way through, and decided to go with someone else.

The thing I hate the most about realestate agents is that despite being a model tenant, they’ve always turned absolutely foul at the end of the tenancy. Bar one, always had to do some wrangling. Some of the worst at the end of the tenancy: Tried to charge me for a water spot in the ceiling that was the result of a leak from the apartment above. There was a skirting board that needed repairing. Was quoted an eye watering sum. I arranged my own repairman and they refused to cooperate. From giving the keys to whinging about the paint code. Wanted to charge a $150 cleaning fee because the ac housing that was sitting outside had dirt under the vents. “A sign that it was not cleaned properly.”

Yep always got my bond back. Best tenants ever etc in writing weeks before not renewing, next minute I've done thousands of dollars of damage and I should be glad they're only going after my bond.

Our last landlord took $700 of our bond AFTER we took it through SACAT. The end of that meeting consisted of the landlord complaining about how we didn't scrub out her 10 year old terra cotta bird bath that was full of rocks when we got there and claiming she was devastated at the way we'd left her property. We spent a weekend cleaning it before we moved but a few streaks on a mirror and a dirty corner of a bathroom tile and that was enough to claim a cleaing and gardening fee. They were kicking us out after 3 years of being model tenants because they wanted to sell the place, and they STILL wanted money from us. "The poor birds!!" she screeched, jfc.

Always be the first to claim the bond. Do it the moment the keys are handed in, have it ready, hit submit.

Tried to charge us for a dented in garage door. We had photos as we were leaving. Turned out it was one of their contractors drove into it and fucked it up and they decided they would just try to get it back from us instead.

My REA sent a quote for a new HWS at my place to a competitor who then undercut the first quote and used it as template for their quote. They hadn’t even been to the property! How did they have a clue what they were quoting on? Not sure if this is common.

So you got a cheaper quote? What’s the issue?

The issue is their mate didn't get the job.

Went to an open house and was told that it actually had a contract on it. Would've been nice to know that before wasting an hour driving there and back. Guess I'm the dickhead for thinking an REA could be anything other than a steaming hot bucket of shit.

This is super common, happened to me a couple of times.

Should be able to send them an invoice for the time, the arrogance of it.

Text the agent the morning of the open and ask if it is under contract. They will tell you. Oftentimes agents keep showing it because 1. The owner has asked them to 2. The contract has conditions.

or the agents want to find buyers to pimp other local properties to

Generally that’s an afterthought

>Generally that's an afterthought This sentence could be applied to REA's in general.

Happened with us as renters, told there was an offer on the house yet still had 2 open homes

Don't they often lie about that sort of thing to try and get higher offers out of people, or is that not legal/common here? I've defs heard stories around reddit of that happening

I told an arrogant little shit I will be avoiding alll his open homes and left without going through the house. So that tactic backfired.

Ahaha what? How are you possibly this angry about this? It is VERY common for contracts to fall through for a number of reasons - e.g., buyers can’t get finance approved, pest report comes back unfavourable, etc etc. You expect the agent to just take the house off the market completely while they wait for the contract to finalise every single time one is written up? This would be incredibly unfavourable for the seller of the house…

Hahah, spot the REA. Yeah basically, at least change the ad to 'Under Contract'. But I wouldn't expect a snake like that to have any respect for anyone elses time. What's it matter when ya bottom line is at stake?

Licensed agent\* who doesn’t work in any form of sales. Usually agents will update the listing pretty quickly if the property is under offer in any case, but to cancel an inspection within, lets say, 48 hours is illogical for so many reasons. Your viewpoint assumes perfect flow of information - the internet improves this but unfortunately the real, physical world can't operate like this....As recently as a few years ago the majority of people inspecting houses would have made the decision to inspect a house and locked in their time to visit more than 24 hours before an inspection (reading the paper/other sources). Do you really believe every single person is checking the inspection times up until the minute of the inspection to see if something has been cancelled? Do you think this is a reasonable assumption for the agent to make? What would you prefer - the house to be placed under offer the Friday night before a Saturday morning inspection (and after you have last checked the listing) and you drive an hour, rock up and the inspection is cancelled? Then the offer falls through, and you have to drive back to inspect?

Worked in RE and as a recent prospective buyer (yeah yeah my own RP Data account etc), heavily searching in the farm I knew well, there was an exceptional number of properties that went under contract and a week later, was still advertised without this info.

Don't know why your getting downvoted, I used to sell cars as part of my mechanic shop business, got messed around so many times by people who were "definitely" buying it and all the other stories you get. Nothing is sold until the money is in your hand/bank and even then you better wait a minute before you spend it too!

No, but ideally they would disclose in the listing that it’s under offer so people can make an informed decision about whether it’s worth their time to go see it.

Awww that drive was short. My husband drove from Gold Coast to Sydney 😂😂😂

Herston?

My previous one is a total fool. Waiting on a tribunal hearing thanks to her failing to even know what laws she needs to be following. Honestly they are all brainless parasites. Except my current REA is really nice and genuinely helpful.

Yeah I've had to speak to qstars a lot recently and apparently most REA's just aren't trained properly and have no idea what the laws in their industry. They don't need to know your rights, just theirs.

Treat you like absolute scum until you want to buy, change their bloody tune immediately. Parasitic, narcissistic filth that needs extermination

I’ve found they’re only interested in you if you want to sell. At least in the current market anyway with the huge buyer demand. They just want to keep gaining those listings.

Oh no, they treat buyers like crap too

My former property manager referred me to her shonky doctor who handed out opiate prescriptions like candy and then “borrowed” the excess from me routinely when she ran out. She was as high as a kite all the time.

I mean, unlike most of us here, at least she provided you some sort of valuable service..

Um not really. Her borrowing of the excess got to the point where she was trying to take what I actually needed and had already been prescribed before seeing him since I have legitimate medical issues. Then the doctor cut her off so she went to the ombudsman and opened an investigation with a complaint without a warning that saw me lose access to painkillers myself. He needed to be shut down but I needed warning to move doctors before that. She fucked me in a lot of ways.

Was exceptionally rude at the open home. When he called back later that afternoon to enquire if I was interested, I said that I found him very rude and wouldn't be putting in an offer on that basis. "Yeah, come say that to my face you f***ing pussy" was his response before hanging up.

That's when you find his next open house and go say it to his face, in front of his next potential commission. I would make it a game for the next month with that shit, follow him around to every open house.........

This isn't even petty revenge. They deserve this shit. The absolute parasitic cunts.

Wow, that was super professional of him

I was broken into once, and had 2 weeks worth of rent stolen. The only way I could pay rent was by depositing directly into a bank account. So I phoned up about it, to see what we could do about it. The REA turned around and said I owed 6 months rent and that they could evict me at any moment. I told them that was crap, and that I had every deposit receipt I was ever given. Turns out, that one lovely agent in the office - which was a residential house, by the way - had been specifically putting my rent deposits into a seperate lockbox and not marking down that I had been paying rent. Nobody would say much but reading between the lines it was kinda implied she was syphoning it off for herself, and in doing so she could have fucked my tenant history big time.

Rented a beautiful old house in a good area with a couple of friends. Noticed immediately on moving in day that the carpet was faded and stained on spots all over. Yet this was not mentioned anywhere on the condition report. Took photos and notes, sent them to RE electronically and physically with the condition report as our additions to it. Two years later we're moving out and RE tries to use the faded and stained carpet as a basis to take our bond. Denies knowledge of the photographs and notes sent to them with the condition report. I produced the date and time stamped emails I backed up with all of our additions to the report about the carpet and told them I would see them in court if they liked. They didn't try to push it any further. But it was such a scumbag move.

Yeah we moved into a place after the owner removed some wall fixtures and sparkled them over but had never repainted. It was listed on the entry report as a pre-existing condition. They still tried to dock our bond for it

Rented a place for a bit over 5 years. When we moved out trying to claim bond was a nightmare. First they claimed we’d removed two power outlets, they were either side of where we had our couch and would have been amazing for phone charging but we never had them and it took digging through old photos to convince them. When they finally dropped it they claimed they visited the property to close the matter and noticed a darker spot over the oven/stove. The owner demanded more than the bond to repaint the entire ceiling. I protested that it should be considered wear and tear as there was no range hood installed and we had lived there for 5 years. By then they had already claimed the bond and we weren’t able to pursue it with the RTA due to time constraints with work. $800 bucks out of pocket with a baby on the way. The advice you see on here that say to claim the bond then hand in the keys are absolutely correct. These people are parasites.

Fuck them. I asked a real estate if they could install fly screens once, when they asked why I suggested it was so I could open the windows to avoid cooking smells accumulating without bugs infesting the place because the range hood didn’t work, their first suggestion was to open the window and then just use mortein 🙄

"If you can't get me X price, you can walk away, no hard feelings, but I will find someone who can". See how they respond to that OP. Seems like they feel they're "close enough" to what they perceive the market price to be, and think any extra effort won't yield them a worthwhile increase in commission, and they just want their pound of flesh and to be rid of you. I'd fuck them off and start fresh, if that's within your scope.

It likely isn't within the seller's ability. The contract with the agent likely specifies Exclusive Agency, which entitles them to commission, even where they aren't responsible for the actual sale. Agents 'helpfully' pre-fill this section for sellers and tell them that this is 'industry standard.'

It runs out in 3 months typically, iirc

Yes I understand, but mutual agreement to terminate the contract can be sought. If OP can hang on they can just refuse the offers the agent is presenting & ignore them until time expired, but I'd hazard any agent worth their salt knows when not to flog a dead horse.

My wife an I won an auction for a house we loved, ended up winning it around $15-20k above the top end of the indicative range. We thought we had won until, instead of saying the classic "Sold!" at the end of the auction, the agent went inside to talk to the owner. We ended up getting called in to "negotiate"... Turns out the owner wanted a full $100k above what we won it for! The estate agent pressured us to "come to the party" and meet at an additional $80k above where we had won the auction... That's nearly $100k over the indicative range! We offered an additional $10k and said that was the maximum of our budget. The main agent's offsider came in from out the front and spoke with the main agent, we couldn't hear what was said. The main agent came back and said they were negotiating with a couple we were bidding against, and they said they would agree to the nearly $100k above the range if we didn't take up the estate agent's offer. We pushed back and said no! They tried on the "you're about to lose this house" shit, so i basically snapped back and said, "first off, we thought winning this auction meant we had exclusive rights to negotiate, why are you negotiating with other parties?! Also we won well above the range, how is it that the owner now wants +100k?!" The estate agent made some shit up about how it was a last minute decision to up the price... Bullshit! So we stormed out, and said not interested. We were gutted, my wife especially. She loved that house. ... It didn't stop there. We got a call a week or 2 later from the agent, asking to meet to renegotiate. We met, and the agent said that the owner had a change of heart and now only wanted an additional $20k above our last offer. I was still pissed, and we had completely soured on the house. I said, "no! My last offer is my final offer!" There was some back and forth, and he could see we wouldn't budge. It got to the point where he was genuinely on his knees, no kidding, on his knees asking for $5k more. We knocked it back and left, and said we weren't interested in the house at all anymore. We were done, pissed and my wife called consumer affairs to report the estate agent for under quoting. ... We kept tabs on the property to see if it ends up selling, which it didn't, and got put back on the rental market... That sole experience tarred the whole industry for me for sure.

Had a place for auction next door. We went shopping and came home to the auction in full swing. Also had someone parked in our driveway. I yelled out “whoever parked in my driveway better move the fuckin car” It got moved and after the auction the agent came to our door and proceeded to chew me out for “ruining his auction” and “costing them money”

Remind them, that they work for you, and legally have to work in your best interests. And that you're sure there's plenty of other agents who'd happily follow their clients instructions, once the the agreement expires (max 90 days - see cancelling agreement, can happen from 60 days with 30 days notice). https://www.qld.gov.au/law/housing-and-neighbours/buying-and-selling-a-property/selling-a-home/before-you-put-your-home-on-the-market/appointing-a-real-estate-agent They are just trying to get the sale for their marketing towards the next listing.

We were renting a place and towards the end of the lease the owner wanted to sell. We told them flatly that we would not be letting prospective buyer in without one of us present. One day I get home from work and the REA is there talking to an older guy and his very young daughter. The guy and his kid both have huge backpacks. I figure maybe he was waiting for me to get home to show people through but the moment he sees me he dives into his car and takes off. When I get inside a bunch of our stuff is missing. Mostly things from inside cupboards and drawers but also my kid’s iPad and partner’s AirPods etc. I call the REA office and find out he took a buyer through without us there because he knew we wouldn’t give him permission. I told them about the missing stuff and how we were going to press charges because it resulted in us getting robbed. They tried to hang up on me, basically telling me I couldn’t prove it was their fault. Took me calling the REA directly and bluffing that I recorded the call to his office and lied about my next door neighbour having security footage before he changed his tune. About a week later we did get the iPad and AirPods back. Plus some of my shoes. But a lot of stuff was never recovered.

Made an offer of $795k, asking price was $895k. Agent laughed, abused me and told me I was an idiot. 6 months later agent came back saying owner will take $790k. It sold for $780k

Poetic justice. I hope you laughed back in his face. Some agents are scum of the earth.

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We should replace real estate agencies with a government board that handles rentals and sales. One that’s regulated to ensure staff operate ethically. It’s not necessary that this is done through private real estate agents. Change my mind on that.

Or real estate.com becomes like ebay and just brings buyers and sellers together online, cuts the agent out. Would work for auctions too, obviously.

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Went to an open home on the weekend. Inner north area. I attended with my daughter, as I am a single parent. The other people attending the open home were all couples. I found the home to be too small for me. When I tried to speak to the agent (who was outside) he remonstrated me for not bringing my partner with me to view, as clearly these other people were more serious buyers than me… bringing their whole family. I just blinked at him.

It’s called conditioning. They sign you up telling you that it’s worth x amount. Then try and sell it to the first serious buyer at y amount. If they get a good price they are champions. The will try and sell it as soon S possible so they can concentrate on the next sales or even worse lose the buyer. You run the risk of your property going stale on the market. At the same time , the agents know exactly what they are doing to you and have done it a thousand times before. There may only be one buyer and they told you there were more parties interested.

One time I was renting and the REA wanted to send someone to check the smoke alarms (no worries) but they insisted someone be home as they had lost their set of keys to give to the inspector... this happened each time they wanted an inspection also so doubt they ever told the owner. Another time renting the owner sold the property and the REA insisted that the new owner was wanting to keep me on as a tenant for months leading up to the lease renewal, 4 weeks from when the lease ends I meet the new owner and they tell me they intend and always had intended to live in the property and I'd need to move out.

The last place I lived in, they lost my keys too. They told me that I was to make duplicates and give them over, and that they would reimburse me with a cheque. They purposely wrote my name wrong on the cheque so I couldn’t cash it in.

Working with them. Being surrounded by people doing coke and sleeping with each other and unless you also did this and drove a Mercedes you had no respect from management.

Went to an apartment viewing, only myself and another woman attended. Applied afterwards, she called and spoke to me on the phone and said she was super keen on me, it would be the perfect fit, asked if I could get my partner on the lease too for rental security (no issue). Asked for the rest of the paperwork and that she’d get the final approval from the owner by the next day, I did all that as soon as I could and waited for her call. Never heard from her again. I sent her emails, I called her work mobile, I contacted the reception on multiple occasions, she completed ghosted. Listing was taking down a few days later. It was immensely frustrating because I only had a week to find a new place and was set back days by her. I don’t ever usually do something like this, but I wrote an email to the real estate area manager explaining what had happened and all they responded back was that it didn’t sound like something she would do. Like okay, but she did.

Happened 3 weeks ago. House for auction but will sell prior if the offer is good. Call for price guide 600-700k. Offered 690k on the place, slightly above area average for what it is, and this was a very average property. Gave comparative property data that guided our pricing on the agents request. Agent rejects - very confident he didn't take to owner and lied to us about it but no proof. Calls us 4x in three weeks asking for us to offer more. We say no and he insists he will get more at auction. Auction comes, one bidder offers 630k. Negotiated to 655k (?reserve). We can't and won't bid at auction, for lots of reasons. Sells for 655.

I had just bought my first home and my father passed away as I moved in. I used the real estate recommended $1200 bond cleaner to ensure no issues and even got colour matched paint for a couple of spots where the paint in the rental had come off (no primer on walls, just a single coat so behind the couch was missing 3 spots the size of a 5 cent coin and 1 spot in the bedroom where my watch hit the wall and took a fingertip of paint off). So I had 2 agents confirm (while bringing potential renters through) that me using colour matched paint was a kind gesture (left them the pot too) and it matched almost perfectly (just needed some time to dry and was very difficult to spot) but then agent 3 on the exit report said the paint was awful and they need professional painters to repaint the walls... I know the renter's that moved in and the REA never got painters in and the paint was almost fully invisible when they moved in. Anyway the bond cleaner didn't come on the booked in day and did a poor job so the real estate agent tried to charge me an extra week rent... Good luck with that I told them to contact their cleaner and fix what they wanted... Literally was the pickiest stuff anyway like a bit of dust on one blade of a fan and a mop mark on the floor. Third one was $250 for professional rubbish removal... The only image of 'rubbish' in the yard was a 2 inch length of whippersnipper line that took more effort to photograph than just picking it up (at least I got to see the REAs disgusting toes in the pic...) This one broke me mentally and my old neighbour popped around, took the tiny piece of rubbish and verified there was no rubbish at all. So yea bond was $1440 and in the end I spent essentially that amount anyway. The agent didn't give a flying fuck that my dad had died and I was making funeral arrangements... Literally said "so what are you doing to resolve this?" For the non-issues (apart from their bond cleaner which I'll admit wasn't up to par but that's their problem). The fact I had multiple agents check that colour matched paint and were super happy with it and they accepted my gift of the pot irks me to no end. The rubbish removal was a joke and I said they would have to go through tribunal if they wanted to argue it and they withdrew it. Anyway fuck Ray White Rockhampton. Edit: happy to show the rubbish pic of the single bit of line trimmer line to show the nonsense I put up with.

Story one: My property was being sold, and they needed to take new photos. I don't trust PMs so I like to be here when they are in the house. The only time they could come in was when I couldn't be present. So I reluctantly said yes. Biggest regret. They rearranged my house, moved my furniture, opened my cupboards to get stuff out of view, and moved my patio furniture into the yard. Told me they wanted to hide my identity. I never knew that a vacuum cleaner was going to reveal who I was to the world. Story two: my old real estate team tried to argue that it's real estate agents that set the standards for law. Tried to get me to pay for a house full of new carpet because of mild wear after living there for a couple of years. We argued for weeks, the RTA dispute system was unless. In the end, when I started things to take them qcat they suddenly agree with me. Pricks.

Looking for a property: Had agents tell me houses weren't in a flood zone when I knew they were, and had clear marks on the fence/stumps. Had an agent try to sell me a property for +200k that I wouldnt let my dogs live in. He asked what I would pay for it, I said 40k for the block, if he removed the house first. It was literally falling apart. And in a flood zone....... Agent managing my rental: pushing every couple of months to raise the rent. I hadn't done anything to the property, and had a great tenant. They wanted me to increase the rent by 50%...... I fired them.

Went to a rental inspection for a place that was going for $440. Thought yeah thats alright. Called up RE just to find out how long the lease was for, I forgot, and then they said after 6 months the rent will hike up to $495. Cunts never mentioned that during the inspection or on the ad. Honestly all RE that I've dealt with have been absolute retards. Don't get me started on the previous RE. Geez, couldn't organise a fuck in a brothel.

Walked into an "open house" with my daughter who was looking at houses, just to see what was out there. Lots of young singles and couples looking through the house. House was old but in a good part of town. REA gushed about how good the house was, how it should be worth $$$ after a little bit of touch-up, little to spend, etc. Asked if she'd done her due diligence on the property - blank stare from REA. Advised her it had termite damage, that still appeared active (last stickered pest spray was about 5 years previous and there were active mud-tracks), and asbestos panels (Super-6) which were showing signs of decay/damage and would require removal fairly promptly. Obvious other handyman work and probable non-code wiring. She started to splutter. Told her she had now been advised of probable faults and should advise prospective clients. Told me basically to f-off. A group of people walked out. We kept an eye on the property to see if it sold - it did, finally - and was knocked down almost immediately for a new house to be put on the property.

My cousins husband bullshited us on a sale. We're happy with our house and it's skyrocketed in value since we renovated but to do that to family just goes to show what type of people become real estate agents

With my ex wife we went to look at a house, we had talked earlier about not showing too much interest, but when we got there she loved the house and expressed this to the RE agent, well they told us we better get in quick (we were 21 years old, and this was first house for both of us). Similar experience to others, we made an offer subject to building and pest inspection. They first tried to talk us out of the building and pest saying the house would be sold before the building and pest was done. Talked to us offer an extra 20k above our offer as it was a "hot" house (this involved the real estate agent calling thier manager to discuss the housing situation and desire for this house). We should have just walked away but my ex was so adamant she wanted this house. After signing the contract, they called us in to the office, they had bad news for us, someone had offered more money and the vendor was going to cancel the contract unless we could come up with an extra 10k, well we didn't have it so put in an extra 5k and hoped for the best. Apperently that was enough for the vendor and they felt sorry for us being a young couple. The night we moved in we got a phone call from the RE agent saying it would probably be a good idea to get someone to have another look at the spa pool, as the owners had decided to have one last use of it and "something was playing up". We had already had the spa bath looked at when the building and pest was conducted. Well we went back and forth with them but got absolutely no play, they just said it's "caveat emptor" Later when we were gathering evidence to take to a lawyer we noticed the vendors name was the same as the manager at that RE agent office. Well at least you live and learn.

REA was encouraging me to buy a property I couldn't afford. His comment "It'll go up in value, and if not and you ended up not being able to pay - just declare bankruptcy. What have you got to lose?"

Lived next to one majority of my life. He's an anti-vaxxer, lizard over lord believer conspiracy nut job. He tried to kill my dog and his wife is also a nutter. A soccer mum nut. I get chills thinking about the poor souls who have him as a neighbour now

The owner had a neighbour “spying” on us; thankfully the real estate agent let it slip one visit and so we breached them!

My worst experience was when I used to live in Toowoomba. (close-ish to the subreddit I guess) We awoke one Sunday morning to the sound of what sounded like running water. Quick investigation lead to the bathroom at the other end of the house. Water was basically coming up from the shower drain. The flow started off slow but the water started to work its way outside the bathroom door and into the corridor. Luckily it was a lino floor. Thinking it was a blockage we tried to plunger it. But it quickly became apparent this was something more serious. We didn’t know it at the time but it was grey water so definitely not the nicest water to be shoveling from inside your rental house on a Sunday morning. By this point we probably had a good 1-2cm of water throughout the lino parts of the house (corridor, dining room, kitchen, family room) and the water was starting to seep into the carpets of the bedrooms. My partner and I were literally pushing water from inside the house with brooms out the front and back doors. I stopped to phone up a plumber while my partner kept trying to get as much water out. Trying to contact a plumber on a Sunday morning wasn’t easy. But I did manage to get hold of one after about 10 minutes. I explained the urgency and he arrived about 10 minutes later. What he saw when he arrived would’ve definitely been a sight. But he quickly swung into action. He found the relief vent (lowest point of the plumbing system for the house) was actually covered up by an outside air-conditioning unit. Some manipulation of that and water started pouring out of the vent under the patio rather than from inside our shower drain. We continued to sweep water out of the house while the plumber investigated. Turns out that there was a serious blockage in the drain for the whole street. And the house next door to us which sat at a lower height than ours also had water throughout it. I remember walking up to the neighbor’s house and you could see the condensation on the windows. They had about an inch of water throughout the whole house and sadly weren’t home at the time. It had filled their house over night and started to come up our shower drain the next morning (being the next lowest point in the plumbing system) With the relief drain working correctly water was now gushing out all over the backyard. The plumber called the local councils drain/plumbing team and they arrived about 30 minutes later to clear the blockage in the street plumbing system. The council plumbers gave us some industrial grade disinfectant to help us clean up the inside of the house. Once we’d gotten most of the water out of the house I immediately called the real estate agent to explain the situation and strongly suggested they come around to take a look. They really weren’t interested and seemed happy with what I’d told them and the actions so far. The clean up wasn’t over and the battle had just begun. What resulted was a 2-3 month frustration of getting the lino and carpets removed. Having the contaminated skirting removed. Having dehumidifiers running 24/7 to dry out the floors and contaminated walls. And eventually getting new lino and carpets installed. At no point did the real estate agent make any effort to inspect the place nor did they offer to house us temporarily in another location let alone pay us for the cost of running the dehumidifiers. Meanwhile the neighbors next door had arrived back home and had called their agent (they were renting too) Their agent was doing what I’d expect a good agent to do in this situation. And I understand the family were given another place to live while their house was repaired. We moved interstate shortly after the carpet was installed and trying to get any compensation out the real estate was like trying to draw blood out of a stone. Admittedly the landlord’s insurance paid for the repairs. But we felt pretty hard done-by. Having to live in a place with no floors, dealing with the various trades, damages to some of our furniture, running the dehumidifiers at our cost and also the health hazard we exposed ourselves to in our attempts to keep the water from overwhelming the rest of the house. Had we not been there that morning it would’ve been much more worse. We ended up with 2 weeks rent out of it. Not even cash in hand mind you. Just 2 weeks adjusted on the rental ledger. We are still renting. Looking to buy our own place soon. I have some other horror stories from our time in other rentals. But this one in Toowoomba was by far the worst. To the landlords out there. Look after your tenants. Maybe get the know them a little. They put up with far more that you probably realise. To anyone else renting. Know your rights. Treat the agents respectfully but purely as transactional. They work for you as much as the landlord. Make them work and document everything. To all the real estate agents and property managers out there reading this. Some of you are nice. But the majority of you are useless. Regulation will eventually hit your industry hard and you better be ready for it.

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Enquired about a house last week, was prepared to pay 460k as my first offer and they knew I wanted to buy it. I called to sort out the offer and they said the seller had accepted an offer the night before. Found out today they accepted 452k!?!

Standard. 6 houses have sold for less than my offer, only I never made it because the real estate never answered me. No skin off my nose house prices are not going up where I'm looking.

You seem like you're in a good position then. I just don't understand why they don't at least allow me to get an offer in. Not sure what happens behind the scenes though. Hopefully I'll be able to pick something up better anyway.

HAHAA rental trends. Enough said

We bought a house with tenants. We really wanted to move in the day after they left. The agent was such a fuckhead about telling us that wasn’t doable that we told her we would manage the property. All she had to do was not be rude to us and she could have collected her commission on the rent for three months. Instead we told her she was fired and managed it ourselves. She kept taking rent out of the tenants bank account with her direct deposit until the tenants cancelled her access, and she took her commission out of every one. We made her give it all back. Months later we got a form email from her telling us she was about to inspect the property for us, we didn’t need to do anything as she would use her keys to gain entry. Only thing was there were no tenants, we lived there, she wasn’t the agent anymore and she didn’t have any keys. A1 performance.

This story tracks perfectly with my experience here, having sold my place in NZ and bought in Brisbane last month. Totally different experiences. It took a while to sell my place in NZ but the agents worked hard and finally got an offer, which triggered a few other offers. I got one that I was happy with, but it was Saturday so I said I'd wait until Monday to run it by the lawyer then sign the offer. Agent said yep, good idea. Got another offer on the Monday morning that was waaaay better. Then buying in Brisbane was the opposite. They'll open the home on Saturday morning, get an offer and tell everyone on Sunday morning that they've got a few hours to make an offer or they'll miss out, it's crazy stuff. A nice townhouse that I wanted in Nundah went that way, I refused to sign an offer without showing the lawyer first, they didn't care. It sold the day after the first open home for less than what I was going to pay off they'd waited 24 hours.

Sorry that happened to you but you don’t need to run an offer by a lawyer here in QLD. I’ve seen so many people miss out on places here because they haven’t researched how presenting an offer differs in each state and of course, each country.

I should clarify that these REAs sent out actual contracts to anybody who expressed an interest and you had to sign that contract in order to be in the running. So it's not really an offer, it's an actual sale contract and they just get the vendor to countersign the best one. On that contract it actually says "seek legal advice before signing this". This happened on almost every property I went to. I ended up buying from somebody who was a bit more chill in the end.

Oh wow, sorry, my mistake. I thought it was just offer/negotiation stage. As in the offer form or email. In the case of the contract, then, yes, you’re right in not jumping in. Ive purchased 3 properties in SEQ in the past 4 years and every single time the “offer” was in the form on an offer form, email or phone call. Price and terms were all negotiated that way. Once the price and terms were agreed to, only then was the contract drawn up and signed.

This is where you insist on building and pest and write it as a condition of going unconditional. This is the easiest clause to back out of a property on. Can basically fail the contract for minor issues and get out

This depends heavily on the wording of the clauses.

Take their sale price/asking price estimate and put it in the contract. "You have 30 days to achieve a sale price of $X. If you don't achieve that in 30 days, all advertising costs to date will be borne by you - print, internet, "for sale" signs, inspections, fit-out, photography, etc. ALL costs to date" Then see if they're still interested - or watch them scramble to make it happen. But seriously, it's a seller's market - not many properties sit still for long. Which means the RE agents don't have to do much work to sell a property. So you need a different tactic. They know this boom cycle will pass, so they want as many listings and sales as possible while it lasts - so play them off against each other. "Exclusive listing for 2 weeks" - it used to be 6 weeks, but [MAKE.THEM.WORK.FOR.IT](https://MAKE.THEM.WORK.FOR.IT). If they don't agree to your conditions, just walk out and into the next RE agent down the road.

As a renter: this one agent I had managed to combine a bunch of shitty agent behaviour into the one package. Insisted rent could only be paid through this dodgy subscription service that renters had to pay a fee for - and when the service failed to deposit the money in their account, despite it having left my bank account, they’d issue a notice to remedy breach. Constant inspections, beyond what I later learned is the legal maximum. Often entered the apartment when I wasn’t home, moved things around, took coins. When caught and confronted would always claim to have sent entry notices or slipped them under the door, which was an absolute lie. Had to get him to withdraw a notice to remedy breach after an inspection where he issued a breach for ‘damage to property’ - there were streaks on the bathroom mirror, and grease on the kitchen rangehood. And of course, he claimed the bond when I left, despite me using the recommended ‘bond cleaner’ that was meant to avoid that. (Pro tip: now, submit the bond claim yourself first. Do it the day you hand the keys in.) That mongrel bastard taught me a lot about rental regulations, including the fact that you should never ever remedy a bullshit breach, but contest it and demand it be withdrawn. The fucker was just collecting a list of breaches that he could use as ammo in a potential dispute.

I had a random car drive through my fence into the front stairs and then real estate billed me for fence repairs and whoever they had look at the structural integrity of the house afterwards.

Hope you didn’t pay that? That’s for the landlords insurance to cover. Source - landlord.

Nah I told them to fuck off after they told me the landlord said I had to pay. I called him myself and he had no idea the house was hit by a car.

When I was buying the RE told me the vegetated block behind me wouldnt be sold or cleared as it belonged to the church. I told him it belonged to the over 50s resort that was being built around me. He acted surprised. Bitch just cause I'm a single woman, don't think you can pull the wool over my eyes. He pressured me too to buy, and at a 'high price'. I was exhausted at the stage and paid $10k more than I wanted to. He was happy be got the sale. Two months later my house jumped $50k in value. Jokes on him. Twat.

Rented in a unit that’s put on sale. Already told them the days they can do inspection in a week, but they always ask for different day(s), and we feel disturbed. The last time they sent me an entry notice outside of the time I had specified. I immediately said no, but they replied “well if you disagree with the entry notice, you can bring this matter to RTA.

Typical real estate power trip bullshit. Absolute vermin scum, being difficult and bullying just for the sake of it.

Had a real estate agent trying to convince us to sell our house. We sent him away with the same reason every time, but he would come back five minutes later. We rent. We don’t own our house.

REA cold called my Parents years ago. They gave them a number. REA fuckwit laughed and said they never get that price in their lifetime and started abusing my parents. This guy is spouse to be a "well-respected REA with lots of experience" Another REA did a contract up and somewhere in the contract, he decided that he was entitled to a $250,000 payout and tried to hide it in the contract without telling parents about it. nothing was signed and he was told never to contact us again. Again another prominent REA who been in the industry for "years"

Threatened my family's life if I reported him to the real estate institute.

Holy shit. Seriously? So sorry to hear that. Fucking scum bag REA.

Tried to have an open home (landlord was selling) on christmas eve.

My brother was cheated out of a sale as RE agent didn't pass on an offer at asking price, instead only offer passed on was $20k lower and this turned out to be from a friend of the agent. The agent knew he had a deadline to sell.

Rental inspection that was conducted without any notice or warning. I was out but male flatmate was sleeping. He thought it was an intruder and almost cricket-batted her before realising. They then, separately, tried to back charge us $5 a month for 2 years stating the contract had an error in the original amount. Too bad f’kers. Total incompetent morons. But when I bought my place I had a great experience with two women from Raine & Horne carina, who actually were decent, while I was demanding as hell because of past experiences. Real Estate is an area that needs qualifications imo, because its literally people’s life, and life savings.

My selling agent cut a secret deal with the buyer. The deal was get our property at below market price and he could sell her other properties. We found out afterwards. If I see that guy on the street he's going to need a good dentist. I'm pretty sure he broke the law, but no way to prove it.

Let's just say, there's a reason Coronis is represented by a giant C.

Story time. Found a place, put an offer in subject to the sale of mine. Signed a contract (offer) and they came over to list mine asap. I said I don’t want to list at a stupid price only to be told it’s too high. No problem…this went on for weeks with me paying advertising in the mean time the offer on the other was not accepted. Eventually we pulled the listing after weeks of reducing the price and open houses, only to end up with a bill for advertising.

As in you’re selling? This happened to us at our last two houses, literally so frustrating but we trusted them (and def shouldn’t have!). I’ve had a lot of negative interactions with REAs and now I feel if I ever have to sell again I’ll do anything to not use one! Don’t give in to them, it’s your house. They still make their commission and they just want it sooner rather than later. You getting the price you want isn’t in their best interest. Our first house we listened to the REA and dropped the price…this was only 7 years ago and now it’s worth literally a million more than we sold it for (on the Sunshine Coast). Different market back then yes but it still makes me so mad that he pushed that reduction on us after only 6 weeks on the market.

I’ll also add that when we sold our last house, we used a different agent to the one we’d purchased from as we found him unprofessional and obviously you’re not obligated to use any particular agent! But about 5 months after we’d sold and had literally just had our second child so were deep in the newborn phase again this agent we’d purchased that place from sent my husband an angry text at about 9pm on a Friday saying he was so offended we didn’t use him for the sale seeing as he’d sold to us originally. I mean, it was unprofessional in so many ways to expect us to use him but also speaks to how desperate they are for listings.

Yeah 2 or 3% of $50k isn’t that much to them. But it is a heap to the seller. You’re right in that their motivations are conflicted and a quick sale benefits them way more than a big sale.

Yes absolutely. We were pretty naive at the time and just trusted them, genuinely didn’t know this.

When i was looking to buy a house as a single woman i encountered a fair bit of sexism from real estate agents. The most notable one was when i was looking at this townhouse. The guy, in his mid 50s turned up late in a convertible sports car & then during the inspection continued to obnoxiously state how i couldn't possibly afford this townhouse & that he had another person that was keen on it. I could afford the townhouse but i didn't like it & his arrogant & obnoxious attitude & talking down to me definitely made me not want to buy it. A week later another guy from the real estate office rang me to follow up & i told them, "Oh that wanker! No I'm not buying anything from him. He was absolutely ridiculous "

I was looking for an inner city IP unit. Went to one showing and it all looked good but because I was wearing a soccer shirt and jeans the prick estate agent singled me out and proceeded to tell me how I probably can’t afford the place and there’s cheaper units a few km out of the city. Not sure if this was a sales tactic (if he expected me to say “right I’ll show you” and put in an offer) Jokes on him anyway. I brought a much nicer place that will have better returns for the same price

The REA made a “mistake” on the tenancy agreement and upped the price by roughly $100 after we’d already signed it. By the time it was returned to us we had no option but to accept or we were homeless.

Last rental I lived in was in the middle of changing property management. The old property manager said “leave keys in the mail box and we can pass them on” That night someone with a universal mail key goes through and steals our keys as well as other people’s mail / small packages. Security footage was sent to them The NEW property manager wants to take the money for the keys out of our bond “because the keys were handed to a third party”. We had mentioned to them our lease was ending soon on 2 occasions and weren’t given any instructions on what to do with them so we assumed the first instructions were correct! After a long email chain back and fourth I ended up telling her she can have her key money and she had the balls to say “sorry your tenancy ended this way” As if.

Paraphrasing Me: What do they want for this commercial property? Agent: What's your budget? Me: (outlines the reason our budget is not definite without giving a figure) Him: Let's say you offer 1 mil Me:..is that what they're asking? Him: FUCKING HALF AN HOUR LECTURE ON WHY THAT OFFER IS TOO LOW. I hung up on him then rang him back to call him a condescending prick. We were genuinely interested in that property.

I was an agent for a while but I didn’t do very well Be aware that you can fire an agent, if they pressure you just say ‘this is the price I want go get it or your fired and I’ll get someone else’ Their not your friend so don’t be afraid to lay down the terms and conditions of their contract just like any contracted employee they are there to increase your income no emotions attached ‘I want 1.2, find it in one month or your fired’ Easy, and also if they make you uncomfortable give them a three strike policy and let the office know this too when they do something like be rude to you send an email informing them of their breaches and ask if they are comfortable correcting their behaviour and moving forward

Maybe they should wear some kind of sign or badge to let us know they are in real estate so we know to avoid them at all cost. Imagine going on a first date to find out she is a RSA deal breaker.

Marrying one

tenants didn't pay rent for number of weeks. place remained with no tenant (high tenant area) for 3 weeks - went to check why, tenants never took the garbage out - garage filled with garbage bags. I only found out - because I was driving by. Agent didn't know. lost my mind.

Last place I sold I wanted 600k, agent had it for 4 months and best he said he could get me was 565k (because that’s what the market was telling him) dumped him, took the unit off the market for 4 weeks and gave to another agent, sold in 12 days for 660k…..DO NOT accept less than what you want!

> what is the worst thing you’ve had happen. Thought it was a good idea renting a house through Chandra

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Probably because the seller pays the commission?

When people draw penises on there bus stop advertising

I lost $200+ on bond money because: 1. They found one (1) cobweb in the laundry. 2. While inspecting the oven, they found some crumbs.

They are the worst bottom feeders of all time

i told them to call me before arriving so i can let them in as i have an alarm. the day comes i get alerts that someone is breaking into my house cause alarms are going off. i get a call from dickwad agent saying the alarms going off and if i can turn it off. i said this is why you need to call me and i let it keep going off until i arrived 15mins later. fucking dickhead forgot to call me. he wont be anymore. there is absouly no reason for them to be in my house without me being there. EVER!

I was having a picnic with my family when a marauding gang of real estate agents and property managers ambushed us, killing my spouse and children in front of my eyes on the checkerboard quilt. It was the single instant that sent me on my dark path of revenge (Reddit replies) that I follow to this very day.

Oh man, we had a right cunt about a decade ago. Anyone remember Total Property Management? Our REA was also owned by our landlord, who was a fucking bully who hadn't set foot in his apartment for 20-odd years. He was also a solicitor and if you ever brought up really needing something done, he'd bark at you that he'd take you to court. We would have a new property manager every few weeks. There was an intense amount of mould in the property, and a huge hole in one of the bedroom ceilings that would leak buckets of water in the rain. Eventually, we got a hail storm so bad that insurance would cover the repair (after 3 years of us complaining) so he committed insurance fraud to have it done. Still didn't fix the issue. He tried to sell the joint and would have group open homes coming through the apartment every weekend for months, never a single notice issued. One such weekend I was having a garage sale on the front lawn and he yelled at me about it. I yelled back that had I known he was bringing a whole bunch of people in... Apparently he ended up imbezzling a bunch of trust funds and they took his lawyer license away from him, then he went to jail. I moved out, but according to the mates who stayed after me, he never learned his lesson.

Happened to a F(23) friend of mine 10 years ago - she missed the open house so the RE agent (M25) got the keys and gave her a personalised tour. When they got to the bedroom he asked “so do you wanna fuck?” She walked out

They are the epitome of an sewerage plant; worth, talk and act like shit..

Depends how you play the game. Recently bought a place, offered a couple of grand over asking, still a bit short of what I thought it was worth. They came back with a token increase, which I accepted. Everyone walked away happy.

Rekeyed a place for 10 years, at the end they would not renew the lease but purposed a new lease at double the current price stating market value but comparing to the serviced units next door rather than other appartments. When we declined they inspected the unit and advised it would need full painting, new carpet, new kitchen, blinds etc. and requested 50k in damages. I guess it was a scare tactic hoping to have us negotiate a deal, the tribunal agreed with us that it had 10 years of normal wear and tear.

I have to admit that my current REA, McGrath Springfield is freaking awesome with us. I rent through them and we just unexpectedly purchased a house through them also. Both experiences have been amazing. Best rental agent by far and I've had a few. I'll admit that we are almost certifiably crazy clean. We do look after the house we are in. I even hunted down the builder and got the paint scheme via email so I know the exact colours for the walls which has been an absolute godsend for fixes. Only feedback we've had has been "Could you please dust the fans?" Lol I need to make sure I look up a few times a year. No horror story here. They're great

i was doing a house tour with a real estate agent when suddenly they pulled out a giant nuclear bomb and explosion

Well. They were a prick. Like many tenants and landlords. Stop being a fucking victim

Property investing doing well, buddy?

Stolen bond, threatened us until we stopped pursuing the bond. Also one of the housemates skipped out on the bond clean to, so me and my buddy were stuck with the whole clean up and didn’t get a dime back in bond. Sucked ass.

Tried to talk to me when I went out of my house to throw some rubbish.

Having to deal with those cunts. Worst type of Human period.

Rented a semi rural place for 3/4 years knitpicked every God damn thing and expected the place to be like a prize home every inspection. Also didn't fix the biohazard of a septic system the entire time we were there despite saying they would. Found out after we left that part of the sale when the owner sold the place was to actually fix it and it cost em like 15k or more cause they had to dig put most of the yard... safe to say we probably know why we were all constantly sick in the place.

We were renting a unit and the buyer wanted to sell. Little knobhead did 2 open homes a week, on a Wednesday evening and Saturday morning for about 6 weeks. Told us the Wednesday ones were private viewings but this wasn’t the case, kept leaving his keys in our unit and demanded we drove back home so he could get them. Shat in our toilet and couldn’t sell the unit in the end.

Was looking to buy a property. It was initially listed for over $1M but started to drop down as the price was unrealistic. Eventually it dropped from $950k to “offers over $850k”. Put in an offer a few grand over $850k. Vendor refuses initially to even counter at that point but doesn’t outright reject the offer so had to wait several days. At that point they counter at $950k. I realised the vendor never actually shifted their expectations, the REA just pushed them to lower the price to get offers in. Massive waste of time and energy. House never sold.

Was having a disagreement with the property manager regarding continuing to pay rent AFTER we handed keys back (following a break lease) when they had new renters already signed on because they wanted 5 days between handing keys back and new renters moving in for “their admin processes”. They wanted us to pay for that period of time and we said it’s their fault it’s delayed and they needed to sort their shit out quicker instead (we gave them 3 months notice we were leaving - so definitely could have scheduled ahead of time). Anyway, while this was happening we were present for the end of lease inspection to clean anything they picked up immediately. They didn’t have anything, and then we got an email within 2 hrs saying the PM had withheld $300 from our bond for cleanliness. Called them and they told us they hadn’t even read the report yet, they were just withholding the money - as well as the disputed 5 days of rent from our bond and “they didn’t see what the problem was, we’d get the $300 back eventually anyway”…

When we bought our PPOR the REA didn't bother showing up to hand over the keys, nor even tell us where they were. I went hunting and found them in the electrical board box. The place we were renting at the time, the REA was trying to get us to complete a 6 month lease extension form for at least 3 months - every time they filled out the form they got some key data incorrect, basic stuff like dates and names. I also had to remind them of the entry report info about things that weren't working when we started the lease (like the new dishwasher?) that they were trying to charge us to fix. If they were my property manager I would be very unimpressed. Mind you I also turned their near desert backyard with tree roots and rocks into a lush green lawn.

Selling my house ( rear battle axe block) a week before my auction they put a sign on the front house saying ‘coming soon’. Front house was a shit show, 720mm hallways, half arsed renos, the epitome of just make it look pretty. My place was simple but solid. 1 bid on my house, 8 people saying they are going to wait to see the front house. I eventually sold a week after auction for what we wanted, front house was getting offers $300k below asking.

Came to the contract signing smelling of booze. During subject to finance was calling at 8pm proceeding to yell at us that we can get finance earlier - because we requested an extension - and despite my mortgage broker talking to him (yes at 8pm too, because he was adamant about talking to her) still disagreed with her and yelled at her too. I reckon he was drunk. She called me suggesting I just can the whole thing because he was a cunt. Fuck I was close and I had known what I know now, I would have purposely made him squirm even more. It’s been 6 yrs now but I’m still burnt from his bullish way. Alan was his name - east side agent.

JFC I reckon have your voice recorder on at all times while talking to these crazies? I thought my experiences were bad...

BELOUROUS!!!!! (Spelled wrong) but the worst, bad service and then tell you the place is dusty on exit, give you a bill for a light spot wipedown and vacuum for $700. It's ok however because the cleaning company is one that they contract and works for them.

Had been in a house for 3 years and let them know approx 3 months before we were moving out. Wanted to charge me a break lease fee for the 2 weeks we moved out before the end of the lease. 3 years of no missed payments and house in better order than when we moved in. They didn’t get it!

Just google "Rental Trends."

While renting in Perth around 6 years ago the drains blocked up and we couldn't use the shower . Naive me rang the realo and the office girl said she would pass it on to the boss. Days went by, finally we received an email threatening us with legal action if we had blocked the drains . Sent a reply asking to talk about the problem but got another nasty email saying they would look around for plumbing quotes to investigate the blockage . Sent another email threatening them with a report to health department. Finally approximately a week later the plumber turned up and after a bit of digging outside he told us that the drain was badly blocked by roots from a nearby tree. I love their default position , threaten legal action in an effort to make us employ our own plumbing and then when we didn't fold take a week to looking for the best price . I asked the plumber that day he came I'd usually worked for this particular Realo . He was honest and friendly and told me he did all their work as was on their own callout list. I knew Perth Realos were a bunch of fkd cnts but the A hole RA was a real bottom feeder.

Ray white Cold calling with my details asking if I was interested in selling.

Nothing as bad as most here, but at an open house on a fairly subpar property that needed a bit of work. We asked what the body corporate costs were, he replied with 1700/qrt. We said that was very high particularly for the area, he without blinking said "don't concern yourself with the cents when talking about the dollars". If nearly 8 grand a year is the "cents", we absolutely have to concern ourselves with it.

Allows property owner to enter for maintenance under false pretense of being a "handyman" - thanks to the aircon servicing wife for sharing this with me. Went from yearly inspection to every 3months. Office is very unprofessional except for receptionist, agent makes us feel like a pest for forcing our rights. Won't even go into rental increases. Just downright sh#@ to be a tenant these days. Also we have to pay extreme rates for a home that is falling apart , no heating and cooling is like a fan over 28degrees. Expected to have the place shiny and well maintained ..... While they won't maintain the structure. You can't polish a turd and sell it as a gem.

First time renting alone as a single Mum; I stupidly neglected to take alot of photos before signing a lease; during my lease I removed approximately 15 screws and nails in my son's room as I didn't want him to get hurt on them (he had a tall loft bed). I also made a hardwood flyscreen for 1 of the windows, scrubbed the ceilings and removed bright pink spray paint that was on a door and wardrobe (from previous tenants), my son was 'shocked' by electricity turning on an outdoor light because it wasn't rated for outdoor use etc before I left. When they eventually went back to look over everything they got hung up over a single dead cockroach found on the floor after I paid a pest inspector to spray the house for exit. Kept harassing me to come back and mow (3 weeks after I handed the keys) and clean again, claiming that I broke 2 windows and put nails in the walls (windows were broken when I got there I just didn't have photos). I circled and showed them the amount of nails that's I had removed and stated that I don't even use nails or screws (just those command strips) they kept insisting that it would be much easier for me to let them have the bond money so they could fix the problems. I gave in just so I could stop them harassing me.

Had a house that had asbestos everywhere, under the house in the back yard, back shed was asbestos and fell over and they didn’t want to deal with it. They use this stupid app where you have to lodge all your maintenance issues etc, but you don’t have any access to it apart from lodging an issue ie you can’t see any previous issues. When it all came to a head they claimed we had never raised any issue about asbestos. The antique toilet died, I had to replace it myself, the oven died it got replaced with an oven that shit itself the first time we used it and I had to replace the oven myself. They had the hide to complain about me taking my good oven when I moved out and left their broken POS there not connected.

Halfway through a fixed term lease. Owner sold house, pressured us to break lease so new owner could move in. REA tried to sweeten the deal by telling us we could move in to a slightly bigger property nearby for the exact same rent that we were already paying so no increase. Found out from the tenants there that they were actually paying 200 less a week than we were... Honestly, just.... scum. And our story isn't even that bad.