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Open for inspections - agent not taking any details

Last post 02-22-2009, 2:42 PM by Denise. 0 replies.
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  •  02-22-2009, 2:42 PM 4923

    Open for inspections - agent not taking any details

    We had heard the horror stories about valuables being stolen during open for inspections, breaks ins etc. so we did our best to minimize the risk by hiding our valuables away and taking all keys with us during our open for inspections.  What we hadn't anticipated was that it would be our real estate agent who would expose our family to a higher risk.

     At the beginning of our contract we specified that photo id must be provided for all people who came to  open for inspections.  However, one of the representatives from our agency not only managed to advertise the wrong time on the internet not once but two weekends in a row without notifying us.  Because the agent and those people that saw our house on the internet (the only place the house was advertised at the time) turned up one hour early, when our family was swimming in the pool, we knew that 9 groups of people (mostly groups of 2-3) had attended that day. 

    At the end of the open for inspection, the agent showed us a loose piece of paper (not even the proper record) with just 5 names on it.  When we queried this, we were told it was "a new strategy".  The agent let around 20 people into our house and only asked them on the way OUT if they were interested,  if they said yes, he would take their name and contact number.  So the other 15 of so people who went through our home, searched through our children's wardrobes etc.. we have no idea who there were.

    This is only one of our shocking experiences with this very prominent agent. Do we have any recourse?


     

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