Should I Use a Broker


So after attempting to move to an Apt that I could live in for the next couple years and having zero luck finding anything better than I am already in, I have decided to resign my lease for a year and find a place to buy.

My question is should I find a broker to show me listings or should I look on my own and then use the broker who posted the listing?

thanks

Categories: Real Estate
By Pragonetti | 09/24/2009 12:02 PM | Comment

Reporting a Realty Company


I don’t know if this is best place to do this, but my Girlfriend and I responded to this CL posting last Friday:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/1333597140.html

We did not get a email response. Then Saturday night a rapid realty broker called both my GF and myself. We had only responded to this one posting all week. So he tried to tell my girlfriend what APT’s he had and she politely let him go.

He called me about a hour later (this sat night at 8pm) and I started pressing him on how he got my number, he said I had called him and left him a message. I told him he was incorrect, I told him I had responded to one CL posting last week, he asked if he had the right number, changing the last digit on my number and saying he must have the wrong number. Then I brought up that he called my girlfriend a hour early and I told he was posting fake listing on CL under “listing by owner”. He hung up on me, I tried to call him back twice and he would not answer.

How do you report that Rapid Realty is doing things like this? I have his number but I don’t know how to proceed with reporting him.

Categories: Brokers, Legal, Renters
By Pragonetti | 08/24/2009 3:00 PM | Comment