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October 29, 2007
Roslyn Huebener Strikes Again
Please stay AWAY from Aguayo & Huebener. They are the most unethical of brokers. Their whole bidding scheme is a way to jack up prices and they are entirely dishonest in working one offer against the other. Watch your inspection and attorney fees get sucked away while they pit one buyer against another, all the while claiming their system is designed to prevent wars. Nonsense. It's devised to create the war but shroud it in a bunch of what they perceive as defensible systematic lingo, which is nothing more than double-speak for WE WILL ROB YOU of your money before you even get to K. Roslyn Hubener is a particularly filthy piece of slime in her machinations, keeping the agents under her in the dark as she double-deals. Next place I'm going to see her arrogant pretentious thieving face is in court. Just my very strong opinion, but so be it. Anyone with similar experiences please speak up.
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We had a bad experience with them as well. Bidding on the Nantucket Charmer on 23rd St.... saw how screwed up they were & walked away. FWIW, We bid more then they actually ended up getting for the house!
Posted by: tag482 at October 29, 2007 6:41 AM
What will you be taking her to court for?
Just curious.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 8:06 AM
Were you using them as a buyer's broker? If they worked for you, I could see getting angry. Otherwise, so much hot air wasted....
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 8:21 AM
Actually I had a bad experience with them as well. I'm not going to go into details on this board but I do know that Roslyn Huebener was the instigator and I do think her practices border on unethical. I can't say the same about the other agents there- I think some of them are honest and just caught in the crossfire.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 9:40 AM
I couldn't agree more. Since the hell they put us through last year, I have been trying to get the EXACT same words out there as much as possible. It's not "hot air wasted". You do not need to be a venal, horrible crook to sell a place. In fact, the place we ended up buying was through a lovely broker who is now our friend. Not that they need to be your pals either, just business-like. A & H, completely screwed up our deal. Roslyn was calling me, sometimes 8 times a day, trying to get me to drop "the silly mortgage contingency" on our contract. "Everybody does it". The broker under her that we were working with had no idea that Roslyn was trying to work on a different deal with someone else when we had already written a 6-figure check for the down payment. I'd get her calls too crying about how Roslyn is behaving strangely. It was like high school with giant $$ amounts attached. Eventually, and blissfully the deal fell through. They ended up getting 30K less for the house than we offered and closed 3 months later than we did on the great place we found that week. A& H are the most unethical bastards I have seen. They should go down. Call it hot air, but they are the worst of the worst.
Posted by: nyflicka at October 29, 2007 9:41 AM
The job of the broker is to get the most $$ for the seller, not become new friends with the buyer. I'd use them to sell my property. They seem to be good at their job.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 9:43 AM
As I said, their job is not to become "friends", it was just a happy coincidence. If you use them know that you have been warned. You may think the Bush administration is "good at their jobs" too.
Posted by: nyflicka at October 29, 2007 9:53 AM
Roselyn is sewage personified, despicable, arrogant, 2 faced and EVIL. I sold my place through A and H but it nearly turned my insides out. I have never had someone lie to me so often and engage is such disgusting practices. Buyers and sellers STAY AWAY.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 9:53 AM
9:43 AM
- My Roslyn, you're up early!
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 9:56 AM
Just another reason why it is ridiculous that Brooklyn does not have buyers agents. If there were buyers agents this type of thing would not happen.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 9:57 AM
9:57- you are likely right there.
Posted by: nyflicka at October 29, 2007 10:02 AM
Why even bother in this day and age with a broker? Just post it on Brownstoner. Have an open house. Make a face book page. Blog it out with a link to pics. No liars, no commission!
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 11:48 AM
Yeah, I really wish people would stop using brokers to sell their places. They are becoming more and more dispensable.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 11:56 AM
Mr. B should do a "For Sale by Owner" section of the blog!
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 12:10 PM
what a great idea - a FSBO section!
One of my first weekends looking in Brooklyn for a brownstone I happened to stop by A&H. I told them I was looking for a Brwnstone in Crown Heights etc . The agents at A&H told me Id never find anything under a million USD. I found one soonafterwards and bought it for under 700. These A& H people are lazy and only want to deal with people in the million plus range...btw i didnt find the house with a broker either. I went to alot of brokers but they all wasted my time. I far far better to do my own searches and I found my dream house in less than 6 weeks....
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 12:35 PM
I too have had negative experience with a broker at A&H. I would not recommend them.
Posted by: sniec at October 29, 2007 1:14 PM
I am a buyer with the 5th Avenue office and I have never experienced any problems. I have worked with Toby and only had wonderful experiences.
Aguayo's 5th Avenue office has nothing to do with Huebener's 7th Avenue office. They are two different entities.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 2:11 PM
8 yrs ago Rosalind Huebner pulled the same shit when we were buying -- after the seller had agreed to a 5% depsit and mortgage contingency, she tried to renegotiate the deal without informing the seller or her own broker. from that point on, we dealt with the seller directly, and while she was infuriated and tried to derail the deal, we got it done -- at full asking price. She and A & H are to be avoided at all costs.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 2:47 PM
A FSBO section!
YES
Empower the People.
Think about it. A Real Estate Blog changing the way the brokering giants do business.
Imagine the pioneering publicity (ie advertising revenue you could get out).
11:48 AM is right on.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 3:01 PM
Aguayo's 5th Avenue office has nothing to do with Huebener's 7th Avenue office. They are two different entities.
I believe if that were true, both names would not be on the awnings of both the 7th and 5th avenue locations.
If what you say is true, they are idiots.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 3:55 PM
I heard Agauayo and Hubner had a falling out earlier in the year and they are in the process of, or already, split up for all intensive purposes.
Coincidentally, I heard this from an AH broker at an open house several months ago who surprised me with their candor regarding internal company strife. Very unprofessional...
Posted by: newsouthsloper at October 29, 2007 4:03 PM
First they should have done is change awning.
I hope they both go out of business.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 4:06 PM
4:03: its "intents and purposes"
how do these people find jobs to buy houses?
Posted by: coopsarestress at October 29, 2007 4:35 PM
4:35- oh, be a gentle teacher. I know it is surprising, but look at the rest of the post. This is an intelligent person. Isn't it strange when some bit of knowledge that is so obvious has just missed you your entire life. It's happened to me- like you'll read a word that you've never seen before and then you start to notice it everywhere. Life is strange. Be easy on our new neighbor. Peace for our planet.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 4:46 PM
coopsarestress- Thanks for the english lesson, I love all of you OCD people that feel it necessary to correct grammer and punctuation on a blog.
Sorry, while commenting on this blog i dont have the luxury of having my staff or secretary correct my writing. BTW I have an awesome job as a CPA and forensic financial analyst. Sorry if my vernacular is not up to par for you, but I am more used to numbers than words.
Wonder what your job is...
Posted by: newsouthsloper at October 29, 2007 4:51 PM
LOL @ newsouthsloper... "I can't spell, but i have a job! It's ok to be stupid if you have a job! Neener neener neener!"
Just suck up the shame and learn to spell, moran.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 6:32 PM
FSBO by Brownstoner? A service to owners? You really MUST be joking. Putting anything on Brownstoner is an invitation to participate in vicious trashing of properties. I pray that if I have something to sell, Mr. B. never finds it.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 6:59 PM
OK 6:32 - I'll learn to spell, I do not want anymore anynomous guest rantings about me being a "Moran" would I?
Posted by: newsouthsloper at October 29, 2007 7:15 PM
all I want to say is that I have lived in the slope for the past twenty years. I have used one broker three times and she has always and I mean always gone above and beyond on my behalf. she is honest, knowledgeable and has a fantastic reputation. her word is her bond. unfortunalty she chose a partner who refuses to let go and has proven herself not worthy of the partnership. I believe in the end that peggy aguayo will prevail and have huebener put in her place by the way side.
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 7:19 PM
althogh i don't disagree that AH sucks, I had horrible experiences with Corocoran as well. very dishonest and kept trying to initiate a bidding war. fortunately that didn't work
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 8:27 PM
newsouthsloper: You have been trolled. You have lost.
http://urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moran
Don't let that stop you, tho. It's amusing watching someone so full of lose and fail...
Posted by: guest at October 29, 2007 10:20 PM
I prefer Buggs Bunny's version:
"What a maroon..."
http://faultgame.com/images/ltbb_052.wav
Posted by: jeffrey at October 29, 2007 11:14 PM
Or perhaps he spelled it "Bugs."
Eh, what do I know. Rabbits can't spell, just multiply.
Posted by: jeffrey at October 29, 2007 11:16 PM
erm... back to the original post. Not only did we get sucked into an A and H "last and final" bid thing, but they also tried to strong arm me into using their mortgage broker, said it would make our proposal look better.
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 1:23 PM
Look, it is the seller who accepts the offer, not the broker. Blame the seller. I talked to A&H before I sold, heard from an agent of theirs about the bidding wars they like to get going, and decided not to use them. Even if a seller hires a broker who wants to start a war, they can tell the broker "no."
My broker worked at my direction, not the other way around. If the seller hasn't got the sense to see that screwing around with a good offer they would be happy to accept, in order to try to get a higher offer, when they could lose the first offer and end up in the end selling for less, then the seller is your problem, not the broker. They are the principal - the broker is just their agent. Just walk away from such sellers.
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 2:54 PM
FSBO = Craig's List
When we were house-hunting three+ years ago, we looked at several FSBOs. We found all of them through Craig's List.
Posted by: Xris at November 13, 2007 5:42 PM
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