Arlene Waye Responds to 180 Adelphi Fiasco
For those of you who followed the listing-poaching story last week, the founder of the brokerage firm involved has responded and we’ve updated the original post with her email. You decide for yourself if you believe her.
For those of you who followed the listing-poaching story last week, the founder of the brokerage firm involved has responded and we’ve updated the original post with her email. You decide for yourself if you believe her.
The listing was active at least 12 hours after the owner first contacted her. I was watching it.
“Unfortunately, an error was made in-house”
I think getting caught was the error.
Why would the seller have asked them to pull the listing once he saw it posted here if he had a legitimate agreement with Awaye?
“It does not serve our company to spend time and money to advertise a listing without the owner’s permission.”
Apparently not. The only thing frittering away is any positive goodwill Awaye might have had.
I think she’s full of it.
I dont even understand the explanation.
100% not buying it, but I think it would be impossible for her to come clean. Wouldn’t her license be at stake?
so several emails were exchanged in which the seller said “no way” and they did it anyway!
I don’t believe her. I’d guess that her Sales Manager is claiming to have “solicited a FSBO listing,[and] exchanged several emails with the seller” to save his a**. It’s interesting that Waye claims that “an error was made in-house, and the listing was advertised well enough to get listed as ‘Home of the Day’ on Brownstoner.com.” In other words, it’so only because of an error that the house was effectively advertised. LOL–she said it,not me; that’s some damning assessment of her firm’s ability 🙂
[Buzzer] Next contestant, please. Call me cynical, but I just don’t buy Awaye’s explanation. Conversely, the owner of 180 Adelphi seemed very credible when he said he’d never even heard of Awaye. And Awaye’s listing was hardly something to brag about. Rather, I’d venture to say the owner reaped quite a bit of added exposure as a result of Brownstoner’s post.
“Our Sales Manager solicited a FSBO listing, exchanged several emails with the seller (regarding things like commission and access to show the property) and put the listing into inventory.”
I remember specifically that the listing agent was Arlene Waye.
We want EdNorton at the next brownstoner party.