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…
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.
Whether it’s a “no fee” or not. Listing Brokers should not be posting in the “by Owner” section at all, pretending to be “property managers,” it’s not fair to clients or to other Brokers that actually PAY to put their ads on CL. It’s not fair to landlords/tenants when they find out a year later that the last month was paid as a fee without their knowledge or approval. The more people complain to the NY dept of State, the sooner this will come to an end.
These guys are both stupid and shady at the same time, which is quite an achievment.
A few years ao, they showed us an partment we liked, kept our documents, checks etc as an application, called us to say the apartment was not available but they had other apartments, we were not interested and they refused to give our stuff back till we threatened to call a lawyer or the cops.
STAY AWAY FROM THEM.
Starfish, when your tenant is ready to move, he/she has already paid the last months rent and can probably prove it. So you’re out a months rent thanks to Rapid. I would have demanded that they turned that over to me.
An honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay is one thing. However RR (and many other brokers) are past that point.
My instinct is that they arent doing anything illegal–just shady. Real estate encourages shady practices like personal injury or used car sales.
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It seems to me that any realty company that shows an apartment (we’re talking rentals here, not buying)- which can be several visits, runs credit checks and background checks on prospective tenants, does all the paperwork and collects the monies ought to be paid. Its a business like any other. I know several RE brokers- they are by no means scum nor shady. Not to say all ar perfect, but the ones I know work really hard for their money- they run all over town, show lots of apartments before they sign up an appropriate tenant, do the screening, take care of the paperwork and detail- They should be paid.
As shady and scummy as they are, you can let a realtor show your property and even sell your house without it costing you a dime in commission. It’s called a buyers agent fee. We do them all the time – or did anyway when I actually practiced real estate. The buyer simply pays your fee instead of the seller. You in return help them find the house they want and do all the negotiating and such on their behalf. Not a strange occurrence in the RE marketplace.
I strongly recommend against doing what armchairwarrior is doing/has done. These people will sue at a drop of a hat and will tie you up and court and possible cloud the title on your house. Yes I know its wrong but when you lie down with dogs don’t be surprised by fleas….
I post my own ads on cl and they always ask if they could show them. I told them i’m not paying them a dime. they said it was fine. so they brought people over. and I told them how is it possible they won’t be paid by me or the tenant? lol anyway they always show up late and sometimes not at all.
just bunch of scammers. after a few times with these guys i refuse to let any of those Realtor show it at all.