Some people don't appreciate a good realtor. They think they know everything & sabotage themselves from the beginning. You know who you are!

This article is a 'FAIL.' The realtor does not get to see the ad before it is printed in the paper. This has nothing to do with the realtor. Furthermore, as a realtor I don't like to waste my time on viewing houses that I know my clients will walk out of before we take more than two steps inside. A good realtor knows this. I also know my clients who want to buy as cheaply as possible and don't care how 'ugly' the property is.

I bought a foreclosed house that originally sold for 400k The bank had put a price of 240k the listing was only 6 month old but my realtor failed to inform me that in that time the price had dropped another 60k. So, when I moved in I was upside down all so the realtor could keep his commission high. So realtors are worthless if you or anyone is buying a previously foreclosed house. They will lie to keep the price up. Realtors have zero incentive to sell a foreclosed house at a reduced price.
Realtors please do not reply because you will be lying no matter what you think or say.

If I've got a listing that looks like this and no way to improve it, I am absolutely going to do about the same listing pics and words.

Why waste the time of another agent or anyone's prospective clients?

If it's the deal of the Century there are thousands of buyers who don't care about the grand it'll cost them to haul away the trash (and I'm one of them).

...and if it's not the deal of the Century, I'm not wasting my time on it, some newbie with less than 34 years in this business can have the listing.

A GOOD realtor is the key word here. Just because you have a realtor does not mean a sucessful transaction. I once had a realtor who messed up a deal so badly that I called for a meeting with the 2 realtors and the broker. My opening: "If I wanted things screwed up this badly I could have sold the house myself"! If I had it to do over I would have filed suit against my realtor and the broker. BTW: They were fired at the meeting.

Ummmm...didn't anyone notice that the first ad ("Ugly" House) was posted by owner, not broker??? Apparently the author of this article didn't...

There is a thing in Florida called Sinkholes...a very terrible thing. Coming from the New Jersey area, I didn't understand what sinkhole activity looked like, so I relied on my Realtor who told me she did research on the property and it had no present, or previous sinkhole issues at all. The Lender required Sinkhole Insurance, which I did get. Three days after the closing, the Realtor came to my house informing me that my sinkhole coverage had been cancelled due to a former sinkhole payoff three years earlier that she did not know about.She said for me not to worry, that she would get the coverage reinstated, which she did with a Bogus Repair Report...committing Fraud to the Insurance Company. She admitted to the Sheriff's Department that she knew one day before I even looked at the property that it had sinkhole activity. The Sheriff's department advised me that I had a Civil Action, not a Criminal Action. Come to find out that this Realtor has friends in High Places, and no one will touch her (She is the Secretary for the local Board of Realtor's).The Attorney's in this area will not touch the matter, they are all friends. The State investigated my allegations and found Probable Cause against her, after telling an attorney about the findings, a week later the case was dismissed. There was nothing I could do about it. How about ten Months later, I had new sinkhole activity on the property, I made a claim to the insurance company that took so long to settle this matter that I hired a Lawyer that did not tell me he had a relationship with the people that sold me the house in the first place. When I found out about this relationship, I confronted the attorney, and he said 'So Fire Me, You'll Still Have To Pay Me. I did fire him, and the insurance company said 'It was your attorney that was holding everything up, we were ready to settle this matter last year. So, the insurance company made me an offer, and said they would send the paperwork out for me to sign. How about a week later the fired attorney sent me a summons to appear in court for a hearing on his fees, and cost. The insurance company told me I would not need an attorney to represent me in this matter cause they would testify the fired attorney had no input on the negotiated settlement offer, which by the way I never signed anything. At the hearing the insurance company did not say anything in my favor, the attorney got everything he wanted, and I got stuck with a sinkhole property, and not enough to fix the property...upon research, and investigation, I found out that the Judge's wife was also friends with the people that sold me the house. BUYER BEWARE. I am also a Disable Veteran who used my VA Loan to buy the house, and found out the VA Appraiser did what is called a drive by inspection of the property, and would have been able to see the sinkhole evidence if he had walked around the property...did I mention that the County Records reflect the He is also friends with the people that sold me the property.You may contact me for more information on this situation, I give my permission.