We caught a few minutes of ABC News’ Nightline last night:
Buyer Beware: Unsold Homes Are Often ‘Re-listed’
It’s a story on Real Estate agents and sellers who ‘list’ and later ‘re-list’ their house on services such as the MLS. Real Estate agents and the MLS are in business to help buyers and sellers navigate often complicated property transactions. It makes you question who is in business to serve whom if you can’t trust the ‘listing date’ provided by someone who is in business to help buyers access information.
Tomacor has decided to lay down the gauntlet for the real estate community: represent your clients professionally or give up the profession. Tomacor wants responses from consumers, agents, attorneys, bankers and home buyers in rating the quality of their agent’s service. Don’t give us your agents name just the following rating:
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Here are just a sampling of the common problems that we discover in new home construction. These are not the limits by any means, but these should provide a glimpse of common issues that arise during new construction projects.
1. Poor heating and air conditioning distribution in multilevel units.
2. Over 80% of new construction projects fail to meet deadline, forcing buyers to move in before work is completed.
3. Poor drywall taping and paint jobs.
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