San Jose Real Estate Agents – The truth will set you free!
San Jose Real Estate Agents – The truth will set you free!
Don’t get caught lying to your clients!
Liar, Liar, pants on fire … or if it sounds suspicious you are well advised to check it out! Patty Da Silva, Broker-Owner of Green Realty Properties serving Broward County, Florida warns agents not to lie to their Buyers … as they will get caught.
Read Patty's post - it turns out the agent did not have the tools necessary to serve their client. Rather than own it … the agent elected to lie about it and suggest the listing agent had not provided any information on the property. While that does happen, it is more the exception than the norm.
This applies to Broward County and San Jose Silicon Valley. If your agent is not providing you the information you seek on a listing then you are well advised to contact the listing agent.
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Courtesy of Kathleen Daniels, Broker-Owner of KD Realty - San Jose Real Estate
www.ExclusiveSanJoseHomes.com - 800-972-1822.
Here’s a lesson that some Buyer’s Agents forget while living in the Information Age: you cannot lie to your Buyers because you will get caught. When I list a home on the MLS, there is not one field left blank. All the information that a Buyer’s Agent would need to know is given, plus attachments that give further disclosures and guidelines. I understand that there’s an occasional question or two that may not be addressed; I also understand that sometimes an Agent may miss some of the information provided on the listing.
What I don’t understand, however, is how a Buyer’s Agent can lie about almost everything on our listing to their Buyer. Even more, I don’t understand why they would.
We had a Buyer call us because she said her Agent told her that he couldn’t reach us and that there was no information on our listing. She wanted to talk to us directly to see if she can get some answers. Chris then proceeded to read her our entire listing on the MLS line by line, which answered every single one of her questions about the home and more. He even pointed out that there are instructions for the Buyer’s Agent on how to submit the offer. When we did some further research, we figured out that the reason why this Agent was hesitant in showing the home and lied about the listing was because he didn’t have the Supra E-Key that is required to show all of our homes.
So the moral of our story is: there are a million ways that your Buyer can get a hold of the Listing agent to get the answers. I completely understand that there are Listing Agents that don’t provide information on their listing and that some detective work by the Buyer is necessary if the Buyer’s Agent isn’t getting the job done, but it’s clear that we’re not one of those Listing Agents. So please don’t lie because you will get caught.
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Patty Da Silva, CDPE©, RESS®, AHWD®, e-PRO®, GREEN, CFS, TRC, RSPS
BROKER - REALTOR® Serving South Florida ::: 954. 667. SALE (7253) ::: Green Realty Properties®
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