Comments on: Real Estate Agent Horror Stories http://www.renewsnetwork.com/2006/02/real-estate-agent-horror-stories.htm Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:56:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: james smith http://www.renewsnetwork.com/2006/02/real-estate-agent-horror-stories.htm#comment-32348 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:58:06 +0000 http://www.renewsnetwork.com/2006/02/real-estate-agent-horror-stories.htm#comment-32348 Here's a horror story for you, one with a lesson. The lesson is always to do at least a simple Google search on any "Real Estate Professional" with whom you deal. Two realtors from Prudential, Fox & Roach in Margate, NJ, teamed up with a pasty-faced, high-fivin' mortgage broker to stick me and my wife with the broker's house over a leaking underground oil tank. The realtors were Mark Arbeit, who represented me & my wife, and Louis Slomon, who represented the mortgage broker. After I discovered the tank, Pru-Fox balked, first, at providing me with a copy of the standard NJ Seller's Disclosure Statement, which had been advertised as having been completed and covers oil tanks, and, second, at giving me the names of prospective buyers who had been through the place, some doubtlessly having seen the tank and alerted the seller and/or his realtor. I was told basically, "So sorry, but just beat it, sucker. You own it now." Well, I found out a little later that my seller, the mortgage broker, has a conviction out of Florida for internet solicitation of a minor. Seems he was busted in a "Catch a Predator"-type sting; thought he was corresponding with a 15-year old girl. NJ's licensing authority, Department of Banking & Insurance couldn't care less; the dumpy, doughy swindler is still out there working saps like me. This gets better, though! Remember Mark Arbeit, my realtor? Well, before he reinvented himself as "Realtor to the Stars," he was an assistant elementary school principal down in Virginia. You can read about his exploits down there in The Washington Post archives for June 20, 25 and 26, 1987, and see that he was bounced from that post because of a conviction for offering a 14-year old boy money to pose nude for him, and for making bizarre phone calls to little boys in the middle of the night. So, here I am, a laughing stock among all the lying, botoxed realtors and their pals in town, while Arbeit & my seller are out their working unsuspecting fools looking to buy or sell their places. The lesson to be learned from the foregoing, again, is do an internet search on any of these sel-proclaimed "Real Estate Professionals" before you deal with any of them. I wish I had. You will be astounded at the info you can uncover! Here’s a horror story for you, one with a lesson. The lesson is always to do at least a simple Google search on any “Real Estate Professional” with whom you deal.

Two realtors from Prudential, Fox & Roach in Margate, NJ, teamed up with a pasty-faced, high-fivin’ mortgage broker to stick me and my wife with the broker’s house over a leaking underground oil tank. The realtors were Mark Arbeit, who represented me & my wife, and Louis Slomon, who represented the mortgage broker. After I discovered the tank, Pru-Fox balked, first, at providing me with a copy of the standard NJ Seller’s Disclosure Statement, which had been advertised as having been completed and covers oil tanks, and, second, at giving me the names of prospective buyers who had been through the place, some doubtlessly having seen the tank and alerted the seller and/or his realtor. I was told basically, “So sorry, but just beat it, sucker. You own it now.”

Well, I found out a little later that my seller, the mortgage broker, has a conviction out of Florida for internet solicitation of a minor. Seems he was busted in a “Catch a Predator”-type sting; thought he was corresponding with a 15-year old girl. NJ’s licensing authority, Department of Banking & Insurance couldn’t care less; the dumpy, doughy swindler is still out there working saps like me. This gets better, though!

Remember Mark Arbeit, my realtor? Well, before he reinvented himself as “Realtor to the Stars,” he was an assistant elementary school principal down in Virginia. You can read about his exploits down there in The Washington Post archives for June 20, 25 and 26, 1987, and see that he was bounced from that post because of a conviction for offering a 14-year old boy money to pose nude for him, and for making bizarre phone calls to little boys in the middle of the night. So, here I am, a laughing stock among all the lying, botoxed realtors and their pals in town, while Arbeit & my seller are out their working unsuspecting fools looking to buy or sell their places.

The lesson to be learned from the foregoing, again, is do an internet search on any of these sel-proclaimed “Real Estate Professionals” before you deal with any of them. I wish I had. You will be astounded at the info you can uncover!

]]> by: John Gall http://www.renewsnetwork.com/2006/02/real-estate-agent-horror-stories.htm#comment-11523 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:08:21 +0000 http://www.renewsnetwork.com/2006/02/real-estate-agent-horror-stories.htm#comment-11523 That's amazing. Why no actual showings? You'd think just putting it on the MLS would get a bunch. That’s amazing. Why no actual showings? You’d think just putting it on the MLS would get a bunch.

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