Incompetent Realtor

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Two days ago I received an email from the Realtor we used nearly two years ago to buy our house. The email basically said, "Hey I see that you have your house listed for sale through XYZ realty and I just wanted to know why you didn't list it through me instead."

Umm...our house isn't for sale. So I emailed her back telling her so but not before I called the company that she said had the house listed for sale. I asked the lady who answered if they have our address listed and she replied that she didn't and asked me why and if we were in the market to sell. I told her about the email I received and she was completely appalled by the unprofessionalism on the part of our old realtor. So was I. That realty company asked for her number, and called to sort it out.

Even if we had listed our house with someone else (which we will DEFINITELY do because she sucked then and I'm sure she does now), what business is that of hers? It would be too late to get us to list through her now.

Oh and by the way, she was the absolute worst realtor ever. We only stuck with her after we found out how crappy she was because it turns out her family was friends with the hubby's sister's family...ugh. You know how that is. Anyway, when she WAS our realtor, I had to do absolutely ALL of the work involved in finding a home for us. She told us that she'd look at things for us and never did. I had to comb through listings, call her to prompt her to initiate contact so we could schedule a viewing and all sorts of other nonsense. Not only that, but she was often late to the meetings, had no clue where we were supposed to go AND complained about her other clients. She complained every day about how her clients wanted to ride with her and how that uses up her gas money. Really? Don't most clients ride around with the realtors to look at properties? We never did because we always had something to do after, but I know many people do this (at least around here).

In short, I don't know why I'm posting about this other than to tell you not to put up with a crappy realtor, even if they are "friends of the family." You never know when she'll call or email you out of the blue giving you a near heart-attack by saying that your house is on the market when it isn't.

Incompetent Realtor