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Reduce Real Estate Lies
Home sellers don’t come more vulnerable than Marion and Michael. This trusting retired couple are no match for the ruthless agents in Sydney’s east.
HOW TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE SAFELY
If you think real estate agents are dodgy, you obviously haven’t met property investment advisers, they are mostly worse than dodgy, they are deadly.
How to Handle Agents: Part 3
Your home is “listed” with an agent. If you took note of the first two parts in this series on “how to handle agents”, things should be going well for you.
Warning as “Rogue Agent” Busted
Unlike so many modern agents, Brent Peters doesn’t look like a “rogue estate agent”. He hasn’t got a slick shifty look to him.
How to handle agents : Part 2
Okay, you’ve contacted a few agents. They are on their way to your place. What are you going to do when they arrive?
How to Handle Agents: Part 1
Last Saturday I spoke with a pig. Rude, mean, inconsiderate, selfish – a horrible man. It’s probably an insult to call him a pig – an insult to pigs I mean.
Buy a Buyer!
Today’s most common real estate scam is the ‘ad scam’. Most agents mislead sellers into believing that sellers “need to pay marketing costs”.
Where Your Ad Money Goes!
On the surface, it all seems fair and reasonable. You need to sell your home. Your agent says you need to advertise so you can attract buyers. It costs money to advertise. As the advertising is all about you and your home, it seems fair that you pay for it.
Protect or rescue
Thomas is a 33-year-old underground miner with four children under six. He lives in a remote town. Two years ago, wanting to secure his family’s future, he contacted a real estate wealth creation company on-line.
Sell first or buy first?
Few things make agents more excited than a “seriously motivated vendor”. In lay terms, that means a homeowner with a powerful reason to sell. There are few more powerful reasons than buying another home before selling your existing home.
Booming lies
The one thing always booming in real estate is the lies the industry tells the public. Aside from the daily false quotes given to sellers and buyers about the prices of properties, the most common lies are the auction clearance rates.
Don’t get “TIED” to a Real Estate Agent
Recently, a home-seller signed-up to sell her home with an agent. What happened next is what happens to thousands of sellers.
‘Auction clearance’ lies
Auction clearance rates are lies. Pumped-up statistics. It doesn’t matter who’s sprouting them, auction clearance rates are deliberately false. They are so far from true as to be laughable.
10 worst lies real estate agents tell home-sellers
The old joke: “How do you know when real estate agents are lying? Answer: When their lips are moving.” is not a joke, it’s real.
If This is How James Robertson Treats His Boss… Be Careful Homesellers
Prior to working for Belle Property, James Robertson worked for another real estate agency in Unley, Walter & Irvine Real Estate, owned by Kevin Walter and his wife Leanne Walter.
Eight Silly Excuses Used by Real Estate Agents
But if it’s bad for agents, it’s also bad for the people who traditionally pay the agents – the property sellers. Tens of thousands of properties are languishing unsold. No one wants to buy them. Or, at least that’s how it seems.
Kung Fu Spruiker
This is a story about a get-rich-quick (for him) spruiker by the name of Edwin James Goulding (or Ed Goulding as he calls himself when he’s trying to come across all friendly-like, meaning he’s trying to convince investors to give him their money).
Understanding Under-Quoting
The NSW government has released a statement saying they “want to send a clear message that underquoting won’t be tolerated.”
Three Days, Three Seminars, and at Least Three Million
How a gang of American spruikers is fleecing Aussies. Here’s how an American seminar gang is pulling off a multi-million dollar spruiking heist in Australia.
THE RAT FROM LONG ISLAND
Jordan Belfort stole more than $200 million by devising a sales method ‘The Straight-Line System’ which he boasted could “persuade anybody to do anything”.
REIV Caught Cheating – Again
The motive behind false auction statistics. For many years, the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has misled and deceived real estate consumers.
The 47 Pitch
Psychologists call it the ‘Scarcity Principle’. The strategy is simple – tell your targets that the deal you are offering is limited – either to a set number of people or to a set period of time.
The Hunt for Mihos Millionaires
Recently, I sent a message to several people who, some time ago, had been conned into (I beg your pardon, I mean “persuaded to invest in”) a George Mihos ‘multiple-streams-of-income’ seminar.
Irish Warned About Land Banking
With no let-up in the goldrush to buy property overseas, a number of British ‘land-bankers’ have begun targeting Irish investors with the prospect of making easy money on sums that Ray Burke might describe as “walking around money”.
Reiv Dismisses ‘SEX CLAIM’ Without Proper Investigation
“CLEARED!” shouted the headlines. Around Australia newspapers and radio stations have reported the “exoneration” of a Ballarat real estate agent accused of inappropriate behaviour in a client’s home.
American Guru Exposed in Australia
American get-rich-guru, Robert G Allen, travels the world claiming that he is “under deadline to create a thousand millionaires”.
“Millionaire Challenge” in Deep Hole
Property investor, Steve McKnight, is under fire over claims that he can make people into property millionaires. Last night, on ABC television, David Marr, the host of Media Watch, criticised both McKnight and Channel Seven’s program Today Tonight, over claims about creating millionaires.
The Blacklist Shame
Peter is intellectually disabled. He is also an independent and productive member of society. He has a job, handles his own finances and takes care of himself.
Angry Clients Picket Get-Rich-Quick Seminar
Give the money back – QUICK. ‘Turn $1 into $1million within 7 years’, trumpets the sign outside 168 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest.
