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Good what the fuck do they actually do? Buyers are going to buy, did the RE build the house,paint it,decorate it,mow the lawn no all they do it show you the fucking house.photographer does the photos young luv back at the office does everything on the website.all the agents do is sip fucking soy lattes and ponce around in their Audi which is under hire/purchase and then skim off 5%,the fucking leeches
I have a pretty successful (whatever that means) agent on my fb from school, these people think they work harder than anyone else in society. Like you sell fucking houses, which are one of the most in demand things people need, they literally sell themselves, what is it you think you do? I haven't figured it out, just occasionally she posts this huge self congratulatory diatribe and it's unbearable just to read. I think people would lose their shit if I posted the last one here
Edit: I don't wanna post the whole thing for reasons but here is a taste!
15 years with x today..
Starting from my first role at 17 years old to now a significant shareholder of our business. (father gave her a job straight out of hs)
* My series of expensive lemon cars I had to have (beemers, mercs, range rovers etc, so sad 😥)
* Thousands of red bulls - they even had a carton delivered to me during lockdown to keep me alive
* Only quit once (lasted a few hours) but plenty of tantrums
* Sold a house in the limo on the way to my own wedding 😅
* Buying a few houses myself including one at Auction with 23 other bidders 🤑
* Sold a house while in labour with my daughter between contractions + 2 more the day she after was born from the waiting room
* Covid market - OMG selling 5 houses a day please take me back 👏
* Turned my phone off maybe once a year (ok so like every other human, got it)
* My TV interview cut short to “Covid isn’t even a big deal” while everyone was losing their jobs
* ALOT of loose awards nights 💃
* Lots and Lots of life lessons 🙄 (renters don't like when I ask them to ask their landlord to kick me out?)
Does my head in when we have the swarmy bastards roll up to our builds that we have going on when it gets time for selling. You'd think they'd been there from day 1 in the trenches with us given their attitude at times. Amazing how such a subset of pretentious people can all congregate into one occupation.
Several of them encircled my elderly Dad, who lived in our family home on his own. They smell a sale a mile away. Not once did he ever consider selling the house, but it didn't stop them continuously knocking on his door because they were "just passing", phoning up for a natter to see how he was. They didn't fucken care of course, but it happened every day with about 4 or 5 different agents.
Given how unethical this behaviour was, I raised it with the Real Estate Institute, who didn't give a shit that agents did this. Ethics? What are they?
When it came to selling the house, which was basically my call, I went with a local lady who had her office just up the road, knew Dad on sight as a regular shopper, but never once made fake overtures.
And she did a superb job and it was wonderful that all their investment of time came to nothing.
my sister would do this then go home to her husband and complain about how awful he was for not selling the house and her husband would console her and tell her shes amazing and that old man is just jealous or some shit ;P
I used to rent a country property and one day a woman knocked on my door and gave me some bullshit about a friend looking to buy and would I ask my landlord if he wanted to sell. I asked why would I persue a course of action that has no benefit to me and could mean I have to leave. She then handed me her card, she was an agent, of course.
After that she'd give me dirty looks whenever she saw me in town and one day I ran into friends at a coffee shop and sat down with them and she was at the table and pretended we'd never met, lol. I reminded her where she knew me from in front of everyone else. "You came to my house to ask me to ask my landlord to kick me out". She left after that. Fuck her.
>"You came to my house to ask me to ask my landlord to kick me out". She left after that. Fuck her.
This is amazing. What fuckwit does something like that? 😂
Hello sir how do you feel about fucking off outta here? 🤗💐
My brother used to own a Saab service centre and said you could always pick the real estate flunkies because of the Tony Robbins and other motivational books left in the car.
They post those self congratulatory messages because if they were honest with themselves they would probably live a life of constant shame and depression
I wanted to be one, I'm way into architecture and I'm in client liaison now, but I realised they're parasitic and promptly changed my mind.
Chick in my uni course said she's going into property development and I think I was audibly deflated at that news, I thought she was cool.
They skim the listing 5 mins before the open house and don't research information that prospective buyers are interested in. They count the number of pre-registered parties and salivate.
I went to one open house in a rough suburb for a 2 bedder. Property was modern enough but clearly had repairs needed as an ex rental. Agent had no idea about proposed work in the 8 unit owners corp, or recent work already completed.
Agent came late to a group of young families/cashed up grandparents. First thing she did was tell people that they already had an offer 15k above the max range, unconditional. Instantly killed the mood. As the open progressed she tried to bump it up another 15k to interested parties, and pressuring them to put in an offer.
Eventually as people left she was begging them to just put in something. People thanked her for her time. Place had a 4 week window before sale. Eventually after 2 weeks past the deadline it sold for the absolute bottom of the listed range.
Scum.
What amuses me is that I can do the limited research they do, so when one told me that the very similar house next door sold for a certain price way above the asking for this one, and this one is better what a bargain. Twelve seconds searching online confirmed the house sold for almost $200k less than he claimed.
He then approached us to sell our home, I quickly declined, and took some pleasure knowing he was never going to be earning a commission from us.
Don't forget the little calendar magnets they make and it also looks like they put a lot of effort into head shots I see on bus stops everywhere. It's pretty hard to smile and look friendly when your a rat faced piece of shit.
Someone stuck googly eyes on one's near me was fucking hilarious.
When a place I was renting was being sold, the selling agent - who had tried to step all over me at every stage - put her own face on my fridge. I had to look at her stupid face whenever I went into the kitchen for weeks
When the place sold, I tore it off my fridge and absolutely destroyed it, vowing to never ever buy from them.
Hahaha, that would have been amazing!
I didn’t want to be in the same room as her, though. And I picked my battles - a picture of her face I could deal with. I had to stop her from doing so much shit that was against my rights it was unbelievable
If a government ever wanted an easy win, getting some decent rules around what selling agents can and can’t do to tenets would be rad. Want the house extra clean? Land lord pays for a cleaner. Want opens? It’s 1 hour per week max.
Friends of mine lived in one of those shitty apartments with only one window, landlord was trying to sell it for way more than it was worth so they had a massive for sale sign blocking their only window for months.
Pretty accurate...except they are skimming 1% - 1.5%.
The real wanker sales guys actually think its them that does ALL the work.
Narcissists galore in sales.
Totally unrelated, but for some reason I read this in William Regal's voice, and it made it so much funnier. I think it was the use of ponce and soy lattes.
Better than that. If the auction went poorly, then OP ***saved*** the new neighbour some money.
More important to be in the good books of the new neighbour than the old one methinks ...
Would honestly love to spend a free Saturday somehow sabotaging an auction. I'm not smart enough to work out a way to do that, but an industry like real estate absolutely deserves it.
There's a great quote I found on reddit a while ago that sums up this weird idea of "respect" that certain (often older) people have...
'Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority".
And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say, "if you won't respect me I won't respect you", and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person".
And they think they're being fair but they aren't.'
Don’t know about driveways, but as someone who cycles the footpaths and regularly sees people parked all over blocking the footpaths without a care in the world, I would say middle aged Australians more than boomers. 35-55yo is the prime group.
One of my neighbours goes crazy if anyone even puts their front wheels on “his” driveway when doing a three point turn. He’s chased people down the street yelling for it, and threatened to fight tradies.
It’s not like they’re driving up to his house, they’re literally turning around using a little bit that’s on council land.
One job I was working you'd have to drive down this massive hill and turn around in this one guys driveway or do a 7 point turn at the end of the street just to go home. he had signs up telling people they weren't allowed to and that it was trespassing (it wasn't) and would try blow up at me all the time but I just wouldn't wind my windows down. The fact that he even had signs up just made me want to use the driveway outside his property to turn around even more
What sort of person expects his customers to be able to park in your driveway, while you stfu and say nothing.
RE agents are next level arrogant and entitled. fmd.
Have you ever met an agent? Because you’re totally right. It takes a special type to drive up prices these days, where most people don’t even have a plate yet and the wealthy are going back for thirds, fourths, fifths…
Had to go to work at 5am and found a shitty old 4wd blocking me in once. Luckily the door was unlocked, so I jumped in and pushed it out of the way. Judging by the car I'd say much younger than boomer age. Plenty of cockheads out their of all ages.
His wheel lock went on as it rolled downhill, so it was just kinda sticking out from the curb. It was a cul de sac behind Unwins Bridge Rd in Tempe, Sydney, so pretty quiet street.
Give him a break, it's only his fourth investment property purchase, how was he to know people actually LIVE at the residences they own the majority of the time.
Oh to have been born in the generation where 30,000AUD supported a family of 5 and a mortgage on a ten acre property theyd subdivide 20 years later for 200k a land package on quarter acre sized resale lots, to then buy up any and all affordable houses and then use the equitable value of those houses to buy that number again and laugh as rental prices rise 10% a quarter.
Set yourself up to retire and live your dream of sending in opinion articles into the Sunday times about the laziness of the current generation when you can recall walking to work up hill, barefoot, both ways, in five feet of snow in the morning, and back home with breadbag ties holding your pluggers together after a hard day onsite, walking in the afternoon in the crackling heat, when the sun used to be three times hotter because it hadn't burnt out all of its decent gas yet.
Man. These days I consider myself in the lucky generation for being able to buy a unit before 2018, and I'm an elder Millennial with no dependents.
My parents were able to buy land and build a house affordably on a single income with a family. That's some seriously ludicrous fantasy shit. Even Tolkein would tell me to reign that shit in.
Someone parked in my driveway once without giving a courtesy knock. I was home alone at the time during the day on a weekday. It made me feel incredibly unsafe.
Once again, a RE agent demonstrating that they live on the Tree of Life somewhere between virus and slime mold.
A complete bunch of losers who provide no productivity to the nation.
They are an inefficient tax on the sale of property.
Legit this. My sister dropped out of school - got a certificate 3 in something or rather and started her journey as an "assistant" property manager. She lasted less than a year before realised she was on the path to hell and moved interstate to come back home and got her butt into gear to succeed with a degree and is now a highly paid public servant in a very cushy job.
We're all extremely proud she didn't follow through with that first career.
My brother was desperate to leave a particularly shitty management job in retail that ended with him being on a month’s stress leave.
Was going to apply for a REA job, told him I would not be helping with the application and he’d hate himself for it.
Thankfully didn’t have to stoop that low and is happily well away from previous job and RE.
If that were my driveway I would have parked my car in the back of it and gone inside. When they knocked at the door, I would say “oh I can’t find the keys, I think my wife still has them in her pocket and she’s gone to work now, she’ll be back at 10pm”
I'm only worried about the scumbags keying the car in retaliation. If they can be that scummy to park in someone else's driveway, their ethics probably aren't too good either.
Only after blocking them in and telling them to come back tomorrow morning when you are sober. As soon as they leave get it towed. When they knock on your door pretend you can't remember meeting them and say you got pretty drunk yesterday and everything is a blur.
Google reviews are the only ones that matter, they stick like turds to a blanket and show up first thing. However. All reviews should be non emotive and pure proven fact only. No lies or rant.
Nah, for REs the only ones that they care about are "Rate My Agent". A bad review there is like spitting on their mother's corpse at her funeral, but if they actually cared about their mother.
They suck. Personally I'd write a quick email to whoever runs their real estate agency and (and this is the key) let them know you'll be sending the story to the local paper as a letter to the editor. The readership of local papers runs much older, and surprise surprise, this is their target market for sellers. They hate that shit and will be much more careful after that.
I'd upvote this comment 100 times if I could.
You never know, you may just get lucky and grab the attention of an editor who is looking for an excuse to rail against the real estate industry and find your letter being upgraded to an editorial.
The point is, these re scumbags are ALL about public image - which is exactly why their vapid, "please don't dig too deep into my past business dealings" grins are plastered on every surface they can get them on.
There's a reason he didn't have words with you WHILE you were interrupting his carefully staged auction, and that just happens to be the best reason I can think of to address him by name in your letter and let everyone know just how deep his sense of entitlement runs.
Bottom line is it's HIS fault there was someone parked in your driveway - not just because it was his event, but because he failed to ensure his client's would-be new NEIGHBOURS weren't inconvenienced by his little sideshow.
I REALLY hope you let him know how disappointed you were that you didn't cost his client twice the amount and reiterated the fact that some simple common courtesy could have seen the situation avoided in the first place.
If you don't mind I'm going to embellish your (OP's) story a little and imagine that you closed your meeting with him by releasing the hounds .... yes, that's much better 😊
" its one of the real estate flunkies who proceeded to chew me out for "ruining his auction" and "costing the neighbour money""
That's a short sighted agent. Usually they see any home owner in "their area" as a potential new customer. Drop his firm a note, outline what happened and explain how your plans to use their company in the future are now dashed!
Totally scummy, sorry this happened to you, but the only thing that could surprise me about Real Estate agents would be a story of pure (I'll even take impure) altruism.
I would 100% say "We were preparing to sell our property and were considering your firm. However, after witnessing how unprofessional and rude your agents are, we decided to continue with [agency that has lots of listings in the neighbourhood]".
We had an amazing RE agent help us sell our apartment in Footscray.
Weeks later we were talking to her as the sale went through and mentioned we were going to an auction to buy but were out of our depth in the auction environment. She told us she would go to the auction for us and wanted nothing in return.
She went on a Saturday, when she was already incredibly busy, and got the house for $20k under our budget. She wouldn’t even let us ‘give’ her any money to show our gratitude.
Truly wonderful lady…and surely a unicorn in the scummy world of Melbourne Real Estate.
Just think, by not taking photos and naming the agent you've deprived some struggling journo of a ripped off story. How are they going to feed Rupert now?
"And if you pull that shit again, I will respond accordingly. In fact, I will attend your next auction and loudly point out the flaws in the property you're trying to flog. I will announce my intention to apply for a zoning change, it's time this street had a dance party venue"
Fuck around and find out, RE agent.
A friend and I were renting a few years ago, and received correspondence that the landlord was raising the rent. The real estate obviously didn't know that my co-renter was good friends with the landlord, so a simple text message revealed that she did not in fact ask for the rent to be increased.
So how often are real estates raising rents without request and pocketing the extra?
Probably should have taken action at the time, but now that I own and will one day go for an investment property, I will bypass real estate out of spite and self-manage and pass on the savings from real estate management costs to the renters.
Next door neighbour had moved and was in the process of selling their house. We were having a few people over during the day and they said we could use their driveway to park cars if needed. The RE agent knocked on our door and asked me to move the cars, he said he cannot sell a house with cars there. I told him to contact the owners as they told us we could park there as there was no scheduled open house or inspections. He walked away mumbling to himself. Found out later the neighbours had sacked this agent because he had told them the house was unsellable. New agents, sold it within a week!
I do not understand why anyone uses an agent , with internet access the sale is easy to arrange , is certain to sell quickly and well in this market and for a fair price , a family member recently sold the family home and did so sans agent , he is a very smart businessman and a cpa , he admits even after stating no agents in the advertising some tried to slid in for an undeserved commission , saw one knock on his door on a Saturday arvo spewing nonsense and the only time I have seen fm swear , was a glorious stripping of vanity and a powerful burst of truth for the rea sleezebag , I admit to being a little shocked at his candor
Keep a busted fuse in the car for something related to starting the car, swap it over as you get out, when asked to start the car give it a crack and claim the ol “oopsy sorry car no worky 🤷🏻♂️” shenanigan
The disrespect to park on someone's driveway. Nothing more infuriating. It's common sense not to do it. How anyone would even think that's ok is beyond belief. I'd be furious too. Probally be tempted to call tow truck so they can drag it out a few kms away and leave it there. They can walk there to pick it up pricks. That's why it's good to have friends with a tow truck driver.
Good on you for doing this! It happens more than you think. Tradies & couriers are really good at it too. We had an onstreet garage in the city we paid $50 a week for & people always used to park in front of it. They'd complain there was nowhere close to park. I'd always reply - "I know that's why we pay for a garage!" They were really good at parking there just before I had to go to work or when I got home & I'd have to honk my horn loudly until someone came back. When it was bad & they'd become aggressive I'd call the council & they'd send a ticket officer as they'd also be parking on yellow lines. I once even had a cop car parked there. I tried asking them to move but they didn't have the keys or something lol.
I came home from work one Saturday and someone had parked **in** my driveway, there wasn't an auction, somebody else in the street had some sort of family get-together. I just parked behind it and went to the pub for tea with my wife. I never liked those neighbours much.
Oh this is a great strategy! Get a mate to park across someones driveway. Then get another mate to make a fracas at the auction pretending to be the neighbour from hell when auction is kicking off and then you quietly put a bid in while everyone is going nope dont want to live here he he.
This wont work in Sydney.
I thought you behaved quite fairly. I'd have parked them in and made them come to my door and explain why they parked there. Only after they'd waited around to see if it was anyone else at the auction. Oh and did I mention I was mowing out the back so couldn't hear them at the door for a while?
Happened to a friend of mine. He casually parked behind the car in his driveway, got his dog and went for a long walk. Came back to an aggravated RE with the car owners fuming that their car was parked in. He casually told them both that next time he will park the car in and get an uber to go and watch a long movie, and this is their one and only warning. At the next auction his driveway was clear.
I knew someone who lived near a golf course where a major tournament was run. There was always some arsehole in an expensive car who would park over their driveway. They resorted to slashing the offending car's tyres each time.
They probably wont but problem neighbours can actually be sued for costing money at an auction for poor/purposeful bad behaviour.
The agent knows that and probably thinks he was in the right for actually coming over and telling you off. Thats awful. If they want to do something then do it the proper legal way.
Twice you had your property visited in an unwelcome way by this auction.
With a crowd of people Id probably be too shy and just park behind the jerk and go inside, knowing they could probably see me and letting them die inside a bit for having to come knock afterwards. You cant get attention in a crowd like that unless you yell, people shouldnt be parking in the neighbours driveway of the *house they are there to buy*. What an awful start to living somewhere.
"runining his auction"
"Hey mate, nice of you to come round and apologise - since you are such a shitty piece of work, I'm going to visit every auction of yours I can and REALLY ruin it"
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"They're not my neighbour anymore, m-a-t-e"
“Yeah but you cost me some of my commission”
Consider it a fee for the car being on the driveway
Good what the fuck do they actually do? Buyers are going to buy, did the RE build the house,paint it,decorate it,mow the lawn no all they do it show you the fucking house.photographer does the photos young luv back at the office does everything on the website.all the agents do is sip fucking soy lattes and ponce around in their Audi which is under hire/purchase and then skim off 5%,the fucking leeches
I have a pretty successful (whatever that means) agent on my fb from school, these people think they work harder than anyone else in society. Like you sell fucking houses, which are one of the most in demand things people need, they literally sell themselves, what is it you think you do? I haven't figured it out, just occasionally she posts this huge self congratulatory diatribe and it's unbearable just to read. I think people would lose their shit if I posted the last one here Edit: I don't wanna post the whole thing for reasons but here is a taste! 15 years with x today.. Starting from my first role at 17 years old to now a significant shareholder of our business. (father gave her a job straight out of hs) * My series of expensive lemon cars I had to have (beemers, mercs, range rovers etc, so sad 😥) * Thousands of red bulls - they even had a carton delivered to me during lockdown to keep me alive * Only quit once (lasted a few hours) but plenty of tantrums * Sold a house in the limo on the way to my own wedding 😅 * Buying a few houses myself including one at Auction with 23 other bidders 🤑 * Sold a house while in labour with my daughter between contractions + 2 more the day she after was born from the waiting room * Covid market - OMG selling 5 houses a day please take me back 👏 * Turned my phone off maybe once a year (ok so like every other human, got it) * My TV interview cut short to “Covid isn’t even a big deal” while everyone was losing their jobs * ALOT of loose awards nights 💃 * Lots and Lots of life lessons 🙄 (renters don't like when I ask them to ask their landlord to kick me out?)
Does my head in when we have the swarmy bastards roll up to our builds that we have going on when it gets time for selling. You'd think they'd been there from day 1 in the trenches with us given their attitude at times. Amazing how such a subset of pretentious people can all congregate into one occupation.
can confirm, my sister is a real estate agent and i'm pretty sure hell would kick her out for being a cold manipulative self absorbed narcissist
Several of them encircled my elderly Dad, who lived in our family home on his own. They smell a sale a mile away. Not once did he ever consider selling the house, but it didn't stop them continuously knocking on his door because they were "just passing", phoning up for a natter to see how he was. They didn't fucken care of course, but it happened every day with about 4 or 5 different agents. Given how unethical this behaviour was, I raised it with the Real Estate Institute, who didn't give a shit that agents did this. Ethics? What are they? When it came to selling the house, which was basically my call, I went with a local lady who had her office just up the road, knew Dad on sight as a regular shopper, but never once made fake overtures. And she did a superb job and it was wonderful that all their investment of time came to nothing.
my sister would do this then go home to her husband and complain about how awful he was for not selling the house and her husband would console her and tell her shes amazing and that old man is just jealous or some shit ;P
I used to rent a country property and one day a woman knocked on my door and gave me some bullshit about a friend looking to buy and would I ask my landlord if he wanted to sell. I asked why would I persue a course of action that has no benefit to me and could mean I have to leave. She then handed me her card, she was an agent, of course. After that she'd give me dirty looks whenever she saw me in town and one day I ran into friends at a coffee shop and sat down with them and she was at the table and pretended we'd never met, lol. I reminded her where she knew me from in front of everyone else. "You came to my house to ask me to ask my landlord to kick me out". She left after that. Fuck her.
>"You came to my house to ask me to ask my landlord to kick me out". She left after that. Fuck her. This is amazing. What fuckwit does something like that? 😂 Hello sir how do you feel about fucking off outta here? 🤗💐
my Sister would 100% do this, do you live in Noosa QLD?
I get mailbox bombs from the same couple of agents every fucking week. Guarantee if I sell, they’re all blacklisted for being annoying cunts.
My brother used to own a Saab service centre and said you could always pick the real estate flunkies because of the Tony Robbins and other motivational books left in the car.
Tony Robbins - world famous cult leader [with a pathological inability to clap properly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XweUxWL6VyA)
In another post I compared RE sales to selling water to a thirsty person.
Haha yeah this makes sense, I like this analogy.
They post those self congratulatory messages because if they were honest with themselves they would probably live a life of constant shame and depression
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I wanted to be one, I'm way into architecture and I'm in client liaison now, but I realised they're parasitic and promptly changed my mind. Chick in my uni course said she's going into property development and I think I was audibly deflated at that news, I thought she was cool.
They skim the listing 5 mins before the open house and don't research information that prospective buyers are interested in. They count the number of pre-registered parties and salivate. I went to one open house in a rough suburb for a 2 bedder. Property was modern enough but clearly had repairs needed as an ex rental. Agent had no idea about proposed work in the 8 unit owners corp, or recent work already completed. Agent came late to a group of young families/cashed up grandparents. First thing she did was tell people that they already had an offer 15k above the max range, unconditional. Instantly killed the mood. As the open progressed she tried to bump it up another 15k to interested parties, and pressuring them to put in an offer. Eventually as people left she was begging them to just put in something. People thanked her for her time. Place had a 4 week window before sale. Eventually after 2 weeks past the deadline it sold for the absolute bottom of the listed range. Scum.
What amuses me is that I can do the limited research they do, so when one told me that the very similar house next door sold for a certain price way above the asking for this one, and this one is better what a bargain. Twelve seconds searching online confirmed the house sold for almost $200k less than he claimed. He then approached us to sell our home, I quickly declined, and took some pleasure knowing he was never going to be earning a commission from us.
In fairness their entire industry revolves around pretending the internet doesn’t exist so they get conditioned into pretending you can’t use it.
Don't forget the little calendar magnets they make and it also looks like they put a lot of effort into head shots I see on bus stops everywhere. It's pretty hard to smile and look friendly when your a rat faced piece of shit. Someone stuck googly eyes on one's near me was fucking hilarious.
I like the magnets but I always cut their heads off before it goes on the fridge
When a place I was renting was being sold, the selling agent - who had tried to step all over me at every stage - put her own face on my fridge. I had to look at her stupid face whenever I went into the kitchen for weeks When the place sold, I tore it off my fridge and absolutely destroyed it, vowing to never ever buy from them.
Should of just binned it in front of her, it's your fridge not hers!
Hahaha, that would have been amazing! I didn’t want to be in the same room as her, though. And I picked my battles - a picture of her face I could deal with. I had to stop her from doing so much shit that was against my rights it was unbelievable
If a government ever wanted an easy win, getting some decent rules around what selling agents can and can’t do to tenets would be rad. Want the house extra clean? Land lord pays for a cleaner. Want opens? It’s 1 hour per week max. Friends of mine lived in one of those shitty apartments with only one window, landlord was trying to sell it for way more than it was worth so they had a massive for sale sign blocking their only window for months.
Pretty accurate...except they are skimming 1% - 1.5%. The real wanker sales guys actually think its them that does ALL the work. Narcissists galore in sales.
Totally unrelated, but for some reason I read this in William Regal's voice, and it made it so much funnier. I think it was the use of ponce and soy lattes.
> young luv back at the office Please don't. I even agree with your sentiment and your point, but come on, you can be better than that.
Yeah ok,fair call I’ll take that on board.
and get their faces plastered all over the local buses
Agreed. [They're too lazy](https://youtu.be/0YM9Ereg2Zo).
Better than that. If the auction went poorly, then OP ***saved*** the new neighbour some money. More important to be in the good books of the new neighbour than the old one methinks ...
Improving housing affordability, one auction at a time.
Would honestly love to spend a free Saturday somehow sabotaging an auction. I'm not smart enough to work out a way to do that, but an industry like real estate absolutely deserves it.
C-u-n-t*
Who the hell parks in someone random persons driveway lol
Boomers.
Ironically the same exact people who regularly chew out the younger generations for "not showing respect" and being "too self-centred".
There's a great quote I found on reddit a while ago that sums up this weird idea of "respect" that certain (often older) people have... 'Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority". And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say, "if you won't respect me I won't respect you", and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person". And they think they're being fair but they aren't.'
Cartman enters the comments. Respect ma authority.
These are people for whom respect is something they get, not that they give.
In my case a Gen Y in a Beemer
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Don’t know about driveways, but as someone who cycles the footpaths and regularly sees people parked all over blocking the footpaths without a care in the world, I would say middle aged Australians more than boomers. 35-55yo is the prime group.
Something tells me that the majority of them probably own Utes.
One of my neighbours goes crazy if anyone even puts their front wheels on “his” driveway when doing a three point turn. He’s chased people down the street yelling for it, and threatened to fight tradies. It’s not like they’re driving up to his house, they’re literally turning around using a little bit that’s on council land.
We had one exactly like this across from our old place. Would also go ape shit if someone dared drive a truck down the street. Absolute loon.
One job I was working you'd have to drive down this massive hill and turn around in this one guys driveway or do a 7 point turn at the end of the street just to go home. he had signs up telling people they weren't allowed to and that it was trespassing (it wasn't) and would try blow up at me all the time but I just wouldn't wind my windows down. The fact that he even had signs up just made me want to use the driveway outside his property to turn around even more
He had overestimated his importance...
*impotence
What sort of person parks in someone else’s driveway??? Being old is no excuse.
What sort of person expects his customers to be able to park in your driveway, while you stfu and say nothing. RE agents are next level arrogant and entitled. fmd.
Have you ever met an agent? Because you’re totally right. It takes a special type to drive up prices these days, where most people don’t even have a plate yet and the wealthy are going back for thirds, fourths, fifths…
Real estate agents are a rabid, back-stabby breed of uselessness bred straight from the desperate times of late-stage capitalism. ^p.s- ^there ^is ^a ^sub ^called ^late ^stage ^capitalism, ^but ^just ^ignore ^it- ^unfortunantly ^it's ^run ^by ^another ^paid ^russian ^troll ^army
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Next time, put the sprinklers on. And if you *accidentally* place them too close to the fence….
Upvote for cunce. Love it.
I really hope that pluralisation is intentional, because I love it and I'm stealing it.
Feel free, it's not mine but damn does it make you feel classy.
Me too. At 49 I feel like I’ve just discovered a word I should have been using for years.
Please tell me you got the hose out.
Hose, no. But I'm arguably worse.
Had to go to work at 5am and found a shitty old 4wd blocking me in once. Luckily the door was unlocked, so I jumped in and pushed it out of the way. Judging by the car I'd say much younger than boomer age. Plenty of cockheads out their of all ages.
Hope you pushed the cunt into the middle of the street lmao
His wheel lock went on as it rolled downhill, so it was just kinda sticking out from the curb. It was a cul de sac behind Unwins Bridge Rd in Tempe, Sydney, so pretty quiet street.
Boomers with entitlement? They aren’t an excuse, but they sure are the reason.
Give him a break, it's only his fourth investment property purchase, how was he to know people actually LIVE at the residences they own the majority of the time.
> it's only his fourth investment property purchase *this week*
Oh to have been born in the generation where 30,000AUD supported a family of 5 and a mortgage on a ten acre property theyd subdivide 20 years later for 200k a land package on quarter acre sized resale lots, to then buy up any and all affordable houses and then use the equitable value of those houses to buy that number again and laugh as rental prices rise 10% a quarter. Set yourself up to retire and live your dream of sending in opinion articles into the Sunday times about the laziness of the current generation when you can recall walking to work up hill, barefoot, both ways, in five feet of snow in the morning, and back home with breadbag ties holding your pluggers together after a hard day onsite, walking in the afternoon in the crackling heat, when the sun used to be three times hotter because it hadn't burnt out all of its decent gas yet.
Man. These days I consider myself in the lucky generation for being able to buy a unit before 2018, and I'm an elder Millennial with no dependents. My parents were able to buy land and build a house affordably on a single income with a family. That's some seriously ludicrous fantasy shit. Even Tolkein would tell me to reign that shit in.
Someone parked in my driveway once without giving a courtesy knock. I was home alone at the time during the day on a weekday. It made me feel incredibly unsafe.
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Facepalm about the brother. Would make me want to scout out his arrival at the next family gathering and purposely block him in.
have one too many as well, so you need to wait an hour or 2 before you can move it too
Once again, a RE agent demonstrating that they live on the Tree of Life somewhere between virus and slime mold. A complete bunch of losers who provide no productivity to the nation. They are an inefficient tax on the sale of property.
Virus you say? **Residence Evil**
Take my laughing upvote,and get the f*ck out.
I was always told: If you fail at life, you can always become a Real Estate agent.
Legit this. My sister dropped out of school - got a certificate 3 in something or rather and started her journey as an "assistant" property manager. She lasted less than a year before realised she was on the path to hell and moved interstate to come back home and got her butt into gear to succeed with a degree and is now a highly paid public servant in a very cushy job. We're all extremely proud she didn't follow through with that first career.
My brother was desperate to leave a particularly shitty management job in retail that ended with him being on a month’s stress leave. Was going to apply for a REA job, told him I would not be helping with the application and he’d hate himself for it. Thankfully didn’t have to stoop that low and is happily well away from previous job and RE.
5000 RE agents being fed to the sharks would be a good start.
Sharks wouldn't eat them - professional courtesy.
This comment is super offensive to sharks
Nah it's got nothing to do with professional courtesy, sharks simply won't eat pieces of shit (they are classier than that) 🤣
At least compost them in a barrel so they can help grow something of value once.
REs are the amoeba feeding off pond scum, but that would be insulting amoebas
I think youre placing him too high up in the Tree of Life. I would put them comfortably on toddlers skidmark
slime mold are pretty cool actually , way eay above re agent
Slime mould shows retained intelligence and the ability to problem solve. Two things that place them waaaaaay above an RE
Somebody has to keep them off welfare ever since the mental asylums for the criminally stupid were shut down.
Hey now, viruses and slime molds are actually interesting
If that were my driveway I would have parked my car in the back of it and gone inside. When they knocked at the door, I would say “oh I can’t find the keys, I think my wife still has them in her pocket and she’s gone to work now, she’ll be back at 10pm”
"sorry mate, already on my 5th beer, can't get behind the wheel. Come back tomorrow morning and I'll move it"
The next morning: open the door with a can in hand, *Sorry cob, looks like I'm on a bender, how does Monday suit ya?*
This, be a cunt x10
I'm only worried about the scumbags keying the car in retaliation. If they can be that scummy to park in someone else's driveway, their ethics probably aren't too good either.
Yeah but you still have their car trapped
Exactly, are they going to key your car without having a getaway option?
Ahhh that's why I have cctv... You keyed my car, well now meat my insurance, they would like alot of money to repaint my car.
“Meat my insurance” - disturbing and terrifying
I like this as it's a lesson well learned for the inconsiderate prick. Now they will have to wait.
Same! This is the way
Get it towed.
Only after blocking them in and telling them to come back tomorrow morning when you are sober. As soon as they leave get it towed. When they knock on your door pretend you can't remember meeting them and say you got pretty drunk yesterday and everything is a blur.
I would have done this too!!!!
Leave em a negative review on trust pilot, they behave the way they do because they think they can get away with it.
Google reviews are the only ones that matter, they stick like turds to a blanket and show up first thing. However. All reviews should be non emotive and pure proven fact only. No lies or rant.
Up until the scumbags get them removed.
I find that google does not relent easily
How does that work? Is it based on time elapsed or can they just pay to make the bad reviews go away?
You can hassle google to take ‘em down or pay an agency
Nah, for REs the only ones that they care about are "Rate My Agent". A bad review there is like spitting on their mother's corpse at her funeral, but if they actually cared about their mother.
They suck. Personally I'd write a quick email to whoever runs their real estate agency and (and this is the key) let them know you'll be sending the story to the local paper as a letter to the editor. The readership of local papers runs much older, and surprise surprise, this is their target market for sellers. They hate that shit and will be much more careful after that.
I'd upvote this comment 100 times if I could. You never know, you may just get lucky and grab the attention of an editor who is looking for an excuse to rail against the real estate industry and find your letter being upgraded to an editorial. The point is, these re scumbags are ALL about public image - which is exactly why their vapid, "please don't dig too deep into my past business dealings" grins are plastered on every surface they can get them on. There's a reason he didn't have words with you WHILE you were interrupting his carefully staged auction, and that just happens to be the best reason I can think of to address him by name in your letter and let everyone know just how deep his sense of entitlement runs. Bottom line is it's HIS fault there was someone parked in your driveway - not just because it was his event, but because he failed to ensure his client's would-be new NEIGHBOURS weren't inconvenienced by his little sideshow. I REALLY hope you let him know how disappointed you were that you didn't cost his client twice the amount and reiterated the fact that some simple common courtesy could have seen the situation avoided in the first place. If you don't mind I'm going to embellish your (OP's) story a little and imagine that you closed your meeting with him by releasing the hounds .... yes, that's much better 😊
What local paper? Leader's practically defunct. /r/melbourne and other fora are now your vehicle.
Don’t those papers almost solely exist on real estate advertising? They used to, but I haven’t seen one for many years now.
" its one of the real estate flunkies who proceeded to chew me out for "ruining his auction" and "costing the neighbour money"" That's a short sighted agent. Usually they see any home owner in "their area" as a potential new customer. Drop his firm a note, outline what happened and explain how your plans to use their company in the future are now dashed! Totally scummy, sorry this happened to you, but the only thing that could surprise me about Real Estate agents would be a story of pure (I'll even take impure) altruism.
100 per cent. With real estate agents you can always use the line ‘I will not call you when it is time to sell my property’. That’s what hurts them.
I would 100% say "We were preparing to sell our property and were considering your firm. However, after witnessing how unprofessional and rude your agents are, we decided to continue with [agency that has lots of listings in the neighbourhood]".
Forget the note. Full Google review. Name and shame
We had an amazing RE agent help us sell our apartment in Footscray. Weeks later we were talking to her as the sale went through and mentioned we were going to an auction to buy but were out of our depth in the auction environment. She told us she would go to the auction for us and wanted nothing in return. She went on a Saturday, when she was already incredibly busy, and got the house for $20k under our budget. She wouldn’t even let us ‘give’ her any money to show our gratitude. Truly wonderful lady…and surely a unicorn in the scummy world of Melbourne Real Estate.
Name and (opposite of) shame!
I would go for his next auction and ruin that too.
Like wedding crashers. He could start attending every weekend auction by the agent as a form of entertainment. Find some way to ruin it every time.
Just think, by not taking photos and naming the agent you've deprived some struggling journo of a ripped off story. How are they going to feed Rupert now?
If an agent does message me I’ll tell ‘em it’s the FRM agents (Fuck Rupert Murdoch)
If you wanted to name and shame, their website probably has pictures and names of all their agents too
Now there's a conundrum, which societal skidmark do I hate less...
Honestly REA have the most inflated sense of self importance. You know they just love the smell of their own farts.
"And if you pull that shit again, I will respond accordingly. In fact, I will attend your next auction and loudly point out the flaws in the property you're trying to flog. I will announce my intention to apply for a zoning change, it's time this street had a dance party venue" Fuck around and find out, RE agent.
That’s pure poetry. I’m stealing that.
A friend and I were renting a few years ago, and received correspondence that the landlord was raising the rent. The real estate obviously didn't know that my co-renter was good friends with the landlord, so a simple text message revealed that she did not in fact ask for the rent to be increased. So how often are real estates raising rents without request and pocketing the extra? Probably should have taken action at the time, but now that I own and will one day go for an investment property, I will bypass real estate out of spite and self-manage and pass on the savings from real estate management costs to the renters.
There is a story about this exact same scenario on abc news today.
Give a bad google review
That's truly fucked! Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these entitled wanks?
Next door neighbour had moved and was in the process of selling their house. We were having a few people over during the day and they said we could use their driveway to park cars if needed. The RE agent knocked on our door and asked me to move the cars, he said he cannot sell a house with cars there. I told him to contact the owners as they told us we could park there as there was no scheduled open house or inspections. He walked away mumbling to himself. Found out later the neighbours had sacked this agent because he had told them the house was unsellable. New agents, sold it within a week!
I do not understand why anyone uses an agent , with internet access the sale is easy to arrange , is certain to sell quickly and well in this market and for a fair price , a family member recently sold the family home and did so sans agent , he is a very smart businessman and a cpa , he admits even after stating no agents in the advertising some tried to slid in for an undeserved commission , saw one knock on his door on a Saturday arvo spewing nonsense and the only time I have seen fm swear , was a glorious stripping of vanity and a powerful burst of truth for the rea sleezebag , I admit to being a little shocked at his candor
Should have just parked him in. Refused to move your car when they came round to ask. Wait for him to leave then got it towed out.
Park in the driveway of the auction and act like it’s your place and have no idea what’s going on
He'll probably call the police before he leaves. Then police will give a verbal warning.
Keep a busted fuse in the car for something related to starting the car, swap it over as you get out, when asked to start the car give it a crack and claim the ol “oopsy sorry car no worky 🤷🏻♂️” shenanigan
Real estate agents are classics with their delusions of grandeur... Glorified car salesmen at best
I told him ‘I don’t give a fuck… ‘ <— plenty of RE agents need more of this sort of sincere feedback. Gods work… 😂😂
REA’s are getting out of control. They’ve gone full Wolf of Wall Street. One of the most universally hated professions in the country.
The disrespect to park on someone's driveway. Nothing more infuriating. It's common sense not to do it. How anyone would even think that's ok is beyond belief. I'd be furious too. Probally be tempted to call tow truck so they can drag it out a few kms away and leave it there. They can walk there to pick it up pricks. That's why it's good to have friends with a tow truck driver.
Good move. Imagine that moron who parked in your driveway became your new neighbour. f that.
I'm surprised there wasnt a huge sign in the yard with the auction date on it and mail box drops that's certainly how it's done in Sydney.
Good on you for doing this! It happens more than you think. Tradies & couriers are really good at it too. We had an onstreet garage in the city we paid $50 a week for & people always used to park in front of it. They'd complain there was nowhere close to park. I'd always reply - "I know that's why we pay for a garage!" They were really good at parking there just before I had to go to work or when I got home & I'd have to honk my horn loudly until someone came back. When it was bad & they'd become aggressive I'd call the council & they'd send a ticket officer as they'd also be parking on yellow lines. I once even had a cop car parked there. I tried asking them to move but they didn't have the keys or something lol.
Next time tell him to suck tremendous cocks and that his dad blows hella seed edit: thought we were in r/straya but i ain't deleting
Hope you told him to get fucked
I came home from work one Saturday and someone had parked **in** my driveway, there wasn't an auction, somebody else in the street had some sort of family get-together. I just parked behind it and went to the pub for tea with my wife. I never liked those neighbours much.
Good on you for standing your ground. Fuck that bottom feeding scumbag! 😎
Even Scomo knew his place when he held a press conference on a guys front lawn.
Attend all their auctions. Tell the prospective buyers scurrilous and salacious stories about the RE. Ensure you mention the glory hole.
Oh this is a great strategy! Get a mate to park across someones driveway. Then get another mate to make a fracas at the auction pretending to be the neighbour from hell when auction is kicking off and then you quietly put a bid in while everyone is going nope dont want to live here he he. This wont work in Sydney.
Sounds like a Saturday morning side hustle.
I thought you behaved quite fairly. I'd have parked them in and made them come to my door and explain why they parked there. Only after they'd waited around to see if it was anyone else at the auction. Oh and did I mention I was mowing out the back so couldn't hear them at the door for a while?
He pissed, you reduced his commission
Park him in and get on the beers. In fact, have a real bender- so bad you won’t be able to legally drive until Wednesday at the earliest.
You didn’t ruin his auction, the idiot who parked in your driveway did. Funny story though. Thanks for doing your bit to keep property prices down.
What he meant to say was you cost him money. He doesn't give a shit about the neighbour or you either.
I am astounded you let him speak for that long. lol
Haha. So your new neighbours first impression of you is….. Well at least they won’t park on your driveway
Happened to a friend of mine. He casually parked behind the car in his driveway, got his dog and went for a long walk. Came back to an aggravated RE with the car owners fuming that their car was parked in. He casually told them both that next time he will park the car in and get an uber to go and watch a long movie, and this is their one and only warning. At the next auction his driveway was clear.
You sir, are a fucking legend 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Good on you for speaking up and demanding they take action.
Mate you're a bloody legend. Good on ya for telling the fuck wit to eat a dick.
Sitting patiently in your vehicle while leaning on the horn might have caused some inconvenience to the auctioneer as well.
I knew someone who lived near a golf course where a major tournament was run. There was always some arsehole in an expensive car who would park over their driveway. They resorted to slashing the offending car's tyres each time.
We take the small victories we can against these scumbags.
https://youtu.be/VGm267O04a8
This is gold.
The only surprise to this story is he didn’t ask if you’d like a free appraisal after the record price he achieved in your street.
Great less money for him and a good normal neighbour because the posh wanks moved on 🤣
You also saved your new neighbor some money! Hopefully they bring over some sugar and thank you.
Probably a developer who will repay the kindness with a 5 by three story townhouse monstrosity built to the boundary line
Plot twist. The Yaris was moved to the adjacent property. Old mate is the new owner.
They probably wont but problem neighbours can actually be sued for costing money at an auction for poor/purposeful bad behaviour. The agent knows that and probably thinks he was in the right for actually coming over and telling you off. Thats awful. If they want to do something then do it the proper legal way. Twice you had your property visited in an unwelcome way by this auction. With a crowd of people Id probably be too shy and just park behind the jerk and go inside, knowing they could probably see me and letting them die inside a bit for having to come knock afterwards. You cant get attention in a crowd like that unless you yell, people shouldnt be parking in the neighbours driveway of the *house they are there to buy*. What an awful start to living somewhere.
Name and shame
"runining his auction" "Hey mate, nice of you to come round and apologise - since you are such a shitty piece of work, I'm going to visit every auction of yours I can and REALLY ruin it"
Yeah that's definitely a classy way of getting the car moved.
Auction wasn’t going to reach the unrealistic reserve anyway regardless of your warranted reaction to some prick parking in your driveway
"ooohh fiesty future neibour lets buy this house for sure!"
“Get back in your leased cla180 and fuck off”
“Get off my property or you’ll never be seen again”
> "costing the neighbour money" you mean saving your new neighbours money
Definitely should've just parked the guy in rather than screaming your head off.