How not to sell a house

[sqbr]

So Cam and I are looking into buying a house. We first met a guy from Mortgage Choice. He was kind of weird.

We then met a woman from Aussie Home Loans, who was much nicer and suggested a much better sounding loan.

Just now Mortgage Choice guy rang up and asked for Cam. The entire point of his call? To figure out how to format a broken memory card.

I'm pretty sure one of the rules of salemanship is not randomly ringing up potential customers and asking them to do you a favour.

According to Cam it's one of the hazards of telling people you're a computer programmer. Which is unfortunate, since he hates helping people(*). Luckily while having a pure maths major got me lots of random "Omigodgrouptheortyishardandmyassignmentisduetommorrow" emails at uni it's not so bad now :) (That and I learned to say "Sure I'll help you, I charge $30 an hour")

(*)Well, helping them with their computers :)

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

HMM.

So, apart from just ringing up your mum, how does one obtain such an agent? My google-fu failed me.

(And thankyou for your advice)

[stephiepenguin.livejournal.com]

Well, you have a look at the local papers, see who is selling interesting looking places, and pick an agency. Which agent (person) you get is usually the luck of the draw. And if you get bad vibes/feel uncomfortable/whatever, you believe those vibes, walk out the door and into the next one.

Or you can ask your friends/family who have bought places if they recommend the agents with whom they dealt.

Or I can give you my mum's details, if you're looking in the Bayswater/Bassendean/Morley/that Midlandish area. At least you know I can vouch for her.