If this was in the United States, I'd say the fact that the listing showed pictures of the backyard would be enough to have an action against the realtor.
SPMPLS, post: 432644, member: 11785 wrote: Sounds like they have come to some sort of solution, but he should have gotten the recommended survey. His biggest mistake was to believe ANYTHING the real estate agent told him. I consider them the lowest form of life based on personal and professional experiences. I wouldn't do work for one for any amount of money. I have only used a RE agent once, to purchase my current home, and it turned out that she and the seller's agent colluded to forge the supplemental disclosure documents so they could collect their fees. Didn't turn out too well for either of them, nor the Broker she worked for. Worked out pretty well for me though.
I have known some bad Real Estate agents in my life. I've also known some very good ones, including my own Mother. If every agent you know is a butthole, maybe its time to move.
thebionicman, post: 433109, member: 8136 wrote: If every agent you know is a butthole, maybe its time to move.
[SARCASM]Which means you need a realtor[/SARCASM] :p
Problem solved?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/buyer-beware-home-purchase-title-insurance-realtors-1.1863690
realtor said:
"I would like to offer one great takeaway lesson for buyers of foreclosed properties or all properties for that matter: it is always in the buyer's best interest to have a surveyor's location certificate prepared before closing their transaction."
Unfortunately, realtors have somehow put themselves in a position where people listen to them and their off the cuff advice, which unbeknownst to the ordinary person, carries no real weight or liability.
Surveyors rarely help a sale go through, more than likely, we find things that should've been obvious in reading the deed, and that might actually hold up or cancel a sale. So we're not usually the best friend of the realtors, and I've heard stories that some of them do their best to dissuade their clients from hiring us, disparaging our profession in a way that seems somewhat unethical and almost approaches slander. But of course, it's all verbal and hearsay.
David C. Newell RPLS LS CFM, post: 433800, member: 6347 wrote: Problem solved?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/buyer-beware-home-purchase-title-insurance-realtors-1.1863690realtor said:
"I would like to offer one great takeaway lesson for buyers of foreclosed properties or all properties for that matter: it is always in the buyer's best interest to have a surveyor's location certificate prepared before closing their transaction."
Next part of the story will be he goes to city hall to pull a permit and they deem the properties illegally created and red flag the title causing him to go through some type of land development process and dedicate right of way, utility easements, his first born........ costing tens of thousands of dollars .....oh the American/Canadian dream of home ownership :). Good Friday, Jp
As stated earlier, all of the realtors I have ever done work for, or used in my one home purchase, were willing and capable of saying or doing anything necessary to ensure they collected their commission check. One hired me because there was concern that the adjoiner's garage was over the line of a property he had a sale pending on. As I was setting up the instrument away from the crowd of his sellers and neighbors, he says "now make sure the property line misses the corner of that garage so we can close this deal." I stared at him, told him that I am a licensed professional and there would only be one correct answer, but that I would not be the person providing it because our contractual relationship had just ended. I boxed up the instrument, asked my helper to load the truck, and we left. The seller called me and hired me to come back to do the work and fix the problem.
It seems comical that such lying snakes would dare say anything negative about any profession, but if that profession is in the way of their one and only objective, collect a check, then it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
