Estate Agents

[Scramblinghealingdreaming]

Is it in the job description to make things up or tell blatant lies?

This is lived experience not stereo typing. You couldn't make up some of the corkers I have hard these last few months.

Not sure I can cope buying a house if I have to see anymore of them.

Even the couple I have met that seemed decent human beings if they were in another life have come out with some corkers.

Best was a chap who was clearly filling in and didn't even know the name of the village we were in for the house he was showing me (got it wrong multiple times). Didn't know the name of the huge park and estate grounds opposite the house.

Told me confidently there were so many cycle paths in the village that hardly anyone owned a car. As we stared out at the multitude of cars all crammed into every space they could fit into on drives and roadside.

There feels an air of government to them. Blatant lies that don't stack up given the evidence in front of our own eyes. Clear contempt for people they are taking to (in that they think we might possibly believe the crap they are telling us).

But I don't understand it. They have zero credibility to the point there is no point asking by them a simple question.

Just why?

Don't believe any of them and do your own research.

I had one claim a property had off road parking (on a main road with double yellows and no space out front let alone a dropped kerb). I asked where and they said 'theres a classic car in the shed in the garden'. No answer to how it got there as there was no rear access to the back garden.

They can’t, in law, lie. So if they’re blatantly lying (as opposed to “just” using EA speak and exaggerating) then they can be reported.

But yes. DH always says “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell the difference between a kitchen and a bathroom”

I know someone who benefited from a useless estate agent. Their property has two adjoining garages. The agent valued and marketed it as having a single garage, so my friends got the second garage 'free'.
On the other hand we had an estate agent who drew our floorplan incorrectly so many times I ended up doing it myself. The layout was incredibly simple too.

Yanbu, I once had an estate agent tell me the Trainline at the back of the house was disused, it wasn’t in the slightest there were trains running even when I was viewing the property

One house had "outstanding gardens" in the estate agent blurb.
A hedge jammed in between the pavement and front door, and a small paved courtyard to the rear.
The owners are still looking for a buyer.