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Don’t sign anything. Real estate ethics in question

22nd April, 2009 - Posted by admin -

You may have heard of Neil Jenman’s mission to inform and protect consumers from the dangers involved with selling or buying real estate. I thought I knew and observed enough to know that one had to be very careful in dealing with real estate agents. But after having read one of his books, I realised I had underestimated how sneaky they can be.

I’m not saying they are all money hungry and ethics deficient but they have been indoctrinated in believing what they’re preaching and when they start to realise the extent of lack of ethics and fairness of their practice, they either quit or look the other way.

If they don’t quit or look the other way, they may try to change the system more or less successfully due to the pressure of the industry controlling them.

Jenman says that the consumers who suffer the worst financial losses are generally the home sellers. They suffer because of:

Up front expenses

Adverstising

Kickbacks from newspaper

Auctions

Conditioning

False and misleading offers

Bait prices

Open inspections

Betrayal of confidence

See details on Jenman’s website

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Posted on: April 22, 2009

Filed under: Observations on real estate

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