I documented these events in 2012, but did not report them. I am reporting now because Barbara Reed-Foster has persisted in badgering my husband during chance encounters at the grocery store and demanding that we remove the following content from Yelp and other websites. Everything reported is the absolute truth, and we are happy to provide the supporting documentation: Barbara Reed-Foster is stunningly incompetent... but that is not the worst of it. She is also completely unethical and dishonest. And I don't think Bill Clarkson is much better, as he is the one who 'recommended' her. My husband and I had occasion to deal with Barbara Reed-Foster in 2005-2006 and again in summer 2012. In both instances we found her to be dishonest and unethical. Our experiences with Barbara are the sort of thing that give all Realtors a bad reputation. In the summer of 2005 we were interested in purchasing a home listed by Bill Clarkson of ERA Golden Hills Brokers. Because my husband and I were not working with our own agent, we called Bill directly. He in turn introduced us to Barbara, who also worked for Golden Hills and occupied the office next to his. Bill told us that Barbara would represent us, (the buyers), while he represented the sellers. Before we had a chance to make an offer on the home that Bill had listed, I used the internet (without the help of an agent) to find another home listed on MLS that looked like it met our requirements. We told Barbara that we wanted to see it before making any offers. Barbara was reluctant to show it to us, as it was not listed with their agency, but we insisted. When we saw it, my husband and I both liked it immediately. Back at Barbara's office, both she and Bill were there, and they had the paperwork ready for us to make an offer on the house that Bill had listed They did not ask which house we liked better, and in fact acted as if there were no decision to be made. When we told her that we wanted to make an offer on the second house, Barbara said "well, there is a problem with that house". My husband and I looked at each other perplexed and asked her what the problem was. She said "it has stairs". We assured her that we were quite aware of the stairs (having already toured the house!) and that it was not a problem as we are both very able-bodied people.So we went ahead and purchased the house in July 2005. Working with Barbara was difficult at best. Emails and phone calls went unreturned. She failed to deliver paperwork, etc. when promised. For various reasons, we were unable to move into our new house immediately, so Barbara volunteered to act as a "property manager" and find a tenant "for free". The idea was to somehow "make it up to us" for our poor experience working with her on the home purchase. Foolishly, we agreed.Long story short, letting Barbara act as "property manager" was an even bigger mistake than letting her act as a real estate agent. She put a tenant in our house who trashed our brand new pristine home, and we ended up in small claims court with ourselves and Barbara named as co-defendants. There was a judgment against us, and my husband and I paid Barbara our half of the judgment amount $ with her verbal agreement to pay the plaintiff the total amount, including her half... end of story, or so we thought. (in hindsight, yes of course, trusting Barbara to take care of this was another huge mistake on our part... live & learn). Fast forward 7 years, and it is time to re-finance our house... surprise! Credit report says that the judgment had never been satisfied. We contacted Barbara and it turns out that she had paid the plaintiff OUR half of the judgment and claimed that it was HER half, and given him a song & dance about how my husband and I are unreliable people, dishonest, were probably never going to pay, etc. We have a copy of the letter she wrote to the plaintiff saying exactly that... (unbelievably, Barbara herself gave us the letter!). She lied to both the plaintiff and to us. In any case, in order to clear the Credit Report, the court required copies of the cancelled check(s) written to the plaintiff in order to satisfy the judgment. We had the cancelled check that we wrote to Barbara for our half of the judgment. The problem was that Barbara did not have a copy of the cancelled check that she had SUPPOSEDLY written to the plaintiff for the full amount of the judgment. She promised on several occasions to provide us with a copy, but kept coming up with excuses about why she couldn't do it... it was too long ago, the records were in storage, she was too busy, etc. Suffice it to say that Barbara could not provide the cancelled check because it simply DID NOT EXIST... she had never paid the plaintiff her half of the judgment, and that is why she did not have the cancelled check to prove it. As for Barbara, I'm not sure what is worse... the dishonesty or the incompetency. Either way, I don't know how she stays in business read more

Re: Barbara Reed Foster * Golden Hills Brokers B/R * DRE#: 00701584 To: pam@ccartoday.com * Contra Costa Association of REALTORS * Attn: Pam Moitoza cc: Bill Clarksonbill@billclarkson.com cc: Barbara@mike-barbara.com I documented these events in 2012, but did not report them. I am reporting now because Barbara Reed-Foster has persisted in badgering my husband during chance encounters at the grocery and demanding that we remove the following content from Yelp and other websites. Everything reported is the absolute truth, and we are happy to provide the supporting documentation. Barbara Reed-Foster is stunningly incompetent... but that is not the worst of it. She is also completely unethical and dishonest. And I don't think Bill Clarkson is much better, as he is the one who 'recommended' her. My husband and I had occasion to deal with Barbara Reed-Foster in 2005-2006 and again in summer 2012. In both instances we found her to be dishonest and unethical. Our experiences with Barbara are the sort of thing that give all Realtors a bad reputation. In the summer of 2005 we were interested in purchasing a home listed by Bill Clarkson of ERA Golden Hills Brokers. Because my husband and I were not working with our own agent, we called Bill directly. He in turn introduced us to Barbara, who also worked for Golden Hills and occupied the office next to his. Bill told us that Barbara would represent us, (the buyers), while he represented the sellers. Before we had a chance to make an offer on the home that Bill had listed, I used the internet (without the help of an agent) to find another home listed on MLS that looked like it met our requirements. We told Barbara that we wanted to see it before making any offers. Barbara was reluctant to show it to us, as it was not listed with their agency, but we insisted. When we saw it, my husband and I both liked it immediately. Back at Barbara's office, both she and Bill were there, and they had the paperwork ready for us to make an offer on the house that Bill had listed. They did not ask which house we liked better, and in fact acted as if there were no decision to be made. When we told her that we wanted to make an offer on the second house, Barbara said "well, there is a problem with that house". My husband and I looked at each other perplexed and asked her what the problem was. She said "it has stairs". We assured her that we were quite aware of the stairs (having already toured the house!) and that it was not a problem as we are both very able-bodied people.So we went ahead and purchased the house in July 2005. Working with Barbara was difficult at best. Emails and phone calls went unreturned. She failed to deliver paperwork, etc. when promised. For various reasons, we were unable to move into our new house immediately, so Barbara volunteered to act as a "property manager" and find a tenant "for free". The idea was to somehow "make it up to us" for our poor experience working with her on the home purchase. Foolishly, we agreed.Long story short, letting Barbara act as "property manager" was an even bigger mistake than letting her act as a real estate agent. She put a tenant in our house who trashed our brand new pristine home, and we ended up in small claims court with ourselves and Barbara named as co-defendants. There was a judgment against us, and my husband and I paid Barbara our half of the judgment amount $ with her verbal agreement to pay the plaintiff the total amount, including her half... end of story, or so we thought. (in hindsight, yes of course, trusting Barbara to take care of this was another huge mistake on our part... live & learn).Fast forward 7 years, and it is time to re-finance our house... surprise! Credit report says that the judgment had never been satisfied. We contacted Barbara and it turns out that she had paid the plaintiff OUR half of the judgment and claimed that it was HER half, and given him a song & dance about how my husband and I are unreliable people, dishonest, were probably never going to pay, etc. We have a copy of the letter she wrote to the plaintiff saying exactly that... (unbelievably, Barbara herself gave us the letter!). She lied to both the plaintiff and to us. In any case, in order to clear the Credit Report, the court required copies of the cancelled check(s) written to the plaintiff in order to satisfy the judgment. We had the cancelled check that we wrote to Barbara for our half of the judgment. The problem was that Barbara did not have a copy of the cancelled check that she had SUPPOSEDLY written to the plaintiff for the full amount of the judgment. She promised on several occasions to provide us with a copy, but kept coming up with excuses about why she couldn't do it... it was too long ago, the records were in storage, she was too busy, etc. Suffice it to say that Barbara could not provide the cancelled check because it simply DID NOT EXIST... she had never paid the plaintiff read more