My sister recently decided that she was ready to purchase her first home. She was very excited & talked about how nice the realtor was.
She had to sign something stating that if she broke the contract with the realtor before finding a home, she would be charged a fee. On the realtor's instruction, she took a new home buyer class that she had to pay $75 for.
My sister wanted to check out homes in Waldorf, but her realtor didn't want to because of the traffic. My sister was interested in homes in other areas of Maryland & when she found one she really liked, she wanted to put an offer in it.
It turned out that the mortgage would have been in a range that would have been an over-extension of what she could afford & her realtor suggested that she change her w-2 to where she would get more money during the year...who does that!? My sister told her that she wasn't doing that & she wanted to stay within a certain budget...she didn't want to be "house poor."
Instead if the realtor searching for other houses for her that could be more inline with her budget, she told her she was cancelling her contract with her because she didn't have the time to devote to her. Seriously!?
Clearly, this realtor was very inexperienced & instead of just dropping my sister like that, she should have let her know from the beginning that as a new home buyer, she should have a realtor with more experience with first time home buyers and Maryland properties.
New home buyers or buyers with budget limits...watch out for new realtors with this agency! She will only take you to limited places & does not want to put in the work unless you go to places she wants to go to & you have a salary over $65,000 a year!
To this baby realtor...you need to stay in the the NW area of DC & Potomac MD, because you seem to only care about the dollar and not helping people to accomplish their dream of home ownership!
Sorry about the long review, but I'm very angry on my sister's behalf...AND she wasted $75! Keller Williams, you need to better train your realtors because the one she had was inappropriate AND unprofessional! read more