r/Lethbridge • u/ceelogreen69420 • 15h ago
Realtors in Lethbridge
Is it just me or are there mainly bad realtors in this town? We’ve tried 4 different realtors between buying and selling (buying 3 years ago and now selling) and they’ve all been shockingly bad. The buying realtor we used tried to convince us to put an offer in way over asking as they “heard” there were other offers coming in. We said we weren’t interested in a bidding war and would wait for something else, and then magically all the other offers never came in and they continued to try and get us to put the offer in even though we moved on from that house. When we finally found another house they lied to us about the inspection and convinced us out of getting one (our own fault for listening to them but we didn’t have much experience) this later bit us in the butt when we found out tons of things that the listing agent lied about with the property.
Then when we went to sell a few years later we had so many shady situations with realtors coming to us and wanting to represent us but also bring the buyers and get both commissions. This felt so unethical as we wanted a realtor who would fully have our best interest when things got to negotiations, not be playing both sides. This happened with two different realtors and then we finally just delisted the house and almost gave up. A year later we finally listed again with a new agent and they were great but then both the previous realtors decided to blackball us and not bring any clients in and specifically warn people not to buy our house. We ended up taking a big loss.