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Recommend me an estate agent

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  • #52
    tombliboo83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭tombliboo83


    Emanine wrote: »
    We sold through Palmer Auctioneers. I couldn't fault them. They were professional, courteous, everything you'd expect an auctioneering firm to be.[/quote

    Are they charging 1.5% and 20% vat on top?


  • #53
    Quigs Snr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,165 ✭✭✭Quigs Snr


    I found Leslie Warren decent. Complicated transaction (both a purchase and a sale).. he normally handles bigger commercial stuff and not that much residential, but no complaints from me.. answers the phone 24/7 (I tend to send angry messages at night because a piece of paperwork comes in late or whatever.... or I get him to do things like get various folks in to quote for windows etc.. on the property I am buying.... no complaints from him, no issues, just get's it done and perhaps that is the norm, this is only my second house purchase and first sale, so I wouldn't have much to compare to. Fairly personal service though. Much more so than I was expecting. Surprised at the things I was able to get him to do... more I suspect than I would have gotten from some of the others mentioned here.

    One is naturally wary of all salespeople, so I thought he was spoofing me a couple of times and I tried very hard to catch him out, but to be fair I found him to be straight up and honest and maybe I have low standards, but that's 99% of the battle for me !


  • #54
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Whatever you do avoid Joan Hutchinson, absolute nasty individual of the highest order and no manner whatsoever. She has no idea what she is doing and if you ask her more than one question she gets abrupt. I would never deal with her or her family again. Awful shower.


  • #55
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    Whatever you do avoid Joan Hutchinson, absolute nasty individual of the highest order and no manner whatsoever. She has no idea what she is doing and if you ask her more than one question she gets abrupt. I would never deal with her or her family again. Awful shower.


    Agree 100 percent, I was on the phone to her from abroad trying to organise a house to live with a young family, when we got to the office she blank refused to show us the house we were interested in, the house had been online for over a year and when we asked is there any play in the rent cost she lost the plot and then refused to show us the house in the end, I got in touch with the owners eventually when we got to know locals and they were so annoyed that she did that. there you go, not the first time i've seen bad reviews for her, so yeah plus 1


  • #56
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    Agree 100 percent, I was on the phone to her from abroad trying to organise a house to live with a young family, when we got to the office she blank refused to show us the house we were interested in, the house had been online for over a year and when we asked is there any play in the rent cost she lost the plot and then refused to show us the house in the end, I got in touch with the owners eventually when we got to know locals and they were so annoyed that she did that. there you go, not the first time i've seen bad reviews for her, so yeah plus 1

    She was only handed the job because her daddy gave it to her, shes unable to stand on her own two feet and hasn't the manner for it, if it were any other job but her parents firm she would be sacked.


  • #57
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,458 ✭✭✭kuang1


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    She was only handed the job because her daddy gave it to her, shes unable to stand on her own two feet and hasn't the manner for it, if it were any other job but her parents firm she would be sacked.

    I heard she's moved away actually lads/lasses. So good news for ye if true!


  • #58
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    kuang1 wrote: »
    I heard she's moved away actually lads/lasses. So good news for ye if true!

    Saw her in tesco the other day


  • #59
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,458 ✭✭✭kuang1


    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    Saw her in tesco the other day

    Maybe she was just visiting?
    Anyone know if she's still in the office or working with Hutchinsons?


  • #60
    tombliboo83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭tombliboo83


    Listening to liveline this afternoon and there’s a new auctioneer firm in Dublin and cork auctioneera.ie and their fees are flat rated at €1299+vat. Are all Waterford agents still operating on a percentage basis does anyone know?


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  • #61
    hardybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    tombliboo83 wrote: »
    Listening to liveline this afternoon and there’s a new auctioneer firm in Dublin and cork auctioneera.ie and their fees are flat rated at €1299+vat. Are all Waterford agents still operating on a percentage basis does anyone know?

    I think most estate agents everywhere operate on a percentage basis. There is another firm based in Dublin who do that called Move On, who I think were the first or one of the first to do flat rates: http://www.moveon.ie/

    They do fixed price lettings where most them charge a percentage (5%) of rent.

    They also offer a tiered package for sellers. The Silver level might be that you show the property yourself, and they deal with the advertising and legal. Gold Level is where they do everything that a normal estate agent do, but it's all on a fixed price, and if you don't sell you pay nothing.


  • #62
    tombliboo83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭tombliboo83


    hardybuck wrote: »

    They also offer a tiered package for sellers. The Silver level might be that you show the property yourself, and they deal with the advertising and legal. Gold Level is where they do everything that a normal estate agent do, but it's all on a fixed price, and if you don't sell you pay nothing.

    Doubt they’d be offering that gold package in Waterford. €2500 at a flat rate is still a decent price, nearly half what you’d have to give a traditional estate agent. My experience with certain agents in the past hasn’t been great so being expected to pony up 1.5% +vat is very off putting. I might just have to bite the bullet though. Anybody have experience of John Rohan?


  • #63
    hardybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    tombliboo83 wrote: »
    Doubt they’d be offering that gold package in Waterford. €2500 at a flat rate is still a decent price, nearly half what you’d have to give a traditional estate agent. My experience with certain agents in the past hasn’t been great so being expected to pony up 1.5% +vat is very off putting. I might just have to bite the bullet though. Anybody have experience of John Rohan?

    I'd be very surprised if anyone outside of Dublin, at the moment, was getting Gold. I see they've sold houses around the country, so I'm sure it suits some people to show the homes themselves or to get a family member to do it. I've used them for lettings and found them very reasonable.

    Family members have used John Rohan a number of years ago and found him very good, after leaving O'Shea O'Toole. Also heard good feedback about Palmers.


  • #64
    brian2614
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭brian2614


    tombliboo83 wrote: »
    Doubt they’d be offering that gold package in Waterford. €2500 at a flat rate is still a decent price, nearly half what you’d have to give a traditional estate agent. My experience with certain agents in the past hasn’t been great so being expected to pony up 1.5% +vat is very off putting. I might just have to bite the bullet though. Anybody have experience of John Rohan?

    Dealt with that coward when trying to buy my first house.It was a bank repo and was fairly damaged after a leak inside.Offered X amount which agreed to.Gave him a deposit of 5k while contracts were being drawn up.3 days later he rang me back saying he had another offer of €10k more and will I match it.

    As far as I was aware I thought the house was off the market after I gave him deposit.Needless to say I told him to stick it and got my deposit back ASAP.

    Now he prances around the goldstone gym spreading his bull**** gospel of auctioneering.


  • #65
    hardybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    brian2614 wrote: »
    Dealt with that coward when trying to buy my first house.It was a bank repo and was fairly damaged after a leak inside.Offered X amount which agreed to.Gave him a deposit of 5k while contracts were being drawn up.3 days later he rang me back saying he had another offer of €10k more and will I match it.

    As far as I was aware I thought the house was off the market after I gave him deposit.Needless to say I told him to stick it and got my deposit back ASAP.

    Now he prances around the goldstone gym spreading his bull**** gospel of auctioneering.

    Just to be clear, you're talking about John Rohan rather than the company offering fixed prices?


  • #66
    brian2614
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭brian2614


    hardybuck wrote: »
    Just to be clear, you're talking about John Rohan rather than the company offering fixed prices?

    Yep,the thread is about estate agents after all.


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  • #67
    hardybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    brian2614 wrote: »
    Yep,the thread is about estate agents after all.

    Absolutely, but you quoted my post about two different estage agents, so I just wanted to be certain who you were referring to.


  • #68
    Stopitwillya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Stopitwillya


    brian2614 wrote: »
    tombliboo83 wrote: »
    Doubt they’d be offering that gold package in Waterford. €2500 at a flat rate is still a decent price, nearly half what you’d have to give a traditional estate agent. My experience with certain agents in the past hasn’t been great so being expected to pony up 1.5% +vat is very off putting. I might just have to bite the bullet though. Anybody have experience of John Rohan?

    Dealt with that coward when trying to buy my first house.It was a bank repo and was fairly damaged after a leak inside.Offered X amount which agreed to.Gave him a deposit of 5k while contracts were being drawn up.3 days later he rang me back saying he had another offer of €10k more and will I match it.

    As far as I was aware I thought the house was off the market after I gave him deposit.Needless to say I told him to stick it and got my deposit back ASAP.

    Now he prances around the goldstone gym spreading his bull**** gospel of auctioneering.

    Had similar experience with John rohan. Bit of a cowboy in my experience.


  • #69
    south
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭south


    Stopitwillya wrote: »
    Had similar experience with John rohan. Bit of a cowboy in my experience.

    I also know of two people who'd the same problem with him.

    I've dealt with Barry Murphy and Brian from Manor properties recently and both were very good.


  • #70
    hardybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    If we're adding letting into the mix, I would like to note that our experience of Book a Room as a landlord is awful. Terrible customer service, and lack of pretty basic information pertaining to the market.

    If anyone had better experiences for letting and property management please let me know.


  • #71
    Auctioneera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Auctioneera


    Hi Hardy Buck - we hope to be in Waterford soon!


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  • #72
    tombliboo83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭tombliboo83


    Auctioneera wrote: »
    Hi Hardy Buck - we hope to be in Waterford soon![/quote

    In the next 8 weeks?


  • #73
    Auctioneera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Auctioneera


    Alas, maybe not that quickly unfortunately but certainly by summer time!


  • #74
    tombliboo83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭tombliboo83


    Auctioneera wrote: »
    Alas, maybe not that quickly unfortunately but certainly by summer time!

    That’s a pity, can’t wait until then unfortunately lol. Best of luck with your business.


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