Becoming a Real estate agent is something people do when they have no other vocation…it attracts the moral low end of a society in droves……

They see it as a way of making big fast money with little to no effort or skill required ….two weeks training, a phone, and a car, and away you go.

The biggest joke is that they try and make out that they are some how, ‘professionals’….their commission percentages are ridiculous…that whole system is corrupt …..3.5 to 5% on a home that often someone has taken their whole life paying off, having spent decades servicing a mortgage on.

They swan in and clip the ticket big time …because they walked some one through the house making inane no knowledge suggestions about adding on a room or ‘pushing walls out etc etc

If the clueless Penk wants the price of houses to be cheaper then he should grow a pair and stop real estate agents from charging larcenous sale commissions and introduce a single fee charge of no more than $10,000, or, a maximum commission of 1%, whichever is the lesser of the two.

This will immediately drop the price of an average house by $35,000.

Of course, Penk won’t do that because the National and Act Parties are heavily funded by real estate agents.

In conclusion, Penk is quite happy to let the pyramid scheme continue to run and run to make sure his funding mates continue to give his party money and is not actually serious about bringing the cost of houses down…. He’s yet another right wing fraud.

You would think having a knowledgeable farther like you she would not have been ripped off or abused by both agent and buyer . There are numerous complaint paths that she can take with large fines involved . I have been an agent and it is hard work with long hours and only a small percentage make a reasonable living.

Shocking story should have laid a complaint with the licensing crowd. I hope she didn’t pay for the late advertising.

Years ago a friend was looking at a flat in Sumner and the agent said to her ‘the owner will take less than that’! Says it all.

Them and used car salespeople and insurance agents. Our house is insured but I have never ever had contents insurance in 55 years and I know I am on the winning side. A fire you say oh well I will live with that have acquired too many beautiful things over the years that are not replaceable anyway. Car third party only and that is it!

Perhaps they are aware that property prices are declining and want to offload their property to gullible foreign buyers as soon as possible?