The only thing worse than the house not selling...

[ruthabagah]

Well... I know a couple of realtor and they are good people. It's like any kind of business deal: you want to interview potential realtors and get them to commit to certain milestones/requirements on your contract with them. Last time I bought a house we spend 3 month looking for a realtor.... Saw probably two dozen of them, and yes: 90% sucked really bad.... Attitude was #1. Lack of knowledge and interest was the second one. We ended up asking one of our friend if she would work for us. I have this thing were I never mix business and friendship. Not only she did an amazing job finding us THE house, when we were outbid the first time, she did follow up with the other party realtor everyday... When their contract failed, we were the only one they asked for a contract, and we got the house for it's exact MLS price without competition.

[Rooskibar03]

I'll tell you this, Real-a-trons are the WORST customers when it comes to buying stuff. They will waste your time unlike any other customer and they aren't loyal in any way, which is ironic to say least.

[PugnacAutMortem]

I am glad someone had a good experience with Trelora. We sold our house through them and it was AWFUL. Worst experience I've ever had with a company. Incompetence ran strong through that entire organization.

Yeah, screw those guys with a big rusty pole. I'm glad the OP had a good experience though.

[Richard K]

When we were ready to sell our house in Lakewood we talked to our realtor neighbor. We signed a contract with the stipulation that he would not list it on MLS for another week. An hour after he left he calls and says he has two couples "dying" to see our house. We explained that it was not ready to show. He said they know that but just want to take a quick peek. The first couple showed up and after going through the house for half an hour offered us our full asking price in cash ($550K) and bought almost all of our furniture as well. They wanted to close and occupy ASAP. We really had to hustle to get packed and out. At least we didn't have a houseful of furniture to move especially a full sized pool table. From the time we made the decision to go ahead and sell, until we had it sold was two hours.

[Aloha_Shooter]

LOL, reminds me of when the Springs had a small real estate boom in the early 90s. My boss at the time was in the process of listing his house (supposed to go live around noon) and was putting up the lawn sign a little early (around 8 or 9 AM) when someone drove up, asked to take a quick look at the house then offered him full asking price on the spot. -2 (that's negative two) hours to sell the house based on listing time and about the only thing the agent had to do for his commission was give him the lawn sign to put up (the agent actually did more because he didn't know the house was going to sell that fast).

[Bailey Guns]

It's been a long time since we moved. Completely underestimated the amount of time and effort needed to do this. Anyone got a match?

[UncleDave]

I've got about 10 gallons of gas I can bring over.

[Bailey Guns]

Ok...I was wrong. It can get worse.

After an EXTREMELY hectic week of packing we finally got on the road. I'm pulling a large trailer with my truck and Mrs BG is driving a 20' UHaul with a car hauler trailer.

Just outside Burley, ID she calls me on the radio and says the truck has lost all power. Stopped on the shoulder of I_84 it's obvious the transmission is fried. Truck is relatively new with only 63k miles. 4 hours later after much back and forth with customer service we finally got settled into a room.

Now I have to meet some movers this morning and spend half a day watching them transload from one truck to another.

We still have 450 miles to go. Uhaul has been a total PITA even though they finally made it right. The rep spent an hour trying to get me to agree to unload/reload the truck myself. He'd give me a $500 credit. I told him that was just not gonna happen.