Estate Agent Fees

Doozergirl

chickmug wrote: »

You will need to be very careful how you deal with this as Business Agents (I assume it is a Business Agent) make normal Estate Agents look like angels --- and many are not.

:hello: :hello:

Fire_Fox

steve1500 wrote: »

We have pulled our house off the market. It was both residential & commercial property. I hadn't spotted in the contract that they would bill me for advertising. Now they have sent me a big bill.

I am going to ask them to provide proof that they actually placed the ads they say they did.

They are asking for £50 per advert. Which it does state in the contract.

My question is are they allowed to profit out of it? If say the ad cost £20 a time.

They are business agents although all their blurb mentions Nat'l Assoc of Estate Agents etc. The bill is £4k.

Apparently they placed ads in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds & York.

During the entire period these bankers never gave any indication of the bill that was being run up

We stopped using them because they were as much use as a chocolate fireguard. /QUOTE]

How do you know they are profiting? Do you have access to the business' full accounts? Taking instruction from you and putting an advert in the paper requires a human to design in, an office/ desk/ computer/ phone line/ internet connection/ electricity ...

Doesn't sound like they were that useless if the advertised in four major cities. Did you put in a complaint about the quality of their service and terminate the contract on that basis?