A bad experience selling my home
I would like to hear from others if they have had a bad experience selling their house. I chose a well known real estate group and their agents to sell my house. When we signed the offer to purchase, the real estate agent convinced me to use their preferred attorneys to do the transfer.
ALBERTON – The attorneys have given me invoices and quotations without invoices for amounts that do not add up to the amount that they owe me, and I am now struggling to get my monies from them.
They have given me an account showing that they kept back R10 000 for a plumbing certificate, although there is no law requiring one to produce a plumbing certificate when a house is sold. They also kept back R15 000 for an electric fencing COC, I handed in the COC fencing certificate with the electrical certificate to the attorneys’ receptionist.
I have phoned the real estate agents as well as the owner of the real estate group, but was told they cannot help me. It seems once they receive their commission, they want nothing to do with the seller.
The house is a beautiful home in Alberante, Alberton, that was well maintained. Another agent informed me that I am not the only person that went through this experience.
I had to appoint another attorney to help me with this case. My attorney wrote a letter to the above-mentioned attorneys, stating the following: “It is apparent from what has transpired in this matter that the only person in whose interest you have acted herein appear to be the Purchaser (and possibly youself).”
I do not want this to happen to anyone else and therefore I am writing this letter. Please let me know if anyone has had the same experience. Contact me on anneswanevelder@vodamail.com
