🚀 go-pugleaf

Here's a followup to our concerns about getting our
money from the broker.  

The $850 is in our bank account.  Repeated calling and
a trip to the Realtor office (70 miles away) finally 
paid off.  I'd say we got two lessons from this:

1.  Get stuff in writing.  That's what freaked me out, that
    we didn't have adequate documentation for our claim.

2.  Be persistent, but polite.  The person on the other end
    is either a procrastinator/forgetful/short-of-money, or
    he's out to screw you.  Being rude could turn the 
    former into the later.

I also want to make sure that no one thinks the less of the
Century 21 corporation.  We never had to go as far as to
contact them.  But based on our experiences, I have no
reason to think any less of them.

Thanks for your concern and advice. 

G. K. Khalsa (khalsa@netcom.com) wrote:
: A realtor sold a mobile home for us and never gave us
: the proceeds.  Now I find that my wife made the
: transaction with inadequate paperwork.  I've written
: letters.  What do I do next?

: Here's the whole story:
: We had a mobile home about 100 miles from our home for
: my mother-in-law.  When she couldn't care for herself,
: we put the home up for sale with the realtor.  It
: didn't sell for a year while we suffered through lot
: rental payments.  We paid $8000 for the home, we were
: listing it for $6000, the realtor finally convinced us
: to sell for $1000.  His original agreement was for a
: minimum commission of $1000, but he said he'd only
: take $150.

: So the buyer paid the realtor, we signed over the
: title, and now he ignores us.  Here's the real problem
: -- my trusting wife never got any paperwork describing
: the new commission of $150.  I'm sure the realtor has
: the original agreement for the $1000 commision.  The
: best we have is a letter that the realtor made out for
: my wife to sign, stating that the commission was for
: $150.  But the letter came from his computer printer,
: on plain paper, signed only by my wife.

: This realtor is a one-man shop, but a Century 21
: franchisee.  If this realtor continues to ignore us,
: what is our ultimate recourse?  Will we have a hard
: time proving to the realtor licensing agency and a
: court that we are owed $850?

: Thanks
: ---
: GK