RE/MAX Gold Sierra Oaks

HQ v1.O for me! LOL. From El Dorado County to the Silicone Valley, I put my desk in the middle of where I make the magic happen.

I reach out to April Gilleland with some questions I had about our move to California from out of state. She has been so very helpful and prompt. I would highly recommend working with her.

Hello my name is Tracye Overby, and I'm writing this review about my incredible experience working with Jill Khan my realtor . She is absolutely AMAZING. Jill had NEVER, EVER once made me feel less than. She was ALWAYS very helpful, answering my questions, and trying her BEST to educate me about the home buying process because I'm a first time home owner, and she knew right off that I was scared and NERVOUS, having the bubble guts and all. Jill is HILARIOUS, I totally BUSTED A GUT laughing with her many times while we were driving around looking at houses and that made me feel more at ease . Jill ALWAYS made me feel like I was her ONLY CLIENT whenever we were on the phone, through emails, and most definitely when she was showing me around Sacramento. That is a wonderful skill to have. Jill represented Re/Max Gold with the UPMOST RESPECT and Re/Max gold you are very lucky to have her on your team. When I purchase my next property I will ONLY WORK WITH JILL. Jill, I want to THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU DID FOR ME, I LOVE YOU MUCH . ALWAYS PEACE TO YOU AND YOURS.

SINCERELY

Tracye

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This review is going to reflect my experience with Harold Frink and him only, as I have not worked or communicated with any other representative of RE/MAX Gold Sierra Oaks. I'm going to include his BROKER'S FEES and real numbers that were used in my most recent experience with him. We are still being FORCED to stay in contract with him because he is asking us for $2,500 to terminate our contract.

DO NOT HIRE HAROLD FRINK.

About a month ago, my significant other and I headed to an open house in Rancho Cordova that was one of Harold's listings. We were greeted by a Buyer's Agent and a representative from a lending company. I thought it was strange that the listing agent wasn't there, but I know it's common to have business parters help out with open house and what not. This was flag number 1 and we didn't even realize it yet. I'd like to explain how Harold breaks down his Broker's fee, so you can all understand why this is an issue:

Harold charges only 2% if you bring him an unrepresented, qualified buyer who successfully purchases your home. "Unrepresented" meaning the buyer does not have a Real Estate Agent (a Buyer's Agent). Not a bad deal at all, but very rarely will the homeowner be the one to find the buyer, yet alone find a buyer that does not already have an Agent.

He charges 4% if a buyer is found by him/ through his marketing and open house and is unrepresented. Again meaning a prospective buyer is writing an offer without a Buyer's Agent. He does this because he will then get to act as both the Buyer's and Seller's Agent.

He charges a 6% brokers fee if someone comes in already represented by a Buyer's Agent. If you have any experience in buying/ selling property, you know that this is a very high percent. This is also the most common situation, so it's likely that you'll end up paying a 6% fee working with Harold.

So, we made an offer on that home we saw and guess what - The Buyer's Agent that was at the open house now became OUR Buyer's Agent, meaning the sellers that hired Harold were being charged a 6% Broker's fee when, in reality, we were UNREPRESENTED when we walked into their home. Those sellers should have had Harold in the home and should have only been charged 4%. I'm going to share the real numbers with you all, so you can understand why this is so serious.

We made an offer of $410,000. Do the math:
4% Broker's Fee = $16,400
6% Broker's Fee = $24,600

That's a difference of $8,200. They were charged $8,200 more than they should have been.

We did not find this out until we hired him to sell our house, unfortunately.

Now, the house we made an offer on was originally $398,888 and we ended up offering $410,000. We did this because Harold shared with us that they had gotten another offer at $415,000. Believe it or not, they took our offer of $5,000 LESS, WITH A CONTINGENCY. We still had to sell our home! Why/ how did Harold convince them to take a lower offer with a contingency? He manipulated them because it would benefit him. He knew that if they accepted our offer, Harold would also get to sell our home. Now, he could've been lying to us about the $415k offer, but either way he lied and it wasn't the only time.

So, we got our offer accepted and had 14 days to sell our house, then purchase the new one.

12 days later, we had no offers and Harold knew that he was going to be in a pinch if our house didn't sell. After only 12 days on market, Harold asks us to lower our price. REALLY?

He wanted us to give up almost $5,000 simply because he was in a rush to sell, WE weren't. So we struggled with the idea, but ultimately did it because we REALLY wanted the other house.

Lets do some math:

We already offered $11,000 more on the new house than we expected
Now we were losing another $5,000.

We were now $16,000 lower than what we thought we were going to have in equity in just 2 weeks. OUCH. This deal wasn't seeming too friendly anymore.

I've reached the character limit, so I will continue this story in another review.

Never answered question about home for sale.