'My friend here took half [of your money]': Realtor snubs interested buyer, loses 50% of her commission

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jan 12, 2024 1:00 PM EST

Have you ever seen the classic Julia Roberts film Pretty Woman? Remember the scene where she walks into a fancy retail shop and the women refuse to serve her because they thought she looked too poor, but then got hooked up by Richard Gere's character? Then she went back to that store and told them they made a big "HUGE" mistake. Well, that is what happened here but in real life and with an entitled realtor instead of retail workers. 

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  • Ahhh, it's always so satisfying when an entitled person gets what they deserve. Like this realtor back in the late ‘90s. A hardworking guy was trying to buy a house for himself and his family. He admits he wasn’t the ideal candidate financially, but he was willing to do whatever it took to get a home. He found one right in his budget and ideal neighborhood and he immediately went for it. However, the realtor was extremely curt with him and did not take him seriously. She ignored his calls for days, so finally OP decided to take a different route. He got an actually caring and helpful realtor who helped him close the deal. When OP went in to sign the deal, he saw the entitled realtor there with the paperwork. Once everything was signed he pulled that classic Pretty Woman line and boy was the realtor furious. Read the entire story below! If you like hearing about Karma doing some good work, check out this story about a pregnant woman getting proper petty revenge! 

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    Non intended revenge on a Realtor This happened in 1998 when I bought my house. After weeks home hunting, one late Sunday I saw an add for an open house in an area I
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    was very interested because of the excellent school district, so I rushed over, arriving just as the realtor was picking up to go. She reluctantly showed me the place Ina hurry and had me
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    sign her book then rushed me out. The house was within my parameters for price, location and size so I got very interested. Granted I wasn't the ideal buyer, had barely 15% down payment and no loan approved yet. I
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    had disclosed this to the realtor because I knew some of them work with you to help, yet this one didn't even return my calls, once she mistakenly answered herself
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    (landlines were tye normal at the time) and she discarded me pretty quick. So after days of trying I decided to contact one other realtor who had been very helpful and he negotiated the deal for me, finding a lender and everything else.
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    The day of the closing we all land at the lawyers office and guess who is sitting at the table with the contract to be signed, lol. She didn't recognize me right away, but as soon as all the signatures were down I got up from my
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    chair and told her, hey miss Realtor, do you remember the last person who showed up to the open house and then called you about 10 times to buy this house? She
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    seemed bafled while started to flush, then I said, my friend here took half your commission because you wouldn't return my calls, have a good life, I walked out and she was furious
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    Grouchy-Ad4338 - 4 hr. ago Good one. Love it. That bit about half the commission - that must have hit her quite bad. Not only did she lose the commission for the house - someone else made money off of it.
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    racermd 3 hr. ago . I may be wrong but I believe she was the selling agent that could have been OP's buying agent as well. Cutting out a separate buying agent means she would have earned both the selling AND buying commission
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    fees. But, by ignoring OP, she forced a separate buying agent into the equation losing out on that part of the commission. She earned half of what she could have if she just gave OP some attention.
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    doingthehumptydance. 3 hr. ago Nope you are right, she screwed herself out of 50% of her commission and OPS realtor made the quickest buck ever.
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    :) 9lobaldude 4 hr. ago . Never judge a book by its cover
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    NYC-grapms OP. 4 hr. ago To be fair as I said, I wasn't the ideal buyer, yet she was extremely dismissive and the 2 interactions we had she just wouldn't see me as a possible buyer, but you are right, do not judge that book.
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    Imaginary-Yak-6487. 3 hr. ago I'm so sorry you had to deal with that, some . I'm people just super happy you were able to buy your home.
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    TEX DParadisio43137 · 3 hr. ago best revenge involves the wallet every time
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    . CtForrestEye 4 hr. ago Serves her right. It appears your friend earned the commission anyway.
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    MonkeyGriz 2 hr. ago This is just the real estate version of pretty woman. Hi remember me? You work off commission, right? Big mistake... huge!
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    Miguel4659 2 hr. ago That wasn't petty at all. That was fully called for due to her arrogance and lack of response. Well done!
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    CommonStrawbeary 1 hr. ago Something similar happened to my parents! They went to look at a house late, and in their gardening clothes cuz they lived down the street.
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    Realtor was super and they didn't sign the book, just went in looked and left. They bought it shortly afterwards and the realtor got screwed in some way because my parents didn't sign the book.
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