‘I played the long game’: Wronged homeowner enacts revenge on lying real estate agent, sends him fake love letters for six years and accidentally exposes his actual infidelity

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Sep 10, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Now, I'm not saying I condone this type of revenge… but karma has a funny way of working itself out.

When you're a prospective homeowner, you would hope you can trust your real estate agent without second-guessing their allegiance. Real estate agents are more in it for themselves than for anyone else, so all of that hopeful trust can be thrown out the window right now. That's just the truth of the homeowning market, and these agents want to make a pretty penny on commission without caring about the fallout homeowners have to navigate through after a deal closes.

The original poster (OP) of this story was once in this position, saving up all of the cash he had made for ten years in hopes of having a place to call his own. He hired a real estate agent that he considered a safe bet, who was a friend-of-a-friend. OP was handling a mortgage on his own, so he compromised and looked for homes on a shared block. He adds that these types of homes usually come with "strata" titles, which also have a number of by-laws and restrictions attached to them and he was adamant about avoiding this.

When he finally found his perfect home on a shared block with a freehold title, he obviously took the deal with the real estate agent's help. Five months after he moves in, the landlord from the property next to him comes to his doorstep to talk insurance. Upon looking at the policy, it's confirmed that it is for strata insurance, which means that he is subject to the aforementioned by-laws and restrictions he desperately wanted to avoid. The real estate agent refuses to accept any responsibility for the major mistake, only looking out for themselves and leaving OP stuck in an undesirable mortgage. Even when OP asks the agent to cover the costs when he can sell the property, the agent refuses.

OP enacts sweet revenge. For six years, he sends a fake love letter to his former agent on the anniversary of the home sale. His wife finds the letters and divorces him. The craziest part of the story is that these fake love letters expose his actual ongoing infidelity, and the fake love letter simply forces the agent to come clean.

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    more more more love B
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    Oh I played the long game I am by no means an expert, or pro, at revenge but I am a patient person. I disclosed this to a friend and they directed me here. ThrowAway for obvious reasons, it's a long read but the setup and backstory are important.
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    7 years ago I was lucky enough to be able to buy my own place, I had saved for 10 years, worked my off, and I was so happy to be able to have a place to call my own. Now, being a single person on the mortgage meant I had to make
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    compromises, one such compromise was buying a property on a shared block (a lot cheaper). Where I'm from this usually means it's on a "strata" title. For some that's a bonus as it means there's a communal fund for repairs, typically insurance is cheaper as it's
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    collective, and other things like maintenance being taken care of. Strata titles also come with a lot of by-laws and restrictions on what you can and can't do. I'm a pretty private and introverted person so having to deal with people and have limits on how I live was a no-no.
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    I took my time, found the perfect property. Shared block but freehold title. Only thing that was I needed to pay public liability insurance for the shared walkway on the property (split equally between owners). The real estate agent is local to my area, there's also about 3-degrees of
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    separation between us, he has friends who are friends with my friends type of thing, didn't know him, but knew of him, so that sorta felt good too. About 5 months after I move in I get a knock on the door from the owner (landlord) of the property
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    next to me to discuss insurance. Not a problem, I ask for a copy of the policy so I have a record. It gets sent through and low and behold it's for strata insurance. I was incredibly confused and after much back and forth the property isn't a free hold title but a strata
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    title. I called my lawyer who conveyed the title etc. He was dumbfounded but over it all did the right thing and made things as right as they could. I arranged for a meeting with the real estate agent. I brought emails and printouts of the adds they had all saying it was free
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    hold, emails between the real estate agent and my lawyer discussing it's freehold status, despite it being in absolute black and white he refused to accept any fault or offer anything to make things right. I don't begrudge that, he's looking out for himself, I get that. However I wouldn't forget it.
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    I did enter into mediation with the real estate agent and all I asked for was, when the time came for me to sell, they'd do it or cover the costs. I thought this was reasonable, but they flat out refused offered me 1k to go away, which I refused. I had the option to pursue them legally (and was
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    advised by the mediator to do so) but ultimately I decided against it for a few reasons, the main one being my health at the time. So I planned and plotted, and I schemed and connived as to how to get back at this son-of-a- And I settled on this.
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    I found his personal facebook page which wasn't set to private, saw some photos of a "Boys on Tour" trip he went on a few weeks prior (so about 5-6 months after I bought the property). I also found his address through a business registration search. On the anniversary of the sale, for 6 years straight, I sent them flowers with a note :-
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    "Dear Real Estate Agent Remembering you, on this, our special day. She has your eyes. Love Elle" They varied ever so slightly over the years but always had "on this our special day" and some weird inference to a love child and a desire to reconnect.
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    I also from time to time arranged for postcards and letters to be sent from another country, the one he was "On Tour" in, always signed "Love Elle". I learned about 3 weeks ago that this guy had recently divorced, lost his home and is not longer working as a real estate agent.
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    His wife had found out he cheated on her. The story I was told (through said friends of friends) went along the lines of "He would get weird gifts and flowers every year, same day, every year. She (his wife) finally put two and two together and realised what the date was and he admitted to cheating on her".
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    Now, I didn't mean for this, but it turns out a year before I bought my house he had gone on holiday, came back with an gave it to his wife but somehow convinced her that it wasn't him. As such "our special day" turned out to be right around the time he'd have been sans in someone who wasn't his wife, only one year earlier.
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    He's apparently lost his house, half his retirement savings and also his business. I do feel a little bit guilty about all of it sometimes, but then I'm reminded that he's a bag and that Karma, like me, is a patient, spiteful and vengeful
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    Sledge313 Awesome revenge. However, your title attorney . They should have caught that. OnThisOurDay OP I agree 100%, to be fair to them they accepted fault and were incredibly apologetic. It was one of those "title hadn't been set up correctly", which caused confusion.
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    Former-Nebula-916 If you ever do feel slightly guilty about this just remember that people like this stay ing people over and very few people like you ever take revenge. OnThisOurDay OP Agreed, I hate real estate agents.
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