The CRAZIEST stories of a Real Estate Agent (Featuring Meet Kevin)

We googled this guy's name and we found out that this guy ended up being a romance scam artist. He would try to guilt people into having the other person put a deposit into the escrow to get past the contingency periods. So now the deposit was at risk. The romance person that was getting scammed had skin in the game, like, "Oh my gosh! Well, if I don't close on this deal now, my $50,000 deposit could be lost."

Yeah, and so then the email comes: "Hey, I need 20 grand to get through customs through port so I could come and buy this house for you." I remember I was, I think this was probably one of my first few months doing real estate and I was holding this open house in this area called Beverly Hills Post Office. So it's just above Beverly Hills, up in the hills. The thing with these houses is that they often overlook other houses, and this was an incredible brand new construction. I think they were asking, if I'm like, $3.9 million. This is like, this is like 2011.

You said no, this is probably 2008 or... no. Okay, so top of the recession. Yeah, I mean this is just when things were going down and weren't selling. I was holding an open house, and I just remember this lady with her kid coming down to me. I just sank; a lady came down to you? Yes, she came down to me and she says, "Go upstairs, and I highly recommend you close the door and the curtains of the master bedroom." She told you to tell me to do that, and I said, "Why?" She says, "Go up and you'll see."

I'm just like, "Oh no, there's an ax man." Yeah, something's probably up. So I went upstairs and of course I looked over the balcony and because you're looking over two other homes, I saw the neighbors were in the pool just going at it during the open house. And you know, I'm just like brand new to the business, it's like totally brand new. So of course, I just close the door, close the blinds, and I've not heard from that since.

Who was that, one of your listings? No, I mean, that would say goodness someone else I was sitting there open. Yeah, because that's a tough phone call to make. Yeah, and that was actually the same house that I met that guy, Clifton. Oh yes, the house that bets just been a crazy house for me. Wow.

Yeah, that's weird, eh? Because, yeah, I mean how do you tell your seller, "But this house isn't selling?" Because, you know, hey, maybe that could be a selling point for someone. For somebody, you know, I’m down, and be like, "I'll take it, how much are you asking?" A hundred thousand over it, sign it now and I want some of these trees trimmed down right here! I just could put my telescope right here! Put my camera right there on it, it'll be perfect.

Yeah, I think you make it stories are always good. Beach areas by us seem to be, everybody just has to have glass windows everywhere and nobody has blinds. So, with this vacant house that we remodeled, and the folks were about to lose it to bankruptcy, one of the people moved back into it and we fully staged it. So they're sleeping and like breaking the staging furniture, and it ended up being a disaster with the furniture part. But one day I got four calls from different neighbors that he was walking up and down the three-story house naked and all the lights are on.

So, what is it with new? Idiot, how is this that guy, man? But I had to call him and tell him somehow like please don't walk around your house naked because people are calling me and being turned off from showing the property.

Yeah, I guess for no, I think that that's happened to me a few times. I've walked in twice where we've made a showing and like we've confirmed it. Then I walk in and you kind of know something's up because you opened the door and easily the lights are all hahah stuff and like it's kind of a mess. One bedroom door's shut; maybe there's like a candle going or like this something, it's so like some chalk fits out.

It's a highly romantic scene, the car there with the client, and then of course you're like you knock and like hello a little bit, but they can't hear you, nobody responds ever. And then of course you open the door and you go like this, was it a closed door? And then, and then usually one of the, you know, they'll open the door like, "Busy writing, can you come back in like ten minutes?" That's happened, I'll give you a five. That happened to be twice; once on a condo and the second time was actually my first ever open house. No joke.

I show up to this house and they had a huge party the night before and people were sleeping on the couch, people were sleeping just like around the house in different rooms. I think I showed up at like 1:00 and the open house started at 2:00 and they were like beer bottles everywhere and like owka and I was like, I had my first ever open house.

And of course, I go to the master bedroom and there is the seller in bed with somebody, you know, asleep. But I'm like this awkward little 18 year old kid who's knocking, never met the guy before and just like, "Hey, I'm here for the open air frapp!" You know, but I mean that was quite the introduction. But sure enough within the hour yet she had the whole place cleaned up and everyone out and I had a good open house.

Nice, yeah. Nice. And then I saw your video, you had a fake fire once. Yeah, I had a fake buyer that I met at that first house where the people were in the pool going at it. Fake buyer dragged me around to 20 to 40, 50 million dollar homes, had BS proof of funds. Speaking of that, we actually had another buyer recently that faked their proof of funds.

Yeah, and it was on Bank of America, which I had, we all had Bank of America, so we know what proof of funds looks like. This buyer literally just went and took a screenshot on their phone about Bancomer fret, and then on Photoshop or something just typed in what about it. So fake, and you knew immediately, and as soon as you call them out they get super defensive. Like, you know, "I don't even like the house anymore! Like, I don't want to work with some doesn't trust my god!"

But it's so obviously fake; it's not even the right font or the right size. It's just they straight-up just typed in over it. They do have font match on Google that people can find out what the font is for people wanting to fake things correctly.

Yeah, I know, I'll show you all throw out my proof of funds so you can see what real proof. I'll put a link right here so you'll be able to see my proof of funds, and it's secretly the affiliate link to that toilet.

Yes, I had a fake buyer my first, my first full year in real estate. So 2011 or 12 or something like that, you know it was a beach listing that I got by burning these like 18 by 24 yard stake signs, not like wholesalers used for "we buy houses." Except I had a custom printed like picture of your house sold and it was an expired listing. So I put a picture that I took of their house on it and photoshopped my for sale sign in it and sold hanging from it.

I left it at their house and actually got the listing! They called me, but the problem was they lived out of town. So I had put a second one that I'd printed for that because they didn't call me fast enough in my opinion, and I put a stamp on it that says "please don't throw me away again."

It's funny, and so I left it under their gate and they called me the same day I left the second one and said, "Hey, we're coming back in town and we want to meet you!" I'm like, "Oh my gosh! I left another one at their house!" And I don't want to come across like I'm high pressure enough, right?

So I had it like they get back, "You're then no pressure agent." Yeah, so I ended up dating back listing the property. First two days the things on the market, get this person, we want to see it, we want to buy it. And we overlisted it too, and I told them we overlisted it by like 150 grands realistic for like $1.650 million, one five.

Yes, so the coughing up blood send me over list of place, vomiting. Buyer comes to see it, we go great. Like, "Hey, let's write an offer." Oh, this lady's telling us, "Yeah, you know, I've got stage three breast cancer! And I'm looking for, you know, vacation place where I could have treatment up here."

And like everything about the story was just like perfect and we felt bad for her, like great, let's put the offer together. Was the agent at her when we go great, let's write up the offer, send over proof of funds?

Well, proof of funds was coming from her husband who was stuck leaving Port out of Nigeria yet! And of course, like the proof of funds, you know, he just needed to get to a place that had internet access so he could send us the proof of funds.

So days go by, and we tentatively like, "Well, okay, we'll go into contract with you like pending your proof of funds." And then, of course, two days later, "Yeah, they froze my bank accounts because they're holding up my shipment!"

It happens, right? "Can you just front my deposit for me, my god, and I'll be there soon?" Deal never ended up going through and what we would have loved for you to say, like, "So I've heard of the funds if you closed!"

Yeah, well, I think we were trying to find out what the scam was and so we, we googled this guy's name and we found out that this guy ended up being a romance scam artist. He would try to guilt people into having the other person put a deposit into the escrow to get past the contingency periods. So now the deposit was at risk.

So the romance person that was getting skin had skin in the game, like, "Oh my gosh, well if I don't close on this deal now, my fifty thousand dollar deposit could be lost!" Yeah, and so then the email comes: "Hey, I need 20 grand to get through customs through port so I can come and buy this house for you."

They're thinking, of course, like, "Oh, I don't want to lose my deposit, let me give you the 20 grand and then they're gonna buy me a house." So what's 20 grand? You're buying one. You're giving all of our viewers ideas right now!

Like you tell them, "Sir, so this is what you do step by step, this Rorion scam that's right!" And fake your proof of funds, well like do it really well, do a good job.

Yeah, anyway, step by step how to do that and not have that, huh? Yeah, teach everybody how do you? That's the second channel. But now I have another story, that's actually, I was just thinking about this when you were telling me that this happened.

I think when I was about 20, I listed a home. We had the street called Beverly Glen here in Los Angeles, and it's a very long street, kind of windy towards the top. But basically, some of these houses, like, they're windy people, other than your whiny people, just these little driveways that are numbered, but it's very easy to confuse the numbers because it's all hillside driveways that kind of lead up.

But there's like a house over here, house over here. So I listed this house, I think it was, I'm just gonna make up a random thing just for the purpose of the video. Let's call it 100 Beverly Glen. Yeah, okay? And we put a for lease sign out in front of 100 Glen, and I was with a different brokerage at the time and they handled all of your signs. Basically, give them the sheet, they go and put the sign in front of the house.

A day later, I get a call from a very angry homeowner. No, very angry. Who said that he nearly shot somebody for trespassing, and I'm like, "What? What are you talking about?" He says, "Some people came on my property, went around to the backyard, I was showering, I feared for my life and safety, so I got my shotgun out and I was about to shoot them for trespassing, and because of that I have emotional distress and I'm gonna be suing you and your brokerage for $20,000!"

I said, "What? What does that have to do with me?" Apparently, they accidentally put the sign, the for lease sign out front of his house and not the house that was listed. Apparently, allegedly, someone went to his house thinking it's released and then snooped around on his property.

Let's scope it out! Where I call the agent, let me just go show up to myself! Exactly! And then, of course, the natural reaction is somebody's in my backyard, I'm gonna shine it! I'm gonna right, because that's what I would tell.

So anyway, so he ends up actually getting a lawyer to draft a letter demanding twenty thousand dollars for myself and threatened, love! Yeah, so yeah I could bleep that out.

Yeah, by myself and babe. Yes, and sure enough we had to respond to that letter telling them that like, you know, we can't miss her, you know, but nothing happened to that.

But oh my! Like, I was scared! Oh! And this all, this all so this guy was like threatening me to on the phone telling me that he, you know, I'm never gonna be a real estate agent again! That he's gonna go after my license! Like just a nasty, nasty guy!

People are like that out there, and I think it just, it exudes unhappiness in their life. You gotta have a shotgun because somebody's in my backyard looking around in it, and the type of people honestly looking in Bel Air are usually not the types that you would have to get a shotgun out for.

Look, I'm guessing it's probably some like 50-60 year old guy, probably looking when Lena with a suit, just like kind of looking, or I don't know. Starr was a Taser! Yes, start with something like less lethal!

Yes, my favorite is when I get threatened with a lawsuit and somebody gets super mad at me. Like, what? In 2011, this attorney, who are yours to scoop it was a divorce. I'm representing Mr. Seller and Mrs. Seller and Mr. Seller signed all the paperwork to sign on this offer which was a great offering, it was going to expire soon.

And Mrs. Seller's like, "We'll just send it to my attorney, and then I'll come in, I'll sign it." And he just wouldn't respond. So I sent him an email, I go, "Look, if this isn't signed by this specific time, the deal is gonna die!" And like I got a cell, I'm trying to do the best for these clients.

So I told, I sent him an email, I go, "This needs to be signed by this time because if the deal doesn't go through because of your lack of communicating and making this happen, then it's your fault that the deal cancelled." And I kind of left it at the end, and he called me, "You little twerp, are you threatening me? I'm gonna sue you!"

Looks like I'm an attorney! This was sort of my welcome to the industry, is getting yelled at by an attorney that he was gonna sue me for threatening him and harassing him while I'm trying to just do a good job for the cause. So I got him this big Mrs. Fields cookie card like, "Hey, thanks for helping me out," because he finally got the contract sent to me.

Of course, he faxed it to me like every page in a different orientation and out of order just to spite me. So I brought him this big cookie card anyway, or the cookie cake, like these 13-inch Mrs. Fields cookie cakes, like thanks for helping me out or whatever. And I delivered it to his office, and so he was obligated to come out and shake my hand.

I'm just like, "Hey, thanks for helping!" Like all smiles. And you could just see his face that he just wanted to like punch me so hard, but he couldn't! He had to say thanks! It just kind of goes hand-in-hand with your shotgun guy.

Like some people, they'll just never be happy! They'll always be miserable people! Yeah, so we'll finish it off with one last one, and this is probably one of the craziest ones for me! Alright, this is also a point where I almost wanted to quit real estate after this.

Is it because of how bad this experience was? I think I was like 19 or 20. And I think all of these happened in the very beginning in micro, always the beginnings you're learning. There was this house up for lease, and for sale for at least, I think it was like $18,000 a month for sale it was like $4.5 million or something like that.

And my buyer, a small miner and a half mill, yeah! Small for two half million! And my client wanted it for lease now! It was up for lease result. So usually when agents have it up for lease or for sale, they would rather sell it because that's where they make the money!

But the client says, "Well if it doesn't sell and we end up getting this price release, I'll just go and lease it." So I called the listing agent, and the listing agent is very upfront and says, "You know what? We have this listing for another two or three months. We really want to sell it. We don't want to lease it!"

So I don't want to show it for lease! If you want to show it, you can make your client happy! I'll get you in with the understanding that we're not going to lease it! But if your client wants to see it, let's get him in, see it!

O'Neill's going back in my head, I'm like, "What client really likes this house so let's just go and show it to him, see what happens." To me, show it to him in service for clients of course I fall, that's the house he says I want to lease it!

So of course I get the offer, I get the application, that credit to everything, and I submitted to him and they you know, and this agent acted so surprised, "What is this?" I told you I made it very clear that we're not leasing this house, I'm not giving this to my client, we're going to be selling it!

And that's where I was just like cocky little know-it-all 20-year-old agent, you have a fiduciary duty to your client 2% offers and if you don't do that, you're a breach of your contract and I'm gonna do it myself. And I know where your client lives because it's on public record, and I will go do it myself.

Oh my God! Worst mistake of my life to say something like that to a very experienced agent! Basically, and I will never name any names, threaten me with basically saying, "I know where you work! I know where you parked your car!"

I got enough real. You would you have no idea the connections that I have or what I had the ability to do. He and making it sound better than actually said he will mess me up so badly if I do anything like that to ever impact his business.

That I will never work in real estate again and I will never want to show up to work after that. And it was after that that I actually talked to another agent who was my mentor at the time, who basically just told me to let it go.

Wow, tell your client to the owners you know, not wanting to rent it let it go! Wow! And I told the client that and the client was like, "Well, let's make our offer better or this is that." They're like, "No, no, they, you know!"

And I had to sure enough, it's about two months later that same person calls you back, the agent and says, "Hey, is your client still interested in leasing it because we're about to lose the listing and we can get your person in there."

And sure enough my guy was still looking, ended up renting him the house. Wow! And that agent ended up telling me, "Yo, it's all good! Don't worry about it! Glad it all worked out!" And that was that, you know.

But what's actually kind of sad about that is this is yet another example of, you know, we've got this slime bag with a shotgun, we've got the attorneys that want to sue people, and we've got an agent here that just cost the seller another two and a half months of holding costs.

Yeah, which on a $4.5 million house, how much is that? That's got to be a grand a day probably? So maybe, maybe $20 grand a month! So almost, okay, so $20 thousand, so this cost what? Two and a half months worth? So this cost the seller $50,000 in lost rental income because the agent didn't want to present the offer because they were greedy and wanted to make the commission on the sale!

Right, how is that service for the client? Exactly! But you know, I like the title this has to be like slime bags and real estate!

But you know, it does happen! The more you're in it the more you see that! And these are just the stories that, like we can share in front of a camera for YouTube. I mean, this is really just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what actually goes on behind the scene!

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