"My wife and i just completed the purchase of our first home!  Exciting, I know! 

Anyway, we had a horrible experience with the process.  We somehow got mixed up with this realtor that was a complete dolt.  She was lazy and not very bright.  We'd schedule to meet her to see homes, and she wouldn't show up...couldn't get a hold of her...and so on.

We asked for listings with a specific set of requirements.  Area, price, rooms, etc - right?  I mean, that's what realtors are supposed to help you with, right?  I didn't think it was too much to ask to see houses we might actually want to live in.

Well we ultimately ended up finding the house by ourselves - just by driving around one day.  I guess i've got to give her a little credit for getting the keys so we could see the inside...

So the deal goes through, and we're happily living in our new home, but it occurred to me that this woman made a bunch of money on this sale, and DEFINITELY didn't do the work to deserve her commission (which is way too high in my opinion - but that's another story).  I could only assume that she was making a boatload on other sales as well - so I made it my mission to make sure other more deserving agents got their cuts.

I ended up printing off the phone numbers for other agents...I found all the homes that our agent was listing and pasted the other agents' phone numbers over hers.  Heck, she probably made enough money from our house to like happily until someone figured out the prank, right?"

- By Ken & Mrs. Ken