Quite a few months back, I was informed by a not so nice neighbour of the presence of two middle aged men walking around our property between the hours of 5.30pm and 6pm one weekday afternoon, about the 20th July, 2008. By this stage, we had moved out of the property. I instantly knew that these men had to be real estate agents.

I also recall receiving a call from a male real estate agent from Elders Real Estate Castle Hill around the same time. I cannot recall who this sales man was, but I know it was not Craig Alexis, as I had spoken with him before and found him pleasant to speak with. Whoever this was, had an air and attitude about them in the way they spoke to me. The phone call was full of questions for me by the caller, and then the caller very smugly, and with underlining meaning to his message, told me that “we would leave it like that then”, as I wasn’t giving him any information, and did not wish to speak to him. I mentioned this call to Dallas, and then we proceeded to forget about it.

That is until today. We have been watching the process of the preparation of the property for sale by the bank. We knew that the time was getting very close for the property to finally arrive on the market by the amount of activity going on (basically everyone spending whatever money they liked for Dallas and I to be billed, like putting new air conditioning in the property!) We’ve noticed the theft that has taken place as well (whoever has the beautiful urn pot that was concreted into the front garden, I must say I am impressed with your desperation to take something that doesn’t even belong to you, well done!)

Oh, yes, getting back to today. To our absolute surprise on checking realestate.com.au today, we found our property listed with ELDERS Real Estate at CASTLE HILL!

Where has Homeway First National gone with the not so lovely Krys Yard and Bill Austin? You can’t be serious that they walked away from an easy listing because of us? Maybe First National didn’t appreciate the truth being told about their sales people, how they work for the bank in these type of situations, and against their local community. We never heard from Stewart Bunn again, First Nationals National Communications manager. Maybe we had way to much evidence of Krys Yard’s slimy, back door dealings with other companies to assist an unethical sale for us, but to get her hands on her commissions? Maybe Krys Yard does have a conscience after all, and decided that what she was doing was wrong? Only First National and the individuals involved know why they walked away from continuing to sell our property for the bank, but we are absolutely dumbfounded that they gave up! It obviously wasn’t worth it for them.

Well, now we would like to introduce to you the new salesman working to assist Perpetual Limited.

Grant can be contacted on 02 9899 3311

This is Grant McEnally. He is proudly and willingly assisting Perpetual Limited and its shareholders get richer. You see, it doesn’t matter how much Grant McEnally sells this house for, Perpetual Limited will receive everything it is owed as Perpetual Limited are 100% Mortgage Insured by Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance. His intentions have already been made clear, that he, along with the bank, intend to totally fire sale our property. It will make no difference to him. He will get paid his generous commission for conducting a short sale on the property in his local community (we will be charged this for his lack of duty of care to obtain the best price for us). Maybe Tony Anderson from Tagma Property Consultants will pay him a generous commission as well for helping sell the property to one of his mates behind the back door? Surely this kind of underhanded behaviour would not happen with our trusty local real estate agents, would it?

The property was on the market exactly one year ago for the middle $800’s. Our property only shows up on the Elders Real Estate Castle Hill website when you type in properties around $600,000. Late in 2005, Perpetual Limited’s own property valuer valued this home at $950,000 and we had spent thousands on the property since that time. Yes, we know the market has dropped, but we also have access to RP Data and know what properties have sold for recently, that are similar to our home.

When you are on the Elders Real Estate Castle Hill website, and you look at properties for sale in the Castle Hill area, if you put in a search to show properties for $700,000 and above, our property does not show up. When you put in $650,000 and above, our property does not show up. When you put in $600,000 and above, there it is! So this is either a cheap and nasty lead generator technique to get as much response as possible, or blatent intentional short sale (which means to sell a property at a massive loss, so that the old home owner is stuck with a shortfall debt).

There are not too many people around who actually like the banks. I don’t think there are too many people around who actually like real estate agents either.

Grant McEnally is actually doing the Hills community a great injustice here by assisting the banks to short sale this property. The more this is done by real estate agents in the local area, the more house prices and values will continue to fall. Most people today are mortgaged to the max, and a lot of people wouldn’t be able to sell their home already for what the debt is. House prices falling just makes this problem worse. The more members of the local community that have to face huge losses from mortgagee sales, when they have been short sold, means that many of these families will face massive financial ruin and ultimately,  bankruptcy will become more common.

Anyway, we just wanted you to meet the local, caring real estate agent who is going to do the dirty on us for the banks and their profits, and of course his easy commission.

Now, back to Homeway First National Real Estate Castle Hill, just because you have walked away, does not mean this is over. You will get a much better understanding of this in the next few weeks, as will Elders Real Estate Castle Hill.