All Estate Agents Are Cowboys

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Yee haa. Aside from Daily Mail Journalists the lowest of the low must surely be estate agents. As one of the thousands of regular readers of this blog you will know we are moving abroad meaning we need to rent out our flat. Being that we live in a ‘good’ part of London the estate agents here fancy themselves as a cut above your usual estate agent cowboy. They come round like posh wolves and speak in the most ludicrous public school accents looking down their noses at the property they themselves could not afford to buy or rent because they are not qualified to do nadda apart from yap, lie and persuade. Estate agents are crooks and the jig is up thanks to the interweb.

Basically they work on asymmetry of information and you have to believe that they know more than you do when in fact they know nothing – six months ago they were flogging cars or insurance to some hapless old dear and now they have your property in their hands. I quite like being in the position of getting estate agents to work for me as I have been stung like a mother bythis breed of self-proclaimed ‘professionals’. In this world of greed and envy you really cannot trust anybody to look after your interests over themselves and estate agents are masters of this game. I will continue to play each agent off the other for the best deal and, as my own personal crusade, for all those poor fuckers they have bled dry to earn a few extra pence on a commission. If they want my shit then they’ll have to beg like the dogs they are. That’s how it should be, posh accent or not they are all cowboys and merchants of the con.

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