Karen Realtor Tricks Me Into Buying A House! | Reddit Stories

Welcome to r slash am I the jerk where OP falls in love with this realtor and really regrets it. I fell for my realtor. Big mistake. I've been in the market to buy a home for the past year or two, but with interest rates being so high I wasn't in a rush to buy. Anyway, I, male 28, ended up meeting my real estate agent when I went out with friends to a popular local beer garden.

She's attractive and I recall her being very flirty. I mentioned I was in the market for a home and we ended up exchanging numbers at some point. We ended up going on what I thought were several dates. And for what it's worth, I'm very shy and haven't had a lot of experience in dating. We would meet up after work for a drink or two and mostly chat about non-real estate topics.

This is why I thought that maybe she was interested in dating. We never kissed her anything, although she would sometimes touch my arm or shoulder in what seemed like a more than friendly way. She did always seem really busy though and couldn't stay for more than 30 minutes or so most of the time. After our third date, she told me about this amazing home that just came on the market

that met most of my criteria and was close to my budget. The house was move-in ready. Really, all I needed to do was change the paint in a couple of the rooms. The seller renovated and used dark blue paint upstairs. Is this a trend now? I toured the place and quickly decided I loved it and I had to buy it. In hindsight, I wonder if I was more excited about my realtor and trying to

impress her than the actual house. Anyway, I decided to put an offer in and this is where my first warning flag should have been obvious. She mentioned that there was just an open house the day before I viewed the property and they were expecting at least a handful of offers from that. When I looked on Zillow, I noticed that the property was on the market for 17 days,

which I thought was odd that they had waited so long to do the open house to get offers. When deciding on the offer terms, she insisted that if I was serious and not kicking the tires, I had to 1. Put 10% hand money down, 2. Offer at least a little over the asking price, and 3. Waive the inspection. I've had a few friends get into bidding wars and lose many

offers and they started waiving the inspections, so it didn't seem all that unreasonable at the time. I ended up doing 5% hand money, 5k over the asking price and waived the inspection. Big mistake. Fast forward to the inspection, they found the foundation was shifting, and after getting a quote, it would cost around $15,000 to fix it, which ironically enough,

was less than the hand money I put down. I begrudgingly decided to move forward, because everything else about the home I liked. Everything else was fairly normal, except one thing stuck out to me at closing, and it seemed like my agent and the seller were friends, as when I walked in, it sounded like they were chatting about something completely

unrelated to real estate. Closing went through, I moved in, and other than the foundation surprises, I've been pretty happy with this place. The realtor was able to meet up again for drinks, surprise surprise, after closing. Fast forward to last weekend, and I saw the seller from closing out at the same beer garden with his arm around my realtor.

She came up to me and said that, oh yeah, they met at closing and blah blah blah, but I'm calling BS. I have no way of proving anything, but lesson learned. Never waive your inspection and don't fall for anyone who's making money off their interaction with you. I feel so embarrassed in hindsight.

Check your state's real estate laws. It's very possible that if there was a relationship there prior to her getting you to buy the house and that wasn't disclosed, it could be illegal. so I would check your laws. Am I the jerk for telling my husband that his mom is no longer

welcome in our house? I'm 30 female. My husband, who's 31, dated Kathy who's 30 for 3 years while in university. They were planning to get married when Kathy became pregnant but she confessed that the child may be another man's. They broke up but a DNA test proved my husband was the father. As such, my husband agreed to co-parent but refused to rekindle the relationship.

Very sadly, he was born with a heart defect and he passed at 4 months. Both Kathy and my husband were destroyed and Kathy ended up moving away. My husband went on to meeting me and we were married 2 years ago. My mother-in-law, who's 60, has always carried a torch for Kathy

and thought that they should get back together when the baby was proven to be my husband's. Then the next reason became so that Kathy and my husband could be there for each other. Unfortunately, mother-in-law has never made it a secret of not liking me. to the extent where she has excluded me from family photos because I am not family.

My husband has always stood up for me in these scenarios. My mother-in-law's birthday was last weekend and my husband wanted to throw a celebration at our house. We went the whole nine yards with a cake and decorations. My husband also asked for my help picking out a very expensive handbag as a gift. I love my husband and I know he loves his mom,

so I'm happy to help him do something nice for her. My mother-in-law showed up on the day with Kathy in tow, which was a surprise for everyone. She said that she had run into Kathy at the store as Kathy had recently moved back, and mother-in-law wanted to reintegrate the mother of her grandchild back into the family.

I was really upset, but this was only exasperated by my mother-in-law constantly trying to throw my husband and Kathy together. Kathy, why don't you sit next to him? Kathy, why don't you go help him with the barbecue?

you. Kathy, would you mind asking him where this is? I spent the whole day biting my tongue, but it was too much when everyone left and my mother-in-law asked Kathy to give my husband a hug. My husband initially refused, but after some pushing from mother-in-law, he relented and hugged