Where Did Our Sign Go?

Okay, so Rob got a phone call from our great friend Brian Evans from Kentucky today. Brian was calling to tell him that the "House For Sale" sign was no longer in our front yard. Rob thought. . ."Well that's weird, I better call our Realtor". (I use the term Realtor lightly. . . I will explain a bit later) So, Rob tried calling our Realtor Dave Meunier, and just as predicted No Answer on his cell phone, so Rob called his office. It took awhile, but he was able to track him down. Realtor Dave told Rob that due to the fact that we had not yet renegotiated our contract with him (our contract was up May 10th) that he was required by law to remove the For Sale sign. (This is funny because on Saturday May 10th, Rob had called Dave about a lead of a buyer, and he made no mention of the sign being removed or the need to renegotiated the contract.) Rob said that he understood that he had to do what he had to do to not break the law, but added his disappointment in the lack of notification/communication to us on his part. Rob said to him that he could have at least called to tell us that the law required him to remove the sign. Realtor Dave said that if we wanted to renegotiate the contract, he would replace the sign to our front yard. Rob told him that we would have to think about it.

Okay so a little bit of background information. Our Realtor Dave Meunier has been the absolute worst realtor we have ever dealt with. In the beginning, Realtor Dave promised us the world, and well we both feel now that he has really taken us for a ride. For the past 6 months we have received very little communication on how our house is doing on the market, without calling him and literally bugging him for information. A couple months ago we felt that we should lower the listing price, and both Rob and I called and talked to him about lowering it, ya know with the way our Economy is going - Realtor Dave wouldn't budge. He continually told us that he had families looking at our house, and that he didn't feel like it was something that needed to happen just then. (When we feel that it would have been more competitive with the other houses in the neighborhood.) He has told us many times that he has people very interested looking at our house, and that some have even come 2-3 times to walk through the house. With all the "very interested people" we have not had 1 single offer to buy. (This alone is crazy) I have asked him that as a realtor is it not his job to encourage perspective buyers to at least make an offer, he says that he doesn't want to "scare people away" or get this..."Didn't want to Be Too Pushy!" - To which I replied, "Are you Serious!" So we have a really hard time believing what he says. In fact it almost makes us feel that he has little desire if our house sells or doesn't sell. For all we know - he is just telling us stuff to get our hopes up. Unfortunately we were locked into our contract for these past 6 months. We just have no idea what to do. . . I am just so disgusted with Realtor Dave, that I would not recommend him to anyone who would like to or needs to sell a house. Not quite sure what our next step is gonna be... I'll keep ya'll posted.

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FYI - Realtor Dave Meunier with Re/Max Associates of Louisville is a horrible realtor. If anything learn from our mistake.