Huh???
I am making no assumptions about you in this post.
I have simply documented posts made by you about your trails and tribulations and outlined how these sort of problems that can make or break an investor - any investor - it will make some rise to the occasion and become stronger but most will weaken and withdraw.
Its up to you what you do and to which category you will polarize - time will tell.
Cheers
Handyandy,
I apologize if your post was not really meant as a sarcastic remark about the ordeals I had been thru with the Builder and Agents. I'm sorry if i misunderstood you.
But i hope you understand, all these things that I had to deal with, I felt as a property owner, I was cleaning up after the agents/consultants and solving problems that are caused by them. I wonder what I pay them for, really. So a sarcastic remark about the ordeal I went thru was the last thing I wanted from this forum. We all have agents and consultants, and we know they are not perfect. But if they are wrong and they do not admit it and try to sneak pass it time and time again (and pass the additional cost to you), it really is an ordeal to the Owner.
Example. if I had not insisted and persisted with the builder to lodge a complaint with the brick manufacturer, the Builder would say "well, we gave the same bricks to some owners and they're happy with it". In fact thats what he said, and I had to push for 2 - 3 weeks to get an resolution from the brick manufacturer. After all the photos, emails, letters, phonecalls, I was lucky they finally admitted to the obvious faults of their bricks. After 3 weeks!
As for the current agent who keeps screwing things up, I think I have learned something from all this. Fire them! Where before I was softhearted and listened to their excuses saying they did this and that for my own good, and then have them screw up the next thing and the next, sometimes i think being tolerant, understanding and kind to an agent who keeps mucking things up and costing me time and $$ to solve myself, its just not worth it.
Last week's complications with the vacating date of the current tenant was clearly the agent's lack of communication with me. I debated with them for 2 days, in the end, she said "ok, I agree, we should have, we could have called you and informed you, to keep you informed". After 2 days of them saying its totally none of their fault. All that to me is, a waste of time and energy, solving things that could have been easily avoided by the agent.