Mike Jones-RE/MAX Metro Realty

Long story short. We put an offer on a home we really loved. He refused the offer until our house was out of the option period. We got an offer in 2 days. We took it for way more than asking. He didn’t think we’d get that much for our house with the appraisal. And we did! We were on the last day of our option period when he said they are under contract with someone else. The last day! After daily praying it wouldn’t go into pending. So then we scrambled looking for another home when he calls and says it’s back on the market. We put in the asking price right away with no closing cost. We waited over a day for his response. Never got back to us. Time was running out. We went with another home. It was one of the worst realtor experience I have ever had.

I worked with Mike Jones to rent his father’s house next door to his on Maufrais St. My experience was among the worst I’ve ever had with a realtor. Mike and I had been working together while I was trying to find a roommate. After I found a roommate, he had both of us submit an application, a $ 35 application fee, and a $ 825 security deposit, in certified funds, per person. She lives in Virginia, and I don’t have a brick and mortar bank, so both of us needed 3 business days to get our checks to arrive to Mike’s. We assured him that the checks were on their way — after all, the funds had already been withdrawn from our account.
On the Saturday before we planned to move in, Mike emailed and told us he had another application and was giving the house to someone else. At this point, he had over $ 1700 of our money, in certified checks, made out to him, due to arrive on Monday morning. Evidently, a handshake deal means nothing to this man. After weeks of working with him, he couldn’t even remember my name when he called me to pick up my certified check so I could send it back.
That’s another story unto itself. Because they were certified checks, both my roommate and I would have to mail the checks back to our banks if we were to get the balance restored in our accounts. That whole process would take 7 days. I asked Mike if he could simply deposit the checks (which were in his name) and write me a check for the amount so I could eDeposit it and have the money to put down a deposit on another place. He made an excuse about not having the checkbook, and it would take him too much time to get it, so no, he wasn’t willing.
While nothing Mike did was illegal, it was definitely questionably moral. He went back on a handshake deal, and afterwards, was not accommodating to us as we scrambled to find a place to move to 6 days later.
tl;dr Mike Jones is an unaccommodating jack-​ass. Don’t work with him.