Shanghai property agents, my message to you!

Question

If I contact you about a specific property and then we meet and you show me a different property, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.

1) You just started the relationship by lying to me, I don’t want to do business with you.
2) You just wasted both of our time, that pisses me off.
3) Either you have **** for brains or think that all foreigners have **** for brains. We don’t. **** you.

Three times now with three local agents. I show them the exact unit on their respective websites that I would like to see. Good prices, very nicely furnished, good location, LCD TVs.

I arrive: green or wooden sofas, ten-year-old TVs, higher price than agreed on. Not one of them mentions that they were going to show me a different unit than the one we had arranged to see. To top it all off they all act surprised that this might not be good business practice.

These parasites are on this board, craigslist and local websites. Is there any reputable agent here who actually has a website with up to date listings that we can look at and if we find one we like ACTUALLY SEE IT? I’m doing all the hard work so we don’t have to waste each others time. This shouldn’t be so complicated.

Mikey345 · Answer

Many local agents put really good pics in ads to hook you.

These places either do not exist or have already been rented.

Don’t believe them either when they tell you that construction is just during “legal hours” or that the huge empty lot in front of the place they are showing you is going to be a park.

I have the name of an agent that we have used and she (and the company she works for) are really good. Pm me if you want her info.

Shanghai property agents, my message to you!

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