Shady Realtors in the Massachusetts Area

Why You Should Never Trust a Boston Real Estate Agent

Never trust a Boston Real Estate Agent. Those are the words that echo in my head not only any time the topic of apartment seeking comes up, but even if I so much as walk across the street from a realtor’s office. Shady realtors. They are all over Boston.

I should’ve kept in my brain for safe keeping the memory of the first shady realtor I ever came across as an adult. My mom and I had flown up to Boston from Florida and had two days to find my future apartment. I called around, not yet savvy with the internet, so I couldn’t really investigate any comparisons or areas of the city, it was pretty much just wait and see. And I saw alright. I saw a debacle of a shady realtor industry, a shockingly hugely profitable industry at that. The first Boston Real Estate Agent, Douglas, after promising me a goldmine of a sunny apartment right in the nicest area of Boston not only showed me a dingy closet of a room with the smell of animal fecal matter seeping out of the woodwork, but he maneuvered the whole operation completely drunk. He showed us- by walking, thankfully- three different equally as hideous apartments and before we left with an “I'm looking around, but I'll call you”, he declared with a slushy merging of vowel sounds that “Ha! If you think you can find anything better than this ha! Good luck.”

Luckily after the shady realtor, drunken Douglas gave us our first impression of Boston Real Estate Agents, we were successful in finding a nice professional Boston real estate agent and subsequently, a very nice apartment. But as I would soon come to find out, one must be extremely careful in trusting realtors. Because there are drunken Douglas’s out there everywhere.