First Team Estates

Just sitting in our new home and my wife and I decided we should post a review about our wonderful experience with Julie Mansfield. We each had our own «wish lists» and Julie made every effort to get to know us and work on meeting our needs and «wants». Julie would meet with us at early mornings, late evenings and emailed ideas and welcomed our feedback. As our «wish lists» evolved and changed she would adapt and evolve with us. Right now we are thrilled with our Home and looking forward to hosting our family for Christmas and we have Julie’s devotion to customer service excellence to thank for it. We recommended our friends to call Julie to help with their search for a new home and we just found out that they just opened escrow. Great experience all the way around!

A listing was placed at a university by Audrey Grainger and David Holt. I called both of them multiple times to inquire about the listing. I never heard from either of them. I suspect that it went off of the market. But rather than give me a courtesy call to inform me they both just ignored my calls.

Would give no star if there is the option. Sold us a home which had two leaks in the first year. Either they are making shit or the «connection» assessor or whatever has no ability.

After I write this review, I’m contacting the DRE regarding possible fraud by Joe & Lori Carter at First Team Estates. They appear to be involved in a fraudulent transaction concerning 332 Evening Canyon in Corona Del Mar. I will also be contacting the banks on this on. The rest of first team knows something is going down and they are looking the other way. SHAME SHAME, people go to jail for this!!!
DRE Number 1 336 254

AVOID UNLESS YOU ENJOY GETTING SCREWED!
(They don’t deserve ONE star!)
Let me tell you what it’s like doing business with this company and their agents.
I have a home that I rent, and this agency came along with my tenants I have now. I say came along, because the reason is First Team attached a link to my agents website and POACHED the people from her site! My agent had already talked to the tenants, but after a week they came back with this agent Kim Schmuacher who then set about screwing me out of half of a 6% commission, when the going rate is 5%.
It gets better.
These tenants had bad credit and no one else would consider them. I took a chance, (they are good people who have fallen on hard times) and it was MY decision to allow them to lease my home, not this agent they had only spoken to once before after being poached from my agents site. My agent TOLD me to pass them over, as everyone else had done.
At the time the lease was to be signed I was out of the state and did not have access to a printer to print out the documents, and at this time an addendum was SLIPPED IN stating I would pay this agent 3% ad infinium on this lease if it went beyond a year, or was rewritten for another year, AND 3% if this tenant should buy the house.
GOING RATE IS 5%!
BECAUSE I could not print the documents out at the time, when I went to review the lease after a year when it was coming due, I saw the 6% THE AGENTS WERE TO COLLECT IN THE EVENT THE LEASE WAS RENEWED FOR MORE TIME, OR IT CONTINUED as is usual on a month to month basis.
I was shocked to the core!
Blindsided!
I talked with my agent and her company who felt terrible about the whole thing and signed off on their 3%, and she then talked to the VP, Debbie Lewandowski at First Team Estates who refused to sign off on the 3% despite the fact I COULD’NT EVEN READ THE DOCUMENTS at the time of signing! They just started dictating how and when I should pay them the commission for DOING NOTHING! Unless you count screwing me.
So, if you would like a relator who screws you for 6% of rental commission or sales when the average rate is 5%, AND will attach addendums that will screw you out of your money for as long as you have the tenants they offer, have at it!
They must think I, and you, if you do business with these people, are idiots.
Rest assured, they will get their monthly blood money until the tenants vacate, as I guessed before the latest email came asking where their piddly payment was, (they can’t even find the blood money you send?) but their lack of professionalism and greed will stay with me for a lifetime.
Sad thing too is, they lead the tenants along having them think they could even buy something soon with the horrific credit they have, and that really violated their trust too as far as I’m concerned.
They are out for themselves, FIRST TEAM COMES FIRST!
I hope you heed this review. These people are the worst kind of relators the industry has to offer, (think of real estate ambulance chasers) and I hope you will think TWICE before you entrust your home, your good faith or your money with them.
Don’t forget, they didn’t even get those clients on their own, THEY POACHED THEM FROM MY AGENT! Who did the right thing, and signed off on that corrupt and scummy addendum.
*And love the FAKE review from Andrea S… right…pure and simple, THEY LIE!
And you’ll foot the bill, just like me!