My family listed our house with Bas Panch and SCV Home Buyer in the fall of 2005. Even though he sold the house in a quick time frame, we deeply regret our decision to list with Bas Paunch and SCV Home buyer.
Our experience with Bas enforces the adage that you get what you pay for. He charged only 4% commission. Shortly after listing, Bas presented us with a dual representation opportunity to sell our home. We ignorantly agreed.
Five months after the close of escrow, the buyer successfully sued our family in California Small Claims Court.
My wife and I apparently failed to declare that three years before escrow closed, the incoming water pipe leaked in the back yard. We fixed the leak three years before lisitng the house with SCV Home Buyer.
My wife and I had zero guidance from Bas Paunch or SCV home buyers to declare every problem we had during our eight year home ownership. Bas handed to me the declaration papers and simply stated that we should declare any problems we currently have with the house.
Bas was not with us advising how to handle the declaration papers. His guidance was worthless and resulted in our vulnerability in a California court.
Additionally, I am still upset that Bas stayed in his car on a cell phone call while the buyer and his contractor walked through our house, un-escorted. Everything my family owned was in that house, with two strangers, while my representation sat on a cell phone call in the driveway.
My wife and I are still irked by a dis-agreement we had with Bas at the end of escrow. We had to bring our garage based water heater up to earthquake code. After advising us that nobody ever nit picks the garage, and dress down our house by placing many items in the garage, Bas was extremely critical of how the earthquake code strapping looked. After a lengthy argument, Bas Finally conceded that the heater was to code, but he did not like the way it looked. Our own representation, who advised us that no one nit picked the garage, was in fact nit picking our garage.
My wife and I relied on SCV Home Buyer to provide professional real estate guidance. Bas failed to advise us how to handle the declarations involved with escrow. SCV Home Buyers did not protect our family from vulnerability, and left my wife and I with liability.
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