I received a call from a man named Ryan Nolan on 4-10-09, claiming to be a fireman at the Berkeley Fire Department. Selling an Ad that was to be distributed in all local towns for a magnetic card with all important local phone numbers. He said the Ad contract would be for two years at a cost of $650.00 which he wanted me to pay then by credit card. He said he obtained my name from Realtor.com and I was the only Realtor he was calling in the area. When I replied that I would confirm this Ad with the Fire Department Chief who happens to be my client he got defensive. I am notifying our local Board of Realtors of this apparent scam.

let me first start off by saying I will never deal with this company again. My wife and I were in the market to buy a new home and after calling coldwell banker we spoke with the loan officer and discussed our needs. He ran our credit and found a foreclosure on my wifes credit history, we informed him that it was due to her ex-husband forclosing on his home sevral years after divorcing and the courts awarding the home to him (in which he never took her off of the note) the loan officer said "as long as you have it in the decree where he is awarded the house you will be ok" well after going through the process, we found a house, signed a letter of intent, gave $500.00 (non-refundable) deposit. went through the whole 9 yards. Gave notice to vacate in our current home. ... well the day before closing we were told that we could not close and it was still in underwriting. well 2 days before we have to move out of our current home we are now told that we have been declined for a loan... and our current home has now been leased and new tenants are moving in two days after we move out... they have no concern as to where we will end up living. I can officially say my family and i are homeless due to this. HOW can this happen???

Carol let tennants move into my rental home early, but did not tell me. Only after I found out, she said she planned that they would pay rent for the extra days, but despite reminding her every month, she has still not collected rent and keeps making up excuses. Other incidents include taking 2 weeks for her to pass along a tennants email that the sprinklers were not working.

On May 12th 2009 our mother died in her sleep. My older brother and I were named by our mother to be co-executor of her estate.
We opened the estate.

In August of 2009 we held an estate/yard sale to liquidate household items. During the sale we were approached by Desiree Cornelio. She told us she worked for Coldwell Banker (901 N. Congress Ave. Boynton Beach, FL. 33426) (561) 736-4070.
After some discussion we signed a 6 month contract with her.

In November she came up with a buyer. After some negotiation we came up with a selling price. The house was set to close prior to December 24th. It was then moved to the end of December. Then it was changed to January 2010.

Since that time we have had at least 5 closing dates come and go. When I would ask our agent (D. Cornelio) the only answer she would give was “There was a problem with the paper work.” She finally offered to give me the underwriters name and number.
Since about the middle of February we have been dealing with at Fairway Mortgage Inc. (2499 Glades Rd. Suite 304 Boca Raton, FL. 33431). (561) 395-7241.

Of all the people we have been dealing with they have been the most helpful and provided insight that should have given by our agent.

The lender is Freedom Mortgage Corp. in N.J. From what I keep being told they keep asking for more and or new documents to be filled out. They have ordered the house to be inspected at least twice and reappraised at least twice.

During this process we have not been able to look for other buyers and now the property value has dropped at least $40, 000.00.

On 9-4-2010 we finally closed. Even at the closing our agents office still did not go smooth. It was delayed over 2 hours. Instead of an apology the office staff implied we she be grateful they stayed open after closing time to complete the sale.

When we tried to get the manager involved months ago he gave us the run around. Although wour contract with Coldwell had expired 2-12-2010 we still had to pay over $3, 000.00 to our agent that did nothing more than list the house.

Recently we tried to shortsale our house with a Coldwell agent. He tried every sneaky move to make the most out of this deal & finally the bank denied the loan for the buyer, because our agent worked with a loan agent that was doing illegal stuff & the bank found out.
My problem is now that we are trying to change our agent, the coldwell agent wont release our files saying we had signed a one year contract with them to list the house (which is not TRUE, he never disclosed these policies with us) & the reason the deal didnt go thru was because him & the loan agent (he chose) worked to get extra rebate from the lending bank without letting us know, resulting in loan denial from the buyers lender.