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Well seems as not many people know about Samantha johnston raine and horne northern suburbs moonah.

Lets information you all.

Samantha johnston was called to have a look at my house at claremont.

She showed up on time. And that where the skills ended.

I asked her to appraise my house so I would know roughly what it was worth.

She wondered around aimlessly pretending to make notes on her phone.

Not realising I could actually see the screen every so often.

The only notes she was making was messaging a friend about her Friday night experience at a place called St albis, which I know of as we often go for dinner there on Friday nights.

I had trouble reading most of the texts as she was pretending to look around my extensive property while texting but every so often I would catch a glance here and there and viewed a lot of abuse and expletives about someone she had a run in with.

Not really being interested in my property at all she noticed I was very close and glazing at her phone when she suddenly placed the phone in her pocket and proceeded to say "well you have a lot of space here and potential for expansion "

I agreed and she indicated that she had another appointment to go to.

I said "so when do you think I will know about a estimate for my property"

Her answer was " I should have a rough idea the next few days and i will get back to you with an evaluation "

2 weeks later she called me on my phone and gave the evaluation which was well below the price I had paid for the property.

Samantha indicated that "the market at the moment is in a reverse spiral and that the property would be better rented for a reasonable price"

I then said to Samantha that" i dont want to rent it i need to sell it so I can invest in a larger property at seven mile Beach as I want to turn it into a air bnb "

Samantha added a comment saying" seven mile Beach has sewage problems and that the area isnt highly regarded as a place of interest for high returns in the air bnb market"

I disagreed with Samantha saying "thats where I want to invest"

Samantha then added " you really dont know much about investing if thats where you want to invest"

I was appalled at the comments and asked Samantha that I would go through another real estate agency then .

Samantha lost the plot and began to act quite threatening towards my comment with statements like" what would you know".

" and what agency would bother with your time wasting anyway"

" i dont have time to be fu$%ing around with you you old bit#h"

I was totally beside myself.

My husband heard the comments and asked Samantha to leave post haste.

Samantha said" fu$k up you old c$%t and go back to the old persons home you geriatric old co$khe@d".

We both asked Samantha to leave as we had enough of her unprofessional behaviour.

She abused us all the way to the door with comments "if you know anything about real estate which you dont fu$%wits"

"Good luck selling this boxof sh$%"

My husband was going to call raine and horne to complain.

I asked him not to kick the hornets nest.

Part 2 soon

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(If you’re reading this…well you know what to do)