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- Kemmer Matteson, "First California"
- Contributions:201
Unrealistic rate and fees
- Kemmer Matteson, "First California"
- Contributions:201
Says the closed with lender on the same day they joined zillow. Obviously not possible.
- marc_wvmb
- Contributions:186
Great idea Tammy!
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
So you're envisioning this as a place for repeat offenders primarily?
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
- Tammy Stockdale, "Colorado Mtg Broker"
- Contributions:6995
Yeah, primarily repeat offenders. No mean comments though. This is a clean thread!
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
I've been running this around in my head a lot today about how to improve the site and assist honest and competitive users. Obviously we need to weed out the offenders, and it looks like either too big a job or counterintuitive to Zillow's business model for them do it - yet.
How about some sort of accountability panel made up of volunteers from this site. I envision that if a repeat offender (multiple flags by other members) gets to a certain level, they would have to justify the next quote with an LOE and proof. Members of the panel could not rule in areas they can lend in, so that would probably rule out bankers with national ability. If panelists were found to have quoted in areas they had ruled on, they would be removed and possibly called out on the forum.
Just by creating this panel, whether it works well or not, might be enough of a preventitive to limit some or a lot of the offenses.
Zillow would have to manage it, so they may not want to put the resources into developing this, but, if they believe this should be a site that is reputable and reliable, I would hope they would be open to the idea.
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
Oh, what do you do with someone who has been found to be dishonest? How about a negative accountability rating similar to the positive one, posted on their profile? They could continue to quote, but it would stay for some probationary period, and removed if there were no more offenses, or they would be barred if they sinned again.
Too complicated?
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
Kinda like cleaning your own nest.
- Clay Branch, "Georgia Loans"
- Contributions:7838
Good idea for Peer Review. To post a link, do you copy the request id and paste into where it says add link? Never learned this!
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
Doesn't seem to work in Firefox, only IE. Copy the link, go to the enter reply box and click on the "Add Link" icon. It's a little buggy.
- Nic Netherton, "Colorado Lender"
- Contributions:7219
But i like snide comments Tammy.....
Please ensure that anything you see is flagged - that's our primary tool for finding bad actors and we're almost finished training and staffing up the flag review effort so let us know!
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
Will you be rolling something out regarding your review effort? An announcement plus adding language to the Code of Conduct will have a significant deterring effect.
- Tammy Stockdale, "Colorado Mtg Broker"
- Contributions:6995
You got it David, just trying to help!
Account in Erin's name, email on the account if for a J Gardere, I assuem that is the Jody being referred to, and then someone completely different is quoting. I'm not even going to go into the rate quoted ...
- Carl Henker, "Carl Henker"
- Contributions:755
- Paul Mondello, "Paul Mondello"
- Contributions:2097
another BIG thumbs up Tammy (you are on fire today)
I suggest that when we quote that we put the link to this thread right in our message to the consumer...
Label it - Click here for a ZMM 'Fraudulent Lender List, Consumer Beware!' (or something like that) - do it on every single quote indeed, also put the link on your profile etc... (I just did)
this consistant approach might stop some think twice before they toss out the bait and switch cocka
- Paul Mondello, "Paul Mondello"
- Contributions:2097
stop = make
- Rob Cochems
- Contributions:3523
Paul,
I checked out your profile and noticed your wild fire photos so I thought I would share mine.
- Paul Mondello, "Paul Mondello"
- Contributions:2097
Rob - That looks pretty close...
Those were not fun times at all...
- Mike Politzer, "Mike Politzer"
- Contributions:630
Carl - there's dishonest and then there's incompetent and then there's incomprehensible...
- James Ryan, "GreatRateFolks"
- Contributions:1038
Dishonest, incompetent, and incomprehensible just about covers it....
how 'bout the misspelling in the profile? I can almost understand as we post in the chats, typos and what have you...but when you put them in your profile, what does that say about your professionalism? If you do not take the time to proof your own profile, and cannot spell variety...or many other words in two paragraphs, how can a client put faith and trust in you for their biggest investment.
- James Ryan, "GreatRateFolks"
- Contributions:1038
- Dave Pressel, "Dave Pressel"
- Contributions:590
6.125% 0 Points? Absolutely possible......I just need to make sure that the 1.2 million jigowatts of power goes through the Flux Capacitor in my time machine so I can go back in time 3 weeks or so......
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- Michael Mazursky, "FHA Mortgage"
- Contributions:314
I also like the part that says, "Lending Tree/Zillow Broker".
- FERMI
- Contributions:272
Fermi,
He's new and on a quoting spree. He is even quoting it as FHA so he just needs a gentle "nudge" in the right direction.
- Greg Darlin, "Greg Darlin"
- Contributions:3238
Maybe the link I have created is the very reason we should have National Licensing! People can't read and understand rate sheets. It is pretty bad when none of these lenders could read a rate sheet or know the simplest of guidelines.
- Kemmer Matteson, "First California"
- Contributions:201
TO ZILLOW: Links to fake reviews, unrealistic rate/fees, bad profiles
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- 4.5/5.0
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Contributions:6995This thread is not a thread like the HOS. Instead of flagging, I've started this thread for repeat offenders who are offering qutoes/rates that are inconsistent (I'm trying to be nice) with everyone else, they have fake reviews or bad profiles. This is not a thread to gripe or complain or make snide comment.
Here are the instructions for the LO's:
1) Create the Link
2) Describe whether it as follows:
Fake Review/Rating
Unrealistic Rate/Fee
Bad Profile
3)Submit it
Instead of trying to go through our HOS and all the flagging that is going on, just post a link to the profile and Zillow can monitor this thread.
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