Hello everyone just wanted to share our great experience with our relator.

Not only she helped us to find a great house suitable for us in less than 10

days, she helped us to settle a lot quicker by being a great friend and

introduced us with a fantastic group of people. She sometimes gave us a tour

of Vancouver too. Anyone interested to use a good realtor pm me and I will

pass her contact detail.

Heidi

and she did this for free ?

It's possible. The realtor who sold our last house gave us advice on stuff well after the deal was done and she'd got her dosh. She also sent us an Xmas present.

Not standard behaviour, I appreciate.

But she didn't do it for free- she was paid and paid well and was quite clearly doing it for repeat business and referrals.

I agree. Naked self interest is all it is.

Yep, cynicism wins out yet again....and even if it was above and beyond the normal service by Realtors, it deserves to be punished....

I would like to recommend the builders who fixed our nan's roof. She didn't even realise there was a problem until they showed her some tiles that had fallen off. They only came round to fix a gutter.

They even gave her a lift to the bank so she could get their money out

You know her then ? or are you just tarring all realtors with the same dirty brush?

They sound like saints. Alert Esther Ranz and get them a People Award.

Above and beyond? Maybe that's their USP. You post as if acting out self interest is bad - it is not, everyone does it. If the realtor provides a good service, such that people are willing to tell everyone how great their realtor is unprompted then all power to them. I just think that it is a little bit naive to think that their motives are otherwise.

So, for the sake of argument, lets say St Judy in Calgary had been a realtor... All her wonderful helpful work here would have been simply for ulterior motives? Even though thats just the sort of helpful positive person she is?

Is it impossible that the realtor Heidi stumbled on was not just a genuinely nice person who happened to be a realtor?

There's a first time for everything.

It's possible. It's also possible that I'll spontaneously teleport to the moon.

A ∩ B = ∅

On second thoughts maybe not ∅ maybe 1 or 2%

I see your point but we didn't move within her area. We moved to a different province. There was no chance we could put business her way.