I have been asked to give a review on our recent purchase through Robert Maccioucu and Harcourts Realty. Robert did not really have the sell the house as the property did that on its own, it is quite lovely. The whole process I found quite stressful mainly due to our unique situation being self-employed and trying to settle finance and the like around the Christmas period is not ideal. I did find that Robert phoned a lot for updates that I just could not give him. I understand he was acting in the interests of the seller's, however that added to the already mounting stress. What I did not like was in our pre-settlement inspection I noted that there were a lot of holes in the walls from removal of nails that had hung pictures and that the brackets for the T.V's were missing and asked why, to which he told me that if I wanted to 'keep the tv brackets, that I should have made that known as a special condition/clause in the contract. I sought legal advice on this to which I was told that that is nonsense and that in actual fact if the sellers wanted to keep the tv brackets they are the ones that should have put that in the contract, as brackets are classified as 'fixtures' and are to stay with the property. Same with the nails/bolts they should have been left rather than having holes dotted through out the property. So to sum up my experience with Robert, not overly impressed. Ps they have the wrong surname listed.
Robert Macciocu
