The Riggin Group of RE/MAX of Wilmington

He is very charismatic and talked me into signing a contract before I realized it. He gives you a market shpeel about how your house will be listed in thousands of websites, but whenever I tried to do a search (even on his website) I either had trouble finding my house or couldn't find it at all. He told me that he would showcase my home in a weekly News Journal add. He did this once, then decided to not put ads in the paper at all. He told me that he would have photos and a virtual tour of my house. The photos were taken, but the virtual tour was not. When I asked about this, he gave a lame excuse that virtual tours do not sell houses. He said the same thing about open houses. He did not contact me very much at all. I was having issues at one point and wanted to suspend showings for a day or two. He never returned my phone call. He says he has a 'team' but when I called the member of his team that dealt with handy work, this person told me what I needed was out of his realm of expertise and gave me a list of very expensive electricians. I needed a handyman, not an electrician. He hired a Stager who came into my house and told me I needed to paint every room, replace all carpeting and window treatments, even in the rooms that were neutral in color. That was not realistic. I was looking for advice on making my home as it stood appealing, not to totally remake it! When you call his phone number it is very rarely answered by a person. He requires 60 day written notice to cancel the listing agreement. The evening I signed the contract with him, I heard him say that the listing agreement could be dissolved in writing after 6 months. When I found a Realtor that was going to help me sell my house (Dave Iliff of Patterson Schwartz) Eddie said that I needed to provide him with 60 days written notice. He claimed to have never said what I thought I heard that night. After much discussion Eddie said that he would release me from the listing agreement if he could not find a handyman that could do the work of Dave Iliff's handyman for the same price or better. As I thought, he could not. He very reluctantly released me from the contract. His reasoning was that he had too much invested. In my opinion, the only things he had invested with the Stager and the brochures. How much could that be? I feel like I was hornswaggled. Please don't make the same mistakes I did.