Liz McGuire

We made an offer, Liz presented the offer, it was accepted.

Liz helped us define and negotiate a successful deal. This was crucial to our peace of mind, since we have horses and wanted to have the property for them....and don't want neighbors that close. This was a competitive bid that was carried out successfully! Liz is a GEM - one of a kind and very supportive.

I can only speak in general terms because our business relationship has progressed over many years. Liz has helped with both buyers and sellers on my behalf and she took care with all of them. If it was a sale in which she attended the closing Liz made sure that the paperwork/questions/repairs were satisfactory. If it was property showing she took care to be responsive to all parties. We have also worked together on transactions where we each had duties and Liz has always done her part. My experience with Liz has been more than satisfactory. I am now retired but I will continue to recommend her .

Do not use Liz McGuire (Coldwell Banker) or Jim Findley (Mainstreet Realty). We wouldn't trust either of these individuals to tell us it was raining if if we were wet. In late 2006 these two Realtors worked together to sell the house-next-door to ours in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. Liz McGuire was the buyer's agent for this sale, and Jim Findley was the realtor for the seller. Together they colluded with the buyers to execute the sale of this property and essentially "steal" approximately an eighth of an acre of land by representing it as part of the property for sale. Our property was even on the for-sale flyer. They did this by convincing the buyers that it would be a small feat to force us to sign an easement at or after purchase; all the buyers would have to do is threaten to sue us--which they did through a direct threat of legal action from Jim Findley. Because we refused to sign away our rights to our private property, we were sued--by our new neighbors--for access and parking on our property. Under oath and in her deposition Liz McGuire admitted that she referred our neighbors to the attorney that they used to sue us. Before the house closed, realtor Jim Findley directly threatened us with litigation if we didn't sign an easement. Subsequently our new young neighbors did sue us, and after 3 1/2 years of easement litigation, this lawsuit morphed into a suit to move the entire subdivision line--ridiculous! Don't even ask me how much money we have spent. These two people should have their real estate licenses revoked. Did Liz McGuire negotiate a better price for her buyer clients next door? Apparently not. The suing neighbors paid $275K (full asking price) for a house that was offered to us for $250K. We thought $250K was excessive. So did a landlocked neighbor, who didn't purchase the property. Response to Liz McGuire's Response: "I never had any prior knowledge of where the boundaries were…” I find this a highly dubious statement for two reasons: (1) Liz McGuire lived in our neighborhood for at least 15 years before the sale of our neighbor’s property and (2) she’s a “realtor”. I mean realtors sell real estate—property located within boundaries found on the ground. All the real estate survey is supposed to do is reestablish the existing lines and confirm the area calculation for property tax purposes. It has nothing to say about giving your property to someone else. “I would have never made any representations as to what the buyer would own.” But, she did. The flyer for the property described a “backyard entrance” which Liz McGuire (being the buyer’s agent and all) would certainly have looked at with the buyers, and on seeing the survey “prior to closing”, would have known that the only way to access this entrance was by crossing our property. At that point an ethical realtor would advise her clients to halt the sale until the seller could resolve this issue, or if the clients were intransigent and h***-bent on stealing our property through the courts, resign! Rather, (according to her own deposition) she told our neighbors that “we were not easy to get along with” and after the sale when “the buyer took matters in his own hands” it was Liz McGuire who recommended the attorney for him to use—which he did. The other Angie's List complaint was made by someone else who really exists and has recently gotten her own Angie's List membership. She had a similar problem to ours, but it didn't result in a lawsuit. Christopher & Christine Smith, Cedar Crest, NM