Friedlaenders Real Estate (FRE) Problems Blog » Elwood http://www.friedlaenders.com This is a blog for current and former tenants and other customers of Friedlaenders Real Estate (Now known as FRE) to Talk about their experience and poor customer service. This blog is not run by Friedlaenders and is not working on behalf of Friedlaenders. I am an ex-tenant of theirs. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:48:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Its not just us! Good news (well for us) http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/10/21/its-not-just-us-good-news-well-for-us/ http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/10/21/its-not-just-us-good-news-well-for-us/#comments Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:55:45 +0000 Mollyfud http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/10/21/its-not-just-us-good-news-well-for-us/ Ever wonder if a situation is just you? Maybe your looking at a situation the wrong way or your so close to it that you miss that your in the wrong. Well in our dealings with Friedlaenders we never really wondered this but we have since had confirmation that Friedlaenders have stuffed others around.

Charles Friedlaender I have had a few emails for different people, one of which have had extremely similar issues to us (I hope to write something about this soon) and another that was having trouble getting their bond back (although to be honest I am not sure if it was someone connected to Friedlaenders fishing for information)!

And the there was this from 2001!

A Caulfield real estate agent has been fined with 29 breaches over the operation of his business.

Victoria’s Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs, Marsha Thomson said Mr Charles Friedlaender and his company, Charles Friedlaender Real Estate Pty Ltd had been fined over breaches of the Estate Agents Act 1980, the Estate Agents (General Accounts and Audit) Regulations 1997 and the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.

“Consumer and Business Affairs Victoria (CBAV) will not hesitate to pursue estate agents who do not abide by the rules which have been put in place to protect consumers and customers,” Ms Thomson warned.

Some of the charges related to Mr Friedlaender’s failure to conduct security checks before appointing persons as agent’s representatives and his failure to notify authorities of the appointment of those representatives.

REAL ESTATE AGENT IGNORED THE RULES

 

Shame, Shame, Shame!

Its bad enough that they refuse to return peoples calls but to “not keeping full and accurate accounting records of trust bank accounts, of drawing cash cheques against trust accounts and holding a tenant’s bond for several months instead of lodging it with the Residential Tenancy Bonds Authority within five business days” is very very bad for a Real Estate company.

 

If you have had bad dealings you want to add to this diary and warn other potential Victims  Customers of the problems they may have with Friedlaenders. Email me at mollyfud@gmail.com or leave a comment below!

Molly

 

 

]]> http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/10/21/its-not-just-us-good-news-well-for-us/feed/ 18 A win for the good guys! http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/25/a-win-for-the-good-guys/ http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/25/a-win-for-the-good-guys/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:21:34 +0000 Mollyfud http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/25/a-win-for-the-good-guys/ I want to thank the Landlord involved in my issue. Every dealing I had with them (they know who they are) has been outstanding. Our VCAT order of payment hadn’t been paid but within a week of informing them directly via a letter (I can’t be sure that they were informed by Friedlaenders in the past about this (surely they would of)) was paid. A cheque arrived yesterday and we will be banking it ASAP. Once

the money has cleared the full story will c

ome out. Don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed or via email if you don’t use RSS (or understand what it is) to get the full story and hear the crap that we had to go through to get the money we were rightly owed!

Molly

]]> http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/25/a-win-for-the-good-guys/feed/ 0 Friedlaenders – This is how they treat the people they deal with! http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/04/friedlaenders-this-is-how-they-treat-the-people-they-deal-with/ http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/04/friedlaenders-this-is-how-they-treat-the-people-they-deal-with/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:47:05 +0000 Mollyfud http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/04/friedlaenders-this-is-how-they-treat-the-people-they-deal-with/ In conversations with Charles Friedlaenders of Friedlaenders Realestate about an issue we have with a property that we rented that they where the agent for, this is a quote of something that Charles (or someone porting to be Charles) said to us about us trying to get back money that we are owed:


“you’ll find out the hard way, again

PS it must have taken you some time to make up & write all that bullshit you petty pathetic little person(s

PPS no more emails anymore or we call the Police (no kidding); we won’t be communicating with you again”

Well just to answer this again:

A) VCAT advised us to let Friedlaenders know that they had 10 days (after they or the land lord they represent didn’t pay us money that VCAT instructed them they owe us)
B) We couldn’t call because they have to our memory NEVER returned a phone call that we have made to them and they asked us not to Phone them either. To use email is the same as a letter (maybe better, more traceable)
C) There is no bullshit on this site (as stated on the second line). All of the info on this site is true information, as far as we are aware. If you (the readers) find any information that is inaccurate, feel free to comment and if you are correct, I will update the information to be correct!

Will keep you informed of further updates and the full story will come out when this is all cleared up.

Molly


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]]> http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/09/04/friedlaenders-this-is-how-they-treat-the-people-they-deal-with/feed/ 4 A win at VCAT http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/08/09/a-win-at-vcat/ http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/08/09/a-win-at-vcat/#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:26:24 +0000 Mollyfud http://www.friedlaenders.com/2006/08/09/a-win-at-vcat/ Will write more about the results in a month or so but to let you all know, we took the Landlord (represented by Charles Friedlaender of Friedlaenders Real Estate) to VCAT for compensation due to a hot water leak at a flat we rented. We felt they owed us $305 dollars over a couple of bills. Charles expressed that he had been contacted by the Gas company to say that if we proved the Hot Water was leaking but now it was fixed that they would return the money (sounds very strange to me, what if the incident took a year to fix and we were talking about thousands of dollars worth of gas, but Charles sweared it under oath).

The VCAT Member (the guy that heard the case, sort of like a judge) ruled that the first leak was fixed promptly but the second leak took too long to fix and we were awarded $150. This was partly because we couldn’t prove that there was a leak the whole time (from after the first leak) which appears (to us anyway) to be the case.

This was a great result for common sense and probably something that we could have worked out between ourselves and Friedlaenders with they had been more willing to discuss the issue. As it happened, I can’t remember them ever returning our calls the whole time we dealt with them (5 odd years) and definitely no returned calls over this issue or recovering our bond. So a lesson to you all (especially if you run a RealEstate company) its just common courtesy to return phone calls and if your not, just don’t take the message. Tell the person to call back later.

More to come later.

Molly

PS. If you want to comment, you can now leave an Audio Comment. Enjoy!

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big milestone has been reached. I am not going to say more now but will
once things are over and done with, a lot more on this situation will be published here.

Any comments or stories or tips and tricks, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Molly

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We are setting up this blog to comment on the poor treatment we received from Friedlaenders Real Estate (of Elwood, Victoria, Australia) when trying to recover our bond and trying to get them to meet there responsibilities in a matter over a Hot water leak that cost us extra money on our gas bill.

The performance on the matter has been (in my opinion) poor to say it nicely. You will hear some classic cases of just treating your customer like crap and just not understanding customer service.

Any way, more to come later. Sign up for the RSS feed if you want to get updated on the details of this case and of others people report to me.

Molly

PS. If you have a story you want to tell of FriedLaenders or any other Real Estate agent, let me know and I will publish it (if appropriate). For that matter, if you have a good story, let me know that as well.


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