Jonathan Leslie – The Cascade Team RE

Again, it’s almost an year and still haven’t hear back from Jonathan.
By reading other reviews, (+1 filtered) It has been a pattern. Once the deal is closed you will not hear back from Jonathan again. I am glad Unilocal’s filtering system. Because 3 of the 5 star reviews were filtered. All posted on the same day, looks like he wrote it himself.
Also, don’t trust Zillow. It protects the agents. They never approved my review on Jonathan. I’ve modified 4 times.

I was very happy with Jonathan’s work until the home was officially closed, and I never got chance to see or talk to Jonathan from there.
I am a picky client and always want to get a good home with low price. I started to work with Johnathan since May 2012 and it was very pleasant to work with him in the first 12 months. He was very responsive, and always show up on time for appointments, his knowledge about the home is very impressive and able to find out most issues in the home right away so I don’t have to worry about inspection.
He never pressured me into buying any places, although I already been shopping for a place for a year. We made a few offers along the way, however, none of them went through because I am unwilling to offer a higher price in this competitive market.
Jonathan always says it is not easy to get into the door but very easy to back out, means it is not easy to get seller to accept my offer, but if it gets accepted it is very easy for me to back out without losing my earnest money. With this idea in mind, I bet on one home I did not fall in love with, because I was also tired of home hunting. I paid $ 1k earnest money, did inspection and found a big issue of leaky ceiling in the kitchen. Right at the same time, I saw a perfect home that I really like for a reasonable price. Jonathan assumed me that my earnest money with the 1^st home will be safe, and I bought the 2^nd home instead.
Things started to go downhill very fast. The home that I bought is a bank owned property, I only got the keys for front door from the MLS box. The seller mailed me the mailbox key and other keys to the mailbox of this home. Nobody took responsibilities for this situation. It was a frustrating process, lucky with the help of UPS, I finally retrieved all mails inside the mailbox, although the mailbox key was not there. Then the seller asked Jonathan to pick up the keys as they are returned to their office, however, it took him around 2 weeks to finally get them for me (He kept on saying he is going to get it for me Tomorrow, and I told him a few times that I can go there myself if he was too busy…) It was exactly 1 month after I closed the home that I finally got my mailbox and other keys.
Then Jonathan never contacted me for my earnest money, all my calls went to his voicemail. And he replies to my emails/​txts once in a while and still assured me that he won’t lose my earnest money, but it needs more time. 5 months later, I still did not get my earnest money, and I eventually evolved my lawyer. Jonathan finally replied to the lawyer’s email and admitted the seller won’t return my earnest money. He blamed that to the seller, because they kept on asking him to fill up different new forms and eventually seller said he did not use the right form in the required time period, so they won’t return the money. He made no apology and not even a call to me.
Question for Jonathan: Isn’t it realtor’s responsibilities to make sure all the documents are prepared correctly in timely manner?
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This is the review I wrote for Jonathan on Zillow, however, Zillow people asked me to «Remove the statements referencing legal action» before they allow my review to go live…