I received a flyer via email, from Joe Nichols of the Listing Leader Group. I contacted him for more information and he explained that they trained Outside Sales Agent to make phone calls in order to set appointments/find leads for prospective home sellers. As he states below:
"This note is a follow-up to the earlier email & digital flyer our team sent to your attention.
Pro Tip Reminder: flyer.populr.me/new-flyer
Our sales team begins making prospecting calls into a market 4-6 weeks before we "open" it. We do this to build momentum, generate leads and, ultimately, over-deliver by providing appointments to new clients sooner than they would expect.
To that end, we've set a listing appointment off of N. Wetherly Dr. in BH for 2pm on 2/19. Seller is a widow moving to Alexandria, VA to live with her daughter & son-in-law. She believes property worth +/- $2.25M and our data confirms. Our sales agent went to USC, as did seller's daughter so there was immediate rapport.
We can make this your first listing with us!!
Please advise a good time to chat if you have interest.
Great day,
Joe Nichols, VP
Dir
He then put me in touch with another agent and she and I spoke. She said she had excellent results with the system and closed about six deals a year as a result of it. Joe said he knew Gary Keller of Keller Williams and had been around a very long time - he is extremely convincing. After many emails and phone calls back and forth he sent me an agreement to sign and asked me to send a check to the company for $6500 by FedEx using their account and that I would immediately start seeing appointments being set. This money is supposed to be refundable if you do not see results. The minute I sent the check, everything changed. I had one email response:
I responded to an online add from Joe Nichols of the Listing Leader Group. He promised that they would supply me with luxury listing appointments and that I could expect to receive 3-5 such appointments weekly. I asked for a reference and they put me in touch with an agent in Chicago who told me she got as many appointments each week and that it did wonders for her business.
Joe asked me to send a check to the company for $6500 by FedEx using their account and that my salesperson would immediately prosepct on my behalf and start setting appointments. This was in October 2014. After several weeks and not hearing anything from them I reached out. He pointed out that it was the end of the year and very few people are listing their homes so I need to be patient as they establish themselves in my market. I checked in monthly with them and always received the same response. Be patient.
It has now been 6 months (April 2015) and I still have never received a single appointment. They have never initiated contact with me. The original agreement did say that after 12 months if I had not closed $10 million in sales from their leads that they would refund my money. I am highly skeptical that I will ever see my money again. Even on the off-chance that they do return the money, I do not appreciate giving them a $6,500 loan when they had no intention at all of providing me any service.
I believe there were previous scam reports associated with Joseph Nichols but I no longer see them listed here. Perhaps I'll be silenced as well, but I want it to be known that I have been victimized by Joe Nichols and the Listing Leader Group and am disgusted with them.
Listing Leader Group, Inc. Reviews
I received a flyer via email, from Joe Nichols of the Listing Leader Group. I contacted him for more information and he explained that they trained Outside Sales Agent to make phone calls in order to set appointments/find leads for prospective home sellers. As he states below:
"This note is a follow-up to the earlier email & digital flyer our team sent to your attention.
Pro Tip Reminder: flyer.populr.me/new-flyer
Our sales team begins making prospecting calls into a market 4-6 weeks before we "open" it. We do this to build momentum, generate leads and, ultimately, over-deliver by providing appointments to new clients sooner than they would expect.
To that end, we've set a listing appointment off of N. Wetherly Dr. in BH for 2pm on 2/19. Seller is a widow moving to Alexandria, VA to live with her daughter & son-in-law. She believes property worth +/- $2.25M and our data confirms. Our sales agent went to USC, as did seller's daughter so there was immediate rapport.
We can make this your first listing with us!!
Please advise a good time to chat if you have interest.
Great day,
Joe Nichols, VP
Dir
He then put me in touch with another agent and she and I spoke. She said she had excellent results with the system and closed about six deals a year as a result of it. Joe said he knew Gary Keller of Keller Williams and had been around a very long time - he is extremely convincing. After many emails and phone calls back and forth he sent me an agreement to sign and asked me to send a check to the company for $6500 by FedEx using their account and that I would immediately start seeing appointments being set. This money is supposed to be refundable if you do not see results. The minute I sent the check, everything changed. I had one email response:
I responded to an online add from Joe Nichols of the Listing Leader Group. He promised that they would supply me with luxury listing appointments and that I could expect to receive 3-5 such appointments weekly. I asked for a reference and they put me in touch with an agent in Chicago who told me she got as many appointments each week and that it did wonders for her business.
Joe asked me to send a check to the company for $6500 by FedEx using their account and that my salesperson would immediately prosepct on my behalf and start setting appointments. This was in October 2014. After several weeks and not hearing anything from them I reached out. He pointed out that it was the end of the year and very few people are listing their homes so I need to be patient as they establish themselves in my market. I checked in monthly with them and always received the same response. Be patient.
It has now been 6 months (April 2015) and I still have never received a single appointment. They have never initiated contact with me. The original agreement did say that after 12 months if I had not closed $10 million in sales from their leads that they would refund my money. I am highly skeptical that I will ever see my money again. Even on the off-chance that they do return the money, I do not appreciate giving them a $6,500 loan when they had no intention at all of providing me any service.
I believe there were previous scam reports associated with Joseph Nichols but I no longer see them listed here. Perhaps I'll be silenced as well, but I want it to be known that I have been victimized by Joe Nichols and the Listing Leader Group and am disgusted with them.