EasyKnock Reviews

I hired my own realtor which you can also do by the Stay and Sell Contract. 8/5/2024 I received an offer on the home that I accepted and the closing date was 9/18/2024 the day I'm writing this review. Didn't Happen. Why? EasyKnock comes up with figures that are wrong. I have been fighting with them for over a week to correct the figures. I sent them proof that my figures are correct by my original Sellers Closing Statement and copies of my contracts with them. I also sent the same information to my realtor who does agree with me. Example of one figure being wrong is the rent. I didn't pay July, August and September rent due to an offer on the property. It will be straightened out at closing. They say I owe them $6761. My records and the EasyKnock website where you pay your rent, states 3,380.82. They keep making up these weird fees that are not listed in any contract.

DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THAT COMPANY. THEY WILL SCAM YOU! I will keep you posted on the closing of the property. Buyer Beware....

In February 2023, the basement flooded. It took them 3 weeks to respond. There was mold everywhere. I kept emailing, calling, and texting them. They refused to give me an address to send a certified letter. I continued to pay my rent on time for March, April, and May. Keep in mind, I was still constantly asking them to send someone over to clean and repair the basement that was filled with mold. They didn't respond until I stopped paying the rent in June. Then, Robert stepped in. He gave me all kinds of excuses as to why no one had responded. He stated that they were short staffed. There were so many issues by the time he stepped in. There was a broken window that they agreed to repair (in writing in October of 2022). The basement was filled with mold. The mold was permeating all throughout the house via the HVAC system.

I went back and forth with him from May-September. At first, he kept claiming that they were sending someone out and the contractors never showed. This happened for months. Then he ran with the narrative that they couldn't do the repair because I wasn't available during business hours and that they refused to pay fees for after hours or weekends. The flood happened in February 2023 and I had been at home around the clock until July because I had a major surgery. They had six months to get someone out there to clean and repair the basement because I was home around the clock recovering from major surgery.

The air conditioning went out in June. They finally sent someone out in October. They're so ridiculous, they sent two technicians out to service the AC in October after I had already turned the heat on. They then sent an inspector out and their own inspector found asbestos. When I reported this to them they started the eviction process.

I tried to negotiate a fair amount with them because eventually I had to move my family out of the house and pay rent at the new location. They told me in writing not to do any repairs to their property. I was willing to make the repairs and deduct it from the rent, which is allowable in Illinois. I asked them could we move a portion of the agreed upon negotiated amount of the rent to end to be collected when the property sold and they refused. When the case went to eviction court, I was notified that I was eligible for rental assistance. I applied for rental assistance and was approved. The rental assistance amount would have covered all of the back rent that they alleged that I owed. They refused to accept the money, even though I agreed to move out. After I spent several thousand dollars on a lawyer they agreed to drop the case and forfeit the back rent providing I moved out of the property by 03/01/24.

I moved out and they refused to give me any information about the property and what was going on. Brooke ** is a horrible person. She's the one who started the eviction process and refused to tell me who I could talk to about the next steps. I was able to get her on the phone a couple of times when I called from other numbers. However, she eventually just stopped responding and I discovered that the property had been listed by doing daily searches on **. They didn't allow me to have any part of the sale, which goes against our contract. They tried to claim that there was a default and that is why they were not allowing me to have any say so. The house was listed in March. They told me that they had a buyer and that the closing was schedule for 05/10/24.

They said the house was selling for $310,000 with $10,000 in seller concessions. They then said that it had to be pushed back because of the repairs (remember there was still mold in the property) and the closing would be on 05/17/24. It was pushed back to 05/23/24, then 05/24/24, then 06/12/24, then 06/16/24, then 06/20/24, then 07/10, and it finally closed on 07/26/24. In the midst of all the nonsense with the closing, they had the house reappraised, which is unheard of! I then told them that they needed to be showing the house to other buyers, since the buyer's attorney kept requesting to push the closing date back.

After all of this, they offered me $6000. They sent me a generic paper that looked like it had been put together by a 6th grader showing what they deducted. They will not allow me to see the actual closing statement. They deducted the back rent plus an additional $3600 for rent, $15,000 for a realtor's fee, $5500 for property management, and a lot of other random fees that were not agreed upon in our original contract. The individual who is occupying the house showed me her closing statement and that she purchased the property for $27,000. How is this possible?

These people are crooks. They have been sued in many other states and have been shutdown by the Attorney General's office in Michigan, Texas, Maryland, South Carolina, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Please do a google search on them before you do business and you will see all the lawsuits and feedback from other consumers they have ripped off.

I came up with 2 different cash buyers for the amount they said I owed (which is less than 1/2 the value of my home) and they refused to do the sales and now they are saying they owe me nothing else. They owe me over $150,000.00. They will steal your home. They know the loopholes in the laws. They will tell you any lie to get you to sign a contract. Stay away from them. If you do sign a contract then also Opt out of Arbitration so you can sue them directly. I contacted Jarred ** directly and he refused to talk with me to resolve this situation. A lot of the good reviews of the company are paid reviews or done by their financial partners. This company does not know how to spell the word honest at all. Google lawsuits against EasyKnock, aka, EK Real Estate Services of NY and you will find out just how bad this company is.