I live in Karachi, and want to shift back to my home city (Lahore). I was looking for a 10 marla plot in Bahria Town, Lahore. I went to Zameen etc and selected about 55 plots to look when I reach Lahore.
On day 1 and 2 I looked around BTL and scratched about 49 plots, leaving only 6, I graded them from 1 to 6 based on preference. Called about a dozen agents in BTL and got further 3 I got interested in, making a total of 9 from 5 different Estate agents.
Now I started calling them, called the first one and asked him the final rate, he said the rate has increased about 1 lac, I said OK, bring the owner and file and we will talk tomorrow, did the same with 1 more agent (he ended up asking 2 lac more) and setup times. The next day I waited, didn't get a call so called myself, the first agent said that the client is asking 2 lacs more (plus the 1 lac from last night), I said to him to bring owner and file and we will discuss, called the 2nd agent he said he is bringing the file and client 'just wait', I said OK. Needless to say the entire day was wasted and no file or owner showed up.
Called the rest of the three agents and inquired again, almost the same thing happened, broken commitments and same old "namaz per baithay hain", "Khbuda ki Kasam", "500% confirm" and so on. Two more days wasted and not a single agent was able to bring the file (I was asking to see the copy at least) or the owner of the plot.
I wasted a full 15 days in Lahore, leaving work and all I got was how crap the agents are and how they don't even value clients or commision they would get. All they have is boat load of **** to serve you.
Very disappointed in the way Lahori's take business, there is a non serious attitude in almost everyone.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a "Trick" to buying plots in Lahore? Is there a way I can bypass these parasites?