Stribling & Associates

Terrible experience with Stribling agent Sam Pollach. He was rude, unprofessional, and completely incompetent. I’ve been looking for about 4 months and this was by far the most appallingly terrible experience I’ve had with a broker.

I just called the ‘Stribling Agent’ named Ms. Jessica Vertullo Maher on one of her advertised listings.
I asked a simple question about the size of the apartment and she told me she was «too busy» to answer my question and told me to read her website ad in depth !! and hung up the phone on me!

I happened to come across the review (below) and felt I should respond. I’m currently working with Olena Movchan on buying my first apartment. The learning curve is steep and my job keeps me extremely busy. This has significantly delayed closing on the apartment. Over the last few months Olena has exercised an unbelievable amount of patience with me, and has always been friendly. Because of some tax requirements that the co-​op board needed, she even met me with her accountant who is many stops out on the B train in Brooklyn. If anyone I knew was looking for a broker, I would absolutely recommend Olena. I think the first reviewer might have some delusions about what it means to move into an apartment on the Lower East Side of NYC.

I saw one unit in the Lower East Side that was represented by a Stribling & Associates agent, Olena Movchan. I had such a horrible experience with her. She was rude and had the biggest attitude. The unit was gorgeous, a huge studio gutted and renovated with new stainless steel appliances and marble bathroom. It’s such a shame the studio was so beautiful because it was left incredibly dirty. There was shoe dirt prints in the bathtub and pee in the toilet. When I asked the agent, Olena, if the studio would be cleaned up she said it was my problem! I asked if the debris underneath the fireplace would be cleaned and she sarcastically offered to clean it right then and there.
Cooper Square Realty, one of the few real estate agents that have decent ratings on Unilocal,is now teamed up with Stribling. There are no good brokers left in this city…