Steve Mogavero

This man was really rude to me on the phone. d without knowing what I was calling for, he hung up in my ear. That is not a good way to run a business. I can’t see how anyone runs a business like he does,…I would NEVER buy a house from him.

They say buy-​side agents represent the buyer and sell-​side agents represent the owner, based on my interaction with Steve I can assert that he works only for himself. We recently purchased a house where he played both sides of the transaction and I can say without any doubt that Steve is the most unscrupulous agent I have ever worked with. Here are some examples of Steve lying through his teeth
1. He had told us that the roof of the house is less than 10 years old when we first saw the house and later confirmed this over email. However when followed up on this with the owner and during inspection and found this to be false.
2. The agent’s inspection was prepared hurriedly and had absolutely no details. In contrast other agents we worked with in the past prepared very detailed reports highlighting all the defects in the property and even did a personal walkthrough.
3. After we won the bid, we wanted to hunt for a better rate. We had 30 days until close, were already pre-​approved, which was meant we had at least 2 – 3 days to seek a better rate. However Steve insisted that we should take whatever we get and lied that new mortgage applications take 60 – 90 days !! Another bank offered us 0.5% lower rate in less than 2 days.
4. He failed to inform us about a flea infestation in the house until 2 days before we were set to move in. None of the disclosures mentioned this, though it is clear both the owner and Steve were aware of this.
5. As per the contract, we asked for a walkout inspection 5 days before close of escrow. To this Steve replied «…don’t throw the contract in my face, I got you this house, take what you can get» !! Yikes. He failed to get the house vacant 2 days before COE for the walkout inspection. He said he would get the house would be vacated by COE and (as the buy side agent) advised us to sign the final papers. The house still had tons of stuff lying around when we showed up and we had to remove it ourselves.
He claims to charge 4% total commission though he does not follow through on it. We paid the full 3% buy side commission. You can do a lot better than him for that kind of money.
Bonus.
He also runs an uninformed insurance business. Read the reviews there.

i have worked with steve several times, and find him to be everything you look for in a real estate agent. super nice guy, very organized, met every goal in a timely fashion.
we will use him again for sure.