Stan Gawel
Our experience with Tienus Evenhuis of Makelaardij Emmen was very disappointing. During the sales process, certain things were concealed (for example: there were garbage bags in the crawl space with dry yellow sand on top, so it looks as if the crawl space is dry, which was not the case) which gave us little confidence in the honesty towards the buyers. My father came along to view the purchased property and has been a carpenter; he included this in the purchase agreement to protect himself and the sellers should any defects come to light. The roof of the property stated on funda that it was a tiled roof, and if the broker asks about it, you get no answer. This is probably because it's a slate roof laid around 1990 and may contain asbestos. Communication was also deficient: we had to remind him ourselves whether a final inspection would take place. The sellers (80+) are completely in the dark and were very poorly informed about this fact by the broker. Based on our experience, we cannot recommend Makelaardij Emmen. I believe that this broker damages the NVM title; we have quite some experience with brokers, but have never experienced anything like this. Unfortunately, I cannot place this review on funda because you need to receive an invitation from the broker for that, so take the rating on funda with a grain of salt.
