Valnes & Company

Stacey Valnes has taken advantage of me and my mother when he suggested that we list our house at the price that he came up with by looking at the sales Comparables in our area.We believed him!

So, we listed our home with him, and he later talked us into accepting an offer on it. We felt a bit rushed and wanted to wait, but Stacey assured us that we would never get more than what we were being offered. I later found out that similar houses on our street have been selling for $100,000 more than what Stacey Valnes has told us was a fair selling price of our home. I believe, Stacey has made a deal on us and convinced us that our house was only worth what he said it was worth.

It is too late to do anything about it now because the sale has gone through and the title has transferred, but I wouldn't use Valnes Bell Realtors again, nor advise them to anyone else to seek out their advise. I just know, Stacey must have gotten some monetary incentive from the buyer that he seemed to know quite well, besides his commission that he negotiated with me. Stacey represented both sides in this transaction and I feel that he defrauded me and my mother and made a *** of a profit for himself. I know, it sounds absurd, but neither I nor my wife really know anything about how real estate works, and we believe, Stacey saw that and went for the kill.

He saw the opportunity and he took advantage of our vulnerability. Too bad there are people like that in this world.

I am really quite upset about it, and my mother just stopped trusting people after what Stacey Valnes has done to us! I would advise anyone to research these sales agents carefully before doing any business with them because a lot of them out there are scammers and confidence artists and Stacey Valnes is certainly one of them!

I met with Stacey in person and he told me how great his company was and how many additional services they provided at Valnes Bell Realty for those who wanted to sell their home and then buy something with less maintenance.
I really thought, Stacey was the one to take on the job and help me go through the sale, but then I decided to check him out on the internet and discovered something quite disturbing about him.
On the website called The Ripoff Report, one of Stacey's customers says that he basically ripped off his mother to the tune of $100,000, and then on another website hosted by none other than the City of Santa Monica, it talks about how Stacey and his wife Megan who works with him, coerced an elderly woman like myself through intimidation and harassment and fraud, into vacating her long-term home after the Valnesses had bought the apartment house in which she lived.
I am a bit divided here because I am no longer sure what Stacey is really up to with the elderly people. Stacey seems like a very knowledgeable and warm and caring person, but the City of Santa Monica had issued a warning against him to the public to take heed. It says on there, he defrauded the elderly woman and had to pay her $200,000 in damages, that he threw her out of her home where she lived and was paying $529/month and Stacey threw her out and re-rented the place she lived in for $2,400/month.
These sort of details as appear on there really made my blood boil, and another review that I read about him was on pissed consumer website where he sold a home to his friend for much less than what it was worth and the poor elderly woman lost money on the sale.
You just have to wonder whether all those great reviews that are written about Stacey Valnes and Valnes Bell Realtors are a real mccoy.
I am going to decline his services and listen to the City of Santa Monica and their warning. I am almost 87 years old and do not want and cannot afford to end up in a disaster.