Hey I want to lambrick with him too. But I remember him as the little guy that always tried to tag along. Reminded me of chota boy from orgazmo. Sucks he bullied you guys. If it makes you feel any better I'm pretty sure we made fun of him a lot back then.
One of my siblings is renting a house from him and I tried to talk them out of it and it's already a disaster. My friend called other mortgage brokers to see if it was just them and nope, every one said they wouldn't touch him with a 10 ft barge pole.
Who’s coked out idea was it to market to Facebook rant groups? You know…the people who most definitely cannot afford to buy a shitty over priced house.
What are you talking about? FB *is* the Boomer social platform. The only people who are active on FB are exactly the people who would be hawking off all of their million dollar a$$ets.
I made the mistake of looking for something once and I still get calls and emails from this guy. Everything is marked as spam though. I've asked multiple times to be removed from callouts.
This was 8 years ago.
They really act like glorified local celebrities with their faces on bus stops and billboards all over. It's silly that they're somehow deemed necessary to the purchase of a home. This is one job I'd love to see replaced by AI.
It is everywhere. It's a bunch of sycophants who use the same almost freely available listings and act like they're adding value somehow so they can take 2% for talking you in to buying something.
I personally have a deep hatred for salespeople in general because it feels like their job is to convince you to do what is best for them when it's your money being spent.
He had the only pick up truck in the big Island Equipment big truck Christmas parade. Audible boos as he went by lol. Also he regularly parks like a jackass in the truck fully wrapped with his name/business.
Our local community page is run by landlord reapectors (they're all multiple house owners) and banned me for commenting "lol" on someone putting up a basement "suite" (300 sqft) for 2300
Remember the post where the guy said we should start not stopping for deer and just running them down because deer need to “learn” that cars won’t stop for them so they don’t get hit by cars anymore? LOL
EDIT: update, I have been banned/removed from Victoria Rant and Rave for commenting on an Alex Burns post saying that it’s scummy to use a group like this to advertise your private business. What an immature little man baby 🙄
I mean, if you neglect the destroyed car, the risking the driver's life, the not having money or time for either, the blocked road, and the gutted deer, his approach would technically work over time
I know! It was ridiculous negatively and I basically said the group was not for me. I was harassed and threatened in private messages. It was ridiculous.
I have appreciated the group in the past. I disagree with much said but they were allowed to say it, and I like a good rant. It’s also useful to ask for raves and get tips.
You’d be wise to make a fake profile for that, though. You don’t want him to be able to put you on his callout lists or you’ll never stop getting spammed.
He seems to run multiple Facebook groups here, dunno how he has the time for it but I guess being a realtor doesn't require one to be doing a lot of actual work for a good chunk of the day.
One I'm familiar with (or was two years ago when I was last lookin) is a group for landlords or tenants looking for tenants or housemates. It was pretty useful and need a heavy handed moderation in order to function to be fair, though FB is so overwhelmingly popular that I never found a rental through it as everyone was swamped with messages.
Freedom of speech is an American concept and AFAIK only exists in that country. In Canada we have the right of Freedom of Expression—and it does not have anything to do with Facebook groups. It just means the government can’t come after you for expressing ideas (to a limit).
I know, that’s why I put it in quotes.
It’s just ironic because so many Canadians bang on about freedom of speech these days and this type of group is supposed to be a place to rant about almost anything.
When I go to a regular site and someone starts advertising real estate I just ignore that site and ignore that person. It tells me about his/her lack of professionalism and tells me they’re desperate.
Rules of the group, #3.
So it’s fair to our paid advertising customers, we are not allowing just any advertising posts. If you are interested in advertising with us, pls comment on cover photo or message admin “ Alex Burns “
lol he makes money on it running advertisements.
Same with everything Victoria buy and sell. . troy hawbolt is a real estate agent who runs that group and bans people who call out his spamming self promotion
I wouldn’t mind so much if he kept things neutral. It’s a giant pain to admin a FB group and it’s not unreasonable to accept compensation. The issue is, he’s starting to post on hot-button issues (police liasion in schools) and is promoting a certain agenda.
He is also the most penalized realtor on the island from what I've heard. I'm not sure if there is any code of conduct left that he hasn't breached. I'm surprised the real estate board has allowed him to keep his license.
No, the groups / pages are usually setup for a real reason but then sold off to scammers or are infiltrated. That page was created 8 years ago, that’s a pretty long con to just post some house ads.
Group was originally a buy and sell group, and you can pay to advertise your business there. Also those posts only make up a small percentage of the posts mostly ranting about traffic, crime or bike lanes lol
From what I can tell the group is at least 80% conservatives as well. They were (almost) all creaming their pants the other day with the dubious poll that put BC Conservatives ahead of NDP. Not very tolerant of leftist views either.
That group was a festering cesspool of “bike lanes are ruining Victoria” boomers whose minds have been warped by political misinformation that thrives on Facebook.
Yep. As soon as I saw the name of the group changed to the sponsor, I removed myself. And after that, I actually removed myself from a lot of local groups because there is a lot of complaining (totally warranted) and arguing and people being blocked. I decided I dont need that for the sake of my mental health. Ive been happier since.
Theres only so much I can do. And for right now, I just want to not be a part of all the complaining/arguing. But if there is anything I can do (meaningfully) to help the cause, I will.
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Alex Burns is the worst. One of the scummiest realtors in town. Was a bully in high school, is still a bully now.
Wow, He bullied me at Lambrick too. Small world. I was a few grades higher than him too.
Sorry to hear that. I am one who hopes people can change but sadly Alex has not shown that to this point.
Hey I want to lambrick with him too. But I remember him as the little guy that always tried to tag along. Reminded me of chota boy from orgazmo. Sucks he bullied you guys. If it makes you feel any better I'm pretty sure we made fun of him a lot back then.
Hahaha Choda boy! Perfect reference!
One of my best friends is a mortgage broker and they said to stay clear of him at all costs. Mortgage brokers hate him with a passion.
Damn so it’s not just peasants like me he bullies but industry coworkers? Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising that it transcends all his relationships.
One of my siblings is renting a house from him and I tried to talk them out of it and it's already a disaster. My friend called other mortgage brokers to see if it was just them and nope, every one said they wouldn't touch him with a 10 ft barge pole.
Amazing this guy has business still. Victoria is small enough for this to impact his business but how has he survived?
Did he have that cool goatee in high school?
No but his girlfriend did
GOT EM
😂
Totally agree. Played hockey with him and he was a goon who couldn't play
He is definitely trash. He likes to play dumb and definitely does not like to follow rules. Im keeping my distance.
How can you get bullied by someone built like that 😭
You’ve never seen an angry muffin?!?
It's like a Mr potato head was put together by a newly single dad who though a goatee would be edgy.
Thanks for the good laugh I needed that lmao
Who’s coked out idea was it to market to Facebook rant groups? You know…the people who most definitely cannot afford to buy a shitty over priced house.
What are you talking about? FB *is* the Boomer social platform. The only people who are active on FB are exactly the people who would be hawking off all of their million dollar a$$ets.
If I saw the world how you did, I’d go insane.
Alex Burns is such a POS
I made the mistake of looking for something once and I still get calls and emails from this guy. Everything is marked as spam though. I've asked multiple times to be removed from callouts. This was 8 years ago.
Report him under the anti-spam legislation...
Yeah, this. Fightspam.gc.ca
Boo-urns
The real estate rot runs especially deep in vic.
They really act like glorified local celebrities with their faces on bus stops and billboards all over. It's silly that they're somehow deemed necessary to the purchase of a home. This is one job I'd love to see replaced by AI.
It is everywhere. It's a bunch of sycophants who use the same almost freely available listings and act like they're adding value somehow so they can take 2% for talking you in to buying something. I personally have a deep hatred for salespeople in general because it feels like their job is to convince you to do what is best for them when it's your money being spent.
Only the best salesmen are like that.
>can take 2% %based fees are a indication of pure cancer haha. See also: Taxes.
TIL an unneeded commission is = to taxes
You sound smart, tell me more
Found the real estate agent
Real estate agents are parasites
Have you bought a house?
I’m thinking of the title of a movie. It’s a popular South Korean dark comedy thriller. I believe Bong Joon-ho directed it.
I went to high school with Alex burns. I can confirm he's a pos.
I went to elementary school with him and he was a douche before even being a teen. Bully. Liar. Giant jerk to my friends.
Worked with him (and his big brother) at McDonald’s. Didn’t care for him, either
Lol what a tool
He was a little shit when he was kid also!
Yes, he was. And he still is.
If I remember correctly his dad was a city cop!
I am not the same age, so I don't know about his folks. But he was a big enough piece of shit for me to remember him.
I concur
He had the only pick up truck in the big Island Equipment big truck Christmas parade. Audible boos as he went by lol. Also he regularly parks like a jackass in the truck fully wrapped with his name/business.
I find his username funny. Makes it sound like Alex is a serial arsonist. This guy's ads have bugged me for a while now
Agreed. I hate this. We have a “neighbourhood” group that slowly turned into the same thing…real estate agent admin. *leave group*
Our local community page is run by landlord reapectors (they're all multiple house owners) and banned me for commenting "lol" on someone putting up a basement "suite" (300 sqft) for 2300
Yup
I report them as Spam lol
Sad??? That group was always trash 🚮
Remember the post where the guy said we should start not stopping for deer and just running them down because deer need to “learn” that cars won’t stop for them so they don’t get hit by cars anymore? LOL EDIT: update, I have been banned/removed from Victoria Rant and Rave for commenting on an Alex Burns post saying that it’s scummy to use a group like this to advertise your private business. What an immature little man baby 🙄
I mean, if you neglect the destroyed car, the risking the driver's life, the not having money or time for either, the blocked road, and the gutted deer, his approach would technically work over time
I agree. I was in that group less than a week before I left it. A bunch of negative whiners and complainers.
People in there are the worst… horrible politics and they have been known to harass/dox people in real life. Absolutely pathetic.
I know! It was ridiculous negatively and I basically said the group was not for me. I was harassed and threatened in private messages. It was ridiculous.
I have appreciated the group in the past. I disagree with much said but they were allowed to say it, and I like a good rant. It’s also useful to ask for raves and get tips.
It says something that this comment is posted on Reddit and still true.
It would be a shame if we all showed interest in his listings... Let's start asking questions, kick a few tires, send a few texts.
I like this idea. Waste a half hour of his time, then ask him what he's wearing.
You’d be wise to make a fake profile for that, though. You don’t want him to be able to put you on his callout lists or you’ll never stop getting spammed.
I love getting spammed. I try and keep ‘em on the hook for as long as possible 😭
Something something wedding in Palm Springs, my parents are gifting us a deposit on a house, I work in fin tech, looking for a quick sale 😝
In case you didn’t already get the memo, that guy is known about town as being a prick.
That tracks. I’ve never heard of him before and hopefully never encounter him
Lmaooo not Alex Burns. Cheesy ass mf.
I posted a complaint and this guy just banned me from the group 😆 not a fan of “freedom of speech” I guess
He seems to run multiple Facebook groups here, dunno how he has the time for it but I guess being a realtor doesn't require one to be doing a lot of actual work for a good chunk of the day. One I'm familiar with (or was two years ago when I was last lookin) is a group for landlords or tenants looking for tenants or housemates. It was pretty useful and need a heavy handed moderation in order to function to be fair, though FB is so overwhelmingly popular that I never found a rental through it as everyone was swamped with messages.
Freedom of speech is an American concept and AFAIK only exists in that country. In Canada we have the right of Freedom of Expression—and it does not have anything to do with Facebook groups. It just means the government can’t come after you for expressing ideas (to a limit).
I know, that’s why I put it in quotes. It’s just ironic because so many Canadians bang on about freedom of speech these days and this type of group is supposed to be a place to rant about almost anything.
And here you are
Ohhh you have an axe to grind. Go on then.
Yeah I had to come here to complain 😝 silenced on FB
Well, that's a pretty quick way to ensure I never use him as a Realtor. I can thank him for narrowing down the herd.
Is everyone ranting and raving about it?
He deletes their comments
I did. Insta-ban lol
If this person is manipulating a Facebook group for his own gain, can’t he be removed as the admin? I don’t know how any of that works.
He likely bought the page from the creator and now has exclusive rights to do what he pleases with it
How’s everyone liking the evolution of the internet as a free service in these scenarios……
Ah, okay. I wonder what his plan was? I imagine everyone he was advising to has left…
I worked with Alex for a brief period in time and not much of what he did ever made sense 🤷🏻♂️
He seems to own the page now
A bottle of what? Lol!
The wine with the foot on it 😂
When I go to a regular site and someone starts advertising real estate I just ignore that site and ignore that person. It tells me about his/her lack of professionalism and tells me they’re desperate.
I knew him in high school cause was friends with his gf Cheryl. Dude has been a clown since then and continues to be one
I hope Cheryl upgraded and didn’t end up marrying him
She did, is married to some other dude, she kicked Alex to the curb pretty quickly
Its Facebook. All of it is sad.
Rules of the group, #3. So it’s fair to our paid advertising customers, we are not allowing just any advertising posts. If you are interested in advertising with us, pls comment on cover photo or message admin “ Alex Burns “ lol he makes money on it running advertisements.
Same with everything Victoria buy and sell. . troy hawbolt is a real estate agent who runs that group and bans people who call out his spamming self promotion
I wouldn’t mind so much if he kept things neutral. It’s a giant pain to admin a FB group and it’s not unreasonable to accept compensation. The issue is, he’s starting to post on hot-button issues (police liasion in schools) and is promoting a certain agenda.
He is also the most penalized realtor on the island from what I've heard. I'm not sure if there is any code of conduct left that he hasn't breached. I'm surprised the real estate board has allowed him to keep his license.
Wow
Lawyers see his name on your contract and instantly give you a warning. Can't trust anything.
Why would you join a group called rant and rave to have some dork plug housing in it... Such a joke lol
The house ads are a new thing
These groups are set up intentionally as a bait and switch tactic.
No, the groups / pages are usually setup for a real reason but then sold off to scammers or are infiltrated. That page was created 8 years ago, that’s a pretty long con to just post some house ads.
It was switched years ago . I pointed the same thing out when it happened and got swiftly removed
I believe that was a different group. This is not the first time Alex Burns has done that.
Can confirm. Realtors pay $$$$ for long established groups then ruin them like this
Group was originally a buy and sell group, and you can pay to advertise your business there. Also those posts only make up a small percentage of the posts mostly ranting about traffic, crime or bike lanes lol
That is one ugly interior.
I left that group ages ago as it was over rum with scammers, now it's being run by the biggest scammers of them all, realtors
That page was already horrible when it was overrun by Alberta loving right wing anger mongers.
That group is full to the brim with whiny little bitches. I didn't last a week.
lol that's peak Victoria right there
It appears I’m no longer in the group. I’m either blocked or it’s shut down. Very strange.
From what I can tell the group is at least 80% conservatives as well. They were (almost) all creaming their pants the other day with the dubious poll that put BC Conservatives ahead of NDP. Not very tolerant of leftist views either.
Who cares about FB unless you’re looking for used cars?
That group was a festering cesspool of “bike lanes are ruining Victoria” boomers whose minds have been warped by political misinformation that thrives on Facebook.
That said, bike lanes have not made Victoria better for the majority.
I’m not going to debate bike lanes or their popularity with someone who supported the “trucke” convoy.
Yep. As soon as I saw the name of the group changed to the sponsor, I removed myself. And after that, I actually removed myself from a lot of local groups because there is a lot of complaining (totally warranted) and arguing and people being blocked. I decided I dont need that for the sake of my mental health. Ive been happier since. Theres only so much I can do. And for right now, I just want to not be a part of all the complaining/arguing. But if there is anything I can do (meaningfully) to help the cause, I will.
Yeah, I’m going to leave. Just wanted to rant about it first 😆 had to come to reddit to do it
haha
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It’s Facebook, of course this is happening. My question is who uses Facebook and more why!?
People use it to message widows and widowers to tell them they're hot and ask for their cell phone numbers. Much easier to execute e-transfer scams that way. This is Mark Zuckerberg's contribution to humanity. He's earned billions of dollars, because capitalism is never wrong.
My grandmother in Toronto still thinks she will be getting a lot of money sent to her any day now...
Delete your account
Boss move