Darick Battaglia-Dominion Lending Centres-Mortgage Broker Barrie
4 reviews 241 Essa Rd, Barrie, ON +1 705-797-8811 www.darick.ca suggest an edit
26 May 2023 10:27
Darick has access to various lenders and helped me get a good rate and a suitable mortgage term to help with my finances
29 September 2020 19:19
Darick was able to get my husband and I a great rate when renewing our mortgage. We are very pleased with his services. Thank you Darick.
09 September 2020 20:51
I am extremely disappointed with our awful and unbelievably stressful experience with Darick, and recommend others AVOID considering his services. We nearly ended up losing our dream home, and our relationship with the seller unfortunately became extremely sour due to his lack of communication/motivation, disorganization and dishonesty that repeatedly delayed the entire process. Others we’ve spoken with have also had HORRIBLE experiences akin to our own, and I’d like to share our story to caution others. My fiancé primarily dealt with Darick and no doubt grew some grey hairs after this experience.
Darick quoted us at what seemed like a remarkably low mortgage rate and promised to land us the mortgage we needed for our dream home without issue. Even though others warned that his quoted rate seemed too good to be true, Darick assured us that he could acquire this rate and have no issue securing us financing. To avoid losing our dream house, we decided to put an offer in right away after Darick promised us this, which was accepted and contingent on financing.
Not long after, however, we didn’t hear a word from Darick. It took several attempts over the course of weeks before he finally responded to us and acted as though he didn’t remember us or our situation. We had to re-send him all of our documents again (for some reason he apparently no longer had the original documents we sent) and we had to stay on top of him to simply carry out the preapproval process. He did not appear interested in our business at this point for some reason, and it was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to keep him motivated and on track while keeping us informed as to his progress (there ended up not being any).
We grew increasingly frustrated by his lack of replies or updates, and we had to continually make excuses to the seller before amending the closing date on TWO separate occasions, which angered them to the point they said they WILL NOT push it back a third time. Our relationships with them started out very positive but unfortunately deteriorated after our repeated excuses on behalf of Darick’s incompetence.
What should have taken days to secure financing now turned into about 6 weeks. The occasions where Darick did reply to us were vague and further false promises that he’d have financing options “in another day or 2” while asking for further basic documents that he should have already asked for, or asking us for the same documents yet again. On each of these occasions, 3-4 days would pass with no word from Darick before we would again request updates, and remind him that we needed this done urgently, require regular updates and better communication.
After this back and forth nearly a half dozen times of no updates or progress, we figured Darick FORGOT ABOUT US YET AGAIN and did not take us seriously, so we finally went with a different broker who quickly and easily found us a lender a few days later (although at a higher, more realistic rate than what Darick promised, and he stated that there’s NO WAY Darick’s original quoted rate was legitimate).
We made it by a hair, submitting the downpayment right on the closing date. As we were explaining our HORRIBLE experience (regarding Darick) to our new broker, he stopped us and asked if we were originally dealing with Darick Battaglia. Wondering how he knew, we just laughed and said yes, to which he then explained that Darick has a VERY POOR reputation and many clients go to him after their experience with Darick. Wish we knew this sooner!
We also didn’t find it very professional for Darick to call us “buddy”, somehow constantly spell our names wrong In several different ways, or call us by the wrong names entirely.
Ignore the radio ads and “good reviews”. STEER CLEAR OF DARICK BATTAGLIA! Or risk the consequential grey hairs that my fiancé suffered!
Darick quoted us at what seemed like a remarkably low mortgage rate and promised to land us the mortgage we needed for our dream home without issue. Even though others warned that his quoted rate seemed too good to be true, Darick assured us that he could acquire this rate and have no issue securing us financing. To avoid losing our dream house, we decided to put an offer in right away after Darick promised us this, which was accepted and contingent on financing.
Not long after, however, we didn’t hear a word from Darick. It took several attempts over the course of weeks before he finally responded to us and acted as though he didn’t remember us or our situation. We had to re-send him all of our documents again (for some reason he apparently no longer had the original documents we sent) and we had to stay on top of him to simply carry out the preapproval process. He did not appear interested in our business at this point for some reason, and it was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to keep him motivated and on track while keeping us informed as to his progress (there ended up not being any).
We grew increasingly frustrated by his lack of replies or updates, and we had to continually make excuses to the seller before amending the closing date on TWO separate occasions, which angered them to the point they said they WILL NOT push it back a third time. Our relationships with them started out very positive but unfortunately deteriorated after our repeated excuses on behalf of Darick’s incompetence.
What should have taken days to secure financing now turned into about 6 weeks. The occasions where Darick did reply to us were vague and further false promises that he’d have financing options “in another day or 2” while asking for further basic documents that he should have already asked for, or asking us for the same documents yet again. On each of these occasions, 3-4 days would pass with no word from Darick before we would again request updates, and remind him that we needed this done urgently, require regular updates and better communication.
After this back and forth nearly a half dozen times of no updates or progress, we figured Darick FORGOT ABOUT US YET AGAIN and did not take us seriously, so we finally went with a different broker who quickly and easily found us a lender a few days later (although at a higher, more realistic rate than what Darick promised, and he stated that there’s NO WAY Darick’s original quoted rate was legitimate).
We made it by a hair, submitting the downpayment right on the closing date. As we were explaining our HORRIBLE experience (regarding Darick) to our new broker, he stopped us and asked if we were originally dealing with Darick Battaglia. Wondering how he knew, we just laughed and said yes, to which he then explained that Darick has a VERY POOR reputation and many clients go to him after their experience with Darick. Wish we knew this sooner!
We also didn’t find it very professional for Darick to call us “buddy”, somehow constantly spell our names wrong In several different ways, or call us by the wrong names entirely.
Ignore the radio ads and “good reviews”. STEER CLEAR OF DARICK BATTAGLIA! Or risk the consequential grey hairs that my fiancé suffered!
03 September 2020 20:51
Our experience with Craig was exceptional. We had talked to other mortgage brokers before him who had dismissed our profiles as they thought we did not have a chance of getting approved.
Not only did Craig assure us that it was completely possible for us to get approved very early on, he managed to get us an incredible rate.
So we ended up securing our first home on absolutely great terms thanks to his good work and effort.
Highly recommended.
Not only did Craig assure us that it was completely possible for us to get approved very early on, he managed to get us an incredible rate.
So we ended up securing our first home on absolutely great terms thanks to his good work and effort.
Highly recommended.