My online listing on the company website is full of huge mistakes and he will not change it. The online MLS in Canada has no pertinent details or picture and he will not expand on it. I had to put the "For Sale" sign up myself, because he does not work weekends,etc. This has gone on for months! Is there a code of ethics?
2007-01-20 08:01:30 · 7 answers · asked by customtecfire 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
1. No. You can sue for negligence, misfeasance, malfeasance and non-feasance, but being incompetent is a fundamental right in free countries.
2. Yes. It is typically enforced by local realtor associations. Most such associations have a method for reporting ethical lapses such as these. Report it. This has real teeth - real estate agents live and die by their reputation in their industry. Your agent might well never serve your needs, but if the agent's reputation is trashed in his/her local real estate agent community the agent is likely to have few if any future opportunities to serve someone else so badly. Bottom line: most real estate agents with an IQ over 80 and who can fog a mirror will immediately resolve the issue if it is brought to the attention of the local ethics reporting channel.
2007-01-20 08:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by byhisello99 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Be sure where the problem lies, with the agent you are using or the brokerage they are attached to. Every state or country has a commission that oversees real estate agents and brokers, as well as a code of ethics they are required to abide by or their license will be revoked.
I would find out how to contact that commission. I would then go to the agent and tell them that either he/she correct the errors, or release you from your contract so you can find a competent agent, or you will report the agent and brokerage to the commission.
This will usually get their attention.
Good Luck.
2007-01-20 08:14:19 · answer #2 · answered by A_Kansan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you put up with that for more than 2 weeks?? I fired my incompetent realtor on day 10 when the listing hadn't been posted yet because he "hadn'tgoaroundtoit"... screw that.
You'd lose in court because you always had the option to cancel the listing and go elsewhere. Any reasonable person would have exercised that right long ago. Court wouldn't give you a nickel.
2007-01-20 08:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can sue anyone for any reason ... it's whether you win or not that counts. I would think you should be able to bow out of the contract and find a new realtor. I would. They are probably regulated by some agency so find out which one by a search for Board of Realtors to report this agency and the agent. File your complaint with any agency that will listen to you so others will be aware of your experience(s).
2007-01-20 08:10:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you win then about 98% of realtors would or should be sued also.
As far as the MLS goes think how it must be for buyers, it sure would give the false impression that there was a houseing shortage and thus drive up prices.
Ho yea that in short how they made the houseing bubble.
2007-01-20 08:14:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 02:30:35 · answer #6 · answered by carrilo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would contact a lawyer and ask him, and if you have the contract bring that along with you. so the lawyer can read it. good luck.
2007-01-20 08:06:10 · answer #7 · answered by misty blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋