This language is now on the front screen of the Multiple Listing Service when agents sign in.
"Please be aware that you must have the listing broker's permission in order to advertise their listings. IDX display of another broker's listings only applies to those websites owned by a member broker or agent and approved by NEFMLS. While you are free to advertise your own listings on any website, Craigslist or any other third party website does not qualify for IDX display."
Last week, there was a local agent advertising one of our listings on Craigslist in a Flyer with her photo at the bottom as if it were her own listing. It had been posted a couple of times a day for the last four or five days when we caught it.
My first thought was disbelief that someone would so blatantly advertise another agent's listing as if it were their own. I called my Broker the next day and also called the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors. They took care of it. Apparently, we weren't the only ones being targeted. We would like to think that the agent was being spammed, but we never heard back from her or her broker with an apology, so it must have been on purpose.
In case you are thinking of advertising another agent's listing without their permission, just don't do it. It is an ethics violation and it is against the rules of the NEFMLS. We did not file an ethics complain against the agent, as this is the first time this has happened. If it happens again, that will be another story.
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