Well here is a new situation. I am an Associate Broker at one firm while my Significant Other is an Associate Broker at another firm. He had an interesting situation happen today.
One of his sales associates had a "Buyer Agency" agreement. Now in this area we are tri-jurisdictional so if you are licensed in all 3 jurisdictions (states of MD & VA and the District of Columbia which isn't a state) and you are showing properties in all 3 jurisdictions you have to have a Buyer Agency Agreement in all 3. In Maryland if you don't, you have what is called Presumed Buyer Agency.
So the client goes to another Realtor because the REALTOR she had been working with didn't get back to her when she wanted to see properties; took a couple of days to return phone calls, basically acted pretty unprofessional.
So my Significant Other was working with his associate to try and work through the issue. The buyer didn't remember signing a Buyer Agency Agreement, but she told him that with all the paperwork that she had been signing on the sale of her home that she might have signed paperwork. She couldn't remember.
My Significant Other called the agent almost a week ago and asked the Associate to fax over the Buyer Agency Agreement to him. He had spoken to the Managing Broker at the other firm and they had said that they would of course not intentionally try to violate the Buyer Agency Agreement with the other Broker.
Well it took 6 days. My Significant Other called the Associate and told her that she had to get the Buyer Agency Agreement to him by Noon today. A little bit past Noon she appeared in his office. She looked at him and told him that there never was a Buyer Agency Agreement and she was bluffing. She wanted the commission and thought since the Buyer was a friend of a friend that she could pull it off.
She was incensed when my Significant Other told her that someone with her poor ethics wasn't welcomed in his office any longer. She left the office and promptly called the Principal Broker and told him that she had been fired.
She weaved a beautiful tale to the Principal Broker about how she had been scorned, it was racial, is was because she is a woman and anti-heterosexual ... just use your imagination!!!!
Well she didn't get her job back. And he is considering filing a complaint against her. What are your thoughts?
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