I would like to say that I had requested, my sister, to be my exclusive real estate agent to rent my upstairs apartment. As such, my sister listed the property on MLS and worked hard including taking and uploading photos, taking calls, etc. My father-in-law (a life estate tenant) went to the above real estate and told them to look out for any tenants. However, it was this broker's responsibility to ensure that this property was not listed on MLS.
Additionally, we informed the broker that it was listed and the broker only said that "this is how we do business here". Various propsective tenants had come to see the apartment and once we had someone that was interested, an agent from this broker's place of residence came with the future tenant's paperwork and even asked that a lease be drawn up... The whole time I was thinking he had been consulting with my real estate agent who is also my sister.
Well, when we told the broker the property was listed already and at the very least, he share the commission check he received from tenant, he was extremely rude to my sister and stated the above phrase in quotations. I paid my true real estate agent/sister 50% of the commission fee that was owed to her and was supposed to be reimbursed by the broker. I am out $950 that I had to pay my real estate agent/sister. I am appalled that someone can get away with something like that. I hope someone can start an investigation as soon as possible. Everyone beware!!!
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