unethical broker

Sounds awful. I don't think I'd ever hire BHS just based on how crappy their web site is, with any luck that very crappyness will limit the damage to you.

Isn't what she did against REBNY code of ethics? Did she represent you in a deal? If not, I don't see how she could do what she did.

http://www.rebny.com/pdf_files/Code_of_Ethics.pdf

B. Members shall not:

(2) willfully or knowingly make, circulate or transmit, or cause to be made, circulated or transmitted, either orally, in writing or by any electronic means, any statement or allegation which is untrue or which is intended or calculated to cause a false or misleading
value to be placed upon any property;

so are we talking about gail gross?

jess: You are cherry picking codes. This is the one which they all have agreed to waive. Almost 90% of listings and 100% of agents fail this test.

Going back to bendy's original complaint, I would think that she could go to BHS and ask them to remove her apartment information from the site, and reference the REBNY code. I sure would be pissed if an agent I worked with for 3 days did what bendy said she did.

listen to the deafening silence.

they're all wondering (as am I) how you fire a broker with whom you signed a contract.

cc: you can terminate the contract at any time.

really? "at any time?"

yep. It's a contract with a broker, not the seller. We've fired one broker and hired another the other week.

can you fire them after you have a buyer?

I thought contracts with brokers generally involve the seller giving the broker an exclusive on the property for a period of time (usually 6 months), in exchange for the broker agreeing to market the property. I take it people are wondering how the seller got out of the commitment to give an exclusive for a period of time?

precisely.

You guys are only seeing the latest and worst incarnation of Real Estate brokerage. While in general over the past 30 years I've found the majority of brokers to be ill informed on RE law and what their fiduciary duty was, it's nothing like today where the explosion of idiots into the field is truly overwhelming. When I first started selling Coops downtown, I think there were probably 150 of us doing it. Now, it's probably 100 times that number. And it's partly the fault of the buyers and sellers: the sellers give their listing to "cousin Fred' who just started working at XYZ Brokerage instead of the person who made every sale in the building for the last 10 years. And it's gotten to the point where there are SO many brokers that everyone has a cousin Fred. It's forced a lot of the more competent brokers out of the business and replaced them with the exact type of brokers which everyone here complains about.

"cc: you can terminate the contract at any time"

Sure: contracts mean nothing. this is exactly the type of advice that if a broker gave it, you'd be all over them for being ................

Contracts with brokers can be exclusive or not, and for any time period agreed on, or no time period at all. I've seen many variations and don't know of any arrangement that is standard.

Even if the seller *did* breach the contract, the broker still should not have listed the apartment as sold, since she knew it was not sold. We've only heard one side of this story, and there is a remote possibility (farfetched, I know, but still possible) that the broker listed it as sold by accident. In either case, BHS has at least an ethical obligation to take the incorrect information off their website as soon as they are notified and to fix the comps list, too.

In the old days, before sharing info on the internet, no one would have been aware of what the broker did and she would have had her petty revenge. I believe brokers will eventually find that the old nasty ways no longer serve them well in this brave, new world. As we used to chant at our anti-war demos back in the day, "the whole world is watching!"

Yes, but not cool to give a dog a bad name.. and hang her!!