From: fredfighter@spamcop.net (Fred the Red Shirt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal.moderated misc.invest.real-estate
Subject: Re: HELP! Screwed by realtor/conflict of interest
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 20:33:15 -0500

"John A. Weeks III"  wrote in message
news:...
> In article , Mike Atco
>  wrote:
> 
> > So my question is, what are my options here?  Is it a conflict of
> > interest on the part of my agent, and/or the realty agency?  I have
> > E-mails regarding that property as proof of my interest.  I have never
> > taken legal action against anyone, but this really gets under my skin.
> 
> How were you harmed?  In order to sue, you have to show a dollar and
> cents loss.  How did you lose?  What was the conflict of interest?
> All I see is a conincidence that the person who owned the house that
> you once looked at (but then dropped) ended up retaining the same
> realtor that you did.  How is that illegal or bad?
> 

He hired the agent to help him buy property.  The agent agreed to
look at that piece of property for him.  The agent did not follow
up on that agreement (presumeably because he anticipated that his
commission would be too small).   

If the erstwhile plaintiff now buys an equivalent property for x
dollars more than the could have bought the auctioned property
there my be a question of malpractice with the damages being
x dollars, no?

If there already existed a contract between the buyer of the auctioned
property and the erstwhile plaintiff, the agent was representing
two competating buyers and one might suppose that he failed to 
follow up for the erstwhile plantiff in order to satisfy the other 
buyer.  Sound like there might even be fraud involved, again with 
the damages being X dollars from above.  Possible?

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FF