The Real Estate Council of B.C. has rejected a complaint against a West 麻豆传媒映画Realtor, agreeing that the man who filed the complaint was making a mountain out of a molehill.
The council ruled recently that Paul Howard Isaacs was not guilty of professional misconduct, as alleged by the spouse of a former owner of a West 麻豆传媒映画lot that Isaacs sold for them.
The three-member discipline committee reached that conclusion following a hearing in February.
The complaint, launched by former owner Frank Cassidy, was over Isaacs鈥� allowing a prospective buyer for a $3-million lot on Proctor Avenue to , who live in Hong Kong most of the year.
As part of the testing, a small backhoe was used to dig three samples on the lot down to bedrock.
Isaacs didn鈥檛 deny that, but argued the excavation was of a relatively minor nature on a vacant lot and that he had implied authority based on a 20-year friendship and previous dealings with the owner.
The discipline committee agreed, noting that while Isaacs鈥� version of events was straightforward, Cassidy鈥檚 was at times exaggerated and coloured by a strong emotional reaction.
In particular, while Cassidy described the results of the soil test on the lot as 鈥渁n absolute mess鈥� when he saw it, photos showed that description was 鈥渟ignificantly exaggerated,鈥� according to the committee鈥檚 written ruling, adding the lot couldn鈥檛 plausibly be described as landscaped or a garden.
The committee added it was difficult to see how Cassidy thought any buyer could do 鈥渄ue diligence鈥� on the lot 鈥� a condition of the sale 鈥� without soil tests.
Isaacs was 鈥渃learly acting in (Cassidy鈥檚) best interests in doing what was necessary to sell the property,鈥� which the owners had bought 16 years earlier for $650,000, and had previously listed for sale a number of times, the committee concluded.
The committee noted in its decision that the excavation didn鈥檛 prevent the lot from being sold soon after to the next-door neighbour for over $3 million 鈥� a deal that had already been signed when Cassidy saw the condition of the lot.
Isaacs stated in an email that the decision shows not all real estate agents who have complaints launched against them are 鈥渂ad.鈥�
The most recent assessed value of the still-vacant Procter Avenue lot is just under $3.5 million.
