A longtime North Vancouver real estate agent has been found guilty of professional misconduct and of conduct unbecoming a licensee by a disciplinary panel for the Real Estate Council of 小蓝视频
The regulatory body released the decision Sept. 19, following a hearing in April into the conduct of Trevor Inglis of North Vancouver鈥檚 Remax Crest Realty.
The council found Inglis engaged in 鈥渄eceptive dealing鈥� by either faking or changing an offer to purchase his client鈥檚 property in Pemberton Heights in 2013.
According to details in the real estate council鈥檚 decision, Inglis was co-listing a property on Graveley Street in October 2013 with another real estate agent from Royal LePage Sussex, and had recently reduced the price to just under $1.2 million. When one prospective buyer emailed Inglis to say he鈥檇 like to make an offer for a lower amount, Inglis wrote back to say the owners weren鈥檛 interested and that other potential buyers who were previously interested in the property had made an offer.
But when the co-listing real estate agent heard about that and asked for a copy of the offer Inglis had received, she thought the document he provided looked unusual. She spoke to her managing broker 鈥� who called the real estate council.
According to the disciplinary panel鈥檚 written reasons, Inglis testified at the hearing that the offer from a buyer with a last name of 鈥淗uang鈥� had been left on the kitchen counter on the property 鈥揳long with a real estate agent鈥檚 business card 鈥� at an open house, after he鈥檇 given a pre-printed offer form to an 鈥淎sian person鈥� who asked for it. He told the council he鈥檇 altered the form to delete his own name as the buyer鈥檚 agent, and added the real estate agent鈥檚 name whose card had been left with the offer.
But that real estate agent told the panel he hadn鈥檛 been involved in writing the offer and had not had a client named Huang.
The discipline committee also noted Inglis gave a contradictory version of how he鈥檇 received the offer in a message he left for his co-listing agent, saying he鈥檇 been handed the offer in person. A handwriting expert called to testify said it was 鈥減robable鈥� Inglis wrote the offer himself.
The committee concluded Inglis had changed or made up the offer to create the impression that his story about receiving offers on the property was true, then made 鈥渇alse statements鈥� to both his co-listing agent and the real estate council about it.
When Inglis found out about the investigation, he called the co-listing agent and left her a phone message, according to the panel鈥檚 written reasons, saying, 鈥淪o if you really want to get blackballed you鈥檝e gone to the right person because trust me I wield a bigger bat than you do.鈥� The message continued: 鈥淪o you鈥檙e off my books as far as ever doing a deal. I will never, ever, ever process one of your offers ever. So you鈥檙e done.鈥�
Inglis told the committee when he left the message he was extremely upset. The council found in threatening retaliation, Inglis committed 鈥渃onduct unbecoming a licensee.鈥� A future hearing will determine what penalty Inglis is handed.
Wes MacMillan, the lawyer representing Inglis before the disciplinary panel, said in an emailed statement that 鈥渨e believe that the council disregarded its own witness who gave key evidence鈥� that backed up Inglis鈥� version of events. MacMillan said as the case is still before the council 鈥渄iscussion of an appeal is premature.鈥�
The four-bedroom home at 1595 Graveley St. sold for just under the asking price of $1.2 million in December 2013.
