What is wrong with certain agents?

[jackmichigan]

Originally Posted by 1insider

Most agents/people understand right and wrong without having to attend a class. I'm guessing unethical personalities are rarely transformed after attending a NAR ethics class.

Exactly. Once a person reaches adulthood their moral compass has already been set. Taking an "ethics class" will rarely, if ever, result in some magical transformation.

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by 1insider

Teaching ethics is about as effective as telling people not to panic. Most agents/people understand right and wrong without having to attend a class. I'm guessing unethical personalities are rarely transformed after attending a NAR ethics class.

Originally Posted by jackmichigan

Exactly. Once a person reaches adulthood their moral compass has already been set. Taking an "ethics class" will rarely, if ever, result in some magical transformation.

Sure, basic personal integrity is unlikely to be transformed via epiphany in an ethics class.

But, "ethics" are often a creation of a group for operating purposes, not a fact of nature.
Where is it scripted, other than in NAR ethics, that it is unethical to approach another real estate client?
Where is it scripted, other than in NAR ethics, that there is a specific protocol for telling people that "Buyers agency is free?"

Ethics classes offer some fine tuning ops, but can't reprogram poor basic integrity.

[DMenscha]

I showed a couple of properties to a guy over the weekend. He emailed me and suggested that he was seeing a property with a non-member of our MLS this week and (innocently I'm sure) suggested I could save the other agent 3 hours of road time, by showing his listing to him instead of the listing agent. I told him there's no way I'm treading on a relationship already started and if he liked the property he should buy it through the channel he already had opened.

I called the other agent about another property he had listed nearby and as a sidebar told him about the email the prospect had sent to me as a heads up. Other agent says "Thanks, If he actually buys this property I'll send you a 10% referral fee just for being up front about it".

I told him to keep his money, perhaps I'll sell the other piece I had originally called about.

I like his style and I like mine, although he did list and sell a couple of places that should have been mine in the past.