I fired an agent for stealing our clients and now is contacting the companies I work with?

Question

I fired a Realtor that has worked for my company for several years after finding out she has been stealing our clients and referring them to another Real Estate company for the last few months, I found out when I saw a website showing she was working for another Broker while working out of my office and still holding her license with my Broker.She has Always been a top agent and has been rewarded for her hard work.This agent was always bringing in 15 plus deals a month until Jan 2009, then she dropped to 5 deals only per month during our busiest times in the office while other agents were producing more deals . The agent was busy showing Real Estate every day since Jan. I started to check out her work in our system to see why and found emails to our clients referring them to Real Estate properties under another companies name, after this everything seemed to be easy to find,emails, searches sent under the other companies name etc.... I have filed a complaint with the dept of Real Estate who told me if I pursue she will lose her license.I had decided to just let her go and try to forget about the stealing our clients using my company as a source of leads to refer to her other company she has been working for without my knowledge,Today I found out the agent is contacting all the locations I have contracts with soliciting them to work with her new company( the 1 she has been working for while working fo us) this is very upsetting to me , because of our companies relationship is the only way they know this agent........what can I do ??

Answer 1

What she is doing violates the terms of licensing by the state. She needs to have her license pulled. Who knows what other shenanigans she may be up to which would destroy your reputation in the community? Pursue the complaint. You know what to do, now be assured it is appropriate and essential that you follow through.

Answer 2

Your listing contract should have an expiration date and when it does expire, Do not re-list with the same Real Estate Agent she has NOT proven herself to you. Go with your Real Estate friend and only sign a contract for 6 months not 1 year as most Real Estate Agents want you to do. You can advertise you home yourself and most of the time homes do not sell do to the price being too high. In my neighborhood the homes were listed way to high and I told my neighbors selling there home to drop the price only a thousand dollars lower then what all the other home were selling for in the neighborhood and the home sold within a week. Best Wishes and Happy Home Selling.

Answer 3

This is an old story of sales people working for you and then using your sales leads themselves or offering the sales leads to your competitors, i had a sales manager who worked for me for 20 years doing this and he nearly sent me bankrupt.

I made sure everyone in my industry knew what he had done and he was virtually black banned, you have to be the biggest hard nosed ex-boss in your revenge and never give up causing them trouble if you cant do this you shouldn't be in business.