{"id":9062,"date":"2016-10-15T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2016-10-17T12:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:18:35","slug":"lab-coat-agents-founders-accused-violent-sexist-comments-inman-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-brokers\/lab-coat-agents-founders-accused-violent-sexist-comments-inman-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Coat Agents’ founders accused of violent, sexist comments during Inman SF"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story begins on August 4th, 2016. The opening scene is a private luxury shuttle where a group of men and women boarded to be whisked from the Inman Connect San Francisco tour of a posh mansion to the Inman Innovators Award event. On the ride over, something went awry.<\/p>\n

The men believed that just a few rows away from the women, they could have a private conversation. Locker talk, if you will.<\/p>\n

Three men allegedly said the following, which three women claim to have heard clearly:<\/p>\n

\u201cI swear, I would have punched that bitch if I knew I could do it without fucking killing her.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI mean, I know how to hit a cunt so that she can hide the bruises.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cNow I\u2019m back on Tinder just hitting that shit\u200a\u2014\u200aI\u2019m still married but fuck that cheating bitch.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou guys know what I mean\u200a\u2014\u200afuck all the bitches, amiright?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYeah, man\u2026 you had every right to fuck that bitch up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIf my girl ever did that to me she would fucking regret it for sure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHell yeah\u2026 who\u2019s the hottest girl you have ever screwed off of Tinder?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the women began to recognize the voices. The women were then addressed directly. “Are you ladies learning something up there?! Don\u2019t ever cheat on your man or he has every right to fuck you up<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related editorial: A true story of misogyny in the real estate industry<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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\nNone of the women shared their story until Thursday, October 13th when Stacie Perrault Staub outlined the encounter in detail<\/a>, never naming the men or offering hints as to their identities.<\/p>\n

The three men implicate themselves<\/h2>\n

All three men implicated themselves on Friday, October 14th, posting on Facebook that they were<\/em> on the bus, but claimed they never said anything to that effect while\u00a0they privately discussed a crumbling marriage.<\/p>\n

Ronnie George<\/em>, Real Estate Agent and Team Leader at Keller Williams Realty CENLA Partners in Louisiana, was allegedly one of the commenters on the bus, along with Lab Coat Agents founders Nicholas “Nick” Baldwin<\/em> (the COO at Lab Coat Agents and Listing Specialist at The Baldwin Dream Team at Keller Williams Realty in New Jersey) and Herubay “Tristan” Ahumada<\/em> (CEO at Lab Coat Agents and Real Estate Agent at Keller Williams World Class, Tristan & Associates), who were on their way to find out whether as finalists, Lab Coat Agents had won Inman’s “Most Innovative Technology” category (which Cloud MLX ultimately went on to win).<\/p>\n

The morning after the bus ride in question, this picture was posted on Instagram:
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\nThe three men have not responded to our requests for comment, but our email tracking system confirms they have opened the emails.<\/p>\n

On Monday, October 17th, a Keller Williams spokesperson said, \u201cDerogatory statements and actions have no place in our Keller Williams\u2019 culture. We take these matters seriously, and have taken immediate action.\u201d We have asked for clarification as to what actions have been taken.<\/p>\n

Throwing gasoline on a fire<\/h2>\n

On Friday, the three men\u00a0called\u00a0Staub (as well as witnesses Valerie Garcia and Nikki Beauchamp) liars, even making videos on the topic to defend their innocence and subsequently deleted the videos from the “closed” Lab Coat Agents (LCA) group on Facebook. Anyone that watched this group today saw threads deleted in front of them.<\/p>\n

While the videos, self-implicating status updates, and references to this incidence have been scrubbed from LCA, we have hundreds of screenshots as well as shared videos, just as countless private Facebook groups and real estate practitioners do.<\/p>\n

For example, the deleted videos have since been uploaded to YouTube (courtesy of Rob Hahn):<\/p>\n