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“A real estate agent in Colorado Springs sent four children -two of them family friends — to exact her revenge on a client who passed on a lucrative contract nearly three years ago, police said. [This ReMax agent], is accused of supplying four 13-year-old boys with the vegetable oil and spray paint they used to cause $17,000 in damage to a home in Pine Creek, an upscale subdivision in … Colorado Springs.” Damage also included broken windows and vulgar gang-like signs spray painted on the home. (Read Full Story: Real Estate Agent Arrested in $17,000 in Damage)
Apparently, this real estate agent of 20 years was working with a couple back in 2005 who refused to sign a Buyer’ Agency and wound up buying a home with a different agent. Per the recent article, “Their business relationship ended … when [the agent] sent [the Buyers] a contract with language that other real estate agents called into question…” They didn’t trust her.
Mad that she “lost out” on about $27,000 in commissions, she (allegedly) lost her mind and turned to a life of crime … 3 years later!
She eventually turned herself into the Colorado Springs Police on May 2, 2008, after the neighbors of the vandalized home were being falsely accused for the damage.
The owners of the home now have a restraining order against this agent because, “If she is capable of doing this to our house three years later, then what else is she capable of?”
What is odd, besides the fact that she chose to do this 3 years later, is that this particular agent is not “starving” like a lot of other agents out there. She is rather successful. She has 17 active listings in highly desirable areas and does fairly well for herself … or so it appears. Now she will probably lose her license and face prison time for 2-Felony IV counts: Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Mischief.
I guess this is one way to weed out my local competition.
