On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:32:00 -0800, Smitty Two
wrote:

I was in email contact with an agent recently, and decided that she was
not responsive enough to my needs, so I informed her I would look
elsewhere. That seemed acceptable to her at first, but after a couple of
days of chewing on it, she apparently went off the deep end,
constructing a vicious written attack that I would characterize as rabid
or psychotic.

She wrote this letter only to you? If so, forget about it, or write
her a letter in return. You don't have to use profanity, vulgarity,
or scatology to write a strong letter, and I would advice against all
of those. But it wouldn't hurt to write her a letter. One thing you
could say is, "Now I'm certain I made the right choice in ending our
relationship. You are not a person I want to deal with regarding real
estate."

When I was buying, I had a real estate agent for two half days, who
showed me houses that were selling for 25% more than I said I wanted
to spend.

When I bought one, the two women representing the seller still did a
terrible job regarding me, in ways that didn't benefit the seller. A
couple months after I moved it, I had time to make an appointment with
them and I told them what they had done wrong, and that someone my age
would know loads of people who were buying or selling houses, and I
woudn't recommend them to anyone. I don't know if this bothered them
or not, but the whole office they worked for went out of business
within a couple years, and I never saw their pictures in the real
estate ads, as is common in one of the local magazines.

You might arrange a meeting to tell her off, so you could watch her
reaction, rather than just a letter. But she probably won't react
much. The two I talked to had not much to say in return, but maybe
they didn't make the same mistakes the next time.

If she sent a copy to someone else, and harmed you in some way, please
give more details.

I have written to the owner and manager of the Century 21 franchise for
whom she works, but since she's a top seller for him, I'm not holding my
breath that he'll concern himself too much with my complaint.

So do any of you happen to know whether there is a procedure for formal
redress of grievances against agents? Are they sworn to uphold some sort
of code of ethics? Does Century 21 censure its agents if they misbehave,
or are individual franchises free to operate however they choose?

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words addressed only to
you can't hurt you. What is it that happened that has you so
outrages?