>>Understanding the Hearing Process This 23-minute video presentation features GLVAR Legal Counsel explaining the various stages of a Professional Standards hearing, from filing a complaint to presenting your case at the hearing and more.
Roles and relationships of the parties
(1) Who was the listing broker?
(2) Who was the cooperating broker or brokers?
(3) Were any of the parties acting as subagents? As buyer brokers? In some other capacity?
(4) Did any of the cooperating brokers have an agreement, written or otherwise, to act as agent or in some other capacity on behalf of any of the parties?
(5) Were any of the brokers (including the listing broker) acting as a principal in the transaction?
(6) What were the brokers' relationships with respect to the seller, the purchaser, the listing broker, and any other cooperating brokers involved in the transaction?
(a) Was the party to whom the property was sold represented by a party with whom the broker had previously dealt?
(b) Is the primary shareholder of the buyer-corporation a party with whom the broker had previously dealt?
(c) Was a prior prospect a vital link to the buyer?
(7) Are all appropriate parties to the matter joined?
