A very serious matter - filing a harassment complaint against estate agent

dodger1

Dowsett wrote: »

Correct,

No, i have not made my move yet. Still deciding what to do. I have all the details, just considering my options and trying to predict what would happen.

Thanks to all your replies.

There is only one move for you, man up and confont him, preferably where he works. Any other moves are quite simply down to your wife, she is being harassed not you.

DVardysShadow

Werdnal wrote: »

Suggest the EA buys out your half of the house, and they can live there together happily ever after :rotfl:

I think this goes to the heart of the problem, OP has been approaching this from completely the wrong angle.

If the relationship is breaking down, then it is not for OP to get upset about the use of the [nearly ex] wife's phone number or the texts. It is for the [nx] wife to take up if she is so minded.

However to my mind, it is more than enough reason to insist to the [nx] wife that another agent is used - and also, I think, adequate grounds to sack the agent immediately. It is a breach of trust. The wrong angle is to think it is a breach of the marriage trust. The right angle is to think of it as a breach of contract trust between the agent and the OP.

paddyrg

Were I the OP, no matter what the other circumstances, I wouldn't want that EA handling my house any more. I would advise the EA company owner that I had found it completely inappropriate that the agent involved was being overfamiliar with what is still my wife, and that my business was going somewhere professional.

ruggedtoast

Man up and take him on. Head office can't help you keep a woman. What do you expect them to do, give you a map to where your cojones are?

pawlala

isn't that part of the after service?

amcluesent

The OP has been watching too many adverts...

"How very dare you...!"

Ulfar

The Op has not made the situation clear. If as it sounds he has split from his wife then he has no chance of proving data protection breaches.

The only person who could make a complaint is the Ex-wife if she is unhappy with the attention. If she wants the attention then she doesn't mind the EA calling her and there is no breach.

As for the EA dealing with the sale of the property, as long as he comes up with a sale at a price you are happy with then why worry.

This is going to sound harsh, but who your EX speaks to and for what reasons is her business now not yours.

DVardysShadow

Ulfar wrote: »

... This is going to sound harsh, but who your EX speaks to and for what reasons is her business now not yours.

Exactly. But.

But if your Estate Agent starts getting frisky with your ex who is co owner of the house the EA is supposed to be flogging for you, that is very much your business.

marliepanda

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Exactly. But.

But if your Estate Agent starts getting frisky with your ex who is co owner of the house the EA is supposed to be flogging for you, that is very much your business.

Buuuuut surely if he IS getting frisky with her he will be highly motivated to sell for a lot of money so she has a lot of money as well as whatever is attracting him at the moment...

DVardysShadow

marliepanda wrote: »

Buuuuut surely if he IS getting frisky with her he will be highly motivated to sell for a lot of money so she has a lot of money as well as whatever is attracting him at the moment...

Equally, as OP and partner are becoming exes, and we know that exes often war over disposal of the property as the last battle, she might be the one who does not want to sell and having a pet EA will enable her to meet this objective. Really, there is so much scope here for the EA to do things which are a breach of trust, that the involvement itself amounts to a breach of trust IMO.

Another potential game which can be played is for EA to arrange a sale to a stooge at under value, fending off all other buyers and he and ex extract the money later.

It is well known that if an EA has any interest in a property they are selling [other than the commission], they should declare it, because of the issues which can arise. This falls into the same category.