MAC Marketing's Director of Sales suspended by RECBC for misconduct. But the RECBC order doesn't identify her as being associated to MAC Marketing?

This is turning out to have been quite the week for MAC Marketing Solutions.

In our last post we told you how one of their former sales managers had been disciplined by the Real Estate Council of BC (RECBC)  for misconduct on April 15, 2013.  As we covered in our post, it's not clear if she was working in association with a MAC project at the time of the infractions.

Two days later, on April 17th, Janet Frost (Director of Sales for MAC Marketing Solutions) was ordered suspended by the RECBC for twenty-one days.

The RECBC order of discipline says Frost:

• (a) marketed and sold Alberta development units in British Columbia, without a disclosure statement for those units filed with the Superintendent of Real Estate in British Columbia;
• (b) received deposits in British Columbia, from British Columbia residents and forwarded them to the developer’s Alberta sales centre with the expectation that they would be provided to an Alberta lawyer, rather than ensuring that the deposits were held in a trust account in a savings institution in British Columbia;
• (c) failed to act in the best interests of the buyers and disclose all known material information about the property, including the fact that the development was being marketed in British Columbia without a disclosure statement filed with the Superintendent of Real Estate or that their deposit monies might be at risk once the deposits were paid out of the trust of the developer’s lawyer to the developer, contrary to sections 3-3(1)(a) and 3-3(1)(f) of the Council Rules;
• (d) failed to disclose the nature of the representation that she was providing to the buyers, whether she was providing real estate services on behalf of the developer and receiving remuneration from the developer, contrary to section 5-10 of the Council Rules;
• (e) failed to disclose, in writing, prior to the buyers entering into contracts for the purchase of the property, the source and amount of the remuneration she received or anticipated receiving, contrary to section 5-11 of the Council Rules;
• (f) permitted A.H.’s name to be placed on each of the contracts she wrote when A.H. was not providing real estate services to the buyers prior to the acceptance of the buyers’ contracts for purchase of the properties, contrary to section 3-4 of the Council Rules; and
• (g) failed to submit the trade records for the D.R. and R.R. transaction, the D.M. and M.M. transaction and the Y.H. Inc. transaction to the brokerage, contrary to section 3-2(1) of the Council Rules.

For this she has been suspended for twenty-one days, from June 12, 2013 to July 2, 2013 (inclusive), she must successfully complete the Real Estate Trading Services Remedial Education Course; and she must pay enforcement expenses to the Council in the amount of $1,000.00.

But here's the rub.

The RECBC order doesn't identify Janet Frost as working with MAC Marketing Solutions at the time of the misconduct. Instead it links her to Maverick Real Estate Corporation of Delta:

Issue: Janet Marie Kathleen Frost, representative, entered into a Consent Order with the Council that, while licensed with Maverick Real Estate Corporation, Delta, she committed professional misconduct within the meaning of section 35(1)(a) of the Real Estate Services Act in that she failed to act with reasonable care and skill, in relation to a development in Calgary.

A quick check of Frost's LinkedIn profile reveals that her she hasn't worked with Maverick Real Estate Corporation since 2007, and even then she is only listed with Maverick for one year from 2006-2007. More significantly, during the period she was with Maverick, Frost was also a sales representative for MAC Marketing Solutions.

According to Frost's LinkedIn profile Frost was a sales representative for MAC Marketing from 2002-2009 and MAC's Director of Sales from 2009 to Present:

So what gives here? 

Is the RECBC only now getting around to ruling on misconduct Frost committed in 2006/2007? If that's the case, were her activities with Maverick separate from her duties as a MAC Sales Representative/Sales Director from 2002-2013? 

It's certainly beneficial for MAC that their Sales Director receives a suspension but in the RECBC announcement she isn't tied to their corporate brand.

It makes you wonder if, when the RECBC finally gets around to announcing the results of their investigation into MAC's February fake asian buyer scandal, the guilty parties will be identified as MAC employees? Or will their real estate licences tie them to another entity?

On thing is for sure, at the rate that current and former MAC associated agents are being disciplined by Real Estate governing boards, we might have to add a tote board to our sidebar just to keep track.

==================

Email: village_whisperer@live.ca
Click 'comments' below to contribute to this post.

Please read disclaimer at bottom of blog.