Central Mississippi REALTORS®
Volume 8 | Issue No. 7
February 21, 2017
CMR Staff on the Move
Farewell Jeanelle!
After almost two and a half years the CMR and MLS staff is saddened but proud to announce that our very own Jeanelle Marshall will be taking a position at MAR beginning March 1st. Jeanelle will be working with Kristen Short in managing the real estate education offered by the REALTOR® Institute and will also be working with Professional Standards enforcement throughout the state. She will be missed on the CMR and MLS staff but we are excited for her new direction. We appreciate the hard work and dedication that Jeanelle has given while with the association and wish her the best in her future endeavors.

 
CMR staff member and former REALTOR® Genny Allison will expand her front desk position at CMR to include assisting members with MLS issues and compliance.   We wish both Jeanelle and Genny the best in their new roles.
Code of Ethics Reminder
There a remedy for buyers' agents failing to explicitly follow showing instructions.  It's a violation of the Code of Ethics, Article 3, Standard of Practice 3-9 that reads as follows:

REALTORS® shall not provide access to listed property on terms other than those established by the listing broker or owner.  That particular Standard of Practice is among those that are part of the Code of Ethics Citation Policy allowing the Respondent to admit to the violation, pay a fine and forgo an ethics hearing.
 
To file a complaint, a listing agent could complete the Ethics Complaint Form. Once verified by the Grievance Committee and the Citation Panel, the buyer's agent who failed to follow the showing instructions would receive an invoice for $250.  The buyer's agent receiving the citation would have two choices: a) Accept the citation and pay it within 10 days rendering the matter closed, OR
b) Not accept the citation and instead have a due process hearing before the Professional Standards Committee who would determine whether or not the violation occurred. The complainant would be anonymous unless the respondent chooses a hearing rather than accepting the citation.
 
SOP 3-9 would also apply to REALTORS® who allow access to listed property by third party contractors without explicit permission from the listing agent or seller.
 
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Register for CMR's "Hot Topics" to untangle issues of the Rankin Co. Utility Ordinance & Treatment Plant. The meeting will be held on Monday, February 27 at 10am (The REALTOR ® Institute).

Special Guests:

Rene Lawrence
Rankin County OCD

Byron Tiller
MS Health Dept.
   
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