Kansas Realtor Pleads Guilty

[Gary L. Farnsworth]

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/lo...d-2b06f1d6a740

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

Another reason to regulate home inspectors - to stop them from doing realtor type stuff.

[James E. Braun, CMI]

Ya, it does not look like it helped the Realtors to be regulated.
My girlfriend, who is a Realtor, told me yesterday that Realtors do not dare to rat on other Realtors. I told her that inspectors constanly rat on other inspectors, this is how we keep our profession more pure. I starting to wonder if NAR is really a cult.

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

Well sure it didn't help the consumers the Realtors screwed BUT, if we just had of had licensed home inspectors with a MANDATORY type of E & O insurance everything would have been OK and everyone would live happily everafter.

[James E. Braun, CMI]

Chig-ching $$$$

[Andrew T. Shick]

Pfft...
That's nothing:
http://www.examiner.net/news/x282359...of-sex-assault

Realtor accused of sex assault


By Jeff Martin - jeff.martin@examiner.net
The Examiner
Posted Oct 03, 2008 @ 11:25 PM
Blue Springs, MO —
A protection order has been granted against a prominent Blue Springs Realtor, and both police and his employer say they are investigating.
David C. Witt, 57, of Blue Springs, is accused of sexually assaulting a 30-year-old woman while the two of them were at a home on Sept. 5. Both Witt and the woman were reportedly at the home on Shrout Road outside Grain Valley. The home is listed as for sale through Reece & Nichols, where Witt and the alleged victim work.
In documents filed at the Jackson County 16th Circuit Court in Independence, the woman accused Witt of pushing her down on the floor and repeatedly attempting to remove her underclothes and making other unwanted sexual advances.
Witt has not been charged, though the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department did bring Witt in for questioning on Sept. 16 after the report of sexual assault was filed. At that time, police said, she accused Witt of sodomizing her.
A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department said that shortly after the report was filed information was turned over to the county prosecutor, who confirmed Thursday that information has been received.
The protection order hearing was held Tuesday before Judge Anthony Romano of the 16th Circuit Court. At the hearing, Witt was ordered not to have any contact with the woman, either in public or at Reece & Nichols.
Romano wrote that the employer will have in place certain arrangements that will keep them from coming in contact.
Larry Wallace, office manager for Reece & Nichols, declined to comment and forwarded questions to Chris Kelly, an attorney for Reece & Nichols.
“We’re not commenting at this time except to say that an investigation is ongoing,” Kelly said, adding: “Certainly if we’re asked to comply with authorities, we will.”
Dana Outlaw, an Independence attorney representing the alleged victim, declined to comment on Thursday.
Messages left for Witt and his attorney, Pat Starke, were not returned Thursday or Friday.





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The story is much better than this, if it all proves to be true, I'll tell the whole thing.
My wife's gotta start carrying a gun.

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

Last winter (probably December) a similar case showed up in the news 1 time on a Reece & Nichols agent - then died and disappeared.

The realtor was in a Kansas office off state line road. If memory serves me, the assault was of a YOUNG girl.

[Andrew T. Shick]

Apparently another female agent has come forward as well, with similar allegations.

[James E. Braun, CMI]

It is sad after the first attack that this Realtor was not removed from KAR. It is apparent as long as you pay your dues to NAR and hold a state license that is all that KAR cares about. Sad, very sad.