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Consent Order
Consent Order
- Licensee
- Klaus Vogel, Klaus Dieter Vogel
- Brokerage at Time of Sanctioned Activity
- Current Brokerage
- Royal LePage 100 Mile Realty, Lone Butte
- Consent Order Date
- 10 October 2018
Summary
Mr. Vogel committed professional misconduct while acting as a limited dual agent for the purchase and sale of a manufactured home located in Horse Lake. He failed to take steps to ascertain whether the property had a valid CSA approval sticker or silver label as required by the BC Safety Standards Act.
Mr. Vogel also committed professional misconduct while acting as a designated listing agent for the sale of the same manufactured home. While knowing that the property had undergone electrical alterations, he:
- failed to take steps to determine whether the property had a valid CSA approval sticker or silver label as required by the BC Safety Standards Act; and
- failed to disclose in writing that the property did not have a valid CSA sticker or silver label as required by the BC Safety Standards Act.
Results
A discipline committee of the Council has ordered the following:
- Mr. Vogel is reprimanded and must pay a discipline penalty of $5,000 to the Council.
- Mr. Vogel must pay enforcement expenses of $1,500 to the Council.
- At his own expense, Mr. Vogel must successfully complete the Real Estate Trading Services Remedial Education Course.
- At his own expense, Mr. Vogel must successfully complete the Manufactured Homes: What REALTORS ® Need to Know Course.