$20K fine for real estate agent caught drinking client’s milk from carton in Kamloops, B.C.

VANCOUVER –

A British Columbia actual property agent has been fined $20,000 after being caught on digicam consuming milk straight out of the jug at a house he was exhibiting.

A consent order launched by the BC Financial Services Authority final week says Mike Rose was alone within the dwelling in Kamloops, B.C., in July final 12 months as he waited for his shoppers, who had been excited about shopping for the property.

Rose went to the fridge to seek out water, however as a substitute swigged some milk straight from the container, which he then put again within the fridge.

The consent order, agreed by each the superintendent of actual property and Rose, says the house owners of the house noticed him consuming the milk after they reviewed footage from a surveillance digicam, then confronted him about it two days later.

Rose, who apologized for his actions, was informed he wasn’t welcome within the dwelling and his shoppers changed him of their buy of the property.

He says within the order that his behaviour was out of character, and he was “unusually dehydrated” on the time due to a brand new medicine, in addition to being beneath “considerable stress.”

Rose, who’s now working at a distinct brokerage, agreed to pay a disciplinary penalty of $20,000 to the authority for conduct unbecoming, and $2,500 in enforcement bills.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July. 28, 2023.