When you engage an agent to represent you or to act on your behalf in a particular real estate matter, an client/agent relationship arises between you and the broker/firm represented by that agent. (Royal LePage Reliance would be the broker, and Blair Sonnichsen would be the agent). This relationship can be created by written contract - such as when you sign a listing agreement for representation in selling your home (Vendor Agency), or verbally, through the conduct and activity between you and the agent, implied or otherwise - such that when the agent takes on the role of representing you in viewing properties, obtaining information or assisting in negotiations without any written agreement, it still results in your reliance and acceptance of the agent's actions on your behalf. Here, the agent still has the feduciary responsibility to ensure fairness to you, the client.

The Agent's Responsibilities

Once an agent/client relationship is formed between Blair and yourself, Royal LePage and Blair are required, by law, to protect and promote your best interests in the transaction, as they would their own. The following outlines some of the duties arising out of an agent/client relationship in a typical real estate transaction:

Loyalty to serve your best interests ahead of anyone else's, including their own and at all times to exercise good faith and to disclose all known facts and information which may influence your decisions.

Obedience to follow all of your lawful instructions.

Discretion to keep confidential your private circumstances, motivations and confidences which you shared with the agent or which the agent or their broker/firm has learned.

Competence to exercise reasonable care and skill in performing all assigned duties.

Accounting of all money, deposits or other property entrusted to them.