Remax Other Lawsuits and News

A lawsuit has been filed by Quesnel-born Sikh businessman Satinder Paul Singh Dhillon, 29, in The Supreme Court of British Columbia, alleging that Re/Max's Abbotsford, B.C. affiliate, and the Sutton Group-Medallion Realty from Surrey, B.C. conspired with several other Defendants to defraud the Plaintiff.

Three St. Paul landlords, Frank Steinhauser, Tom Gallagher, and Sandra Harrilal, are suing the City of St. Paul for selective and illegal housing-code enforcement under the RICO, Fair Housing, Civil Rights, Antitrust, Abuse of Process, and Tortious Interference with Contract and Business Expediency laws.

A district attorney in Colorado has indicted RE/MAX 100 real estate professional Ricardo Medina and independent loan officers Nancy Rios and Perla Alvarado on charges of forgery, theft, and conspiracy under the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, according to the National Assn. of REALTORS®. (Note that NAR has already stripped the REALTOR® designation from Medina in its press release.)

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A high-profile Des Moines area Realtor has been indicted this week for fraud of more than $70,000. Leonard Fazio of West Des Moines, is a Realtor with Re/Max A-1 Best Realtors in Urbandale.

Earlier this year, an African-American man who asserted that a realty company denied him a real estate franchise because of his race, won a $100,000 jury award against a Colorado real estate company. An all-white federal jury awarded the money to Edward Tyler after a six-day trial in February 1998. Tyler filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division before he filed his federal lawsuit.

Lieff Cabraser is investigating claims that major real estate brokerages in California, including Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA, Intero, Lyon, Prudential California Realty and Re/Max of California and Hawaii, received indirect kickbacks of real estate closing costs paid by sellers of residential property, in violation of federal law.

Michael Eliasof, 63, of Mahwah, once a top-producing real estate agent for Re/Max Property Center in Paramus, admitted orchestrating the sales of the houses in Paterson using phony paperwork in no-money-down subprime deals that quickly collapsed, leaving lenders holding worthless loans.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it has charged RE/MAX Realty 100, RE/MAX real estate broker Phyllis Hasenstab, and homeowner Edith Halvorsen with violating the Fair Housing Act by allegedly refusing to permit an African-American woman to view a home that was for sale.

An agent for Re/Max International, Polin was honored at the company's convention in Atlanta last March with the Chairman's Club Award. That put her in an elite group - fewer than 1,400 of Re/Max's 120,000 agents worldwide - who had gross commissions last year of at least $500,000.

The defendant in the Ummel case is Mike Little, a veteran agent with ReMax Associates. He will argue that Marty Ummel, who brought the case with her husband, Vernon, is trying to shift the blame for the couple’s own failures of research and due diligence.