- Check any Ontario agent in two minutesRECO’s registrant search, what each field means, and where discipline history hides.
- Multiple representation, explainedWhen one brokerage acts for both sides, what consent you must give, and how TRESA changed it.
- When your agent is the buyerThe disclosure-of-interest rule, what a proper disclosure looks like, and what “RREA is the director” does not tell you.
- Exclusive listing agreementsWhat you are locked into, holdover clauses, and the questions to ask before the pen touches paper.
- How to read a RECO decisionAgreed statements, Code sections, penalties, and what a decision does and doesn’t prove.
- Nine questions before you signA printable list. If an agent won’t answer one in writing, that is your answer.
- Who may enter your homeThe lockbox rule, the five decisions that broke it, and what to do.
- How to complain to RECOWhat the regulator can and cannot do, and how to be taken seriously.
Why we write these
Ontario publishes discipline decisions, but they are written for lawyers and buried in PDFs. Most buyers and sellers never read one until it is too late. The Mustafa Zia decision is a good teaching case because the sellers did nothing unusual: they answered a flyer, trusted a professional, signed what they were given, and were rescued only because their lawyer read the file. Each guide takes one duty from that case and turns it into something you can check.