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Originally Posted by whatnext
Stay classy Chinese realtors:
A Vancouver realtor has been accused of threatening a local businessman after he denounced her for encouraging a bidding war on a house she is trying to flip for a client – in a deal he worries could lead to tax evasion.
The man says he was frightened for his life.
He reported the May 2 incident to the real estate industry regulator and Vancouver police, which are both investigating. He gave The Globe and Mail a recording of a threatening call – from a number connected to Layla Yang, a licensed realtor from Re/Max.
In the recording, a woman he said had identified herself as Ms. Yang warns him in Mandarin: “I’m telling you – people above me are from Harbin [China] gangs. Gangsters, right? You don’t fucking want to be alive.” That call was followed immediately by another, also in Mandarin, from an unidentified man, also recorded. That caller repeatedly demanded to know the businessman’s address and told him, “You have lived for too long.” The Globe had the recordings translated....
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WTF. Our government should be held accountable for aiding and abetting this type of environment in the real estate industry, even if only a shred of what she said is true. An all new low of unprofessional and increasingly seedy real estate transactions and it just shows how hostile they will get if you start to directly question their transactions. Entirely unacceptable, it actually makes me
NOT want to enter the real estate game because a crash seems inevitable at this point.