{"id":11252,"date":"2010-02-10T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11252"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:46:13","slug":"real-estate-broker-sued-for-secondhand-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11252\/real-estate-broker-sued-for-secondhand-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Broker Sued for secondhand smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Burrage was smoked out of her $405,000 condominium.<\/p>\n

Burrage has a history of asthma and has smelled smoke since she first viewed the unit on the south end of Boston in 2006 with her real estate broker.\u00a0 The broker assured Burrage the smoke she smelled was from a previous owner and the stench would disappear.<\/p>\n

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After Burrage moved in she discovered the smoke was coming from a smoker in the unit below her’s.\u00a0 The condo association refused to fix the problem as did the lower unit where the secondhand smoke was coming from.\u00a0 Burrage moved out and leased the condo in May of 2008.\u00a0 She states, \u201cI\u2019m certainly not a person who\u2019s on a soapbox saying people shouldn\u2019t smoke.\u00a0 But when it affects somebody else, that\u2019s where the line needs to be drawn. It\u2019s an awful thing to not be able to escape from something that\u2019s hurting your health.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Neither the real estate broker, Joseph DeAngelo, nor his lawyer would comment on the case. In a joint court filing summarizing the case, DeAngelo and his employer, Gibson Sotheby\u2019s International Realty, deny that Burrage questioned him about smoke in the condo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cDeAngelo never made any misrepresentations, or any representations at all, concerning the source of the alleged smoke smell,\u2019\u2019 the broker\u2019s lawyer, Jay S. Gregory of Boston, said in the filing.<\/p>\n

Burrage also sued the condo unit below her, and later settled out of court, because the lower unit condo owner stated that it was cheaper just to settle out of court.<\/p>\n

Should Brokers be REQUIRED to disclose ACCURATE information about smoking to prospective buyers?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Burrage was smoked out of her $405,000 condominium. Burrage has a history of asthma and has smelled smoke since she first viewed the unit on the south end of Boston in 2006 with her real estate broker.\u00a0 The broker assured Burrage the smoke she smelled was from a previous owner and the stench would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3492,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3492\/the-epic-battle-ensues-realtor-vs-realtwhore\/","url_meta":{"origin":11252,"position":0},"title":"The Epic Battle Ensues: Realtor vs. Realtwhore","author":"Thomas Hall","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure if you've visited TruliaVoices lately - there is an active thread currently running, at last count, 1,599 responses. 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