The show’s star real estate broker Numbers 1, Christine Girouard, as well as her business and life partner, Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin, had their real estate brokerage license suspended Friday by the OACIQ.
The brokerage license is linked to an agency, in this case RE/MAX D’ICI, which has decided to terminate the contracts. “The OACIQ has received such an administrative notice from RE/MAX D’ICI, concerning Christine Girouard and Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin, and their suspension is effective from noon this Friday, May 19, ”confirms the organization.
Since Wednesday, the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ) has been conducting its investigation and contacting all the people who have worked directly or indirectly with the two brokers.
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Real estate brokers Christine Girouard and Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin
For two seasons, viewers witnessed M’s bold style.me Girouard, including at least one episode in which the broker violated nine articles of the Real Estate Brokerage Actaccording to the analysis of the former president and CEO of the OACIQ Robert Nadeau.
Still allowed to create your own agency
Currently, the two brokers could still work on their own or be taken over by another brand until the conclusion of the OACIQ investigation.
Christine Girouard had 33 properties for sale under her name at RE/MAX D’ICI on Wednesday. She transferred 13 of her sales contracts to broker Carolyne Laurier, who was part of Team Christine Girouard and had no property to sell in her name. The other 20 contracts were cancelled.
According to the real estate brokerage rules applied by the OACIQ, Ms.me Girouard is not entitled to collect a commission on the brokerage contracts transferred to his former colleague. If the broker had the idea of providing invoices for home staging or any other billing deemed bogus by the OACIQ, it would place itself in a situation of aggravation of the facts under investigation.
The two real estate brokers, who worked at RE/MAX D’ICI, were shown the door on Wednesday following the investigation by The Press which revealed that they had made bogus bids using relatives to create artificial bids.
This scheme orchestrated by Mr.me Girouard and M. Dauphinais-Fortin caused Mackenson Latour and his wife, Marie Magdala Azar, to pay $40,000 too much for their Repentigny home.