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Harrassed by an agent. What should I do?

TL;DR: Me and my girlfriend are being harassed by an agent working for a preconstruction project claiming he is our agent and that he should get the commission. Calling us multiple times even though we told him we already we already have an agent and making inappropriate accusations towards us which is extremely unprofessional and downright rude. Left a real sour taste in my mouth. What should I do?

A little backstory:

Me and my girlfriend just bought our first home together in the form of a preconstruction with the help of an agent who is a buddy of mine. He was the one to introduce us to the project. We check the website and in order to get the floor plans and to get more information we had to register with the website. Done. We receive some info including the floor plans and a date for an info session (like a banquet hall of people. Not one on one).

Looking at the site, they have some agents that represents the project and they are there to help with sales and to answer questions. Early on ask a couple of questions as they are the project experts and we thank them for their time. Later, they tell us that we can't get into the information session if we don't sign with them (sounds like a huge red flag to me). Being wary, I told them I already have a agent who is helping me. They said no other agents are allowed.

I call my agent and tell him what they told me. He said that's a bunch of bullshit.

We show up to the session and lo and behold, we are able to get in no problem.

At this point my girlfriend had also registered with the project in order to view the information and they were telling her the same thing. Once again, we told them we are already represented. They tell her we won't be able to buy a unit if we don't sign with them. She receives about 3 different emails to ask her to confirm the agent is them (project agents). We decline and they continue to try to force us to sign. We put our foot down and proceed to the actual buying appointment later on. And lo and behold once again, they were lying and we were able to successfully purchase the preconstruction unit.

Now a month after purchase and they (the project agents) call us up out of the blue and demands to know why they didn't get the commission calling my girlfriend and my agent a liar. Threatening to repo our unit, claiming they are the agents on file and that they have an email trail saying we've been in contact and that it means that they should be the agent and getting the commission. We never signed anything or had any sort of agreement between us.

I am livid that they dared to called me during my vacation time, a month after the signing is complete, calling us liars and threatening to repo our new home.

What should we do? This is our first home and have little experience with these things.

Thoughts?

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