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a potential buyer trashed my house

It took me two hours to clean up after the trashing, furniture was scratched, there was a snotty tissue on the floor, my closets had been rearranged, weird powder on walls and light switches, towels used and flung wherever (I had to do laundry, ffs, after a house showing), screens yanked out of their place, they did something weird to one shower head, which (I had cleaned everything every morning and tested all the water/drains before I even called an agent). And then my agent didn't want to confront the other agent (whose responsibility to stop this from happening seems to me to be a clear duty, though I do not know how the law reads). She didn't want to 'upset him.' I rather thought, I, who was going to be paying the two of them almost $10K, should be the one whose upset should be paramount. But nope. "Sorry you feel that way" was the response. Also, "You have insurance, right?"

What are my remedies? When it's all over, I'm going to file a complaint with the state board about the trashing, because the trashing realtor is sure to do other horrible things in the future, and while I don't expect a remedy from the state board, I want to start the record going so they don't keep excusing him. Is it sufficient cause to end my contract with my own agent? Do you have any other suggestions? My cousin who is an agent elsewhere said the owner of the agency was insane not to fire the guy, but I can't do anything about that. He wasn't fired, in any case. My blood pressure, on the other hand, has been a mess since it's happened.

I'm in the US Midwest, if that matters, though I suppose this could happen anywhere. It's my fourth house, and nothing anything like this has ever happened before, needless to say.

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