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Seller audio recording myself, my husband, and our agent.

Hello all!

I posted a similar post on the legal sub, but didn’t get any input, and wanted to try here to see what people may think about this situation.

I had previously posted about a house we were under contract on, we wound up closing on it yesterday. The sellers agreed to radon mitigation, sewer maintenance and rescoping which showed a sewer in very good health, as well as furnace servicing. We also walked away with a fully paid for home warranty.

This issue has to do with our final walkthrough. The sellers were present for our final walkthrough, as they were present for our entire inspection, as well as our initial viewing. Our agent told us this was wildly out of the norm, and that sellers are typically not present for these things, especially not without their agent present.

Toward the end of the final walkthrough we noticed the sellers had set up a cell phone on a counter to audio record us while we were doing the walkthrough. We are now suspicious that the reason they were always present when we were is that they were also recording us the other times we visited the property. Our agent was fantastic, but after we left mentioned she’s never been in a situation where her conversations with her clients were being recorded and didn’t know what to think. We live in CO, which is a single party consent state for recording, however she was recording conversations that she wasn’t a part of.

So, has anyone here encountered or done something similar? Should I make more of a fuss about it, or just stew on it a bit and just let it go since we’ve closed? I feel a bit like my privacy was violated, and I’m just trying to figure out if we should even say anything, or just move on.

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