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One Text Ended a 26-Year Run at Douglas Elliman. Now the Brokerage Is Being Sued.

A Queens rental dispute leads to a fair housing lawsuit against Douglas Elliman and others. The claims remain unproven; the agent has left the brokerage.

One Text Ended a 26-Year Run at Douglas Elliman. Now the Brokerage Is Being Sued.

Photo: Jtsimenc / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for web. Douglas Elliman’s California headquarters in Beverly Hills; not the Queens office or rental in this report. One text sent to the wrong person cost a Queens real estate agent her job. Now it could cost her brokerage in court. A couple relocating from Delaware has sued Douglas Elliman, one of its agents and the owners of a Flushing rental over a text message they say read, "Ugh. They are…

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