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Negligent Misrepresentation (examples)

(If an agent tells a client that her fireplace will add ambiance in winter and the client buys the property and then finds out the fireplace is just a fake fireplace front, it is Negligent Misrepresentation.)

OR (A buyer tells her agent she wants to purchase a home to have a beauty salon in her garage.

The buyer would like to have a home-based business.

The agent shows the buyer a house with a garage oversized enough for the home-based salon. The buyer purchases the property. When the buyer starts moving her salon equipment into the garage, the city code enforcer pulls up and tells her that this neighborhood is not zoned for home-based business.

The agent did not practice care

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