Court Opinion

ID: 9515072
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:53:32.721865+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:24.670306
License: Public Domain

*667ZINTER, Justice
(concurring in result).
[¶ 17.] I agree with the Court that, as a matter of fact, Kahler did not “show” the property to Mitzel. I concur in result only because I do not agree that the definition of the word “show,” as used in these listing agreements, always requires an on-site physical display of the property before a commission is earned. See supra ¶¶ 10-11 (defining show as “to cause or allow to be seen; display,” and noting that Kahler never “physically” took Mitzel to inspect the business). In my view, there are circumstances under which a buyer could be shown a property without a physical on-site inspection. Indeed, in today’s technological era, brokers show and sell property without a buyer’s on-site physical inspection. It may be that a broker’s production of the relevant financials, appraisals, building inspections, and visual reproductions are sufficient to sell property without a physical on-site display. I would not, therefore, hold as a matter of law that such listing agreements also require an on-site physical display of the property before it is deemed shown.