Ray White real estate agent suspended after angering tenants with Facebook comment on renters

A real estate agent has been suspended after making an ‘arrogant’ comment about renters in a social media post.Abhnit Kumar, 23, who is a real estate agent for Ray White, had been celebrating after closing a sale on a house in Ambervale, in Sydney’s south-west, on April 28.He had sold the four-bedroom property for $958,000 and boasted about his sale on Facebook, writing: ‘The market doesn’t dictate your home’s price, the agent does’.Social media users were angered by his choice of words, suggesting real estate agents were deliberately inflating house prices which has resulted in many more people being unable to afford their own homes.Mr Kumar defended the post before a war of words erupted with the comments taking a bizarre turn after the real estate agent called one of his critics a ‘renter’ and that he refused to ‘deal with people like you’.The online debate prompted an internal investigation at Ray White and Mr Kumar was temporarily suspended while the real estate agency conducted it.  Real estate agent for Ray White’s Macarthur Group, Abhnit Kumar (pictured), 23, has been suspended after making an ‘arrogant comment’ about renters online  One social media user had accused Mr Kumar of artificially inflating house prices following
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