Consider including a provision in transaction documents requiring the parties to meaningfully engage
in informal dispute resolution (even mediation) as a prerequisite to filing suit.
Ethics complaints must be filed with the local board or association of REALTORS ® within one hundred eighty (180) days from the time a complainant knew (or reasonably should have known) that potentially unethical conduct took place (unless the Board's
informal dispute resolution processes are invoked in which case the filing deadline will momentarily be suspended).
British Columbia was announcing a step forward in its Solution Explorer —
an informal dispute resolution front end to its online court.