Your reputation in your real estate career is everything. Should you decide to cut corners and bend or break your appropriate standard of ethics when dealing with other agents it will come back to hurt you in the future. Your competitors will want to make deals on other agents' listings instead of yours, and if you submit an offer on one of their listings they may also prefer to see another agent's client make the deal instead of yours. In addition to this the person you harmed will talk about you to other agents about what you did to them, causing other agents to feel that you are now someone they need to watch out for.

If you are considering doing something inappropriate to gain an advantage over another agent ask yourself how you would feel about an agent who did this same thing to you. Then ask yourself if it's really worth it knowing that the word will soon spread to other agents in your territory about what you've done.