Realtor Abuses/ARE

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We are in the process of potentially ending our lease, and moving early. I received several emails from ARE over on College Ave today, requesting that the apartment be shown to prospective renters tonight/this week. I checked craigslist out of curiosity, and found many repeat ads for what was clearly our current apartment......WITH A JUNE MOVE-IN DATE, EVEN THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING FINALIZED WITH OUR LANDLADY. I emailed the realtor and said absolutely not, the fact that this apartment is officially on the market for said street date was news to us, and said viewings this week would be out of the question. When I came home tonight, there was a...mess on the floor that wasn't there when I left COMPLETE WITH UNFAMILIAR FOOTPRINT, and I was the first person home!

So here's my question, and God knows I dug on the internet to find the answer, and came up blank: Is it legal for a realtor to solicit/show an apartment for an availability that doesn't exist, especially under protest from the tenants?