I was a Realtor for 10 years and when I saw this my jaw dropped. Straight out of “what a Realtor should NEVER say” Ethics 101.
Her statement about yards was classic since it was an apartment or condo complex.
This is a Classic that will be a case talked about in the yearly ethics meeting required in most States.
Now Playing: WLTX-TV in South Carolina uncovered a case of discrimination in its own backyard. A local realtor told potential buyers that the condo community where she sold homes did not allow a “mixed neighborhood.”
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January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
The woman is …
The woman is clearly batty. I hope she lost her license. There are some dinosaurs like that in real estate.
Stinky, sell your house whatever way you want. There’s not need to be insulting.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Why the should …
Why the should I pay thousands of dollars for some realtor to enter my house’s info into a database and put a lock box on my door. RE attorneys only cost a few hundred dollars and do all the real leg work. Any highschool dropout can go become a RE agent in a couple of weeks and charge absurd commissions. It’s a cartel, and the system is rigged so that each transition costs the participants thousands of dollars. It’s a sham.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Disgusting. What a …
Disgusting. What a jackass that old lady is. A real crime and a black eye on the profession.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
no we are not self …
no we are not self employed we are considered “independant contractors” all of our work is representative of our broker and the agency we work for and if we are not with an agency we are called “referral agents” and being an extension of our broker anything we do and say can get that broker in trouble as well as ourselves. so yes you would be correct in contacting her employer.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Go to the root of …
Go to the root of the problem, not just the agent.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
one thing to say… …
one thing to say… Realtor’s are not employees they are self-employed. So to tell her “employer” that she is going to retire would be a false statement
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
No….I’m not the …
No….I’m not the moron who lets the type of people into a home to wreck it up.
Go cry me a river!
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
YOUR AN IDIOT!
YOUR AN IDIOT!
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Outrageous!!
Outrageous!!
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Booker T. …
Booker T. Washington was right. the only reason why theres a race issue today is because theres profit to be had in it. and it was better to let the blacks stay separated and prove themselves as capable men and women and naturally merge with society instead of forcibly shoving diversity down our throats like that socialist scum martin luther king and others.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
ok this …
ok this investigative reporter should be hung or skinned alive and to with the federal government trying to tell us how to sell and make a profit. stay out of our business!! the woman never said “they are not allowed to live there” she just said “it is not a mixed neighborhood.” there is a difference! the so called reporter just caused that woman to forcibly retire for his own selfish gain.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I actually agree …
I actually agree with her! We have a right to live among people we want to be around and to keep the trash out.
Too many bleeding hearts around here…get real!
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
i do what any …
i do what any broker does and bombarded them with properties in their price range. one day they asked me why was i showing them houses in all the black neighborhoods? is it because we are black? i said of course not this is in the price range you requested. they purchased a house in what they thought was a more white neighborhood because it looked nicer. their exact quote was “we want to live in a subdivision where people vote. voters take care of the neighborhood. most black people dont vote”
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
You need to wise up …
You need to wise up -ignorant of “the law”? What law can prevent people from congregating in an area they choose to make their own. People from similar ethnic cultural racial backgrounds have always, and will always congregate together. Incidentally, how do you explain “freedom lost”? If you think you were free in Africa then you evidently need to return there. The passage of people from Africa to Europe and N America was what set them free. freedom lost.? In reality it was freedom gained
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
bswift5 – I hope …
bswift5 – I hope you know that it is correct to tell all races that you do not have that information. It is better to say that then break the law or call them out for being prejudice.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
suberbowlxl – How …
suberbowlxl – How did you handle that and did you ask them the questions you needed to. Why did you assume that they wanted to live in a neighborhood you had considered a “bad” neighborhood. I think you need to go back to your Realtor Board and request a refresher course on Ethics.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
hoarse01- It is …
hoarse01- It is very unfortunate for you that you are ignorant of the law that Realtors are under. What she did was break the Law.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
How totally …
How totally inappropriate is this video? In all areas ethnic groups tend to stick with their own! Whole neighbourhoods become the preserve of one particular ethnic group because that is the nature of deomographic settlement. THis news team are sickening in thier righteous pious “scoop”. Bunch of a…holes.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
ive been in real …
ive been in real estate for a number of years. It is very true that even black people will move into an all white neighborhood before an all black one. ive had black couples turn down a house for sale because of this. the requested the “BETTER NEIGHBORHOOD”
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
The issue is …
The issue is socioeconomic not racial. I wouldn’t move to a trailer park anymore than I would low rent areas of any race. If you can afford a middle income house your care of the property is better period. Who hasnt witnessed that. No particular race brings down a neighborhood. Neighborhoods are low, middle or high income and that is the level of people that can afford to live there and their values are reflected in how they upkeep the home or not. Not complicated.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
How much worse …
How much worse could it be? It’s an all-white building with 98 units, in S. Carolina in 2007! Even without her blatant comments, that’s pretty outrageous. If that’s not racism I don’t know what is.
In other words, it’s obviously not just her. The homeowners are clearly complicit in this illegal exclusion of black people.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
i think this news …
i think this news channel blew it a little out or proportion, yes she was in the wrong to be saying something like that but they are making it out to be so much worse then it really is.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Fair Housing Act
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Fair Housing Act
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability)
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
old people say …
old people say stupid things
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
When I show black …
When I show black people houses almost all of them tell me we want to be in a neiborhood that is less than 2% black . They discriminate more then anyone else I show.