Real estate blog entries tagged with handyman by Lucky Lang, SRES®, Davenport, Iowa Real Estate (Mel Foster Co.)

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Home : Blogs : Lucky Lang, SRES®, Davenport, Iowa Real Estate : Lucky's Blog : Tag "handyman"

handyman: HANDYMAN - 09/19/07 05:07 AM

Is the term, "Handyman" used in your area?
Does anyone know where there has been legal action taken against the term used in advertisements?
A course I took several years ago warned us about using this term. We were told it could be construed as discriminatory. First, based upon "man" it infers that a woman would not be "Handy".
Then people started using the term "Handy-person" and that was determined wrong because it infers that a disabled person who didn't have the physical ability to be "Handy" couldn't or shouldn't purchase the property.
The question arose as I just read a blog post … (13 comments)

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