Real estate blog entries tagged with ethics in real estate

Blog entries tagged with "ethics in real estate":

ethics in real estate: Ethics in Real Estate - 08/03/08 10:26 AM

Ethics in Real Estate
As your agent/broker, I promise to adhere to a strict code of ethics in conducting any and all activities related to your sale or purchase of a home. In some businesses, simply doing what is legal may be good enough. But in my real estate practice I demand … (0 comments)

ethics in real estate: The Public Is Watching Us Beat Ourselves Up - 05/21/08 11:57 PM

I know it's supposed to be bad form to cross-post on blogs, but I think the message here is important and I write on five different blogs as it is ... I'm just not that creative! With that pseudo-apology out of the way, I'd encourage you to head over to VARBuzz.com … (7 comments)

ethics in real estate: How Much Photo Editing is Ethical - Where Do We Draw the Line? - 02/11/08 02:59 AM

Most web masters use Photoshop to help make the pictures on their client's websites perfect. Websites are advertising and that is to be expected. Many real estate people have professional pictures taken for marketing reasons too. Some real estate professionals take digital pictures of their listings and then touch them up, … (16 comments)

ethics in real estate: Real Estate Agents Directory - Where Do You Fall on the Ethics List? - 01/23/08 03:22 PM

It should not be very surprising that when humans are broke or in financial hardship that they make some very poor choices. Many of these choices cross the line or go far into the gray area on questions or ethics issues - responsibility in business is important in any industry. Right … (11 comments)

ethics in real estate: All Or Nothing At All...Another CBA Perspective! - 12/05/07 05:30 PM

Some of you who follow my postings know how much I detest 'dualist' thinking...black or white...right or left...good and evil...moral and immoral, etc. Placing things in neat categories of either/or...rather than both/and as should often be the case.
Most of you also know that as a Christian I believe in absolute truth...right … (11 comments)

ethics in real estate: Just don't get it - 10/24/07 10:53 PM

I just don't get it. We have more than 600 + realtors in town. I know many of you have thousands of more, but in a town when three or four years ago we only had 300 + that is amazing. I can't tell you the number of people who have … (9 comments)

ethics in real estate: Public Suspicion - 10/23/07 02:46 PM

While showing a property last night to an investor client I'd helped buy a home almost a year ago, the conversation turned to recent transaction in which another Realtor had listed and sold a house for a local businesswoman. The seller occasionally performs work for the Realtor who listed her property, and she's … (5 comments)

ethics in real estate: Over Qualified! - 05/13/07 08:59 PM

I can not believe that there are Realtors that would not hire someone because they know too much.
In my area there is a Realtor in the Delaware Ohio area that will not use me. WHY? Because I might find something. She has never used me nor has she ever seen one … (14 comments)

ethics in real estate: BARNEY FIFE, REALTOR - 04/24/07 05:13 PM

If you have ever watched the Andy Griffith Show this is a must see episode.
143. BARNEY FIFE, REALTORAir Date: 01-04-65.Barney tries to earn some extra money by becoming a real estate agent.
I have been trying for a while to find a link or a way that everyone can watch this.
I think … (7 comments)

ethics in real estate: Why unrepresented buyers/sellers unfairly shift the burden of work to an undercompensated lone agent - 03/20/07 10:53 PM

I responded to a buyer's recent post on Sarah Cooper's blog, and decided to post it here. The buyer wrote:
I do not have a problem with paying real eatate agents the commissions they request, but the irritating part is that there are MANY agents out there who have no idea … (37 comments)

ethics in real estate: A great story to pass on to our kids and a lesson to be learned by us all - 01/06/07 08:50 PM

Hopi Wisdom A great story to pass on to our kids and a lesson to be learned by us allTwo WolvesOne evening an old Hopi told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It … (6 comments)

ethics in real estate: So Do We Sit Around And Wait for the DOJ and Others ? - 12/10/06 11:15 AM

So Do We Sit Around And Wait for the DOJ and Others ?
In another blog about ethics it seemed there where many posts justifying legally representing our clients but not ethically representing our clients. One Blogger even suggested we had a higher moral ground to make sure we met and decided … (5 comments)

ethics in real estate: Why are Realtors there own worst enemy ? - 12/09/06 12:22 PM

I'll Start with two points;
1. A local city that I work in has enacted a sign ordinance that states we can place open house signs only from Saturday Morning through Sunday night. In working with the City or local Association of Realtors tried to get agents involved before the ordinance was … (3 comments)

ethics in real estate: Ethic's Where Do We Stand - 12/09/06 12:43 AM

In a recent blog I commented about the DOJ lawsuit and where N.A.R. stands. Since becoming a Realtor a little over three years ago an ongoing discussion I have had with other Realtors involves Double Ending A Client. I still remember in my state test it had seemed that we have … (68 comments)