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Acceptable and Unacceptable Terms in Real Estate Advertisement
Acceptable and Unacceptable Terms in Real Estate Advertisement  

 
Recently, a blog by Greg Nino, indicating that adding a rider to say “Se Habla Espanol” in the listing sing in a predominate Latin neighborhood is illegal or NOT and Why. However, he did not provide the official answers from TREC and their reasoning. This created a lot of interests and many still awaiting for official answer. I provided my answer (see Comment#17 in that blog) and reasoning in that blog, which was correct, however the answer by Greg still is not published.
 
My answer and the correct answer was and is: This is not illegal or against the law (Fair Housing Act) if you add additional rider to say “Se Habla Espanol” or as a matter of fact in any other languages. It is not illegal and against the law to advertise in a non-English speaking language newspaper, magazine, radio and TV stations. The reason is that you are NOT EXCLUDING or limiting other groups, you are INCLUDING more groups of people.
 
So, I decided to publish the correct answer, after confirming with TAR (Texas Association of REALTORS) Hotline Attorney, and also expand the list ... more

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