Do you have to tell the buyer? Death is a topic that most people don’t want to talk about in general and in real estate, it’s no different. I’ve been asked a few times about the details regarding death and disclosure in the state of Texas (more specifically, in San Antonio) when buying and selling a home. Questions such as; “This home seems cheap for this neighborhood, did someone die here?,” “It says ‘estate sale‘, does that mean that grandma died in the house?,” or “Do you know how they … (13 comments)
disclosure: Quick thought: Disclosure on Twitter
- 11/04/09 07:21 AM
image courtesy of Twitter, croncast, and rerockstar I'm not great at quick thoughts. I was having a discussion today with Doug Lazovick, Jeff Turner, and Kris Smith about Kris' (@croncast) useful tool, CMP.ly which I've written about previously, "A quick and easy way to satisfy new FTC disclosure requirements on your blog - CMP.ly" when a thought that had been in the back of my head for some time came to the surface. In the comment above, you can see Kris quotes "http://cmp.ly/4" at the end of his Tweet. This particular disclosure (CMP.ly Disclosure 4), states: Employee/shareholder/business relationship DISCLOSURE … (4 comments)
disclosure: A quick and easy way to satisfy new FTC disclosure requirements on your blog - CMP.ly
- 10/25/09 11:48 PM
photo courtesy of hyku FTC handing down $11,000 fines? Yikes! When first announced, the changes to the FTC Act of 1980 caused quite a stir throughout the blogging community. The idea was that if you were endorsing a product, you had better disclose your relationship with that company. Were you given a free sample? Did they let you keep that $5,000 product in exchange for a glowing review? After many for-profit bloggers were seen as becoming the mouthpiece for advertisers and more or less company spokesman, the FTC decided to step in and stem the tide of possible false claims … (12 comments)
This post originally appeared on www.RErockstar.com on May 26, 2010.
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