Ethics
Who’d you say we were again…?
Who’d you say we were again…? I called a friend at NAR earlier this week. Frederik Heller is an archivist with NAR’s library and has been working on a project to record the contributions of REALTORS® to American history. I told him I wanted to add something special to my end of year retrospective and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )6 Easy Ethical Slip-Ups
Bruce Aydt, REALTOR® Magazine columnist and real estate ethics instructor, receives hundreds of questions a year from REALTORS® who are confronting various ethical dilemmas. Here are some of the most prevalent problems that he’s seen in the past year. April 2011 1. Not revealing your state of licensure. On your Web site, you need to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Dear Emmy – Boiling Over
Dear Emmy, I am really struggling with the professionalism of REALTORS®…and I am one! I had my own home on the market for awhile and I had to take it off recently after I sustained a serious injury. My home was not showing active on the MLS, but I had a buyer’s agent call me [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dear Emmy
Dear Emmy, I’ve had it with listing agents in this town, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I am tired of wrong or missing information on listings in the MLS: A listing says it’s occupied when it’s vacant and vice versa, it says to use the lockbox but I can’t find one, it says to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Dear Emmy…
Dear Emmy, I am a real estate agent and I am jumping into social media at the insistence of my colleagues…and my kids! I am new to all of this, and I admit, I’m leery of it. I was updating my information on Facebook, and when I looked at the current “news feed”, I could [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Ask Emmy
Dear Emmy, I’m really struggling with real estate agents – my agent and the agent for the buyers. For as much as these people talk on their phones, they don’t seem to know how to return phone calls or communicate. I’m trying to sell my house, so when my agent tells me someone wants to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )The Code of Ethics – Breaking It Down #10
Welcome Back! Article 10 of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics will sound very familiar to most of you. It is in line with fair housing standards. It states: REALTORS® shall not deny equal professional services to any person for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. REALTORS® shall not be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )The Code of Ethics – Breaking it Down #9
Back at it again! In case you’ve been waiting with baited breath for the answer to the last scenario, here you are. We return with trying to understand Article 9 of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics. Article 9 states: REALTORS®, for the protection of all parties, shall assure whenever possible that all agreements related [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Code of Ethics – Breaking it Down #7 & #8
First, find the answer to #6 here. Articles 7 and 8 are brief, so I thought I would talk about them together. Very few complaints are filed on these issues, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t important. Article 7 states: In a transaction, REALTORS® shall not accept compensation from more than one party, even if [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )The Code of Ethics – Breaking it Down #6
To see the answers from last week’s scenario, click here We now move on to Article 6. The secret to understanding Article 6 is knowing about money. That is, if you’re receiving it, your client had better know about it and be okay with it! Article 6 states: REALTORS® shall not accept any commission, [...]
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