{"id":17075,"date":"2020-09-20T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17075"},"modified":"2020-09-21T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:14:42","slug":"my-experiences-with-actual-not-imagined-racism-in-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17075\/my-experiences-with-actual-not-imagined-racism-in-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"My experiences with actual \u2013 not imagined \u2013 racism in real\u00a0estate."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI’ve had better haircuts, but never cheaper or\u00a0faster…\u201d<\/p><\/div>That’s me to the right, a certified selfie with today’s hair and today’s shave. I am my own barber, in the age of the Coronavirus, and I am delighted to say that I’m improving faster than I expected. A year from now I could be as good as awful or even barely-adequate.<\/p>\n

But: I have been a Realtor for nearly twenty years, a broker\/owner for fifteen. I have sold a few hundred homes and overseen or advised on the sale of hundreds of others. I have met with or spoken to thousands of customers, making hundreds of them my clients or tenants to the rental homes we manage. I am my only agent for now \u2013 I sub out anything that does not require a license \u2013 but, with my wife Cathleen on board or without her, we have always been scrupulous about fairness \u2013 not just fair-housing but fair-dealing as such. I hate predators. I never want to be one.<\/p>\n

So what is my experience of actual, specific, objectively-real racism in real estate?<\/p>\n

I once had an out-of-town investor in my car who said things I considered red flags, so I drove him back to his hotel. This is the same thing I do with irrationally optimistic investors \u2013 except I’ve met dozens<\/em> of them.<\/p>\n

Want more? When I first started, working as an apartment locator, I had a very racist elderly black woman as a client, but I just laughed at the things she said \u2013 and in the end she found a new place without me.<\/p>\n

I have one more: We used to use a centrally-located Fidelity office for most of our title work. In those days, that was the “Spanish” office, the one where all deals that were to close in Spanish were sent. Over the years, I saw several contracts fall apart on Friday afternoons, with the whole family coming down to sign, only to find out that no one,<\/em> until then, had told them what their monthly payment would be and how much cash they needed to close. Not Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI’ve had better haircuts, but never cheaper or\u00a0faster…\u201dThat’s me to the right, a certified selfie with today’s hair and today’s shave. I am my own barber, in the age of the Coronavirus, and I am delighted to say that I’m improving faster than I expected. A year from now I could be as good as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9538,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9538\/pardon-me-sir-but-have-you-seen-the-special-on-grey-poupon-at-wal-mart\/","url_meta":{"origin":17075,"position":0},"title":"“Pardon me sir, but have you seen the special on Grey Poupon at Wal Mart?”","author":"John Rowles","date":"August 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: Buy the T-Shirt at Cafe Press! 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