{"id":2316,"date":"2007-12-03T22:48:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T05:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2007-12-03T23:06:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T06:06:52","slug":"im-not-even-gay-yet-look-what-i-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2316\/im-not-even-gay-yet-look-what-i-got\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Even Gay Yet and Look What I Got"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following email from: <em>real estate agent [gayagent@gayrealestatedirectory.com].<\/em> I think of myself as a pretty friendly guy and have sold homes to and for many gay people over the years. I&#8217;ve always behaved as though what was really wanted and needed was someone who would get the job done. This is yet another of the remarkably endless ways to charge Realtors money for something they &#8220;now need&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p><strong>Market to the gay friendly c<\/strong><strong>om<\/strong><strong>munity-One of the fastest growing markets today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of today\u2019s fastest growing home owner market segments is our gay family communities. They are highly successful and very influential members of our American society. They have the means and the need to secure loans and purchase homes in some of the wealthiest communities. They are searching for like minded as well as opened minded business professionals to help them achieve their life goals.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a gay or gay friendly real estate agent or broker we would like to invite you to become a part of our community. We need representation in major cities to service our gay community. Our future gay homeowners would like to view your website listings and possibly find their special dream home. To share your professional services with our visitors all you need to do is to go to this address <a title=\"http:\/\/www.gayrealestatedirectory.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gayrealestatedirectory.com\/\">www.gayrealestatedirectory.com<\/a> and choose the agent and broker signup choice at the bottom of the page. This will take you to our submit page where you will receive instructions on becoming part of our marketing community.<\/p>\n<p>Our gay community website has already moved up to the first page and top positions of the major search engines. We are one of the Top Gay Real Estate Directories on Yahoo. <u><a title=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search%20gay%20real%20estate%20directory%208\" href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search%20gay%20real%20estate%20directory%208\">http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search gay real estate directory <\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>We are also on the first page of Yahoo for Gay Real Estate Listings as well.<br \/>\n<u><a title=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search%20gay%20real%20estate%20listings1\" href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search%20gay%20real%20estate%20listings1\">http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search gay real estate listings<\/a> <\/u>As you can see, we work very hard to provide the Gay Community with a unique gateway access to some of the Top Real Estate Professionals and Brokers in the country. We want them to feel comfortable that our real estate professionals understand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2316\/im-not-even-gay-yet-look-what-i-got\/#more-2316\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following email from: real estate agent [gayagent@gayrealestatedirectory.com]. I think of myself as a pretty friendly guy and have sold homes to and for many gay people over the years. I&#8217;ve always behaved as though what was really wanted and needed was someone who would get the job done. This is yet another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-realty-reality","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6691,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6691\/i-prefer-vera-wang\/","url_meta":{"origin":2316,"position":0},"title":"I Prefer Vera Wang","author":"Geno Petro","date":"January 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not a gay man but I'd play one on television if I thought there was a Golden Globe in it for me.\u00a0 In fact, my wife insists that her next husband will indeed, be a gay man and I'm cool with that as long as I'm not still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15060,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15060\/who-nose-whats-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":2316,"position":1},"title":"Who &#8220;Nose&#8221; What&#8217;s Right?","author":"Don Reedy, San Diego, CA","date":"September 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an article whose inception has come from some recent interactions on other blogs with regard to NAR's update of Article 10 of the Code of Ethics concerning discrimination against sexual orientation. 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