{"id":74,"date":"2006-07-06T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2006-07-07T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T14:24:29","slug":"lets-go-get-sued-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/74\/lets-go-get-sued-one-more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s go get sued one more time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We looked at a house yesterday in Las Vegas. We’re loosely motivated buyers, so we didn’t waste an agent’s time. But we have this idea that we might buy a distinctive home in a choice location, trick it out in every possible way, then own it as a getaway vacation rental that we will rent ourselves from time to time, when we’re in town. We were looking yesterday in the allegedly ‘historic’ neighborhood of Downtown Las Vegas, which makes the historic neighborhoods of Phoenix look positively ancient.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s what’s important in the present context: The lister of the home happened to be there as we drove by, and she offered to show it to us. She was eager and energetic, well-informed and enthusiastic, everything you might want in a Realtor, either as a broker or a seller. Except that in the course of about ten minutes, she committed at least two Federal Fair Housing law violations<\/a> – religion and family status.<\/p>\n

We can give the lady a break, I suppose. We weren’t offended, and I can’t image that even members of the two protected classes would have been offended. She was trying to be in<\/i>clusive, even if unlawfully, not ex<\/i>clusive. All she really wanted to do was get the house sold, so she gave us information she thought we would want, even though doing so was in violation of the law, even though we had disclosed to her our status as Realtors from out of state, even though she should have known we would hear every violation of the law.<\/p>\n

As it happens, we are very, very careful about this stuff. Not because we believe all people are individuals, equal in every metaphysical respect. Not because we find prejudice and exclusion abhorrent, repulsive, nauseating. Not because we want to spread the social, emotional and financial benefits of homeownership as far and as wide as possible. We uphold every one of those noble ideals. But here is the reason we are so serious about Fair Housing laws: Because the fines at the Federal level are $11,000 – per violation<\/i>. Add to that state, county Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We looked at a house yesterday in Las Vegas. We’re loosely motivated buyers, so we didn’t waste an agent’s time. But we have this idea that we might buy a distinctive home in a choice location, trick it out in every possible way, then own it as a getaway vacation rental that we will rent […]<\/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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1634,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1634\/mgmmirages-citycenter-in-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"MGM\/Mirage’s CityCenter in pictures","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I have written in the past about CityCenter, MGM\/Mirage's seven billion dollar city within the city of Las Vegas -- and I'll write more when I get back to my Macintosh. 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