That being said, I like how the Association of Realtors offers “creative marketing tools” for selling stigmatized properties.
http://www.realtor.org/field-guides/field-guide-to-dealing-with-stigmatized-properties Dan > On Jun 3, 2016, at 7:20 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > No such thing as “good realtor”. While we can exclude your spouse, realtors > rank right up with puffy shirt used car sales guys. Same MO, different > product. > > I don’t believe any realtor worth their salt would have disclosed it if they > weren’t required to by law. If they had issues with it, they wouldn’t have > shown the house to begin with. > > This brings up an interesting subject - disclosure of stuff like this varies > from state to state. It’s called “stigmatized property”. California is the > only state that I know of that expressly requires disclosure of deaths or > violent acts. > > Dan > >> According to the NAR’s Code of Ethics, real estate agents are obligated to >> discover and disclose adverse factors reasonably apparent in the properties >> they deal with. Once an agent discovers, or should have discovered, an >> adverse condition, she must disclose it to the buyer. With the courts >> increasingly holding stigma-type defects to the same disclosure standards as >> physical defects, the safest judgment call in every state is to disclose. > > > > >> On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> A good realtor would have told you that and put you into another house if it >> bothered you. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com