Realty Advocates Blog » Ethics http://realtyadvocates.com/wordpress Blogging Bay Area Real Estate and More Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:11:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 REALTOR® Sleaze http://realtyadvocates.com/wordpress/2007/10/02/realtor-sleaze/ http://realtyadvocates.com/wordpress/2007/10/02/realtor-sleaze/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:52:37 +0000 admin http://realtyadvocates.com/wordpress/2007/10/02/realtor-sleaze/ In the October 2007 edition of Realtor Magazine, published by the National Association of Realtors®, the trade organization to which most real estate people belong, there is a section called “Cool Tools.” This is what is promoted as a “cool tool”:

Thriving Office

“When customers call, have your home office project the image of an established, successful company that is bustling with activity. Play the Thriving Office CD in the background to bring the sounds of an office to your home. The CD features two 39-minute tracks, “Busy” and “Very Busy,” and contains such sounds as ringing phones, typing keyboards, and mumbling voices. $12.95”

Isn’t this great. The group responsible for instilling the “Realtor Code of Ethics” to its 1,366,869 members is endorsing fraud. Brett Weinstein

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