I had a situation in 2006-2007. Trying to sell a home in CT. Hired a neighbor 5 doors down that was a realtor. Found out after a year her effort wasn’t in it. Got another realtor after 14 months and she got a buyer within days. Found out my neighbor avoided showing to ‘people’ she didnt want in ‘her’ neighborhood. Ended up with a black woman and black boyfriend with 2 kids moving in. Another neighbor from there now hates us emphatically.
Well honestly, aren’t there some fairly extreme pieces of weirdness in that story?
2006-2007 home prices were at a peaky-peak secular high and the market was clearly running out of buyers. (easy to say in hindsight) With the “fog-a-mirror” financing that was in place at the time, a non-selling home is priced way high. That is largely true today, in fact, *any* time.
A realtor selling a home should take no more than 30 days, otherwise he/she is not in touch with the market.
That your former neighbor hates you because some blacks moved in is kind of tough luck.
In my view, all of those issues are the fault of your first realtor. The gist of the article in terms of what Rohrabacher is saying is that you should be able to choose “whom you do business with”. I don’t consider selling a house to be “doing business”, but that is quite arguable. A realtor is supposed to insulate you from most of that. But in terms of anti-discrimination laws in 50 out of 50 states, what your first realtor did was flamingly illegal, and unprofessional in terms of actively marketing your house at a marketable price.