Home buyer love letters. Does it happen to be housing discrimination or is it free speech? It’s there’s like kind of room for both, and you can, depending on where you happen to be standing, you could look at it one way or the other, possibly that Shana Acquisto.
We’re not going to make our political opinions or anything along those lines. That’s not it. No, that’s not a thing. But we’re just going to discuss how you could see it from both sides. Yeah, sure, right. So I do have an article that I’m going to reference and I’ll pull up on the screen here for us.
And this has to do with the state of Oregon. And I just want you guys to see the issue here that the judge orders Oregon to pause its homebuyer love letter ban. Ok, so if I it’s like to
Like now you can send your love letters in. Yes, but you know. We went through this in the beginning of our crazy market, and we don’t see the letters so much anymore, and I think it’s just educating the buyers, but from a seller standpoint, if you’re selecting based on something subjective versus objective versus an objective item, then I think you’re just opening the door for lots of liability there.
You know, you can only accept one offer. There’s a whole slew of people that are not happy and they’re upset and they’re just desperate to find a home. So you just don’t want to put yourself in that corner to to be subject to an issue.
So, you know what? Just pick it based on who the other agent is. No, but I mean, honestly, if you just take a look at it, right, so take that comment aside, but you don’t know who the other buyer is on either side. Right, all you see is a name John Jim Rohn, like pick whatever name it happens to be.
On the other side, that’s the actual buyer. Mm hmm. But there’s an agent and you have experience working with this agent. And I think that’s where some of the great agents shine through is with that name there, and that’s where we want to make it.
And I think that’s a starting point. It is selected. Well, it’s a date. It’s a very important data point.
You know that person is reputable. Do they even greater than that when you’re narrowing down of offers that may be similar in nature?
And you know, it’s a fact to consider if we think that having a local lender that we know, like and trust is important, then so is the agent. So both of those are data points that you could consider. But the difference in distinguishing this here, if we’re to just talk about the issue at hand that we wanted to talk about is, is it housing discrimination or is it free speech? Right.
So you should be able to say, this is who I am. Right. And the other party should be making a selection based on specific criteria, not necessarily the person’s race, color, creed, sexual national origin, or like, whatever those things are. Yeah.
So and remember to the buyer’s agent could request to be present when the listing agent submits your offer or presents it to the seller.
Well, yeah, that’s a crazy concept, isn’t it? Yeah. All right. So go ahead. How does that work?
