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Fair Housing Testing: What Is It?
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Following is a guest post by Jo Becker, Education/Outreach Specialist for the Fair Housing Council of Oregon. The topic of fair housing testing strikes fear and incites anger in many within the housing industry—independent landlords and professional property managers, sales brokers, mortgage lenders, homeowners’ associations, and other housing providers. Most are very unclear what testing […]
Bust These Five Myths and Catapult Your Real Estate Career
Categories: Guest Post, Tips & Tricks
A guest blog post by Becki Saltzman, author of the forthcoming book Arousing the Buy Curious: Real Estate Pillow Talk for Patrons and Professionals.
Oregon Welcomes the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP)
Categories: Guest Post, Industry News
Lizbeth Hale introduces Oregon to its chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.
Buying or Selling a House with a Woodstove
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Rachel Sakata of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality writes about training for those impacted by Oregon’s new woodstove laws such as homeowners, home buyers, and the REALTORS® working with each.
Training Webinars Expanded on RMLSweb
Categories: Guest Post, RMLS News, RMLSweb, Statistics
The RMLS™ Training Department is excited to announce that we have extended our webinar library to include four new webinar classes in addition to the three already available!
What Landlords Don’t Know About Lead
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How much do landlords know about lead poisoning? Results from a survey conducted by the Fair Housing Council of Oregon.
Fair Housing is Not All Black and White
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How can iguanas, “hellos,” and food stamps put you at risk? You have likely been to fair housing programs or have read articles that dealt with the important topics of race, color, disability, children, national origin, sex, and religion… But these topics, albeit extremely important, are not the only ones out there.
Children: A Protected Class But Also At Greatest Risk for Lead Poisoning
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While anyone can be poisoned by lead, children under the age of six are particularly vulnerable. Children are at risk both because they are more likely to ingest lead in housing situations and because lead can adversely affect children’s brains, central nervous system, and other organs and systems that are still developing. The Consumer Product […]
Gentrification and Fair Housing: A Local Story
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In 2008, FHCO launched a tour of Portland’s hidden history of discrimination. The 2.5-hour coach bus trip explores a multitude of the Northwest’s “equity skeletons” hiding in our communal closet, some of which pre-date the Fair Housing Act (FHA)1. Others are recent enough you may remember hearing of in the news.