Anonymous wrote:Whoah! Way too many trends going on here. The wall panels are awful and very taste specific. Thoughts?

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/2005-Rhode-Island-Ave-22101/home/9484019

I guess someone liked it enough to put an offer. It’s under contract!

According to the NAR:

“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin. Steering on the basis of any of the characteristics defined under the Fair Housing Act is not only unethical, it’s illegal because it limits the housing opportunities available to that buyer. Steering occurs when an agent limits the housing options available to a buyer by directing prospective homebuyers interested in equivalent properties to different neighborhoods or communities or even different parts of the same development according to the buyer’s race or other characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act."

None of the statements in the listing steer buyers. They promote a house with objectively true statements (Chesterbrook has LLIV) and typical realtor puffery (schools are "exceptional" and known for their "academic excellence") that no one tasked with enforcing the FHA would construe as steering a particular buyer based upon the buyer's race, color, religion, gender, disability, familiar status, or national origin. To make any such argument you'd have to rely on the exact type of stereotype- i.e., AAs aren't interested in good schools - that the FHA was designed to prevent.

While the government can limit commercial speech in some circumstances, it would have a hard time defending the restrictions that you apparently have in mind, and in any event they go beyond the conduct that the FHA regulates.

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Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that the real estate agent put the part about the schools.

It's accurate

That isn’t the point

What's the point?

It’s potentially illegal. Agents have to be very careful about what they say about schools.

Haha, so stating a fact that it's a sought after AAP center is illegal. No.[/quotes]

Nothing wrong with aap facts

"“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin. "

The phrases “sought after”, “exceptional” and “academic excellence” are subjective and potentially problematic.

These have nothing to do w/ buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin.

You have never looked at these cases, huh?

all the time

Clearly not. The National Association of Realtors tells agents not to talks both schools being good or bad because there are so many cases and violations in doing so.

“Not to talks both schools...”? What kind of word salad is this?

Not to talk about. Figuring stuff out is hard, huh?

There’s a lot going on there. I’m trying to picture it empty and not staged because some of the furniture doesn’t seem to go with the decor. The home is “farmhouse” but a lot of the furniture was MCM.

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Anonymous wrote:Priced Right since this is under contract

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/2006-Lorraine-Ave-22101/home/9483412

That looks like a confused church

It will be beautiful. You have no clue.

Hmm. Well, the outside looks like a bunch of little churches all pasted together. It does not look like a ‘farmhouse’ or anything that an architect who is not senile would ever design. There’s just no reason for that exterior mess.

Anonymous wrote:I mean, it's definite on brand for the designer. So if you like that sort of thing it's great. Some rich person who likes her HGTV show will buy it, then in 4 years when they get tired of it they'll hire a designer to redo it (and hopefully rip out the gray wood paneling when they do!).

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I disagree. I think there are very obvious signs of LL’s work, but then the homeowner added their own spin once LL was done. Which was a mistake. LL definitely has her own style, that’s not everyone’s taste, but her designs are typically refined and subdued. Not... this.

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Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that the real estate agent put the part about the schools.

It's accurate

That isn’t the point

What's the point?

It’s potentially illegal. Agents have to be very careful about what they say about schools.

Haha, so stating a fact that it's a sought after AAP center is illegal. No.[/quotes]

Nothing wrong with aap facts

"“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin. "

The phrases “sought after”, “exceptional” and “academic excellence” are subjective and potentially problematic.

These have nothing to do w/ buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin.

You have never looked at these cases, huh?

all the time

Clearly not. The National Association of Realtors tells agents not to talks both schools being good or bad because there are so many cases and violations in doing so.

“Not to talks both schools...”? What kind of word salad is this?

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Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that the real estate agent put the part about the schools.

It's accurate

That isn’t the point

What's the point?

It’s potentially illegal. Agents have to be very careful about what they say about schools.

Haha, so stating a fact that it's a sought after AAP center is illegal. No.[/quotes]

Nothing wrong with aap facts

"“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin. "

The phrases “sought after”, “exceptional” and “academic excellence” are subjective and potentially problematic.

These have nothing to do w/ buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin.

You have never looked at these cases, huh?

all the time

Clearly not. The National Association of Realtors tells agents not to talks both schools being good or bad because there are so many cases and violations in doing so.

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Anonymous wrote:Priced Right since this is under contract

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/2006-Lorraine-Ave-22101/home/9483412

That looks like a confused church

It will be beautiful. You have no clue.

Anonymous wrote:Priced Right since this is under contract

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/2006-Lorraine-Ave-22101/home/9483412

That looks like a confused church

Anonymous wrote:It's hideous. It gives me a headache. All that wood is so ugly.

Look away. Cinder block is more your style anyway.

It's hideous. It gives me a headache. All that wood is so ugly.

Anonymous wrote:$3.2mill? These people will never see appreciation on that house. EVER. E-V-E-R.

Haha they were saying that when we hit 2 million 8 years a go

$3.2mill? These people will never see appreciation on that house. EVER. E-V-E-R.

It doesn't look like a $3,000,000 house. It has the same shape as every other faux 1990s colonial in this area, meant for a narrow lot. They just swapped out the plastic shutters and vinyl siding for black windows and vertical Hardie board. You have a .81 acre lot...why not spread out just a little more? Looks like a budget home from the outside. I am still wondering how this is 7,800 square feet. It looks about half that size in the floor plans.

It's a shame because the inside does use some nice materials here and there.