Word Ban at Corco
It’s going to be a lot harder for Corcoran brokers to let their creative juices flow from now on. Bowing to fears about anti-discrimination laws, the real estate brokerage giant has banned a couple of hundred words from the listing lexicon, reports The Post. Such potentially-offensive terms include “bachelor pad,” “family-friendly” and “exclusive.” Seems a…
It’s going to be a lot harder for Corcoran brokers to let their creative juices flow from now on. Bowing to fears about anti-discrimination laws, the real estate brokerage giant has banned a couple of hundred words from the listing lexicon, reports The Post. Such potentially-offensive terms include “bachelor pad,” “family-friendly” and “exclusive.” Seems a little much, no?
NY Post ban @ BHO.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Bxgrl, I am offended by “boroughs”. What if I am used to “wards”, “arrondisments”, “sector” or “district”?
How dare you? When your lease is up………
We started down this slippery slope by saying “no smoking” and “no pets”. What next? No meth-labs?
quiet = not loud
loud = Bad for non-deaf people
Therefore quiet should be forbidden because it indicates a condition whose desirability highly correlates with the lack of a disability.
They should also not talk about any aspect of a unit that a blind and deaf person would would not be able to perceive. Or someone in a coma.
I know from code.
I was looking to rent an apartment and the broker was going to show me one in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn and when the broker called to make an appointment with an owner for me to see his place he very much emphasized that, “You’ll like her she comes from a NICE family. No…I know…Her family is VERY NICE…like yours.”
The dude clearly assumed I was Italian and he was clearly letting the owner know this. It was as subtle as a cinder block fall on your foot. I said to him, “So, how do you know my family?” I wanted him to know that I understood exactly what he was doing and was not amused.
As offended as I was about that this Corcoran thing is pretty ridiculous. It’s just too much.
new new ad:
Domicile
Withn the 5 boroughs
Available or not- depending on if you want it or not
An unmentioned amount to be discussed unpon agreement
New Corocran Ad:
Apartment
Avaliable
Brooklyn
$2,200/mo.
Benson – yes, I know I’ve really fallen off the wagon – it really is just like other addictions, yes? Coincidentally, I have a high stress matter happening at work so perhaps I am turning to my addiction for stress relief the same way other addicts turn to their pet substance ;)… B’stoner is my little guilty pleasure that I toggle to between firing off millions of work emails and other work stuff…
Oh, and DIBS, I’m not bothered by the Corcoran tactics (or other brokers for that matter) but I just find them silly…
Pretty soon ads will read “apartment”.
Nothing else.
Can’t say “for rent” , that’ll offend the buyers. Can’t say “for sale”, that’ll offend those who rent.
Can’t say how many bedrooms, that’ll offend those who want a different number of bedrooms.
I suppose it can say “apartment: windows as required by law, ingress and egress as required by Fire Code, kitchen, bathroom”
But don’t say “stove”, that’ll offend those on a raw food diet…