New publication addresses fair housing issues

    "Yes. It is a violation of the fair housing laws to deny a qualified real estate agent access to or membership  in any membership listing service, real estate brokers'organization or other service, organization, orfacility relating to the business of selling or renting housing, because he or she is a member of one of the protected categories, " is the answer.

What's the question?  Find out by reading the Real Estate Commission's newest publication, Questions and Answers on: Fair Housing. It is available free of charge from the Commission office.

Like the Commission's popular Questions and Answers on: Tenant Security Deposits, the new publication is designed in easy-to-read pamphlet format. It addresses issues of concern and interest to real estate licensees as well as consumers.

After explaining the purpose of the fair housing laws, this timely publication poses questions and gives responses which focus on the laws as they apply to this state.