N. C. Real Estate Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina
I don't know whether you guys have any power to investigate anybody, and if, having discovered something wrong and in violation of the law, have any power to punish. Matter of fact, you may be interested only in sitting around in easy chairs and drawing your pay, in which event this will be lost time on my part. I have marked an ad which was in the Miami Herald. For some reason I am inclined to believe that the man who is advertising all this property does not own some himself, and that he is acting as an agent. I feel sure that none of your investigators will follow the advice of anyone not connected the law enforcement, but I can suggest a way to get this man to commit himself. Why doesn't one of your investigators address a letter to this fellow, on a plain sheet of paper (no, stupid, not on the letterhead of the Real Estate Board, and present himself as a prospective buyer and furnish an address in North Carolina, then this man may write to you and give you the scoop. I am not in real estate myself, but I know some fellow who are, and they pay for licenses and all kinds of schooling and then chiselers see to it that the real estate agent never collects any commission,, if the chiseler can avoid it.-I. M. Florida