LAER Realty has zero-tolerance for violations of the Fair Housing laws and prohibits any client, customer, agent, or employee from discriminating in the provision of any of the company’s services on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, physical or mental disability, familial status, marital status, national origin, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other protected category.
Prohibited practices may include, but are not limited to the following behaviors:
1. Refusing to show, sell or rent based on a person being a member of a protected class.
2. Different treatment/disparate treatment to persons of a protected class.
3. Steering or guiding potential homebuyers to selected areas based on where you think they need to live.
4. Discriminatory advertising that “expresses” a preference for buyers of a particular protected category.
5. Harassment (i.e., coercion, intimidation, threats, or interference with a person’s fair housing rights or because a party is abiding by fair housing law).
6. Applying more burdensome criteria to applicants of protected classes.
7. Blockbusting which is defined as any illegal, discriminatory practice whereby an agent induces a property owner to list his or her property by representing that the neighborhood may change as a result of race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetic information, disability or any other protected category.
Any violation of fair housing laws or this policy must be reported to the LAER CEO and COO immediately. Independent contractors are prohibited from engaging in any conduct in violation of this policy and are subject to removal from their duties or activities with the Firm for violations of this policy