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They Say It's Safe

  Is it against the law for a real estate agent, a property manager, or a leasing specialist to say an area is safe?
 
  It's not against the law, except that it's against the law to lie and say that if they know it isn't so.  Otherwise, they're just expressing their own opinions.
But I don't think they should.  It's much better to give you solid facts:  the crime rate in this neighborhood is only such-and-such, for example.  That way they're not opening themselves up to so much liability if something goes wrong.  They're leaving it up to you to draw their own conclusions.
    Edith
Originally published on July 23, 2008
 
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