Blogging seems like a fairly safe activity. You’re working hard to provide information that your readers will find useful. And, after all, you’re writing a real estate blog – how much trouble could you get into doing that?
Since there have been two major lawsuits recently, it seems like a good time to mention the problems that you can get into, even with a friendly little real estate blog.
If you look at the suits like the one involving a Florida agent, you’ll see that something written by an educated, savvy REALTOR® turned into a $25 Million lawsuit. I imagine that the agent wrote the post without having any idea that it would start a lawsuit!
So, this might be a good time to think about how you write your blog posts. There’s a great list of things to think about on an Inman article. If you don’t want to read the entire thing, scroll down to the bottom where the list is.
2 Comments
July 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Wow! It is amazing what can get you into trouble these days. Thanks for a great post and this is something to think about when I am writing on my own blog.
And to think that one statement can create such big problems. I think that age we live in are totally different that 20 years ago. With social media and web 2.0, companies have lost their privacy and they need to be careful because one person can ruin their business.
Peter
July 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Peter,
Thanks for the feedback. I agree – the Internet has become a very small community. You may think you’re alone in your own corner of the world, but it ain’t so!
Kathleen