Property News · December 2, 2021

Oregon to ban ‘gushing’ love letters to homeowners from potential buyers


Messages aim to win over sellers by sharing details from buyers’ lives, which some argue can fuel discriminationAs Kira Hodgson, 33, rereads the “love letter” she wrote a year ago to the owners of the Portland, Oregon, home she now lives in, she starts to cry. “I can’t believe how vulnerable I was,” she says. “I don’t know any other situation in which you’d sit down and write a gushing letter like this to a stranger.”Hodgson, a product designer, was living in San Francisco and had been looking for a home in Portland, to be nearer her family as she recovered from breast cancer treatment, when she found a house she loved. “I was seeing other houses go in two or three days on Zillow,” she says. “I knew I had to move quickly and give the sellers whatever I could.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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