{"id":123581,"date":"2021-12-02T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oregon-to-ban-gushing-love-letters-to-homeowners-from-potential-buyers\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:03:29","slug":"oregon-to-ban-gushing-love-letters-to-homeowners-from-potential-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oregon-to-ban-gushing-love-letters-to-homeowners-from-potential-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon to ban \u2018gushing\u2019 love letters to homeowners from potential buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nMessages aim to win over sellers by sharing details from buyers\u2019 lives, which some argue can fuel discriminationAs Kira Hodgson, 33, rereads the \u201clove letter\u201d she wrote a year ago to the owners of the Portland, Oregon, home she now lives in, she starts to cry. \u201cI can\u2019t believe how vulnerable I was,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t know any other situation in which you\u2019d sit down and write a gushing letter like this to a stranger.\u201dHodgson, 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. \u201cI was seeing other houses go in two or three days on Zillow,\u201d she says. \u201cI knew I had to move quickly and give the sellers whatever I could.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/dec\/02\/oregon-love-letter-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon to ban \u2018gushing\u2019 love letters to homeowners from potential buyers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; 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