Fair Housing Information

The Ann Arbor Area Board of REALTORS® supports the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan.
This section of our website is dedicated to helping AAABoR REALTORS® provide all area residents the opportunity to realize the American dream of homeownership.

• Get the most up-to-date information from the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan
• Download your free copy of the REALTORS® Guide to Housing Opportunity (courtesy of MAR)
• Download a Fair Housing Training Kit (courtesy of MAR) - This kit is useful for the organizer/instructor of a Fair Housing class or seminar.
• Video: "Trying Too Hard to Help: Fair Housing and Unintentional Discrimination" (courtesy of NAR)
• Fair Housing Focus Publication (from NAR)
• Test your Fair Housing Knowledge. Think you're pretty well versed in federal fair housing law? Take the NAR Fair Housing Quiz
• Property Marketing. 8 Tips for Fair Housing Compliance (from REALTOR® Magazine)

I agree to:

• Provide equal professional service without regard to the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin or sexual orientation of any prospective client, customer, or of the residents of any community.
• Keep informed about fair housing law and practices, improving my clients' and customers' opportunities and my business.
• Develop advertising that indicates that everyone is welcome and no one is excluded;, expanding my client's and customer's opportunities to see, buy, or lease property.
• Inform my clients and customers about their rights and responsibilities under the fair housing laws by providing brochures and other information.
• Document my efforts to provide professional service, which will assist me in becoming a more responsive and successful REALTOR®.
• Refuse to tolerate non-compliance.
• Learn about those who are different from me, and celebrate those differences.
• Take a positive approach to fair housing practices and aspire to follow the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
• Develop and implement fair housing practices for my firm to carry out the spirit of this declaration.