You may include up to 500 characters (including spaces) in your Marketing Remarks, which describe your property to real estate agents.  They also appear on most real estate websites that display the listings of MLS4owners.com.  If you need help, feel free to review our customers' advertisements.

The Fair Housing Act and Washington’s Law Against Discrimination prohibit discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of housing. These laws prohibit the use of certain “red letter words” that could tend to discriminate against various protected classes of persons. For example, it is illegal to state a preference or limitation on account of race, color, or national origin. These restrictions apply not just to classified advertising but also to NWMLS listings.   NWMLS attorneys advise us to avoid “red letter words” that should never be used in a listing, e.g. restrictions against children or people with disabilities or any reference to “families” or family status.  By way of example, a list of potentially offensive words is set forth below.  When you review this list, remember that it is by no means exhaustive and the context in which these words and phrases is used is equally important. 

Able Bodied Adult African Age Agile AIDS Alcoholic American Ancestry Arab Asian Bachelor Black Blind Board Approval Boy Buddhist Catholic Caucasian Chicana Chicano Child Chinese Christian Church Citizen Colored Congregation Couple Cripple Deaf Disability Disabled Drinkers Elderly Employed Empty Nesters English Ethnic Exclusive Executive (such as "large executive house") Families Family Female Filipino Filippino Foreign

Gay Gender Gentleman Girl Golden Age Grandmas House Guy Handicap ("not suitable for") Healthy Heterosexual Hindu Hispanic HIV Homosexual Hungarian Immigrant Impaired Independent Living Indian Integrated Interracial Irish Italian Jew Job References Kid Lady Latina Latino Lesbian Male Man Marital Status Married Mature Membership Approval Men Mentally Mexican Migrant Minority Mormon Mosque Muslim Nationality Negro Newlyweds No Children No Play Area

Older Person One Person Oriental Parish  Perfect for Two Philipino Philippino Physically Fit (ideal for) Polish Prestigious Private Community ("private community"-No; "private drive"-OK) Professional Protestant Public Assistance Puerto Rican Race Religion Religious (Landmarks, like near St. Mark's) Restricted Restriction Retarded Retired Retirees Saint Seasonal Worker Section 8 Senior Sexual Shrine Single Smoker Social Security Spanish Straight Student Synagogue Temple Traditional Two People Unemployed Wheelchair White Woman Women Working Young Youth