November 6, 2007
Vote and/or Buy This Lovely Property Today
The kids over at Curbed SF have the word on one polling place that's also an open house. Gross. Over in the enchanted Excelsior District, early morning voters have also been getting the hardcore sales pitch for a 6BR polling station that's going for $888,888. Not a bad price, btw, but still. Anyway, check it:
"Went to vote this morning at 900 Persia Street in the lovely Excelsior District. Not only is it a polling place but as it turns out, it’s also an open house. The agent for the house is standing around in the polling place loudly greeting all the voters and yelling down the street “The Polls Are Open!.” I actually thought he WAS the head of the polling place but I quickly realized he’s just making the most of the opportunity to hawk the property. He’s chatting up all the poll workers and is SUPER enthusiastic about voting!So I go to turn in my ballot and he’s right there to hand me his business card and a flyer for the property and then point helpfully to the sign hanging from the ceiling giving the URL for the property’s website."
Seems that something like this would be considered verboten by law, or at least frowned upon by cranky SFers, but does anyone with a modicum of law knowledge have any input?
Image credit: Curbed SF, via Sharon
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Legal? Who knows. Tacky? Definitely.
The agent is hereby found guilty in the court of taste.
I think the restrictions only apply to candidate or issue advertising. My quick google search turned up nothing useful, but now I have something to kill time with at lunch...
But hey, get in touch with Bowen's office anyway: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_fraud.htm
Wait till you get your "I voted" sticker.
It comes in 3 languages.
"Ya Voté!"
It's probably not illegal yet. But thanks to this yahoo it will be now. Way to ruin the voting/home buying party for everyone else.
Yeah really - I was just about to use it to sell my house...
Seems like a great strategy - especially in this shitty market. (tacky but great!)
What, a real estate agent being tacky? Oh! The humanity!
My elderly mom still lives in the house we grew up in in Texas, in the last house on the block that hasn't been torn down for a multimillion-$ McMansion.
A real estate agent or two has figured out I'm her son, and I'm getting spammed along the lines of "let us know when she's too old to live in the house anymore!"
Where's the anti-tacky Gestapo when you need one?
$800K in the Excelsior? On Persia?!? Dayum.
Oh, so this is your business card, hmm, okay, thanks...when I eventually sell the house I'll eventually buy, I'll be sure to never to use your services. Thanks again for the info! Byeee-eee!!!