Census

The foreclosure crisis and Census taking have joined forces to create yet another new headache for Realtors^®:

Some Census workers have been contacting the listing agents of vacant properties (or their brokers) if the last known occupant hasn't completed the Census form. Sometimes the Census workers have been very aggressive in attempting to acquire information about the owners or occupants. And the United State Code stipulates that it's unlawful for an "…owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, (to) refuse or willfully neglect, . . . to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises” during the Census.