Dublin’s elected officials have stepped in with new rules for displaying open-house signs in an attempt to end the bickering between real estate agents who’ve complained their competitors are flouting the rules and gaining an unfair business advantage.
The new rules introduce fines for repeated violations, from $100 to $500, and a deadline to take down open-house signs by 5:30 p.m. The council also upped the number of signs allowed to be displayed per advertised property from four to six. Agents had said four signs were not enough to direct prospective buyers to hard-to-find properties.
“As a rookie realtor I was trained you put out your open-house sign, you pick it up when you’re done,” Medeiros said. “Anyone that doesn’t do that, I don’t consider them professional realtors. I consider them lazy.”