Provide equal professional service
without regard to the race, ancestry, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, marital
status or sexual orientation of any client, customer, or
residents of any community.
Keep informed about fair housing
laws and practices, improving our clients and customers
opportunities and our business.
Develop advertising that indicates
that everyone is welcome and no one is excluded;
expanding clients and customers opportunities to see,
buy or lease/ rent property.
Inform our clients and customer’s
about their rights and responsibilities under the fair
housing laws by providing brochures and other
information.
Document our efforts to provide
professional service, which will assist us in becoming a
more responsive and successful practitioner.
Refuse to tolerate non-compliance.
Learn about those who are different
from us, 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 our firm to carry out the spirit of this
declaration and policy.
We so subscribe to these ideals
this 1st of May 1997.
Daniel N. Sheppard, President Larry Sheppard,
Vice-President