First: In the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of property, REALTORS® and their sales associates have the responsibility to offer equal services to all clients and prospects without regard to race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. This encompasses:

1. Standing ready to enter broker-client relationships or to show property equally to members of all racial, creedal or ethnic groups.
2. Receiving all formal written offers and communicating them to the owner.
3. Exerting their best efforts to conclude all transactions.
4. Maintaining equal opportunity employment practices.

Third: Members shall not engage in any activity which has the purpose of inducing panic selling.

Fourth: Members shall not print, display or circulate any statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.

Fifth: Members who violate the spirit or any provision of this Code for Equal Opportunity shall be subject to disciplinary action.

With the adoption of this Code of Ethics, to which all REALTORS® must subscribe as members of the National Association of REALTORS®.

Excerpts From Our Statements of Policy

The Rockford Area Association of REALTORS® is dedicated to the protection and the preservation of the free enterprise system and the right of the individual to own real property as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United State of America. To that end, we offer the benefits of our knowledge of real estate, our experience, and our technical resources to the public in general and the government which serves them.

We believe that the right to own property is one of the basic tenets of the freedoms granted to us. As such, the REALTOR® organization is committed to the preservation of individual property rights. We believe in the free enterprise system, and oppose undue intervention by the government in the affairs of American business. We oppose counterproductive taxation, governmental guidelines, regulations, rules and procedures which unnecessarily increase consumer costs and unnecessarily burden the business community.