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            <title>Cheaters NEVER Win</title>
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The term REALTOR has come to connote competency, fairness, and high integrity resulting from adherence to a lofty ideal of moral conduct in business relations. No inducement of profit and no instruction from clients ever can justify departure from this ideal. - Realtor Code of Ethics

Lofty Ideals

There is no more immediate example of a departure from &quot;lofty ideals&quot; than the last 5 years in the real estate industry and the economic mess it's gotten us into.&nbsp; It seems that the real estate industry is the&nbsp;epicenter of the largest economic shift in a generation. 

As a result of this financial crises everyone has been forced to make budget cuts.&nbsp; From the Government's massive, multi-billion dollar bail out of AIG (and several other well known financial institutions) to the &quot;Big 3&quot; U.S. automakers recent plea for a government &quot;bridge loan&quot; - there's no shortage of hand outs, bailouts and freebies to help these companies weather this economic storm.

Moral Conduct

&quot;Moral conduct in business relations&quot;* is no easy task -- especially when the bottom falls out.&nbsp; Those of us that earn our daily bread from the real estate business, no doubt, feel the pressure of the current market.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Dog-Eat-Dog&quot;. &nbsp;&nbsp; 

Citi Group.&nbsp; AIG.&nbsp; Bear Sterns.&nbsp; Morgan Stanley.&nbsp; Wachovia.&nbsp; Washington Mutual.&nbsp; The list of troubled companies being propped up by hard earned, tax-payer dollars goes on...and on.&nbsp; And why should it stop there?&nbsp; What about all those poor Realtors who are suffering as a result of this horrible housing&nbsp;market?&nbsp; Who's going to lend them a helping hand?

That's the question we're asking ourselves at RealSourceBrokers.com and it looks as if we're doing our part - whether we've agreed to the terms or not.

Short on cash?&nbsp; No problem.

Or maybe your simply short on original ideas?&nbsp; We've got you covered.&nbsp; In fact, you can take the shirt off our backs (or, more specifically, the content off our website) - you don't even have to ask.

Right&nbsp;click. Copy. And paste.&nbsp; It's that simple.&nbsp; 

Competency, Fairness &amp; High Integrity&nbsp; 

Below are three Three Case Studies I've compiled to demonstrate how our competitors are stepping up their game in this down market.&nbsp; 

Riding our coat-tails, cutting corners and saving time and money by stealing our content and making it their own. 

Case Study #1: www.gordonstreetrealty.com 

The &quot;Gordon Street&quot; Realty Bail Out

We've all heard about the Wall Street bail out.&nbsp; And everyone agrees that Main Street needs help too.&nbsp; But did you know that Gordon Street was also suffering?&nbsp; Check out http://www.GordonStreetRealty.com and you'll notice how we've helped in their time of need.&nbsp; 

Go on...take a look...site design, images, content, service model...it's all there...we've even helped put words into Keith Gordon's mouth (see exhibit &quot;b&quot;).

Exhibit &quot;A&quot; - STOLEN DESIGN/CONCEPT 

**screen shot 11/28/2008**&nbsp; 

Look at Gordon Street Realty's useful Atlanta Zip Code flash map.&nbsp; Oh, wait...that's actually our map as you can see throughout our website here: http://www.realsourcebrokers.com



Exhibit &quot;B&quot;- STOLEN QUOTE 

**screen shot 11/28/2008**&nbsp; 

Exhibit &quot;B&quot; is a quote from Keith Gordon's BIO page and it brings a new definition to the term unoriginal.&nbsp; It seems I'm literally putting words in Keith Gordon's mouth - take a look at my about page and cross reference it with the Gordon Street screen shot below. 



Exhibit &quot;C&quot;- STOLEN CONTENT/SERVICE MODEL 

**screen shot 11/24/2008**

Take a look at these two screen shots and then go to my site and look at our home page and our relocation services page.&nbsp; Can anyone say &quot;shameless&quot;? 



Case Study #2: www.rkihomes.jasonbenesch.com 

The Real Estate Tomato &quot;Gets Squeezed&quot; 

Everyone is feeling the &quot;squeeze&quot; of the economic downturn and the&nbsp;famed http://www.RealEstateTomato.com is no different.&nbsp; In developing a site for one our local, Atlanta competitors they took a page (or two) directly from our playbook. 

Exhibit &quot;A&quot; - STOLEN CONTENT 

**screen shot 11/21/2008**&nbsp; 

Jason Benesch, Director of Techonology for RealEstateTomato.com, was short on words (and common sense) as he developed the, now terminated, website for RKI Homes here in Atlanta.&nbsp; A local Keller Williams agent, Brenda and her team hired Real Estate Tomato to build a website that was never completed.&nbsp; It was, however, live on the internet for long enough to get indexed by google when searching our office phone number (see google search for 404-270-9374 for evidence).&nbsp; That's right - he was so &quot;right click&quot; happy that he forgot to change the phone number on the content he stole for our site and posted on his client's site.





Exhibit &quot;B&quot;- COPIED CONCEPT/SERVICE MODEL 

**screen shot 11/21/2008*

They didn't stop of direct theft of content in exhibit &quot;a&quot;.&nbsp; No sir.&nbsp; They extended it right into their footer where it would appear they were going to copy our service model too. 



Exhibit &quot;C&quot;- COPIED DESIGN/CONCEPT/CONTENT 

**screen shot 11/21/2008**

We're not staking claim to the idea of displaying &quot;Market Stats&quot; on our website.&nbsp; But who are you trying to kid?&nbsp; That's our content you've stolen and put into that box.&nbsp; Making Sense Of The Market?&nbsp; Let's not get ahead of ourselves here...I'm still trying to make sense of how you call yourself a web &quot;designer&quot;? 





Case Study #3: www.gregregan.com

Greg Regan&quot;onomics&quot;

Many of the most influential economists in the world looked to &quot;Reaganomics&quot; to explain this distrastrous economic situation. Over at http://www.GregRegan.com a Pinehurst, NC Realtor has put to work his own form of de-regulated policies when it comes to his website. 

Exhibit &quot;A&quot; - COPIED DESIGN/CONTENT 

**screen shot 11/18/2008** 



Exhibit &quot;B&quot; - STOLEN DESIGN/CONTENT 

**screen shot 11/18/2008** 

Again with the &quot;Market Watch&quot;?&nbsp; Popular feature.&nbsp; I don't blame you for stealing it from my site - it's definitely one of my favorites too. 



Exhibit &quot;C&quot; -&nbsp; STOLEN CONTENT 

**screen shot 11/18/2008** 

I'm not sure this even needs an explanation.&nbsp; Let's see...right click...copy...paste...find/replace.&nbsp; That just about does it.&nbsp; Greg, I hope you didn't pay too much for those guys over at http://www.goodboyweb.com/ to design your site... 




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