Unscrupulous real estate practices on the rise? As always, there’s a difference between what is legal and what different people consider ethical behavior. It bothers me when someone tries to justify bad behavior by saying “well, it’s legal”. Whether I do business with someone depends a lot more on whether I agree with their behavior than whether they are following the law. I suppose I prefer that they are legal and have similar ethics to me, but if they bend laws because the laws are silly, that’s just fine with me. Anyway, back to article. The writer has had recent direct experience with some very unscrupulous real estate agents. As always, it’s best to know yourself what you are entitled to and to also decide what, not necessarily illegal, behavior you can put up with. It’s one thing to be sold a shirt that wasn’t really made where it was advertised, but to get screwed over on probably the most expensive thing you will ever buy just plain ol’ sucks.