Real Investors Forum Rules & Regulations.

The real estate investing discussion forum at RealInvestors.com are where investors and other real estate professionals congregate. First and foremost, RealInvestors.com is a community. There are certain rules which we enforce in order to provide the most enjoyable atmosphere that we can.
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our posting regulations, and understand that we also rely on YOU to help us keep this community friendly and enjoyable. This means that not only do the rest of the members expect you to follow these guidelines in your own posts, the administrators and moderators should be contacted via email or private message if you feel that another member's post has violated these rules to such a degree that you would like to bring it to our attention.
All reported posts will be judged without prejudice.

Posting Regulations

No Pornographic or Sexual Material.  Any sexually oriented imagery or links to such content will not be tolerated. Additionally, sexually explicit discussions are not acceptable to our community. Any posting of such material will result in a permanent ban.

No Profanity in Thread Titles.  We do ask that the titles of threads contain no foul language. Moderators of individual boards may also allow or disallow profanity as they see fit, and their decisions are final.

No FAO (for the attention of) posts. You will refrain from having personal discussions or "for the attention of" post with other board members. Please use the Private Message feature of the board, chat, or email for this purpose.

No Impersonations. Do not attempt to impersonate other forum members, and forum moderators/administrators. Such an attempt will not be successful and it is an offense that will get you banned from the forums -no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Out of courtesy to other forum users and moderators we expect you to use only one username on our forums. Please do not post email addresses, standard addresses, ICQ and other messaging client numbers, or phone numbers which are not your own.

One account per user, please. Please do not register multiple accounts. Using alternate nicknames and accounts is considered unacceptable.

No Abusive Behavior. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this Forum to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, abusive, hateful, harassing, obscene, sexually explicit, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violating of any law. Hate speech is not tolerated. We will not tolerate abusive behavior to another member, moderator, or administrator.

NO POACHING. We will not permit anyone to divert the members of this forum to other competing real estate forums or websites. Recruiting our members to other forums or competing websites is strictly forbidden. If you are simply here to promote your own forum, then please leave as you will be banned for doing so.

No Affiliate Links. No posting affiliate links in messages or in your signature. Hiding affiliate links through services that provide short urls is also forbidden.

No Spamming. Spamming is characterized by the initiation of threads or posts that contribute nothing to a forum, be it off topic or on topic. Examples include: empty posts, posts with few words that have no relation to the current thread, promotion of your website or product in any thread other than the classifieds, or discussion and those posts that state they are Spam, either to annoy or increase a member's post count. Posting the same message across several threads is also considered Spam. This determination is made by the forum Moderator or Administrator and is not up for discussion.

User Names, Signatures, and Profile Information.

Usernames
We do not allow members to use website URLs, vanity numbers or email addresses as usernames.

BANNING
RealInvestors.com reserves the right at its sole discretion to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to any part of these forums, parts of or the entire RealInvestors.com Real Estate Investing Website. If you violate any of the rules stated in this document or any other service terms documents, a moderator will remove the offending message and may or may not send you a note letting you know why the message was removed and requesting that you adhere to the forum policies. It is your responsibility to maintain a current, valid email address in your registration information so that our moderators can contact you in the event of a policy violation. Any member who violates our policies will be denied access to these forums, whether or not they were able to receive a message from a moderator stating the nature of the violation. Members of these forums are solely responsible for ALL content that they post on our site. RealInvestors.com shall have the right, but not the obligation, to correct any errors or omissions in any Content, as it may determine in its sole discretion.

RealInvestors.com further reserves the right, in their sole discretion, to delete or remove ANY user content from the site and to deny the access of any member to all parts of this site at any time for any reason without prior notice or liability.

If a member feels that these rules have been violated, they are encouraged to report the offensive post to a moderator or administrator via Private Message or email for review.

Our forums are moderated and moderators or administrators hold the right of closing or deleting a thread they feel is inappropriate. Once a topic is closed, members are not allowed to start new ones with the same topic or to question why a specific thread has been closed. All questions or remarks regarding closed or deleted threads must be e-mailed privately to the moderator who performed this action. Further any discussion of these rules is to be held through the Administrators or Moderators, via e-mail, and not on the forums themselves.

If you don't like these rules, please don't post. If you break these rules, we reserve the right to revoke your posting privileges. Remember, posting here is a privilege and not a right.

If your posting privileges have been revoked and you have questions about why, or what you might be able to do to restore them (this is not possible in all cases), please email the Forum Administrator.

RealInvestors.com takes no responsibility for the content, links to or use of the content of the messages posted on this board, nor do we endorse the opinions of the authors. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless RealInvestors.com and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).

We at RealInvestors.com reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever.

Message boards are a dynamic entity, and RealInvestors.com reserves the right to change or alter these rules at any time. An Administrator’s word is final.

RealInvestors.com reserves the right to publish forum post content (in whole or in part) on any or all of our associated sites. By submitting any content to this site, you give us your consent to reproduce such content in any way, publicly or privately, in any form of media, known or unknown, without any compensation to you.