Realtors Leaving Unsightly Paper Trail

A disadvantage of real estate agents keeping themselves in the public eye (“Use Me! Try Me! No, Me,” by Julie Tamaki and Sue McAllister, Nov. 28) has to do with littering and causing a nuisance.

Weekly, our front steps are littered with fliers reminding us of agents’ presence in the community. We receive postcards in the mail twice, if not three times, a week braying, “Another sold!”

We can live without the scratch pads, holiday cards, refrigerator magnets and oven mitts they send us. This practice has irritated us so much that we will never refer any potential clients to those Realtors.

Leave us alone. We know where to find you in the event we sell our house in 20 years.

Instead of killing trees to produce unnecessary advertising, I propose that agents and brokers plant a tree on the parkway in front of each house they sell. This will go a long way toward beautifying the neighborhood they profit from rather than cluttering it with unwanted paper.

TOBY M. HORN

Los Angeles