Southern Middle
Tennessee Area

“In those days, most real estate men had not heard the word ethics. If a good buy came in they bought it themselves and then peddled it off to a customer at a profit… Unscrupulous operators would tie up the property of an uninformed owner under a net contract then sell it at a tremendous profit to a buyer who had already agreed to pay twice or three times the contract price…That’s how things were then. But Colbert Coldwell had a unique idea. It soon became known on the street that Tucker, Lynch & Coldwell bought no real estate for their own account. They gave the buyer the benefit of all the profit and took only a commission”