Austin Bloggers puts the smackdown on real-estate blogs

Austin Bloggers News and Announcements: Zero Tolerance:

In the past week, I've removed six real estate blogs from the portal for violating the guidelines of this site. I intend to remove on sight any real estate blog (or, for that matter, any non-personal blog) that violates the guidelines.

I was wondering when this was going to happen. As the housing market has gotten tighter, real estate agents are obviously trying to squeeze all of the exposure they can out of every possible medium. Unfortunately, they've been pushing it too far on Austin Bloggers lately - in many cases using the aggregator as a free listing site. Austin Bloggers usage guidelines prohibit commercial/promotional posting.