{"id":777,"date":"2017-04-12T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=777"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:15:23","slug":"toms-river-introduces-even-tighter-real-estate-canvassing-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/04\/toms-river-introduces-even-tighter-real-estate-canvassing-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Introduces Even Tighter Real Estate Canvassing Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_778\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-778\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trstrong.jpg\" alt=\"A 'Dont Sell, Toms River Strong' sign. (File Photo)\" width=\"620\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trstrong.jpg 620w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trstrong-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trstrong-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \u2018Dont Sell, Toms River Strong\u2019 sign. (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may get even harder to sell door-to-door in Toms River. The township council introduced changes to its peddling and soliciting ordinance, which also regulates canvassing and real estate soliciting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The existing ordinance tightened its regulations after residents in the North Dover neighborhoods bordering Lakewood saw an influx of real estate soliciting, with reports of realtors approaching homeowners repeatedly, aggressively trying to get them to sell their homes. Residents complained of interruptions that were excessive, which lead the township to create two zones, bordering Lakewood, that have a five-year moratorium on canvassing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In spite of the new rules, passed more than a year ago, the council is again looking at its canvassing ordinance after hearing complaints persist about such behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ordinance spelled out how a canvasser must register with the township and name the streets they seek to canvass. Toms River has no-knock rules in place, which allow a resident to be on a list of places where solicitation is prohibited, and would fine the solicitors who disobey the regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But even after passing what officials said were much stricter regulations on such sales tactics, the problems continue, said Township Councilman George Wittmann, who asked the township to prepare changes to the rules to tighten them further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The changes to the ordinance include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Permits for canvassing or soliciting are only valid for a 30-day period.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A permit only allows for the residence to be solicited once, not repeatedly.<\/li>\n<li>After the permit expires, the streets and neighborhoods listed in the canvassing permit can\u2019t be listed in other permit until six months later.<\/li>\n<li>A permit can be rejected, suspended or revoked permanently, if the application has misrepresentations in it, or the applicant commits criminal, illegal, \u201cfraudulent or unethical conduct.\u201d Also: annoying, harassing, intimidating or bullying conduct.<\/li>\n<li>The permits are issued to a single individual, not multiple employees or agents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The council was unanimous on introducing the changes. The final public hearing on the changes is scheduled for 6 p.m. April 25 during the township council meeting in town hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/04\/toms-river-introduces-even-tighter-real-estate-canvassing-rules\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may get even harder to sell door-to-door in Toms River. The township council introduced changes to its peddling and soliciting ordinance, which also regulates canvassing and real estate soliciting. The existing ordinance tightened its regulations after residents in the North Dover neighborhoods bordering Lakewood saw an influx of real estate soliciting, with reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[304,305,11],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-real-estate-canvassing","tag-real-estate-law","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trstrong.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}