Folks: Steer clear of Pru-Fox realtors. Two of them from Pru-Fox's nearby Margate, NJ office-- Mark Arbeit and Lou Solomon-- teamed up with a convicted criminal mortgage broker to unload on me the broker's house over a leaking underground oil tank. These three Real Estate Professionals thought it was a laugh riot. They yukked it up, and high-fived it all around; they point to me as proof that they're so smart and slick they can unload even a toxic waste dump. OK. You want some real yuks? Consider the following.

First, read in The Washington post archives for June 20, 25 and 26, 1987 about how and why this Arbeit fellow was bounced from his position as an assistant elementary school principal down in Virginia. Good grief! Doesn't Pru-Fox do anything to vet its realtors? How can it turn this guy loose on unsuspecting buyers and sellers, and how many more like him does Pru-Fox have lurking around its offices?

Second, just take a gander at Solomon: The guy's just as slippery as he...