Robert Jacques Bruss (May 2, 1940, Minneapolis, Minnesota – September 26, 2007, Hillsborough, California) was a real estate attorney and syndicated columnist known as "the Dear Abby of real estate".
[2][4] His columns appeared weekly in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers.
His book The Smart Investor's Guide to Real Estate (1981) has appeared in multiple editions.
[5] Tribune Media Services distributed his column for a quarter of a century.
His writings have appeared in more than 175 newspapers[citation needed] and on many real estate Web sites.