Klaipėdos universitetas

The article deals with written Lithuanian language requests found on Aruodas.lt, the main portal for real estate (RE) classifieds (other specialised or general classifieds portals, such as domoplius.lt, kampas.lt, skelbiu.lt, were omitted because they contain a relatively small number of ads; and besides, many of their RE ads overlap with the classifieds published on Aruodas.lt) and the politeness of such requests. The empirical material, consisting of 1,000 speech acts, was gathered between 6 April 2020 and 30 May 2021. The study aims to determine the types of applicable strategies according to the degree of the directness of the requests, examine internal and external modifications of request cores, and ultimately identify the main forms of addresses.