I have been in the real estate industry since 1994. Real estate agent, sales manager, franchise sales, and currently Franchise VP for Assist-2-Sell, America's Leading Discount Real Estate Company.
What is the best thing for the real estate market and home owners in general? A strong, realistic, predictable, and stable market. With NAR throwing Millions upon millions of dollars at politicians, how has it helped our profession and homeownership in general? Answer, it has destroyed it. Fannie, Freddie disasters. FHA ticking time bomb. Mortgage interest deduction, stop and think for a minute what incentives it puts in place for higher debts. The housing boom and bust cycles have become more frequent and much more exaggerated. Is that good for our industry? The last thing we need is more government intervention, and incentives. NAR is basically bribing politicians to keep all these homeownership incentives in place, the very policies they have destroyed careers, companies, and American families. WAKE UP NAR. NAR has turned into a big, bloated, out of touch Ryan Elliott ryanassist@gmail.com
It's my listing, not it's mine. You shouldn't benefit, I should, it's not fair, Pass the rule, rescind the rule. I swear, the real estate business is one big pissing match. Get over it. Listings all over the internet is a bad thing why? Give your seller/listing maximum exposure on as many sites and portals as possible is bad why? Take all my listings put them on as many sites and get me as much exposure as possible. THAT IS WHAT MY SELLER IS PAYING ME TO DO. And don't hide behind the whole privacy excuse, it's an insult to our intelligence. It's about control, plain and simple. "completely disregards the proprietary nature of the listing information," and deprives real estate brokers of the right to protect the information and their clients by contract. Listing information is "proprietary?" Which part? The photos? The fluff written in the description? Or just the fact that your name is on it. Signed, Sick and Tired Realtor. Oh wait, I'm not supposed to use that word. Licensed real estate agent who pays dues so therefore can be considered a Realtor? Come on man! It doesn't have to be this hard!
All the contributions and lobby efforts have really done a lot of good! Lining the pockets of crooked politician to create rules and regulations to further add to the boom and bust market cycles of our industry. Bravo NAR, really adding value to the membership. The NAR is like the fed. gov. To big and bloated, to many people with their hands out, to much red tape and regulations, and endless fees that always find a way to go up! Ryan Elliott ryanassist@gmail.com
