On the Side of the Realtor, NAR Member - You Lose

The National Association of Realtors will stop at nothing to make sure that you have to use a member of the National Association of Realtor, hence a “Realtor” in your real estate transaction.

Realtors Lobby in Washington D.C. constantly to keep you down, to make sure they are needed and to ensure that laws are passed that “are in your best interest” only these laws are directly against the real estate consumer for the benefit of the Realtor. They push for laws to make sure they keep their hands in your real estate transaction. They control your data, your sale, have their hands in your mortgage laws and more.

If Realtors, Even Real Estate Agents want to cut real estate costs and to use the power of the Internet to market and sell real estate in a way that makes it cheaper and safer for you, the National Association of Realtors will squeeze them out. Those giving you better service for cheaper money online, and emailing often to keep you involved - the State Boards want them to go away. The Realtors, convince these boards that it is your best interest or force them to change the State Laws by pressure, money and political power.

The National Association of Realtors has convinced the State Lawmakers to make your “Real Estate Brokerage” have an office to be ready to write a contract. With the Internet this is ridiculous but State Law makers such as a letter I just got from the Idaho Real Estate Commission, they are making it Mandatory to be Available in person, ridiculous when the buyers are on the Internet.

But it is simply a way to keep the Big Boys, the Franchise and the National Association of Realtors in business a bit longer until the Real Estate Consumer wakes up and realizes that they have once again been duped.

I Don’t understand how the National Association of Realtors can convince lawmaker to make laws that are no where near “legal” or based on your constitutional rights, but oh well the National Association of Realtors owns your real estate transaction and as long as you use a Realtor, you keep them in business. This stuff affects you and you are left way out of the loop.

Using your State and Federal Laws against you is a favored past time of the National Association of Realtors and they are just getting started on the biggest battle in all this. So you will see new laws and real estate licensing mandates pop up left and right in hope to stop Real Estate Agents like me who charge $50 a year for you to market yourself vs. those National Association of Realtors Offices in your town which charge 6 or 8 percents, treat you badly, have forms for you to sign that protect them and not you and have insurance to protect them from you - even if they lie outright.

What is the definition of being “available” well 24 - 7 on the Internet is not what they have in mind. They want your real estate agent ready to receive and write contracts at any time. This is in no way best for the real estate consumer, they Real Estate Commission, say in Idaho, pretends it is best for buyers and sellers if we have full time staff, but in the world of the Internet it is not best. It costs you more.

You Deserve Better then you are getting. Let you State Real Estate Commission, Board of Realty Regulations or whatever they call the governing body in your state that you won’t stand for this anymore. The National Association of Realtors pushes lawmakers, they have lots of money and they do not information the public or give you a right to choose, and your State and Federal Lawmakers do what Realtors want.
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They do this either to Shut them up or if the National Association of Realtors has actually convinced them that is in the consumers best interest. I have read documents, some are posted at www.SavvyBroker.com that show where E and O Insurance Companies and the National Association of Realtors convince State Boards to make E and O insurance Mandatory, they Flat Out lie at these meetings with states like E and O insurance is, in part to protect the consumer and in part to protect the “Realtor” from “frivolous lawsuits”.
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I have experience with the kind of “frivolous lawsuits” Realtors are protected from and this means that if you lose your home, life savings or have serious issues with your property that they sold you, oh well, they can legally lie and the E and O insurance will protect them.
Even though they pretend to be for consumers as well when at your State Realty Board Meetings, they email me a Broker Owner and Tell me that my E and O insurance is “not intended” to protect my clients.

NAR is gearing up to make sure that you have to use them… they will get laws changed, control your state and federal real estate governing bodies and will be all about creating Revenue for Realtors and not about Protecting you At All as a Real Estate Consumer.

They say that being a NAR member is not mandatory, but they block non-members at every turn in the road. Forms yes, MLS, but also the bigger issues. They want the Dept. of Justice to think that Real Estate Agents can do business without being a Realtor and that we choose to be a NAR member because it is of a higher standard, but this is in No Way True, we have few choices left even as a Broker Owner. And the National Association of Realtors owns and controls your State Real Estate Regulators... You Lose.
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Also ref. a New Idaho Law, More on that Later, where I have to be "Available" for contract writing, not here online but all staffed up, have an Idaho storefront and the whole deal, this is true in Washington as well and is a way to squeeze out the Online Brokerage that are working harder and smarter for you, keeping you more informed, giving you cash back and well treating you with the dignity and respect you deserve.
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