Showing posts with label Consumer Protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumer Protection. Show all posts

defend your consumer rights, speak out

STOP Using Realtors, Pay Attention to What NAR is doing, Saying, Lobbying that Directly hurts you.. but you see it benefits them, and then they benefit insurance companies, local government and much more in turn.
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Realtors Deceive Everyone Equally? Do Realtors Lie to Bank Owned Property Managers ?

Do Realtors even Cheat the banks, yes I know Shocking but I want to share with you another tidbit shared with me tonight.

Do Banks know this Stuff? Maybe they just don't care.

Some Realtors take banks foreclosure listings and find a way to create a fake distress sale, sort of with the bank themselves. Another words the Realtor can do something such as list the banks Real Estate Owned property, and not tell the bank about buyers they get, interested parties or even tell the bank of offers. These Realtors simply find a way to keep the bank thinking their are no real buyers when really they have lied about interest in the property, kept other Realtors and their clients from making offers by lies and games and sometimes flat out telling a buyer oh you can't have that listing. At this point a Savvy Buyer will contact the bank direct and NEVER trust the Realtor that there is an offer, several offer, it is contingent or any other reason the lying Realtor tells you in which keeps you from Buying the Property.

These Realtors will even deliberatly enter the wrong zip code to keep buyers at bay, this way the lender will come down even more or be "More Willing" to sell very low and the Realtor themselves or a friend of theirs will then buy the bank owned property. Believe me NAR, Realtors are a HUGE, very Huge part in the financial collaps we are now in.
And many Realtors will Continue to Benefit from these properties that the bank owns. They will be a part of selling them for the banks, they will buy some of them, and their friends and investors will be buying those homes NAR sold you and told you it was a GOOD time to buy.
Crystal L. Cox
Real Estate Whistleblower

More Anti-Consumer Laws...

Laws such as the one I am about to Mention PROVES my POINT. State Governing Bodies Protect REALTOR big time.

Here it Is...

"County of Los Angeles Department of Consumer AffairsNew Consumer Laws 2007"

"Real Estate Agents: Can’t Lie About Qualifications

B&P Code Section 10177

Current law provides that willful misuse of trade names, including “realtor”, are subject to discipline by the Real Estate Commissioner by revoking, suspending or denying a license.
This new law strengthens prohibitions against real estate agents from falsely claiming membership in trade organizations or falsely claiming to have special designations or certifications.

This law prohibits knowingly authorizing, directing, or aiding in the publication, advertisement or distribution of any false statement or representation concerning a designation or a certification, including trade organization membership.

The Real Estate Commissioner is authorized to suspend or revoke a real estate sales license for this violation."

Link to Source Below

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So this DUMB - Dispicable - Anti Consumer Law makes it so that Realtors cannot use TRADEMARKS of Realtor, makes it so Real Estate Brokers that are not REALTOR - NAR members cannot even use the Word Realtor on there website even if they are talking about a Realtor - an NAR member or they Will Lose their Real Estate License.

Laws Enacted CLEVERLY disguised as Consumer PROTECTION but are obviously one more way to Force you to USE a Realtor, NAR member and to Force Real Estate Brokers to be Realtors but then say it is a Choice to Join NAR - if they cannot in Good Faith make this claim then they are deliberately and obviously violating Anti-Trust Laws.

So If I were a Real Estate Broker in California and used the word Realtor I would be falsley claiming "special designations or certifications"? what a Crock...

Consumers wake Up, State Real Estate Commisisons are FORCING - NAR members on you at the same time NAR is saying it is a Choice for us as Real Estate Brokers to join their "association" - which I call a Real Estate Cartel. And this above information is from the Department of Consumer Affairs - are Governing Bodies really that clueless to the Anti-Consumer tactics of NAR?

So in Los Angeles, If I were licensed their and I said Confession of a Realtor, or Realtor ...., or talk to your Realtor about... , or Realtors are lying to you... well I would lose my Real Estate Brokers license... Tell me NAR does not control State Licensing boards and Real Estate Commissions - and I say that is a Flat Out Lie.
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Also NOTE that being a REALTOR is NOT a "Qualification" OF ANY KIND - you pay a fee to join, you Promise to uphold Ethics and Standards of Practice that no ones holds you accountable to - sure you have continuing Education so what you would have that if you were not a NAR member as well - you pay a monthly and yearly fee to be a "Realtor" - it is NOT a Qualification....
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