From: ryand@american-way.com (Ryan Dean)
Newsgroups: alt.misc.business alt.misc.entrepreneurs alt.philosophy.law alt.real-estate alt.real-estate-agents
Subject: Re: Realtors® Are Stealing Home Buyer Rights -- Public Service Announcement
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:25:11 -0500

[This followup was posted to alt.real-estate and a copy was sent to the 
cited author.]

In article <_pFWf.72$jv3.59@fe02.lga>, true-agents@12345true-agent.com 
says...
> ***************************************************************
>             Realtors® Are Stealing Home Buyer Rights
> ******************Public Service Announcement******************
> ***************************************************************
> 
> If you are going out to look at homes with Realtors® without
> first deciding if you want to have representation, and from
> whom, you are unwittingly becoming shackled to those licensees
> who are showing you homes.  (EVEN AT OPEN HOUSES.)
> 
> To learn more about this theft...and to aid in protecting
> yourself from becoming a victim of organized real estate's
> biggest, best kept, dirty little secret, visit:
> 
> http://www.real-reform.org/pcnonebas.pdf
> 
> If you have problems opening the file, you can download the
> latest version of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader at:
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
> 
> Soon, you are likely to see messages from Realtors® who will
> be wildly spinning lies of omission, or half-truths, in an
> attempt to remove your focus from the substance of what you'll
> find in the free report.
> 
> As you consider their protestations, just keep in mind that the
> way to remove all doubt of what is true, is to simply use
> the consumer friendly form that you'll find within the report.
> 
> That's your ticket to freedom.  That's your protection from
> the ethically challenged who would silently shackle you
> without your knowledge/consent.
> 
> Lastly...if you're interested in gaining access to true buyer
> agents...ones who have no interest in trapping you, feel
> free to contact Mr. Reifert by replying to this email and
> removing all numerals from his return email address.  (Any of
> you who have been around the web for awhile, realize he is doing
> this to keep spambots from harvesting his email address.)
> 
> ----------------------------Afterword
> 
> [This message has been crossposted--and will be periodically
> be sent again--to a number of newsgroups where potential home
> buyers may be participants.  Please...if you know of someone
> who is about to buy a home, make sure they get a copy of this
> report.
> 
> Also, it would be greatly appreciated if you were to forward
You are not shackled unless you sign an agreement.  If you do not like 
the REALTOR you are working with then change.

-- 
Ryan Dean
REALTOR, SOFI, HCOA
American Way Real Estate
710 S. Jefferson Ave.
Cookeville, TN  38501
Direct (931)529-1712
Office (931)646-4010 ext. 2160
Fax    (931)858-5570