From: "Jay Reifert" 
Newsgroups: alt.invest.real-estate alt.realtor.relocation
Subject: Re: Home Buyer Beware...Realtors® Are Secretly Stealing Your Rights -- Public Service Announcement
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:32:39 -0600


That form still does not tell the buyer about the theft
created by Procuring Cause.  Also, and you probably
didn't think I know this--but I know more about agency
laws than you have any hope of ever knowing--Florida
is actually going to remove the disclosure requirement
in the very near future!  (Thank you very much Realtor®
PAC dollars and lobbyists.  Sick.  Sick.  Sick.)

Part of the reason it is being removed, is because of
abysmal compliance rates with disclosure!  What a
riot!!!!!  Don't want to comply with the law...CHANGE
THE LAW!

Here's that brochure link again:

http://www.real-reform.org/pcnonebas.pdf

Find out how Realtors® are stealing home buyer rights and
also find out how to stop them.

Here's a good quote to end this message, from Laurie Janik,
General Counsel of the National Association of Realtors®,
"Realtors® and Realtor® associations have the right to lobby
for legislative and regulatory action that they support -- even
if the effect of such action would be anticompetitive."

Yep.  If you don't like complying with the law, just change
it.

Power corrupts.  Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

 Jay Reifert -- Fitchburg/Madison ****** http://www.real-reform.org
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Steve Horrillo wrote:
> On 30-Mar-2006, "Jay Reifert"  wrote:
>
>> Common sense?  To whom?  Do buyers have any idea that they
>> are being obligated to use licensees on the basis of a
>> showing?  Licensees who also are often failing to tell
>> these buyers what kind of choices the buyer has when it
>> comes to representation...and when they do tell, slant the
>> information so the buyer thinks it makes no difference?
>
> In Florida every agent must have the buyer sign a disclosure. It
> reads as follows...
>
> IMPORTANT NOTICE
>
>
> FLORIDA LAW REQUIRES THAT REAL ESTATE LICENSEES PROVIDE THIS NOTICE TO
> POTENTIAL SELLERS AND BUYERS OF REAL ESTATE.
>
> You should not assume that any real estate broker or sales associate
> represents you unless you agree to engage a real estate licensee in an
> authorized brokerage relationship, either as a single agent or as a
> transaction broker. You are advised not to disclose any information
> you want to be held in confidence until you make a decision on
> representation.
>
> FLORIDA LAW REQUIRES THAT REAL ESTATE LICENSEES OPERATING AS SINGLE
> AGENTS DISCLOSE TO BUYERS AND SELLERS THEIR DUTIES. As a single agent,
> ______________ and its associates owe to you the following duties:
> Dealing honestly and fairly;
> Loyalty;
> Confidentiality;
> Obedience;
> Full disclosure;
> Accounting for all funds;
> Skill, care, and diligence in the transaction;
> Presenting all offers and counteroffers in a timely manner, unless a
> party has previously directed the licensee otherwise in writing; and
> Disclosing all known facts that materially affect the value of
> residential real property and are not readily observable.