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Local REALTORS Best Serve Local Markets!! (CA State wide MLS system)
"All Real Estate Markets are Local"
If our clients are best served by dealing with local Real Estate agents who know their market and the local issues affecting it, why would we want to open ourselves up to the Law Suites that will follow from acting as agents with the fiduciary responsibility of having local knowledge of a Real Estate market 100's of miles away?
We should stop this madness, unless CAR believes REALTORS contribute nothing to the Real Estate Transaction and we are just glorified taxi drivers who are over paid or maybe we are nothing but a antiquated "Good Old Boys Club".
All I see is REALTORS are giving up the last primary benefit they have to help their clients. REALTORS gave up their local ownership of the Real Estate market history to the public by selling to "RE INFOLINK" and now they are going to give up the last primary benefit they provided to their clients, local knowledge and expertise.
What will stop Internet companies from providing Statewide listing information from calREDD and then writing a sales contract on their Sellers property and not even being local, requiring the Listing Agent do all the work with the ... more

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