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RECALL:  Real Estate Consumer Alliance

RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance

Gathering place for real estate consumer advocates, as well as home buyers and sellers, to discuss lessons learned from the housing bubble and reforms necessary to (1) eliminate conflicts of interest in residential brokerage and (2) prevent another trillion dollar meltdown
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“BUBBLE HOUR: WBUR reporting housing market is off to a slow start in MA, lowest sales volume in 22 years. Prices down 18-20% from 01/8 to 02/09” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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PREVIEW: Future of Buyer Agency & Alternative Real Estate Brokerage - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
PREVIEW: Future of Buyer Agency & Alternative Real Estate Brokerage
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“Prelim results Q11: Agree w/ Shiller re personal financial advisors, role in home sale / purchase? Survey http://tinyurl.com/73cfzp #ICNY RT” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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“Prelim results Q14: What reforms would U recommend to make RE industry more consumer friendly in future? http://tinyurl.com/73cfzp #ICNY RT?” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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Prelim results Q14: What reforms would U recommend to make RE industry more consumer friendly in future? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s... #ICNY RT?
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“ConnectNY Q10. Remove barriers to alternative biz models. Fund & encourage innovators. UNOFFICIAL survey http://tinyurl.com/73cfzp #ICNY RT” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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“ConnectNY graph Reform #1: Overhaul commission compensation model. Hourly fees, flat fees. UNOFFICIAL survey http://tinyurl.com/73cfzp #ICNY” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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“ConnectNY graph Q3: Industry must meet CONSUMER needs. Cost of RE transaction is too high. UNOFFICIAL survey http://tinyurl.com/73cfzp #ICNY” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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#ICNY ConnectNY UNOFFICIAL Survey snapshot: Proposed reform #4: Consolidate MLS into a national database with oversight from consumers and industry. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s... RT
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“HOME BUYERS: Love http://BostonBubble.com link> WBUR/NPR debate: Do buyer agents really help consumers save money? http://tinyurl.com/228jz2” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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DUMP DUAL AGENCY: WBUR "American housing and finance. What went wrong, and how to fix it" See four proposed reforms (link in comments on below) - http://www.onpointradio.org/shows...
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AUDIO BLOG POST: What regulatory reforms are needed to protect real estate consumers? http://tinyurl.com/4gq5cq - RealEstateCafe
Send email to realestatecafe [at] gmail.com if you want to TweetUp tonite to listen to rebroadcast, 7-8pm, & brainstorm about reforms to make sure this "never happens again" (Tom Ashbrook's words a second ago) - RealEstateCafe
TWEET-UP: Home buyers call 617-661-4046 to join TweetUp tonite to listen to NPR rebroadcast Fixing Housing, 7-8pm http://tinyurl.com/4a4ke5 - RealEstateCafe
Comment on WBUR blog turned into blog post http://tinyurl.com/2yqz6w - RealEstateCafe
READ Joel Stern's post about the Real Estate Cartel on WBUR blog: http://tinyurl.com/4a4ke5 - RealEstateCafe
HOME BUYERS: Follow-up post to WBUR/NPR debate: Do buyer agents really help consumers save money? Rebroadcast 7pm http://tinyurl.com/4a4ke5 - RealEstateCafe
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RECALL>Real Estate Consumer Alliance: What regulatory reforms are needed to protect real estate consumers? Four conversation starters - http://realestatecafe.blogs.com/real_es...
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@John_Corey wrote "How do you protect consumers from their own decisions?" If subsidies involved, require buyer agent to protect tax payer - RealEstateCafe
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RECALL>Real Estate Consumer Alliance: Listen to "Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists" & discuss whether designated agency contributed to the housing bubble & should be repealed - http://www.onpointradio.org/shows...
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