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News: Limited Services Real Estate Bill Hangs in Wait
News: US DOJ Urges OK State Legislature to Reject SB 673

If you live in Oklahoma, you should be outraged at some of your state representatives!

The proposed Senate Bill 673 is a step towards removing any choices you as a consumer have in determining for yourself what services you want and want to pay for when choosing a method to sell your house. It’s essentially a mandatory tax for buying or selling real estate. No, you’re not paying the government, but you have no choice whether or not to pay it - the state senate is trying to take that choice away from you - so it accomplishes the exact same thing as a tax.

Is it not reasonable to expect that a person - an Oklahoma citizen - can do at least enough research to find out what services are being provided or not by a particular company?? Let’s be serious. To the Oklahoma legislature: start treating your voters like the adults they are.

I suggest any readers from Oklahoma contact their state legislators (http://www5.lsb.state.ok.us/legislators/lsbaddress.asp) and a) let them know you want to make your own choices about real estate representation and b) ask them to pledge to vote against Senate Bill 673.

This is just another example of the realtor special-interest trying to protect their own pocket book, at your expense. They can’t win in the marketplace, so they’re trying to get laws passed that put their competition out of business. Despicable.

~Robert Creek