Subject: Open Letter to Dept of Reg and Licensing Secretary Herrera Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:55:28 -0600 From: Jay Reifert Organization: Excel-Exclusive Buyer Agency [Check out REAL-Reform's newly improved website...and be sure to check back frequently, as the next section to go up will be "Consumer Groups Speak Out". http://www.real-reform.org ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- List Removal Instructions: Reply to this Message With "Remove" in the Subject Line or Body of the Message. Governmental Officials and Their Respective Staffs Will Not Be Removed From This List. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Letter to Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing, Oscar Herrera Dear Secretary Herrera, The latest draft from the legislative reference bureau pertaining to Designated Agency, LRB--4720/2, has to be the worst piece of proposed legislation ever created. (If you don't have a copy of the proposed bill handy, you can view it at: http://www.real-reform.org/lrbDraft2.pdf ) Wisconsin's agency laws are already flawed and in need of repair. All this proposal does is deepen the flaws and create an atmosphere of "anything goes to make a sale". Secretary Herrera, if you do not understand the full impact of this legislation, it is absolutely crucial that the Department withhold its support for this flawed, confusing, anti-consumer work of fantasy. It is my understanding that Mr. Corey Scholtka, yet another Wisconsin citizen and former Realtor who has an understanding of this flawed legislation, has called for the Department to do an in-depth study of Wisconsin's Agency Laws, including how the WRA's absolutely bizarre Designated Agency variant would effect the citizens of the State of Wisconsin. I guarantee you...if this is pulled away from the control of the Wisconsin Realtors Association and put out in the light of day, consumers won't stand for the inherent duplicity of either the current scam, or the one perpetrated upon Wisconsin by the WRA in 1994. Please do not give Department support to the WRA's scam bill. Please do send this concept for study before a neutral panel of consumers who can get input from both sides on what is actually currently in Wisconsin's laws and what the WRA is proposing. ----------------------------end open letter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please, contact your legislators to voice your opposition to Designated Agency. You can find out how to contact your legislators to register your oppostion to Designated Agency by going to: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/wamltest/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, PLEASE forward this message to everyone you can and please also print it out--and distribute--to those who you know that don't have email capabilities.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- [This message is going out to thousands of Wisconsin Realtors, almost 500 governmental officials--including all State Legislators and their respective staffs, the Governor of Wisconsin and most candidates for Governor of Wisconsin, the Attorney General of Wisconsin, over 425 Consumer Advocacy Groups and/or individual Consumer Advocates, over 285 Registered Wisconsin Lobbyists and over 190 Media Outlets.] -- Sincerely Yours, Jay Reifert, Organizer/Director of Operations REAL-Reform (Real Estate Agency Law-Reform) http://www.real-reform.org Jay Reifert, Broker/Owner*****************Excel-Exclusive Buyer Agency 100% Homebuyer Representation********5136 E. Hilltop Road 100% Of The Time****************************Madison, Wisconsin 53711 South Central Wisconsin's ONLY********(800)928-9379, Toll Free Full-Time Exclusive Buyer Agency Firm.***(608)273-8841, Office Visit http://www.true-agent.com ***********(608)273-8388, Fax Machine or mailto:true-agents@true-agent.com Check out our NEW website, at: http://www.Buy-Madison-Real-Estate.com