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Save Real Estate from Government Regulation Now!

Please help save our real estate industry. On July 21, 2010, our President signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It’s another federal statute responding to the financial meltdown of 2008 that occurred in part because the Federal government unwisely forced banks to take on risky loans.

In reality, this statute was nothing more than government taking over our industry with the most sweeping regulatory changes since the Great Depression. It’s just another regulation that says, “Government knows better than you how to run your business.”

Realtors are being hosed by their own (supposed) mortgage association affectionately called Fannie Mae. To prove that this quasi Governmental-Private business entity has now gone black to the core, witness their new “green” patents for (yes this is the real name for both) “System and Method for Residential Emissions Trading.”

Okay, so we have this terrible economy with an unbelievable debt and falling stock market. If you look closer, you can see something shining, and it’s silver. Yes, a silver lining.

The one good thing about this economic catastrophe is that we’re all in the same boat. So now it’s time to do something that you would never think possible in a “normal” economic time:  barter. Ask for financing on the products and services you purchase.