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So I say again...taking financial advice from a realtor, Realtor  
whatever....dumb.

You can't single out realtors, Realtors, bankers, or private mortgage  
companies. In the end, it is the borrowers.


On Oct 19, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > No. Being a member of the NAR requires you pay the fee to join and  
> > > be
> > licensed in your own state. There is no further education or ethics
> > required than that.
>
> Of course that is the way it works in reality.  But my point was  
> this, the
> word 'Realtor' was fabricated by in 1913 by the foudners of the  
> NAR.  It is a
> trademark.  You cannot call yourself a Realtor(R) unless you are a  
> member of the
> NAR.
>
> People use the word Realtor to mean any real estate agent just as  
> they call
> an tissue a Klennex or any refrigerator a Firgidaire or any copy  
> machine  a
> Xerox.
>
> By signing onto the the NAR you are *supposed* to be signing onto a  
> code of
> ethics.  I agree that it is largely non-existent.  Mainly the NAR has
> functioned to funnel money to legislators to set lending standards  
> low enough for
> anyone who breathes to qualify for mortgage in order to inflate home  
> prices and
> swell its ranks.
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