«I think, universally, the vast majority of
CREA members didn't know this vote was taking place,» says Kay.
This was done
by CREA with the best of intentions to «level the playing field» as I understand it — as it would relate to more established members normally having more product to attract consumer interest.
About a year after FINTRAC was implemented, I had the misfortune to voluntarily attending a «informational» meeting
with CREA in Edmonton.
In late July, the QFREB told brokers in an email that it would be ending its 18 - year membership
in CREA as of Dec. 31.
He served on the Ontario Real Estate Association for 11 years, becoming president in 1992, and was a director
for CREA for six years.
Have you even read one of the reports
from CREA on the process and battles they have fought?
«I think we've found, in Gary Simonsen, someone who has the institutional memory because he's been
at CREA for a number of years.
Just because we are not with
CREA doesn't mean we are not brokers.
«Interest rates are expected to rise slowly and at a measured pace during a new era of government spending restraint, so home financing will remain within reach for many homebuyers,»
said CREA President Georges Pahud.
I'd vote for you
as CREA president for life.
The Montreal and Quebec City real estate boards have served formal notice that they will
leave CREA at the end of the year unless the national association makes major changes.
Look at
what CREA said in REM on March 26, 2007:
In short, I dispute everything M Juaneda asserts as reasons in his Declaration of Independence, I dispute the assertion that GMREB members have given him a mandate to bluff and bluster for new / better terms of
CREA membership in conjunction with carte blanche to quit the national association and if unsuccessful in negotiating.
The steadily building resentment
against CREA by Canadian Realtors is the result of far too many Realtors having decided to do nothing years ago when they should have been on top of what their CREAcrat leaders were proposing, and thereafter they should have decided to speak their minds then, before the floodgates of unfettered use of their private MLS were thrown open by the supposed gatekeepers.
It is interesting to see that REMAX corporate owners of remax.ca does not have to follow the same rules that it's brand users who are brokers or agents as dues
paying CREA members themselves must follow.
I knew
when CREA changed the rule to keep remuneration at not less than zero that it would make us look bad to the public.
Right or wrong, at least TREB is defending their system and not caving and selling us out
like CREA did with the bureau.
The new
CREA Code of Ethics session was informative and critical.
He says
CREA met with representatives of the Competition Bureau in July to review the amendments.
Why would NS leave
CREA now that it has just wiped out viewpoint.ca as the antagonist in the maritimes?
'' [44] The Commissioner's interpretation of the agreement would mean that any distinctions
between CREA members and private sellers are discriminatory, no matter how minor.
Nothing will change until we as a group (not
through CREA because that has proved useless!)
The deal
allows CREA members to access DocuSign services for about $ 90 less per year than if they use the service on their own.
Here in Montreal, we've been discussing the pertinence of remaining
within CREA for the last year.
How do you feel personally about
how CREA handled / is handling the CB situation.
Above, Scott receives the award from
CREA CEO Gary Simonsen, left.
But then
CREA gives away all the MLS information that we have paid for to the government for free as well?
Should it be the case that the Competition Bureau of Canada's interventions into organized Real Estate have had any bearing whatsoever on the Provincial Regulatory authorities pursuing their duties with the appropriate resolve and vigor, then it would stand as the most eloquent of evidence as to
why CREA needed to fight the right fight and explain fully what was right, about organized Real Estate in Canada!