{"id":12486,"date":"2010-06-29T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2010-06-29T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:06:56","slug":"real-estate-declaration-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12486\/real-estate-declaration-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Declaration of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a bit quiet on BHB due to some personal issues I&#8217;ve been working through.\u00a0 But, I was very happy to see Greg&#8217;s latest post on <a title=\"Four years of the dog: Happy Birthday to all the hounds\u2026 \" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12480\" target=\"_blank\">challenging everything<\/a>!\u00a0 I had a little holiday brainstorm today and wrote a post on my <a title=\"Real Estate Declaration of Independence!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.propertychelan.com\/Chelan_Real_Estate_Blog\/?p=3150\" target=\"_blank\">local Lake Chelan blog<\/a> on a Real Estate Declaration of Independence for the consumers of services from Real Estate Professionals.<\/p>\n<p>I want to share it here on BHB and get your thoughts on what I missed, should add or could have said better!\u00a0 So, without further ado here is my Independence Week start to the Real Estate Declaration of Independence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Real Estate Declaration of Independence<\/h2>\n<p>We, the people who buy and sell real estate, hold these truths to be  obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We the      people believe that information on real estate for sale  should be readily      accessible without surrendering our private  information.\u00a0 We reject having to register on a web      site in order  to view listings in an area.\u00a0      We value our time and will contact a  real estate professional when      we are good and ready for their  services.<\/li>\n<li>We      the people reject all policies of the National Association  of Realtors      that are not in the best interest of the real estate  buying and selling      public.\u00a0 Limiting our access to       information, restricting our ability to a free and open market through       regulation and limiting our market choices are all examples of  policies we      reject that are designed to line Realtors pockets at  the expense of the public.<\/li>\n<li>We the      people reject \u201cDual Agency,\u201d where a real estate agent  has an inherent      conflict of interest with his agency and fiduciary  duties by attempting to      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12486\/real-estate-declaration-of-independence\/#more-12486\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a bit quiet on BHB due to some personal issues I&#8217;ve been working through.\u00a0 But, I was very happy to see Greg&#8217;s latest post on challenging everything!\u00a0 I had a little holiday brainstorm today and wrote a post on my local Lake Chelan blog on a Real Estate Declaration of Independence for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,7,212,175,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-carnival-of-real-estate","7":"category-dual-agency","8":"category-enduring-interest","9":"category-flourishing","10":"category-project-blooodhound","11":"category-supplanting-the-nar","13":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3320,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3320\/yankee-doodle-dog-this-weekend-only-tickets-for-the-bloodhoundblog-orlando-unchained-social-media-marketing-event-are-only-99\/","url_meta":{"origin":12486,"position":0},"title":"Yankee Doodle Dog: This weekend only, tickets for the BloodhoundBlog Orlando Unchained Social Media Marketing event are only $99","author":"Brian Brady","date":"July 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\"It's deja-vu all over again,\" said Yogi Berra. 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