{"id":1719,"date":"2007-08-01T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T07:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2007-08-01T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T15:14:11","slug":"thank-you-governor-napolitano-sam-wercinski-is-the-best-commisioner-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1719\/thank-you-governor-napolitano-sam-wercinski-is-the-best-commisioner-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Governor Napolitano – Sam Wercinski Is the Best Commisioner Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Wercinski<\/a> is the Commissioner of the Arizona Department of Real Estate<\/a>. He was appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano<\/a> to this post in January. I first started hearing good things about Sam by early February. Based on what I had heard I was already predisposed to liking him before I even met him. I had never liked the commissioner who immediately preceded him, as she was the worst kind of petty bureaucrat and mostly disrespectful of all Realtors. To be candid, Sam wouldn’t have needed to do much to beat her in the likability department.<\/p>\n

\"Commish_Photo_Small\"I had posted this <\/a>on BloodHoundBlog a few months ago, telling about an event June 21st, where he would speak and later there would be a top producer panel. There was a buffet lunch and just as I was finishing my sandwich Sam and his entourage arrived. Every single person who worked for him was “there”; which is to say they were, each one, intelligent, articulate and – more importantly, in my opinion – was a genuinely nice person. But when I met him what I witnessed was a truly likable, charismatic and energetic leader. In just a few short months he has dramatically changed the very nature of the department. He has reached out and gotten help and input (real help along with real input) from the Realtor community. The ADRE now has their emphasis on regulating only those licensees that actually need “regulating”. No matter what group of Realtors I am talking to, whenever the subject of the department or the commissioner comes up and I say how impressed I am, the response is typically a knowing nod, “yes, I saw that in him too”.<\/p>\n

I have been meaning to post a “Thank You” to Sam ever since I met him at St. Barnabas in June. Instead HE SENT ME A THANK YOU! Correct. A government official meets me and then takes the time to handwrite a note telling me what a pleasure it was to meet me. Too good to be true? I speculated right after meeting him that he plans on doing the most Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Wercinski is the Commissioner of the Arizona Department of Real Estate. He was appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano to this post in January. I first started hearing good things about Sam by early February. Based on what I had heard I was already predisposed to liking him before I even met him. I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[2,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":888,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/888\/predatory-lending-legislation-can-prey-on-the-responsible\/","url_meta":{"origin":1719,"position":0},"title":"Predatory Lending Legislation Can Prey on The Responsible","author":"Brian Brady","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"New Minnesota Attorney General, Lori Swanson, vows to put an end to predatory lending. 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