Other Real Estate Agents might consider what I'm about to say heresy, but I don't really care and quite frankly I don't think anybody is reading this blog anyway so what does it matter? Earlier this year Governor Brown proposed a new budget for the state of California and in it had what many websites are calling "drastic sweeping changes" "the beginning of the downfall of the Department of Real Estate" or my favorite was "the customer service will decline so rapidly". I was couldn't help but laugh at the majority of what was being written (mind you they were mostly pro real estate websites). Despite my personal political tendencies, I agree completely with Governor Brown and really what is he suppose to do? We need to spend less money, not more. This action would help the state and we should be okay with that. From everything I read we are going to be a bureau under the Department of Consumer Affairs (in all fairness becoming a bureau of anything sounds cooler than a department don't you think?). Sounds like moving the entire department under another category and a little bit of downsizing along the way, which has been happening to everyone else.
Everyone is going to have to tighten their belts during these times and I don't see why so many in the real estate industry think that their world should be the exception. It's interesting how so many agents seem to think that they are entitled to better oversight or are more important than another department. To think that this is the beginning of the downfall of DRE regulation is just plain foolish. Anyone doing something illegal will eventually be caught. If you're one in the crowd saying that the customer service of the DRE will begin to falter, I don't know who you've been dealing with but I welcome a trip to the DMV over getting things situated through the DRE any day of the week. I'm actually hoping that this particular portion of the budget goes through and we can move on to more important issues.
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