I’m sorry.  Last week I posted a “rant” that apparently stirred quite a lot of controversy.  I felt I needed to clarify my position somewhat, less some think me a traitor because I dared speak against our association…

I am (was) griping about the total bill.  Maybe you care which association gets what, but to me, it’s all just an unbelievable waste of money.  Frankly, I didn’t care about the individual allocations enough to go pull a historical invoice… I just know the total has gone up two years straight and services have not gone up.

Apparently, some have missed my point:  Agents (look around you) are having a hard time making it all over the country.  Although my company has over $2 million in receivables from agents who would like to pay me but can’t afford to, I will somehow manage to survive scraping together my $440.

But the fact that that the bureaucracy collectively called our associations are so out of touch with their members, or so indifferent to their struggles (even worse) is extremely troublesome to me.

I fully expect to see a dozen or more agents in my brokerage that will not be able to afford continuing as members and will likely just affiliate with our non-member company.  What a shame.

Maybe some of you see nearly half a billion dollars a year in combined value provided by our collective associations, but I, frankly, don’t.  But the again, that’s just me.

I, for one, would like to see our associations tighten their belts just a little, you know, sorta like the people they claim to represent.  And if you happen to be one of the tiny minority who haven’t had to tighten your belt these last two years, then God bless you!

Again, sorry if my venting bothered some of you.  I guess I just think they work for us and not us for them.  But that’s just me…