I will point out, and have posted twice on this issue about the both a NAR and a CAR lobby against a private transfer tax… It made alot of sense to lobby against and NAR and CAR were correct to lobby against it. You may want to read about it and decide for yourself if you would have supported it or not.
What I thought was intriguing was that everyone loves to pound on NAR, loves to talk bad about realtors, complain about commissions, yet two seperate posts about private transfer taxes which could result in up to 1% in a purchase and can stay with the property and there were ZERO responses.
Absolutely the bulk of the lobbying, in fact ALL of the lobbying is self serving but some of that self serving interest would actually help Joe homeseller/homebuyer. Not much… but some.
