Thanks for responding to my post re “Continuing Education”.
After reading your comments several times, I must say, respectfully, that I’m not quite sure which way you are leaning. To be clear, I don’t support CE or TREC as it/they is/are administered today. Like all things “government”, it’s simply gotten out of hand. A bunch of people have gathered in Austin conference rooms every year for years and wrote up a bunch of rules influenced by special interest’s and “voila” we have an atrocity called the Texas Real Estate Commission.
Long posts on FR don’t get read so I will boil it down to this. They need to erase the chalkboard on CE and TREC generally and start over. Nobody should be put out of business due to anything related to a CE class. Period. Reasonable monetary fines, yes. Out of business, No!
I would say it is fair to say that TREC bs has become as moronic on it’s face as requiring a license in Tennessee to braid someone’s hair.
Now, if there’s a bandit broker and he continually violates the rules nail him, or someone violates even one time, nail them with taking CE’s. But for guys and gals like me that go 40 years and hundreds or thousands of deals without a complaint, being put out of business is just ridiculous.
I mostly agree with you on the CE requirements being excessive, but was only laying out my perception of the reason they started. Been doing it since 1985, and though my company (same one, same office) has kept us constantly updated on changes in the law and new technology, many of our competitors were clueless about it. I guess the same people who want to take my guns because someone else might abuse theirs are in charge of the real estate rules!