VVAR Updates
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June 16, 2009
Government Relations meeting with the city of Adelanto was very successful. They were wonderful and most agreeable at our proposal to have a link on their web page where Realtors could notify them when we are assigned a property. They already know that the house is empty and may have problems but were eager to be able to know to whom to send notifications to. In the past they have sent notices to the owner of record. That large entity doesn’t know what to do with the notices and buries them in some file that no one will ever see.
Present at our meeting from YOUR Association were Chip Ahlswede, our Government Relations Representative, Becky Otwell, Broker of Shear Realty, Greg Norris and Ira Norris, SAS Realty-Special Asset Solutions and myself, Debra Ann Peterson, Realty World Town and Country Partners, Inc. Present representing the city of Hesperia were Patrick Cornell, Code Compliance Division Supervisor, Arnold Miranda, Code Enforcement Officer-1, Aaron Palmer, Director of Human Resources/ Risk Management and Ben Pina, Information Systems Tech. A great big thank you to Becky. She brought a copy of all listings in Adelanto, not only with our association but also from the surrounding associations. The city was grateful for the information.
Ben will be the one that will build our link on their web site. He will also create a request form that we can use to request info on OUR listings, on behalf of the seller. The city cannot release information to any Realtor unless they represent the seller. In the event we represent a buyer, we can notify the city of to whom the listing agent is, request the information and then ask the listing agent to disclose it to us. We’ll work on this because other cities did not have a problem with disclosing information to a buyer’s agent. Maybe with time, they will disclose to selling agents.
Please be sure to come to YOUR Government Relations Committee Meeting on June 25th at noon and bring your lunch if you wish. We’ll try to only keep you for the lunch hour.
Respectfully presented by
Debra Ann Peterson
VVAR Government Relations Committee Chairperson
Realty World Town and Country Partners, Inc.
Broker/Owner
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