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Comment No.:REW-0123
Received:10/21/2005
Organization:1st USA Realty Professionals, Inc.
Commenter:Poison, Pat
State:AZ
Attachments:None

Comments:

From: plynn@securitymortgagecorp.com
[mailto:plynn@securitymortgagecorp.com]
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 5:52 PM
To: ATR-Real Estate Workshop
Subject: REALTORS serve the Public

Dear Sir:

This is a request to retain the integrity of real estate as a competitive business in its current structure. Real estate agents are trained to lead clients through the home buying/selling maze. In the current "discount" realtor frenzy, working agents are often doing the work of two people without getting compensated for it. Someone has to help the homeowners. If they retain limited services they expect "someone else" to help them out.

The MLS system has integrity and is respected by clients as the most up-to-date source, and available through a professional. Professional real estate agents keep the home buying and selling moving forward in a rational, orderly way. To open MLS up to the public would diminish its value to everyone.

Pat Lynn Poison

1st USA Realty Professionals, Inc.

480-282-4932 office

602-618-5535 cell

480-282-4977 fax