A Thumbs-Up For Real Estate Agent Association Mailer

We received this week a flyer from the Quad Area Realtors® Association.

The message:..

Let us choose.  Just say no to fire sprinkler mandates. Help stop this threat to our fragile economy . . .  We can’t afford fire sprinkler mandates… in a time when the housing market is recovering, we are facing regulations that would force us to install fire sprinkler systems in new and remodeled homes.  The mandate would drive up the costs of home construction, limit consumer choice and threaten economic progress in the not Quad cities.  It’s time we take action today!  . . .

As consumers, we should be able to choose how our money is spent and our homes are built.  Installing a fire sprinkler system could cost thousands of dollars.  Requiring homeowners to include a sprinkler system on top of home necessities would not only remove our choice, it could make homeownership and unaffordable dream for Quad city to consumers. . . .

Every time a new home is built, local jobs are created in thousands of dollars flowing for local economies.  This mandate would make it harder to build new homes at a time when our housing sector is just beginning to recover.  We can’t afford to impose this mandate and slow down economic recovery. . . .

Visit,   LetUsChoose.net  today — let your local officials know we can’t afford this mandate.

We support the effort and visited their Website where there is an easy to use contact form for our local (Quad Cities) officials.  So thumbs -up.   Now where were they on the far more encompassing bureaucratic matter of Agenda 21? *    That private property regulatory and zoning nightmare was essentially passed by the Scott County Board of Supervisors (with two of the four Republicans on the Board voting for it) under the guise of their  “sustainability plan?”   We can only surmise they were as pictured at right–  R Mall

* read more about Agenda 21 by visiting the links we have categorized at right.

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