I am a Real Estate Broker in Tampa, Florida (and a former Ohioan). To stay in touch with market trends I read stories about housing issues from across the United States and even other countries. My reaction to the proposed increase in fees on local real estate transactions – unbelievable! To do that at this time would be like going to a man with a broken leg and asking him to carry your baggage. Instead of heaping on another burden, you should be coming up with ways to ease the already overburdened homeowner. Home sellers do not need another hand in their pockets on top of everything else that’s happened. Some Lucas County Commissioners are apparently oblivious to what’s happened to home prices in the past 2 -3 years or they just don’t care about their constituents as much as they do their political cronies.

Ronald Cress
Real Property Marketing, Inc., Realtors
Tampa, FL