02 May 2006 05:13 pm
Houston’s Channel 2 News ran a two part story over the past couple of days about convicted criminals getting real estate licenses which in turn gives them access to essentially every house on the Houston market via a SUPRA key. Story
According to the story “general counsel Loretta Dehay admitted that some murderers and rapists are eligible for licenses under the current rules”. I realized the the Texas Real Estate Commission has to be open-minded, but not giving licenses to convicted sex offenders and murderers you think would be a no-brainer!
What makes matters worse, the cost to do background checks on all current Texas licensees is not cheap. If the state mandates this, TREC will have to either get a bigger slice of state funding (not likely) or they will have to raise Realtor membership fees. Not good…
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