Goodies
The real estate industry likes to get its Christmas list in early. Back in January the REIA had its pre-budget submission ready to go, which I had a bit of a glance at, chuckled and thought I'd revisit it when there as a little more currency in the story. With rumblings of a tough budget seeping out, in an effort to soften up those downtrodden minorities - families on over $150k with kids in daycare, the REIA shouldn't get its hopes up any of their lunatic suggestions will be adopted. In saying that they shouldn't be too worried that any of their sacred cows will be slaughtered either. As you'd imagine, the REIA submission is basically a bunch of real estate agents not washing for a couple of days, putting on their rattiest clothes, smearing some dirt on their face and panhandling for tax dollars. While they'll dress up the benevolence of their requests - usually in the well worn pair of pants known as 'affordability', most sane people have now noticed t...