Projects

Currently, CAARE is strictly a volunteer organization.  All funds donated to CAARE go to fund real projects designed to help keep consumers informed and to bring transparency to the residential real estate process.  We need your help with funding and we need volunteers to make these projects a reality.

Follows are just a few of the projects for which we need some help:

1.     Attorney Surveys.   Unconflicted real estate attorneys are the best safeguard to ensure healthy and competitive consumer transactions.  These same attorneys are also keenly aware of some of the problems afflicting consumers.

2.    Compiling Laws.   We want consumers to have easy access to residential real estate laws that affect their transactions.  In addition, we want to analyze these laws from a consumer perspective to determine if these laws provide the protections for which they were designed.

3.    Controlled Business Arrangements.  We want publicize the names and affiliations of controlled business.   One of the worst atrocities to consumer interests occured when these arrangements were legalized.  The industry got the name changed to Affiliated Business Arrangements (to avoid the accurate negative connotations conveyed by the term we use). 

4.     Who Are The Regulators.  This project would involve investigating key real estate regulators around the nation for close ties to the real estate industry.

5.     LIST of Buyer Agents Who Discount.   Consumers are marketed by buyer agents and often told that the buyer agent fee is free - the seller is paying for it.  That is far from the truth as is demonstrated by the fact that thousands of agents nationwide will rebate part of their fee back to the buyer.  We need help developing this list.

6.     LIST of Exclusive Buyer Agents.   We know who most of them are.   We just need help loading the information on our website.

Learn how to volunteer for CAARE.