Does anyone wonder where all the trees come from for all the legal forms in the real estate industry? How about all the trees that must die just to print all the money our government is going to spend? Do any of the lawyers or regulators care about the environment, as they make more laws and more work for all of us, and cause the culling of entire forests? Imagine you are a tree and someone cuts you down from your home and drags you off to a paper mill, slicing and dicing to make you into paper.
Your guts are splattered with nonsense and ink, triplicated, laminated, cut to size and pre-packaged for the fateful day that some human will sign their name to you and your guts will be relegated to some file box somewhere and stuck in an underground salt mine vault for eternity? The size of the legal forms in the real estate sector has grown exponentially over the last several decades, today even a listing agreement in many states is over 17-pages long.
Many attribute this to lawyers getting around the provisions in lawsuits, and others cite the regulators and pile on disclosure laws; both of these are factors of course.
But has anyone ever stopped to consider that with all these real estate legal forms so long now, no one reads them, and therefore they have the opposite effect.
That is to say they no longer protect the consumer, home owner, or real estate buyer with more disclosure because no one reads them.
Please consider all this.