New Signage Rules - MI Realtor Association

Truly an overreaction and perhaps something under the table, yes, I said under the table...by whom, I have an idea........

AGENT is More Important than the Brokerage name !!

I believe this new law would be very unfair to agents. We each own our own business and should be able to promote them. As a business owner I pay for my own marketing, not my broker - so why am I paying to market my broker.

Leave it the way it is.

Stop this insanity I am a owner of Company agents are independent contractors and pay their own marketing quit regulating what doesn't need regulated

This law would be unnecessary and ridiculous.

I think it is unfare to require the brokers name to be the same size as the realtor who is paying for the opportunity to brand themself

Please reconsider this proposal. This would definitely be an additional and unnecessary expense for agents.

My brokerage does nothing for me or my advertising. I give a cut of every sale to them anyway. Advertising is to advertise me, my brokerage's name is already big enough on my stuff.

We are Independent Contractors. If this change is made and we're forced to change ALL of our signage for what? I don't recall seeing one comment in favor from our West Michigan Broker/Realtor community. This should not be happening!

Also consider the expense for us Realtors as many of us have thousands of dollars in printed materials that we are using; brochures, postcards, business cards, signs. This expense to reprint may actually put many Realtors in debt or cause a significant financial hardship as these materials are very expensive to print

It is the "any and all advertising" that is troubling to me. While there are certainly some places where agent AND brokerage name should be jointly present (signs, facebook, all direct property marketing), smaller token items used primarily for name recognition (pens, small client gifts) would be overly burdened with this requirement.

Please reconsider.

We pay for our own advertising and support our broker as they in turn provide teaching and training support. We collect and pay for our own leads, are not provided leads by our broker, and thus people should be directed to us as an individual agent, not back to the broker to possibly go to another agent to benefit from our work and money!

This would be a ridiculous expense to all agents.

I see no reason for this change. Wondering who thought this up after all these years?

SB-26 does not serve the open competitive real estate market or Realtors. Please revisit SB-26.

Realtor with Keller Williams Grand Rapids North

I strongly believe that the 30% minimum as opposed to 100% should be the rule.

This just seems to be a promotional for the Broker not taking the actual agent into consideration. It is we of course that pay a monthly fee to our broker to promote us the agent. if the broker is okay with the signage why would the state be concerned about the size of the print as long as it is stated on the sign!