As you said, there’s just no valid reasoning at the moment to make it even harder to unload real estate.

Hopefully we see this pass. The sooner we allow the market to adjust on its own, the sooner we can get back to business as usual. The less artificial influence we have, the better!

And right now (and for the foreseeable future) this is likely one of the worst times to impose additional monetary requirements on buyers and sellers.

Since I posted that (thanks for the inclusion and linkage BTW) I received one email from someone asking me why I would vote YES on a RETT. I’m not, I’m voting YES to *prevent* this tax in the future. Ballot propositions can be confusing to read. I have concerns that people will gloss over it, see “taxes” and instinctively say NO.

Thanks for helping spread the word MG. Hopefully it will help people understand they need to vote YES to prevent these taxes (in the near future I suspect).