TREPAC has a long history of defending your earnings, preserving the health of the real estate industry, and advocating for property owners and real estate consumers.
2013 – Played a key role in addressing the state’s long-term water and public education needs
2013 – Helped enact critical consumer-protection laws in the property-tax lending industry
2011 – Fought for and passed a revision to th
e Deceptive Trade Practices Act that effectively exempts real estate brokerage from liability under the act—as long as the broker or agent hasn’t committed an unscrupulous or illegal act
2011 – Helped the Texas Real Estate Commission attain a self-directed, semi-independent status, insulating the agency from future state-mandated budget cuts and enabling TREC to better serve licensees and consumers
2011 – Passed a measure eliminating most future private transfer fees on real estate transactions
2011 – Enacted strong consumer protections in eminent-domain proceedings
2011 – Passed numerous HOA-reform bills that increase homeowners’ rights and promote more efficient, transparent and effective HOA management
2009 – Defeated multiple proposals to tax real estate, including several bills requiring the creation of a tax on every deed recorded by the county clerk
2007 – Prevented a property tax from being imposed on personal vehicles also used in the production of income
2005 – Codified regulations relating to a minimum level of service a real estate broker must provide to a consumer
2003 – Defeated a proposal which would have created a 1% real estate transfer tax on the sale or lease of all real property
2001 – Killed legislation that would have levied an 8% sales tax on the sale of all real property—commercial, residential, farm and ranch, industrial, raw land—all of it.
1999 – Established a much-needed consumer-protection statute requiring the mandatory licensing of mortgage brokers
1997 – Authored a constitutional amendment protecting a homeowner’s equity by requiring an 80% loan-to-value ratio on refinances, preventing borrowers from becoming upside down on their home loan
1993 – Required a seller of residential property to use a promulgated property-condition disclosure form, thereby decreasing liability on the seller and real estate licensees
