Brokers hold OACIQ accountable for hidden membership fees- 2013

It's about time, we put our foot down and not let OACIAQ "bully" us again and again to pay for courses! We paid high enough fees worked our "butt" off to earn a decent living. Not everybody could make it in this business, especially in this present market situation. We are paying all kinds of fees already: to OACIQ; to our respective Real Estate Boards; for our Affiliation fees to our respective Agencies; notwithstanding all other expenses incurred in office fees, advertising & promotion, gas, which are quite high, depreciation of our cars and the time spent on the road with the clients, sacrificing our quality time with our family in order to earn a decent living! We are treated as the "money bags" by all the organizations we belong to, to dip in, whenever they need money. Do they think we don't know anything about our profession? That we need to take more courses from somebody they assign to teach who can't even deliver the course properly? Each time we go to these "time wasted" courses, we lose sales and clients! If OACIQ thinks that we need to take these courses to improve our "??knowledge??", OACIQ should "invite" us for free and not charge us! This continuous dipping into our pockets for these unnecessary ongoing "mandatory courses" is unacceptable! Enough is enough! WHOEVER STARTED THIS PETITION, SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED! MORE POWER TO YOU!