Real Estate from A to Z is hosted by Bill Ashker, Owner/Broker of Real Living Property for You in Phoenix Arizona, and Bill Zervakos. Real Estate A to Z delves deep into the real estate business with interesting guests that are heavily involved in the real estate industry. The second Friday of the month is Commissioner's Corner with Arizona Department of Real Estate Commissioner Sam Wercinski keeping listeners abreast of happenings from the department. Other executives from ARMLS and AAR are regulars as are other experts from all phases of the industry.

This Weeks Guest.

We want to thank last weeks guest Armando Contreras, ROC Director, and Assistand Director Alan Felber as we talked about what's new with the Regristrar of Contractors.  Due to the holiday we'll be re-running our last show with Commissioner Sam Wercinski that we did at the KFFN Financial Fest on Nov. 1st. If there is an issue you'd like us, or our guests to address, call us at 623.385.7000 or reach us by email at, RealEstateAtoZ@kfnn.com and we'll do our best to answer your questions.

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Commissioner's Corner 

The second Saturday of the month Commissioner Sam Wercinski joins us to talk about some of his on-going programs and new initiatives that serve Arizona better which include:

• Home Buyers’ and Renters’ Bill of Rights
• Work with the Department of Public Safety to gather data on the sale or lease of homes used as drop houses.
• 2008 COEs focusing on Arizona real estate “Hot Topics” and proper development.
• PARTNERS For Success—(Protecting Arizona’s Realty Through New Efficiencies and Resource Sharing)—an ADRE led working task force with the AG’s office, state and county agencies to combat illegal subdividers.
• Consumer Protection Forums on real estate featuring directors from the Departments of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Registrar of Contractors joining me.
• New online services to allow educators and licensees to submit continuing education information online as courses are completed.  Completed work will be shown on the licensee’s Public Database page.
• New online services will allow developers to submit Subdivision Public Report applications online.
• A new Subdivision Public Report format that will be more consumer friendly and useable.