SB407 Point of Sale Burden on Consumers and Real Estate Industry

Recently, Senator Alex Padilla,D San Fernando introduction or revival of SB407 Point of Sale retrofit requirement that all sellers of residential real estate would be burden with a cost that has far reaching affects that many homeowners can ill afford. This is not the time when homeowners have been facing a deep resission, high unemployment, and for what, another backdoor buracractic department to collect fees for the state.

Perhaps Senator Padilla doesn't reconize the real problems of the state, it's called living within your means. Cut back on salarlies and those expensive trips he's been taking, perhaphs if stayed a home, maybe he'd realize his low flow toilet requires him to flush it 2 and 3 times to make it go down, what ever the case, maybe he's in bed with those energy retrofit companies.

Regardless Senate Bill SB 407 does not come at the right time. The real problem is the lack of thinking of the consequences, that's how we got into this mess in the first place. I don't know what behind Senator Padilla's agenda, but I think it imposes more harm than good, especially at a fragile time like this for the real estate industry and to impose this burden on all California property owners who want to sell their home or investment property is darn right ill responsible on the part of Senator Padilla.

If you want to solve the shortage of water and help solve the global warming issue and envormental problems that we are facing, try desalination plants to add ocean water to our water systems and pipe in water to desert areas to plant trees and other oxigenated plants that displaces carbon dioide. Now thats something to work on. If we tried some constructive thinking instead of ways to create backdoor taxation, we would be better off. I hope comon sense prevails and SB407 is defeated. Comments are welcomed.

Thank you.
Carlos R. Arvizu Sr

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