Thank you for presenting the facts ,Aileen, on the opposition lobby "talking points". If you read the various letters and quotes for "banning" capital recovery fees(private transfer fees), it is almost "cartoonish". You almost can't believe that , supposedly, serious people and organizations sign off on them.  Of course, I do realize they are trying to make a quick splash to deceive consumers and policy makers and they believe painting some sort of real estate armageddon scenario is the best (laziest) way to do that. I imagine some of the "opponents" will realize, at some point in time,   they weren't given the "whole" story up front and were just "used" to push an agenda for a handful of organizations.

It is also interesting that the majority of the organizations opposing PTF's (as you also point out), haven't changed the way they do business in years and therefore exert a heck of a lot of energy (and member money) to oppose any changes within the industry they have been accustomed to owning for a very long time. Even though  the changes would actually help the industry participants.