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I took the contract docs survey and that didn't happen to me so I hope they take to heart what I had to say.
Basically, for the cost of AIA membership, we small business practitioners don't get very much so I think the least they could do would be to either give us the contract docs free or for a small (and I mean small) nominal charge.
The AIA doesn't give much of a discount to its members for anything, services, docs, classes, etc.
I'm also a licensed real estate broker in CA and as a member of the various realtor groups, we get free, unlimited contracts, docs and forms as part of the membership, which is about the same cost as AIA.
Add to that the lack of advocacy and political lobbying from the AIA for small business practitioners and I wonder what good is it?
What have they done for me lately?
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Larry Paul AIA
L.A. Paul & Associates
San Francisco CA
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