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How is your NAR membership valuable? Let us out the ways. 50 to be exact.*
Advocacy
Representing you and your clients before Congress and federal agencies:
- Protecting tax incentives for homeownership and real estate investment, including the mortgage interest deduction, commercial depreciation and 1031 exchanges
- Guarding private property rights and advancing sound and reasonable lending standards and access to credit
- Lobbying for reasonable regulations
- Providing financial and technical assistance at every level of government
- Supporting candidates who protect real property ownership
- Providing grants and guidance for community economic development and improvement
Brand Advantage
Offering you an identifiable, marketable brand identity:
- Protecting the REALTOR® trademark and the high standards the word represents
- Promoting the trademark and REALTORS®’ adherence to a Code of Ethics as points of difference among practitioners through national advertising
- Creating and managing the .REALTOR top-level domain
Creating and partnering with companies to give you cutting-edge technologies:
- Providing extensive commercial and residential property data and listing information through Realtors Property Resource® (RPR)
- Bringing business-building tools to market, including Sentrilock’s Bluetooth® REALTOR® lockbox through the REALTOR Benefits® Program, and dozens of technology applications through Second Century Ventures, the REach™ technology accelerator program, and the Center for REALTOR® Technology
Linking you to consumers through far-reaching media properties:
- Realtor.com®, NAR’s official website, contains the most accurate national listing data available. It also includes international listings from more than 40 countries. CommercialSearch.com is NAR’s national commercial property listing platform
- HouseLogic, NAR’s resource for home owners, providing trusted information on protecting, improving, and maintaining the value of the home
- Real Estate Today, NAR’s weekly two-hour radio show, now in 200 markets
Research Intelligence
Producing market research unavailable elsewhere:
- Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, and Profile of Buyers’ Home Feature Preferences
- Commercial Real Estate Lending Survey Report, Local Market Assessment Case Studies, and State by State International Business Reports
- Member Profile, Commercial Member Profile, and Firm Profile
Advancing your industry through authoritative, closely tracked economic indicators:
- Monthly existing-home sales data and Monthly pending home sales index
- Quarterly metropolitan median home prices
- Quarterly commercial real estate outlook and market survey reports
Professionalism and Cooperation
Advancing your industry through standards of professionalism:
- Maintaining the REALTORS® Code of Ethics, the cornerstone of the REALTOR® organization and the distinguishing characteristic of your membership
- Setting forth policies and procedures to ensure vigorous, fair, and impartial enforcement of the Code by local and state associations
- Using dispute resolution, mediation, and arbitration tools and procedures to provide efficient and economical resolution of contractual disputes between members
- Providing world class mediation and advanced professional standards training
- Facilitating cooperation between REALTORS®, contemplated as the norm in the Code, through the MLS
- Ensuring that REALTOR® membership and MLS participatory rights are available on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms
- Using IDX and VOW policies to ensure the ability of MLS participants to conduct brokerage activities online, including advertising other participants’ listings
Education
Helping you increase your professionalism through degree-, designation-, and certification-granting programs and through continuing education credit:
- Master of Real Estate (MRE) degree through REALTOR® University
- CE credit, designations, and certifications, including newer ones such as Military Relocation Professional (MRP), Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource (SFR), and Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES)
- NAR’s institutes, societies, and councils, which offer designations, networking opportunities, and coursework that includes business concentrations such as commercial real estate, international, land, and appraisal
- E-books from NAR’s Virtual Library that are available for borrowing via computer or tablet
- Classes, booklets, and other resource material aimed at keeping you aware of, and operating in accordance with, federal Fair Housing laws prohibiting discrimination in the marketplace
REALTOR Benefits®
Offering special pricing and value-added products and services from major providers:
- Technology: Dell, Lenovo, Placester, SentriLock, Sprint, Xerox, Xceligent, Inc.
- Travel & Automotive: FCA US LLC (formerly Chrysler Group), Avis®, Budget®, Hertz®
- Office Supplies & Services: FedEx, OfficeMax®
- Financial Services & Risk Management: Intuit®, REALTOR® Credit Card, REALTORS® Federal Credit Union, a division of Northwest Federal Credit Union, American Home Shield, Victor O. Schinnerer & Company.
- Liberty Mutual (auto, home, renters), REALTORS® Insurance Marketplace (includes health exchange access to major medical and medicare plans, plus short-term medical, supplemental plans, telehealth, dental insurance, vision insurance, discount drug card)
- Transaction Management: DocuSign and zipLogix™
- Gifting & Marketing Resources: FedEx Office, REALTOR Team Store®
Networking
Creating opportunities for you to extend your referral partners nationally and internationally:
- REALTORS® Conference & Expo every November
- REALTORS® Legislative Meetings every May in Washington, D.C.
- Young Professionals Network, Certified International Property Specialist Network (for CIPS designees), and commercial networking events
- REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC), which in addition to its critical role in association advocacy, offers opportunities to network with some of the real estate industry’s most involved practitioners
- Broker summits and events where you can network with peers in your business area of expertise
Legal Assistance
Supporting you, your brokerage, and your association on legal matters:
- Financial and technical help on industry-important legal cases through Legal Action Program
- Legal help through friend-of-the-court briefs and other actions to help inform court analyses of cases
- Summaries of real estate—related state and national court decisions
Safety
Urgently getting resources to you to help you operate your business safely:
- Regularly occurring safety webinars and articles for managers and agents in NAR’s publications and on its websites
- Pre-packaged presentations for managers available through REALTOR® Magazine Online
- Safety checklists and other handouts for agents and their customers
*Content reprinted from Nar.realtor.
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Continue ReadingWelcome to the SCAOR August membership report!
- Year to date, we have 189 new members, with 18 being added in August.
- Looking at the attached chart, you can see that May was our highest month of 2017 yet.
| 8/2/17 | Lauren Britt Hudson | |
| 8/2/17 | Andrew Barranco | |
| 8/2/17 | Gaysala F Golden | |
| 8/3/17 | Richard Marcus | |
| 8/3/17 | Glenn Van Fleet | |
| 8/3/17 | Shari Poliak | |
| 8/8/17 | Theresa Sonntag | |
| 8/8/17 | Daniel Kauffman | |
| 8/8/17 | Vernon Esham | |
| 8/9/17 | Lauren Ann Smith | |
| 8/9/17 | Jennifer Hurlock | |
| 8/9/17 | Brooke Jerman | |
| 8/10/17 | Jennifer Riley | |
| 8/10/17 | Melissa Martin | |
| 8/16/17 | Holly Henderson-Smith | |
| 8/22/17 | Kimberly VanArsdall | |
| 8/22/17 | Patricia McKenna | |
| 8/25/17 | Kimberly Kaufhold |
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Continue ReadingWelcome to the another edition of the monthly SCAOR Card. As CEO, I have a few exciting announcements:
- First, the 2017 Lockbox Exchange is complete. I would like to thank the brokers and members for your patience and support. Specifically, I would like to thank the entire SCAOR team for their dedication to the project. I would also like to thank Affiliate Always Moving for dropping off and collecting lockboxes. SCAOR is now one of a handful of associations across the country with 100% wireless lockboxes. For more information on your new lockboxes, visit the Sentrilock website.
- Second, we have transitioned our daily communication on Thursday from lockboxes to the upcoming Bright MLS conversion. SCAOR will convert in early December, 2017. Be on the look out for important MLS information every Thursday from September through the end of the year.
- Regarding association finances, the FY 2018 (FY18) Budget was reviewed by the Finance Committee in mid-August. The recommended FY18 Budget will go before the BOD for approval this fall.
- Lastly, membership has exceeded 1,800. A robust real estate market usually corresponds with an increase in members. This means that there is an influx of new members throughout Sussex County who are learning what it takes to become a REALTOR®.
Once again, I would like to thank Angela, Andrew, Ben, Patricia and Mary for their hard work and long hours during the 2017 Lockbox Exchange. See you all at the General Membership meeting on Monday, October 2, 2017 at 11 am.
Sincerely,
Merritt Burke IV
Chief Executive Officer
Sussex County Association of REALTORS®
www.scaor.com | 302-855-2300
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Continue ReadingAgendas for the upcoming Planning and Zoning Commission Workshops have yet to be posted, however, below is the list of the upcoming workshops.
These are open to the public and we greatly encourage all to come and participate. It is our understanding that Planning and Zoning are preparing to have their final draft Now is the time for the Reatlor® voice to be strong.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
- Planning and Zoning Commission Workshop
September 13 @ 9:00 am – view agenda - Planning and Zoning Commission Workshop
September 20 @ 9:00 am – view agenda - Planning and Zoning Commission Workshop
September 27 @ 9:00 am – view agenda
All workshops are held in the Sussex County Council Chambers and are broadcast live. To follow the development of the Comprehensive Plan you can click on the link below. A link to the live broadcast site is provided below the Comp. Plan link. You can listen to any, and all, previous workshops as they are archived on the site listed below.
SCAOR Public Policy Committee (PPC) had submitted their approved talking points to SCAOR Executive Board, on July 13th, 2017, and received their final approval. Talking points should be presented in the upcoming Public Workshops. Stay tuned to see the position of SCAOR and the developing Sussex County Comprehensive Plan.
https://mediasite.sussexcountyde.gov/mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/public
During this time Sussex County Council heard and approved a proposal to amend the sign ordinance related to on-premise signs and setbacks from an existing billboard (ORDINANCE NO. 2509). This is a friendly amendment to allow business/property owners to place signs on their property that were previously not permitted under the ordinance that was approved in October 2016. To view that change please click the link below.
https://sussexcountyde.gov/ordinance-relating-placement-signs
Two changes to the PPC have occurred since the last SCAORcard. It was determined that member services would be enhanced to have a committee solely dedicated to RPAC education and fundraising and to improve the existing Park Avenue Expansion Task Force into a Park Avenue Expansion PAG. New members were added to this PAG to further follow the developments of this project.
Your SCAOR PPC continues to work with our DAR GAD, Maria Evans, as we continue to support DAR in ensuring the 1st Time Home Buyer exemption is reviewed as it relates to the new RTT increases.
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Kindest Regards,
Patricia L. Anderson
SCAOR
23407 Park Avenue
Georgetown, DE 19947
302-855-2300
patricia@scaor.com
www.scaor.com
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Continue ReadingAs our 2017 Summer season comes to a close, remember the end of the licensing cycle (April 30) will be here before you know it. There are plenty of opportunities to enable you to complete your requirements. To assist you in keeping your records, please click here for the handy dandy worksheet.
Do you know the different types of mobile, manufactured, and modular homes? Baywood Greens is sponsoring the premier of our Module 6 or 7 Mobile Homes, Manufactured Homes, & Modular Homes the Ins & Outs. This class is being offered at Baywood Greens on September 28 from 1 pm to 4 pm with a reception to follow.
Attention New Agents:
– You receive New Salesperson Module 1 with New Member Orientation
– Knock out New Licensee Modules 2 & 3 on September 26 and New Licensee Module 4 on October 4.
Have you registered for the 54th Annual Delaware Association of REALTORS® Convention & Trade Show?
This year’s conference takes place on October 12.
Attention Brokers:
We have a brand new class for you. You can knock out Modules 2, 4 & 5.
Taking the new Risk Reduction for Brokers class here at SCAOR on November 14. This is a 9 – hour class.
You have to stay for the class to get credit.
For more information on classes please visit the SCAOR website.
As always, it’s a pleasure to serve.
Angela
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