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| November 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Nov. 9: RPAC Fundraising Forum at Annual ConventionJoin us in San Diego for Draft Day at the RPAC Fundraising Forum on Friday, November 13 from 3:00-4:30pm at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in Grand Hall C. Our online PACtion! auction goes live on Monday, November 9 at 12:00pm PST. Click HERE to sign up for an account and wrap up your 2015 RPAC investments by bidding on some great items. Live auction items will be available at the Forum as well. For more information, please contact Lauren Facemire. |
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| Nov. 12: FPC Roundtable in San Diego This is a friendly reminder that the FPC Roundtable will be held on Thursday, November 12 from 1pm to 3pm in the Marriott Marquis Ballroom B / North Tower. All GADs are invited to join. Please also encourage your FPCs attending the Annual Conference to make this meeting a priority. One of our REALTOR® Party Champions, Congressman Brad Sherman, serving California’s San Fernando Valley, will be joining us to give a special congressional update. The group will also have an extended period of time with NAR’s Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello for an “inside baseball” discussion and Q&A session. The full agenda can be viewed online HERE. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP for an accurate headcount. Thanks! We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!  |
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| Nov. 13: Music Mania RPAC Fundraiser Please come out and support our RPAC Team at the Music Mania RPAC Fundraiser during the Conference & Expo! If you came to the event in May, you know it’s going to be a great time, lots of laughs and for a great cause. We’re looking forward to seeing if reigning champs, Team East can rack up another win or if Team West will win this one. Gather your members – especially those who haven’t invested in RPAC before – and bring them along for a good time and good tunes with their REALTOR® colleagues. Thank you for your continued support. 2015 has been a great year largely because of you! Please come up and say hi and bring as many people as you can! Event details can be found on the flier. We hope to see there! Kenny Parcell, 2015 REALTOR® Party Director |
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| Nov. 13: See a Community Revitalization Model in Action with Build A Better Block Coming to NAR's Annual Conference in San Diego? See how the San Diego Association of REALTORS® is using a Smart Growth grant to help revitalize a neighborhood by temporarily transforming a block in Historic Downtown Logan. Stop by the Better Block Showcase & Unveiling on Friday, November 13 between 3 and 7 pm for fun, music, art and food. You may find this is something you want to do in your community to envision a safe and family-friendly street—and NAR can help. |
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| Dec. 8: Placemaking Webinar: REALTORS® in Action Our Placemaking Micro-grant has been up and running for almost two years and we have approved more than $300,000 in projects in more than 30 states. Join us on December 8 to hear about the placemaking projects of four local REALTOR® Associations, including a description of their project; association, member and partner involvement; and outcomes and community responses. You just may get an idea for a placemaking project in your community. Register today! |
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| Dec. 18: 2015 President’s Cup Deadline Is your state in the running for this year’s President’s Cup? The deadline for all RPAC and Advocacy goals is December 18, 2015. Due to this calendar change, the winners for 2015 will be announced at the May 2016 Legislative Meetings.
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| Dec. 31: Year-End RPAC Transmittal Deadlines December 31 is the final deadline for individuals to be recognized as NAR Major Investors or for a state to receive credit towards its 2015 fundraising goal. NAR requires that all funds, with appropriate back-up documentation, be received in the Chicago finance office by close of business on December 18 for you to be individually recognized and your state to receive credit. For questions regarding RPAC deadlines, please contact Kanoa Naehu or Debbie Frey. |
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| Dec. 31/Jan. 31: New RPAC Hall of Fame Deadline The RPAC Fundraising Trustees voted during the 2015 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo to change the RPAC Hall of Fame eligibility deadline to December 31 each year. Eligible members and staff must meet the $25,000 minimum threshold by the end of the previous fundraising year. The deadline for the nomination form to be submitted to NAR by the state remains January 31 of each year. To access the guidelines and nomination form, please visit RPAC Hall of Fame. If you have any questions, or to verify your investment history total, please contact Kanoa Naehu . |
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| Mark your calendars for the following GAD meetings and events in San Diego. Dates, times and locations are listed below. Agendas can be found on the GAD REaction Center/Community Zero. Hope to see you there! For more information, contact Kyle Lambert London at 202-383-1203. |
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| Call for Action Update & Resources | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NEW Call for Action Toolkit The Call for Action Toolkit is a one-stop shop on the REALTOR® Action Center website where you can find messaging templates and links to the federal Calls for Action. Just choose your state from the drop down and the toolkit will give you the tools to promote the CFA to your members. As we move forward, we will add successful strategies and best practices from your local and state campaigns so others can learn what works and incorporate those methods into their own CFA plans. If you have questions, please contact Melissa Horn at 202-383-1026. |
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| Timeline for G-fees Call for Action Thank you ALL for diligently working on the current G-fee Call for Action. The House has extended the reauthorization and NAR has extended the CFA to at least November 20. Please keep on keeping on and push your members to take action. NAR will continue to send messages to non-action takers and will continue to post on social media. If you have questions, please contact Jim MacGregor at 202-383-1188 or Melissa Horn at 202-383-1026. |
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| Rental Restrictions White Paper State and local governments are looking for ways to regulate a growing sharing economy, especially rental housing. Some of these regulations impose fees, registration requirements, or even special licensing. Short-term rentals may increase government coffers; however, that may impede housing affordability in the area. Robinson & Cole uses examples from NAR’s Land Use Initiative program to evaluate rental restriction trends across the country. Contact: Adriann Murawski or 202-383-1068 Link: http://www.realtor.org/reports/short-term-rental-housing-restrictions-white-paper |
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| On the Go: Water Podcast Benjamin Franklin once said, “When the well’s dry, we will know the worth of water.” Whether it’s a drop to drink or a deluge for irrigation, access to water is a major—and growing—real estate issue. Click to listen to the latest Realtor® Party On The Go podcast. Contact: Adriann Murawski or 202-383-1068 Link: http://www.realtoractioncenter.com/news/on-the-go-water-podcast.html |
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| EPA Water Rule Blocked Nationwide By Sixth Circ. Judges from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently halted implementation nationwide of the EPA's Clean Water Plan, also known as the Waters of the U.S. regulation. This regulation would sweep in many more waters of the U.S., resulting in more onerous permitting requirements and more property rights violations. This regulatory stay, while important, is temporary, as the Court considers whether it has jurisdiction to hear other challenges to the regulation. NAR has opposed this rule from its inception and will continue to push for a legislative solution to determine which waters are considered to be under federal jurisdiction and which are not. Contact: Russell Riggs, 202-383-1259 Link: http://www.ksefocus.com/billdatabase/. |
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| WATCH: HUD Secretary and Realtor.com® Chief Economist Discuss Millennials and the National Wealth Gap in Town Hall Event Millennial decisions about homeownership will have significant impact on income inequality in the United States for generations to come, according to U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and realtor.com® Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke who participated in a town hall before an online audience and graduate students at the George Washington University. Full video of the event, held on Oct. 26, is available online at realtor.com/townhall. Moderated by The Wall Street Journal’s Economics Correspondent Nick Timiraos, Secretary Castro and Smoke addressed the economic trends that have impacted the homeownership prospects for millennials—once predicted to become a “generation of renters”—and the challenges that remain. Secretary Castro and Smoke also answered questions submitted by Twitter and Facebook users. |
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| Presidential Candidates Address Affordable Housing at New Hampshire Housing Summit The need for affordable housing is often absent as a discussion topic in presidential debates and typically does not play a major role in the candidates’ policy platforms. However, this campaign season, the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families sought to raise housing’s profile by hosting the New Hampshire Housing Summit on October 16 and invited presidential candidates to address an audience comprised of representatives of national housing organizations and those involved in the New Hampshire affordable housing industry. To read more about the event and the candidate’s responses, click here. Ron Phipps, 2011 President of the National Association of REALTORS®, served on the Expanding Access to Credit panel at the event and penned an op-ed that appeared in the New Hampshire Business Review. |
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| 2016 Campaign Management Trainings GADs and AEs who haven’t had the opportunity to attend NAR’s Campaign Management Training (CMT), please join us for the 1.0 version of this course. Those who have completed CMT 1.0 are eligible to attend CMT 2.0, a more advanced and intensive training session, building on the foundation of the first offering. Look for additional program details in future issues of the GADFly. |
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| Interested in Hosting the 2018 GAD Institute in Your State? The GAD Advisory Group is asking for those interested in hosting the GAD Institute in 2018 to submit their interest by February 1, 2016. The GADs will be holding the 2018 Institute in the Western Region (NAR Regions 11, 12, 13). For information on what hosting the event entails, please check out the GADs Policies and Procedures document on the REALTOR® Action Center or contact Kyle Lambert London at 202-383-1203 for additional information. |
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| NEW! Major Investor Lapel Pin Distribution Timeline The NEW Major Investor Lapel Pin Distribution Timeline now can be found online. NAR RPAC Recognition—for both Individual and Corporate investments—begins when NAR receives 30% of the completed investment from the state and/or local association. The Individual recognition process is conducted over the course of 14 business days, while corporate recognition occurs over the course of 12 business days. For questions regarding the timeline, please contact Kanoa Naehu. |
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| Two NEW! RPAC State Awards |
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| These awards will be presented during the RPAC Awards Ceremony held during the 2016 REALTOR® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. For more information, please contact Kanoa Naehu. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lapsed Major Investor Policy Sunset One of the changes adopted by the RPAC Fundraising Trustees last November was to sunset the Lapsed Major Investor Policy at the end of 2015. This means that Major Investors who take a year off can no longer come back at the sustaining rate beginning in 2016. For example, a Golden R sustains at $2,000 per year but decides not to invest in RPAC in 2015. In 2016, they can come back as a Golden R but will need to re-enroll at the $5,000 rate—not the sustaining $2,000 rate. Please contact Kelly O’Donnell with any questions regarding the policy. |
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| Jenny Reese GAD Chair Nevada Association of REALTORS® |
With November quickly approaching, we will all be descending on San Diego in no time. NAR has put together a full agenda for the GAD Community. I encourage you to take a look at the Saturday agendas for the GAD Meeting and Professional Development Session that have been posted on The GAD REaction Center/Community Zero. The GADs will be hearing from NAR staff on various topics ranging from a Federal Update to the newly proposed policy changes to the Issues Mobilization Committee.
Following the GAD meeting, we will have our State and Local breakouts. Come prepared to discuss various topics that you state or local association may be currently engaged in. State GADs, please email me at jenny@carraranv.com and local GADs, send an email to Mark Quarry at mquarry@cabr.org with the topics you would like to have a discussion on.
We’ve put together a Professional Development Session that will follow the state and local breakouts. The first topic will highlight various ways to increase your level of professionalism as a GAD and the following item will focus on the Issues Mobilization program and how Minnesota and North Carolina were able to utilize the resources provided by NAR to engage in tax reform.
Saturday is a full day, so come unwind on Friday night at the Tipsy Crow at 6:30 p.m. for the GAD Reception. I look forward to seeing all of you in beautiful San Diego and if you have any suggestions or questions, please seek me out.
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2016 GAD Institute July 13 – 16, 2016 Room Rates: $199/night Registration Fee: $500 early/$550 late registration |
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REALTORS® Conference and Expo November 13 – 16, 2015 San Diego, California |