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| March 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Mar. 3: MSA Award Nominations Due!Meritorious Service Award nominations are due tomorrow, Friday, March 3, 2017. We have some incredibly deserving FPCs, so please nominate your pick for a chance at this prestigious award. Fill out the nomination form here. As a reminder, each year, NAR recognizes two outstanding Federal Political Coordinators for their exceptional service. These recipients will be the best of the best of our FPCs, those who truly believe in and advocate on behalf of the REALTOR® Party. Recipients of the award meet a rigorous set of criteria that will set them apart from other FPCs. They demonstrate a strong relationship with their assigned Member of Congress, and a willingness to educate Capitol Hill on issues most pressing to the real estate industry. The criteria are as follows:
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| Mar. 15: Community Outreach Grant Deadline Visit REALTOR® Action Center to learn more about funding levels and grant regulations. |
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| 2017 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mark Your Calendars for the 2017 NAR Legislative Meetings:
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| AE’s, Need Help Meeting Your Core Standards Requirements? Join us for REALTOR® Party Immersion Day at AE Institute on Friday, March 17, 2017. We can help you reach your association’s goals in the areas of advocacy, community outreach and RPAC while meeting some of your Core Standards requirements. You will have a chance to think about your associations’ advocacy needs and learn which REALTOR® Party programs will help you meet them. Interactive round table discussions with staff and your peers will help you determine what will work best for your association. Lunch & snacks provided. Please contact Kyle Lambert London to pre-register. |
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| Campaign Management Training 1.0, April 20 & 21 in Austin, Texas GADs and AEs, if you are interested in learning more about running issues or candidate campaigns, the Campaign Management Training 1.0 class, offered only once in 2017, is for you! Hear from experts in the fields of polling, surveying, data, member engagement, direct mail and email. Learn from those specializing in mass TV and radio communications, field organizing and reaching voters through new technology. Group exercises enable teams to build their own campaigns and strategies to present to the entire class. The 1.0 class must be taken prior to taking the 2.0 class. Each class is only being offered once in 2017, so REGISTER NOW. Dates: April 20-21, 2017For more information, please contact Kyle Lambert London. |
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| HOT TOPIC ALERT: Source of Income as a Protected Class At least 13 states protect against discrimination in housing rentals based on an applicant’s source of income. Many cities and counties have enacted ordinances protecting source of income. Is this the new form of housing protection? What does this mean for landlords? For more information, contact Adriann Murawski at 202-383-1068. |
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| State Legislative Update At least five states (Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey and Oregon) have introduced new legislation on First-Time Home Buyer Savings Accounts in 2017. Rent control or rent stabilization measures have been introduced in California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York and Washington. Hawaii lawmakers introduced an amendment that would prohibit housing discrimination based on source of income. New Hampshire introduced a bill that would prohibit housing discrimination based on gender identity. Wisconsin is considering a bill that would require a landlord to conduct a test for lead in the water supply for a new tenant. Hawaii and Virginia are also considering ways to regulate short-term rentals; while Indiana is considering legislation that would prevent local cities from banning short-term rentals. For more information, contact Adriann Murawski at 202-383-1068. |
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| Plan to End Property Tax Deduction Detailed House Ways & Means Committee Chair Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) explained his committee’s tax reform plan to REALTORS® in Washington earlier this month for a policy conference and FPC training. The plan would lower tax rates, reduce the number of brackets from seven to three, and almost double the standard deduction. It would also eliminate most itemized deductions, including for property taxes. The mortgage interest deduction would remain but few households would have an incentive to itemize. REALTORS® at the event expressed concerns. Details in the latest Voice for Real Estate news video from NAR. https://youtu.be/0u-j5RpHaas |
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| NAR Job Opportunities | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Open NAR Political Field Rep Positions NAR’s Government Affairs Division currently has two open Political Field Representative Positions open. One region covers FL, IA, ID, MT, ND, NJ, NY, OR, SD, WA and WY. The other covers AZ, IN, MI, MN, NM, OH, PA, UT, WI. Please submit resumes online at https://www.nar.realtor/careers-at-nar/search-jobs. For more information, contact Scott Reiter, V.P. RPAC Disbursements and Political Field Operations, at 202-383-1072. |
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| Did you know… The nar.realtor website lists REALTOR® Association vacancies? If you like what you are doing, but are looking for a change of pace or are ready to take your skills to the next level, check out Association Jobs today! |
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| RPAC & Political Fundraising News | ||||||||||||||||||||
| REALTOR® Party Corporate Ally Program Do you know the business affiliate members of your association are eligible to invest in the REALTOR® Party Corporate Ally Program? Do you know that hosting a Corporate Ally Program fundraising event may be used to meet an association’s core standards this year? Investors to the Corporate Ally Program have the flexibility to direct funds toward independent expenditure or issues mobilization and half of every investment dollar is credited to the investor’s state for use at the state and local level. For more information, contact Paula Martino, Director of Corporate Fundraising, at 202-383-1156. |
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| RPAC Fundraising Webinar: Major Investor Benefits and RPAC Fundraising Awards Do you know about the Major Investor benefits and RPAC Fundraising Awards changes taking effect in 2017? Hear Lauren Facemire, Managing Director of RPAC Fundraising, and Jackie Zaporowski, RPAC Fundraising Coordinator, fill you in on current Major Investor benefits and how to access them, current RPAC Fundraising Awards for state and local associations and how you can track your progress to help bring home a 2017 award! This interactive webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 28 at 3 PM EST. Register now! For more information, contact Liz Demorest. |
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| RPAC Online Program Trainings Weekly webinar trainings are now available to help state and local association staff best use the PAC Management System fundraising tools to improve your RPAC fundraising results. Trainings on topics such as planning email campaigns, creating web forms for RPAC investments and running advanced RPAC reports are held every Wednesday at 2 PM EST. Click here to view the schedule and register for upcoming trainings! For more information, contact Peter Kelly. |
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| RPAC Hall of Fame Class of 2016 More than 100 REALTORS® will be inducted into the 2016 RPAC Hall of Fame Class during the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo! The RPAC Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is open to all– please plan to come cheer on your members as they receive this prestigious honor! The ceremony will be held Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Click here to view the 2016 RPAC Hall of Fame roster. For more information, contact Jackie Zaporowski. |
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| Deadline: RPAC Major Investor Recognition Make sure you and your members are recognized as RPAC Major Investors in time for the 2017 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington, DC. All RPAC investments must be submitted to the NAR Finance Office no later than Friday, April 21, 2017 to meet this deadline. Click here for more information or contact Jackie Zaporowski. |
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| Save the Date: RPAC Fundraising Awards Ceremony Save the date for the 2016 RPAC Fundraising Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, March 17, 2017 from 4:30 to 6:00 PM in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Join us to cheer on your association and celebrate a successful 2016 RPAC fundraising year! Click here to view the 2016 President’s Cup and Triple Crown Award winners. For more information, contact Jackie Zaporowski. |
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| 2017 President’s Circle Update President’s Circle is launching its second round of targets on Monday March 6, 2017. During this round, President’s Circle members may invest as little as $500 or up to the full $2,000 in any of the REALTOR® Champions targets. The full $2,000 investment is due by September 30, 2017, but it is important to collect funds as soon as possible so they may be of the most benefit to our candidates’ campaigns. Please encourage your members not to wait until September 30 to complete their commitment. For more information, contact Kelly O’Donnell at 202-383-7510 or Maggie FitzGerald at 202-383-1078. |
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| Mark J. Quarry GAD Chair Cincinnati Area Board OF REALTORS® |
Hello GAD Nation!
I hope you are all doing well and that March has started well for you. I love this time of year because we have both spring and summer ahead of us!
That, of course, means the 2017 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington, DC are slightly more than two months away. As we mentioned last month, Congress has Tax Reform on its agenda, so therefore it will certainly be on our agenda for our Hill visits in May and all year long.
If you have not already, read NAR’s 2017 Legislative Priorities, particularly those on Tax Reform. Moreover, feel free to share these with your members.
The GAD Advisory Group continues work on professional development programming for GADs for the May Legislative Meetings in DC and the 2017 GAD Institute in West Palm Beach, FL. If you have any ideas or suggestions for these meetings, feel free to contact Cady Thomas, our Vice Chair, NAR Staff Executive Kyle Lambert London or me. In the meantime, if you would like to take advantage of a top-notch professional development course offered this April, please consider the Campaign Management Training 1.0 course in Austin, Texas. This is a highly rated course for GADs to get their feet wet in the campaign management process.
Have a great month!
Mark Quarry, Cincinnati Area Board of REALTORS®
GAD Chair
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SAVE THE DATE
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2017 Association Executive Institute Denver, Colorado March 17 – 20, 2017 |
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2017 Campaign Management Training April 20 – 21 (1.0), Austin, TX June 9 – 10 (2.0), Philadelphia, PA |
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New AE & GAD Orientation (Spring*) Washington, DC March 30 – 31, 2017 * This session is FULL. See website for additional 2017 sessions. |
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2017 REALTORS® Legislative Meeting & Trade Expo Washington, DC May 15 – 20, 2017 |
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2017 GAD Institute Registration Opens – Early May West Palm Beach, FL July 11 – 14, 2017 Registration Fee: $500 |
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2017 REALTORS® Conference & Expo Chicago, IL November 3 – 6, 2017 |