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| The Fight Continues, Let Your Voice Be Heard on Tax Reform |
| This is a critical week for tax reform and, with our new Call for Action, we need you to reach out to your member of Congress. Thanks to your engagement, REALTORS® have already helped positively influence tax reform in some key areas. BUT OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. We have an opportunity to influence Congress to help make the tax reform bill more favorable to homeowners and consumers. Take Action Today!
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| The number of states and territories that surpased the 20% participation mark on the Reform Our Tax Code AND Protect Middle Class Homeowners national call for action. Three additional states and territories reached more than 15% participation. It’s not too late to take action on tax reform. REALTORS® should continue to let their voices be heard by partipating in NAR’s current national call for action today. We can still try to influence Congress to help make the tax reform bill more favorable to homeowners and consumers. A Conference Committee will begin to address the differences between the two bills. Important improvements in the legislation are possible, but we need you to act so that Congress hears the REALTOR® voice loud and clear. |
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| The deadline for individuals to be recognized as an RPAC Major Investors and for associations to receive credit toward their 2017 fundraising goals. NAR requires that all funds, with appropriate back-up documentation, be received in the Chicago Finance office by close of business on Friday, December 15. |
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| The launch date of the newly redesigned and renamed REALTORParty.com. Replacing the REALTOR® Action Center website, REALTORParty.com will be a holistic website that provides advocacy materials for state and local REALTOR® Association staff, and facilitates two-way opportunities to engage individual REALTORS® and associations in the REALTOR® Party. |
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| The REALTOR® Party At Work
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| Summit County REALTORS® Use Education to Prevent Wildfires & Costly Legislative Mandates |
| Wildfires are a serious threat to properties in Summit County, Colorado, and so are expensive mitigation mandates that the state legislature had been poised to impose on property owners. With a REALTOR® Party Game Changer Grant, the Summit Association of REALTORS® showed that education could be just as effective in protecting the community from fire and onerous expense. |
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| Resources & Opportunities |
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| Voice for Real Estate: REALTORS® On Why They're Opposing Tax Reform |
| Cynthia Carley of Lake Arrowhead Luxury Properties in Blue Jay, Calif., was one of dozens of politically involved REALTORS® who came to Washington for NAR's fly-in as House and Senate lawmakers began taking up sweeping legislation to reform the federal tax code. "Everyone should recalculate their own taxes baed on the provisions in tax reform bills in Congress," Carley said. "I did that, and I'm going to pay $7,320 more in taxes under tax reform." Carley and others talk about why they came to Washington and what they told their members of Congress in the latest Voice for Real Estate news video from NAR. |
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Bipartisan Praise for REALTOR® Role in Tax, Other Debates
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| House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Senate Banking Committee member Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) joined NAR at its Washington offices this week to talk about tax reform, mortgage finance reform, and other issues. The two shared one important point of agreement: REALTORS® are playing a crucial role in the making of federal policies that affect real estate by providing the kind of realistic and useful input lawmakers need. Read the write-up of NAR housing summit. |
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On Common Ground, Winter 2018: The New Neighborhood Now Available
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| There is currently a big focus in both the private and public sectors on re-examining and re-doing existing buildings and communities. New shopping malls are not being built — but underperforming malls are being redeveloped into mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods. To meet the demand for affordable homes in existing neighborhoods, accessory dwelling units are being added into the mix of housing options. Cities are retrofitting their streets to meet growth by making them more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly and contributing to environmental sustainability. The new neighborhood — whether a community newly constructed or an older place reimagined — will exhibit many of these traits: walkability, a mix of uses and housing types, resource conservation, repurposing of assets and making room for everyone.
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2018 REALTOR® Party Resource Guide
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| Check out the 2018 REALTOR® Party Association Resource Guide on the REALTOR® Action Center website to learn more about community outreach, campaign services, RPAC and political fundraising and grassroots grant, program, education opportunities and much more. Also, review what programs and resources qualify for the new Vote, Act and Invest Core Standards’ requirements. |
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| Join the REALTOR® Party Online |
| Are you posting, liking, tweeting or pinning? So is the REALTOR® Party. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube to get the latest news, information and resources. |
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Send us examples of how your association put NAR’s REALTOR® Party resources to work to implement a successful advocacy or community outreach program. Email your stories to: realtorparty@realtors.org
See more than 300 stories documenting how REALTOR® associations around the country put REALTOR Party Resources to work at the REALTOR® Party Success Stories page. This newsletter replaces the NAR Weekly Report for this week and the second week of every month. The REALTOR® Party News will publish next on December 14, 2017. If you missed a previous edition check out the REALTOR® Party News Archive.
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