Midyear Meetings, Planning for Homes As We Age, FHA Mortgage Savings View e-mail in browser February 12, 2015 REALTOR® PARTY | for REALTORS® | RPAC | for ASSOCIATIONS     Start making plans to attend the 2015 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo May 11-16.  The meetings web site is live and online registration opens Feb. 18.  READ MORE/REGISTER   By The Numbers   130M People Over 50 Number of people in the United States who will be 50 or older by 2030 – 20 percent more than today.  Find out how this will impact housing at the Housing and Older Adults Webinar offered by NAR and the National Housing Conference on Feb. 24... REGISTER NOW   $83 Savings Monthly savings on a $200,000 mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration as a result of lower fees announced by the White House last month.  The 50 basis point drop in annual FHA mortgage insurance premiums is a victory for the REALTOR® Party, which has called for lower fees on FHA loans since early 2014… REad More   11.7M Hits Number of impressions Nevada REALTORS® received on their Facebook ad --part of a successful issue campaign to defeat a proposed tax on businesses that would have been especially hard on real estate.  That’s a lot of hits, considering the population of Nevada is less than 3 million! REad More   Success Stories   Highlighted here are a few of the many REALTOR® Party success stories across the nation. These and others are cataloged in the Success Stories section of the REALTOR® Action Center.   Nevada REALTORS® Use Grant and Grassroots Power to Soundly Defeat Proposed Tax on Businesses The 14,000-member Nevada Association of REALTORS® soundly defeated a massive tax on businesses with an Issues Mobilization Grant.  Promoted as an “Education Initiative,” the Nevada REALTORS® redefined it as a tax on jobs that helped win 78 percent of the vote…  REad More   West Maricopa (AZ) REALTORS® Get One of Their Own Elected to City Council With grants and guidance from the REALTOR® Party, the 6,000-member West Maricopa Association of REALTORS® supported one of its own for the Glendale, AZ City Council, securing a big win in November of last year.  NAR’s Campaign Management Training got them started.  Direct mail, phone calls and online advertising kept them going… REad More   Merrymeeting Board (ME) Enhances New Library with Outdoor “Reading Garden” When the small town of Richmond, Maine rebuilt their community library, the local 213-member Merrymeeting Board of REALTORS® stepped forward with a REALTOR® Party Placemaking Micro-Grant to provide a reading garden and patio to go with it…   REad More   Resources & Opportunities   Over 50? Our Housing Preferences Change NAR, in partnership with the National Housing Conference, will present a free webinar on Tues., Feb. 24, about housing for the growing number of people over 50. Learn about livable communities, safety, aging in place and more. GET DETAILS/SIGN UP   Have You Gotten Our Text Messages? Tens of thousands of REALTORS® from across the country have already signed up for REALTOR® Party Mobile Alerts and will be the first to be informed via a text message when a Call for Action is launched.  Sign up today and you’ll be entered to win a $250 gift card!  SIGN UP   REALTOR® Party Association Resources Are All in the Guide Check out the 2015 REALTOR® Party Association Resource Guide.  Get brief descriptions of each REALTOR® Party Association Resource including grants, campaign tools, polling services, toolkits and more.  It’s all available for you to download as a 15.4M PDF. DOWNLOAD   You Can Wear Your REALTOR® Party Sunglasses at Night! Order REALTOR® Party t-shirts, sunglasses, coffee cups, fans, bumper stickers, Vote/Act/Invest pins and balloons and more from the REALTOR® Team Store. SHOP NOW   Check out the “Spaces to Places” Blog Plazas, walkways, sidewalks, gardens, roofless buildings – all places to gather and enjoy – and candidates for Placemaking Projects. Learn about it all at NAR’s “Spaces to Places” Blog.  READ MORE     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 100 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 March 12, 2015. If you missed a previous edition check out the REALTOR® Party News Archive. 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