Make Your Voice Heard in Washington

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Make Your Voice Heard in Washington

The collective voice of REALTORS? becomes even stronger on Capitol Hill during the annual Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. Come to D.C. and add your voice, too!

By Bob Goldberg

As The Voice for Real Estate?, NAR fights every day for its million members? best interests in the legislative and regulatory matters that directly impact Realtors. And when thousands of brokers and agents converge on Washington, D.C. for NAR?s Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo (May 9-13), Congress pays even more attention.

During this annual gathering, you and your fellow Realtors can meet personally with legislators, leverage the strength of America?s largest and most influential trade organization and promote a public policy agenda that supports the real estate industry. Let your elected representatives know where you stand on the critical issues that affect you and your business.

When you and your agents attend Midyear, you?ll hear NAR leaders and top industry professionals speak on economic trends, banks in real estate, housing opportunity and other timely topics. Network, share ideas and connect with fellow brokers from around the country. Dozens of workshops, forums and education sessions are designed to help you in operating and expanding your business. A Midyear highlight will be the presentation of the biannual HOPE Awards (Home Ownership Participation for Everyone), which recognize organizations and individuals making outstanding contributions to increasing minority homeownership. You?ll also get a look at NAR?s impressive new building, strategically located just three blocks from Capitol Hill. Talk about location, location, location!

The Trade Expo features the latest in real estate technology, marketing, education, financial services and office management from hundreds of exhibiting vendors. Check out lead-generating systems, Internet prospecting solutions, digital cameras, virtual tour equipment, copiers and computers and other leading edge products and services that will help you build your business.

Be sure to stop by NAR?s Booth #1020 for: information on ?Realtor Villages? being built in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity International for people who lost their homes during the December tsunami disaster; legislative initiatives; the FamilyTime? program; mold, lead and radon awareness; Realtor safety; the REALTORTM lockbox with smart card technology; educational programming and more. Put Realtor-driven technology to work for you as you explore Information Central, REALTOR.org and Realtor University.

You?ll also get updates on NAR?s REALTOR VIP? Program, your member benefits program, which lets you enjoy group buying power, access business management tools and expand your professional knowledge. As an employer, you can extend these valuable benefits to the Realtor agents who work for you. Discover exclusive offers from leading companies including Lexmark, Entertainment? book, Chase Card Services, Liberty Mutual, Dell, FedEx?, Gateway, Hertz, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nextel Communications, Xerox and many more. Browse through new titles from Realtor VIP Publications, including two great new tools from NAR and Wiley Publishing: Real Estate Riches and The Insiders Guide to Making Money in Real Estate.

Make plans now to join your colleagues in our nation?s capitol in May. And make your voice heard, loud and clear.

Midyear Legislative Meetings: (May 9-14) & Trade Expo: (May 11-13)

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

Washington, D.C.

Free admission for Realtors. Register online @ www.REALTOR.org/ Midyear.nsf.

Bob Goldberg is the senior vice president, marketing & business development for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS?