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NAR is Reaching Consumers in New Ways

Monday, July 13th, 2009

To: All REALTORS®
From: Charles McMillan, 2009 NAR President
Re: Reaching Consumers in New Ways

Dear Fellow REALTOR®,

I am writing today with two exciting updates on NAR’s efforts to reach out to more consumers and bring them back into the market.

First, NAR’s real estate show, Real Estate Today, has been steadily increasing its local affiliates across the country. On Saturday, July 11, the show began airing in the number one market in the country – New York City – on 77 WABC AM. This is an enormous achievement, and I encourage all REALTORS® in the area to tune in between 4 and 6 p.m. EDT every Saturday to hear the show. Of course, everyone can hear the show anytime online at www.RETRadio.com.

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Housing and The Stimulus Package from NAR

Charles McMillan

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Dear Fellow REALTOR®,

Here’s our take on the Stimulis Bill and Treasury announcements made this week. We look at the Stimulis package AND the Treasury’s package holistically, in compliment with each other – mostly because that’s how the Obama team is looking at it. Your representatives, the NAR Board of Directors, asked us in November to do 4 things (with an unspoken but clearly understood mandate to PRESERVE what we already have). Here they are: 1) get loan limits raised for high cost areas, 2) make the $7,500 tax credit NOT a loan, 3) try to find ways to push interest rates down (which are higher than they should be due to systemic risk right now) by 200 basis points, and 4) help provide solutions to the foreclosure/short sale problem.

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