Tuesday, December 20th, 2011REALTOR® Erin Attardi was featured in a KCRA report on the 4% increase in the November median sales price recorded by DataQuick. View the KCRA News report here.
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 Five goals – some specific, some far-reaching – have guided the leaders and staff of SAR this year as we all work to serve you, our Members. As you read through this brief review, you will see that we have accomplished a lot this year.
SAR’s new charitable foundation will be fully up and running in 2012. Kathy Fox led the task force and Charlene Singley now chairs the Foundation board. Kathy continues to serve as vice-chair. SAR continues to be recognized for its charitable contributions. Allison Couchman and Jenifer Miller led the Community Outreach Committee. With fewer dollars to distribute, committee members shifted their efforts to developing relationships with the charities SAR Members support. Watch this newsletter every month to learn about the charities and how you can volunteer. The CanTree Committee under Ilah Turner and Bobby Campbell put on the Crab Fest and Sip & Support and has just finished building two Can Trees. Twenty nine years and going strong! Thanks to their efforts, SAR has given more than $2 million to the Salvation Army. Led by Sandi Burden-Bradley and Ted Williams, the Equal Opportunity Committee organized a highly successful Multi Chamber Mixer, with the numerous ethnic chambers of commerce in the Sacramento area. They also worked on strengthening our relationship with the Asian Real Estate Association of American, Realtists and the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.  County Supervisor Roberta MacGlashan will help the Sacramento Association of REALTORS® celebrate the 29th year of CanTree. Each year, local REALTORS® build “trees” entirely of canned goods to raise funds and awareness for the Salvation Army. On November 21 and 22, the CanTrees will be constructed at The Secret Garden in Elk Grove and the Sunrise Mall. At the association’s Main Meeting on December 6, Supervisor MacGlashan will join hundreds of area REALTORS® as the check from this year’s fundraising efforts is presented to the Salvation Army. The Christmas CanTree Project raised $80,000 in 2010. Since 1983, SAR has raised more than $2 million to feed Sacramento’s hungry citizens. The food donated will be distributed to needy families and individuals through The Salvation Army’s Holiday Food Basket and year-round food assistance programs. More than 165,000 local individuals are expected to benefit from the food contributed through CanTree, according to The Salvation Army. CanTree is a critical factor in successfully feeding thousands of people at Christmas time. The Christmas CanTree is sponsored by SAR, but many organizations and individuals contribute to its success through donations of food, money, or goods and services. Schedule: Doug Covill, president Sacramento Association of Realtors, speaks to the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce June 29, 2011.  LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – November 12, 2010) – The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) Leadership Team for 2011 is now in place. REALTOR® Beth L. Peerce is the Association’s 2011 president; REALTOR® LeFrancis Arnold is president-elect; REALTOR® Don Faught is treasurer; and Joel Singer is state secretary. The officers for 2011 began their official term earlier this week at the close of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (NAR) Conference and Expo in New Orleans, La.  Beth L Peerce  LeFrancis Arnold  Steve Goddard - 2010 C.A.R. President Dear C.A.R. Member, Good news bears repeating. President Obama recently signed a bill extending the closing deadline for the federal The president also signed HR 5569, the National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2010, funding the program through Sept. 30, 2010—good news for homeowners in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley and other 100-year floodplains. As you know, flood insurance is required for mortgages on properties in a 100-year floodplain. Congress has allowed the program to lapse three times this year, forcing many real estate transactions to be put on hold and, in some instances, cancelled. What happens in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., really does matter to your business. The passage of these two pieces of legislation—which C.A.R. and NAR advocated for—demonstrates the importance of REALTOR® involvement in government. Legislative wins such as these require a focused and relentless presence at the state and national levels. C.A.R.’s advocacy in the political arena this year also helped preserve property profiles after title companies stopped providing them in reaction to a letter issued by the Department of Insurance; thrice defeated a 3-percent independent contractor withholding proposal that would have accelerated income tax payments for our members; and defeated point-of-sale retrofits proposed through several pieces of legislation that could have added as much as $20,000 per home prior to closing escrow. Continue reading: Your July Message from C.A.R. President Steve Goddard This past Friday night, SAR let its hair down and partied into the night with the Indus Valley American Chamber of Commerce. A joint-chamber affair, this dinner/dance attracted nearly 250 local business owners and professionals from all over the region. Front and center at the event was SAR Leadership, including SAR President Barbara Harsch [...] The SAR Housing Opportunities Committee has developed an exciting new program to provide grants to qualified homebuyers using an EEM. The program needs a catchy name. Post your suggestions on SAR’s Facebook page by 4:00pm, June 8. The winner will receive a $50 gift card to Chevy’s Fresh Mex Restaurant and recognition [...] Question: What is 54 years old, white, female, went to college, has ten years experience, works about forty hours a week, and earned a little under $38,000 last year? Answer: The typical Realtor®. These and other data are to be gleaned from the 2009 Membership Profile of the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). (Income [...] |
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