[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Members of the Lamoille Area Board of Realtors® have access to cost-saving benefits and resources designed specifically for members. Click on the Benefits tab on this site for quick access to services and products aimed at helping you save time and money.[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”20px” margin_bottom=”20px”]
NAR works behind the scenes and in the spotlight to protect private property rights, promote home ownership, and maintain sensible credit and other standards at the federal level so you can help your clients buy, sell, and rent real estate in a fair and profitable market environment. This advocacy on your behalf is among the most valuable benefits your NAR membership adds to your business, but it’s just one among the hundreds of the association’s value-adding services. Here are 65 services that put money in your pocket by shaping the environment in which you work or making free and discounted products and services available to you.[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Advocacy
Representing you and your customers before Congress and federal agencies:
1. Protecting the mortgage interest deduction and other tax incentives for homeownership and real estate investment
2. Protecting private property rights
3. Advancing sound and reasonable lending standards and access to credit
4. Advancing sound environmental policies
5. Providing financial and technical assistance to your state and local associations on advocacy matters:
6. Supporting candidates who protect real estate interests
7. Helping you and your colleagues improve your communities and enhance home values[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Business Advantage
Offering you an identifiable, marketable brand identity:
8. Protecting the REALTOR® trademark
9. Promoting the trademark and REALTORS®’ adherence to a Code of Ethics as points of difference among practitioners through national advertising campaign
10. Creating and managing the .REALTOR top-level domain[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Creating and partnering with companies offering valuable services and products to you:
11. Providing extensive property data and listing information through Realtors Property Resource® (RPR)
12. Bringing to market tools that can help your business, including SentriLock lockboxes, through Second Century Ventures
13. Helping companies tailor their products to your needs through REach technology accelerator program
Linking you to consumers through far-reaching media properties:[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
14. realtor.com®, NAR’s official web site containing the most accurate and up-to-date national listing data on the Internet
15. HouseLogic, NAR’s popular website for home owners looking for trusted information on managing their home
16. Real Estate Today, NAR’s weekly syndicated two-hour radio show, now in 200 markets
17. Handouts for customers, covering topics such as why use a Realtor, how to prepare for a home sale, and what you need to know about home inspections
18. REALTOR® Content Resource, from HouseLogic, which makes free information available for agents, as part of their marketing efforts, to share with customers on home improvements and maintenance, among other consumer-oriented topics[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Research Intelligence
Producing market research unavailable elsewhere:
19. Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers
20. Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends
21. Profile of Home Buyer Feature Preferences
22. Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey
23. Profile of International Home Buying Activity
24. Member Profile and Commercial Member profile (which enable members to benchmark their performance against their peers)[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Advancing your industry through authoritative, closely tracked economic indicators:
25. Monthly existing-home sales data
26. Monthly pending home sales index
27. Quarterly housing affordability index
28. Quarterly metropolitan median home prices[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Member Benefits
Discounting products and services from major providers to save you money:
29. Technology: Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sprint, Xerox
30. Autos: Chrysler, Avis, Budget, Hertz
31. Office services: FedEx, OfficeMax
32. Financial services and risk management: American Home Shield, Victor O. Schinnerer
33. Personal finance and insurance: REALTORS® Insurance Marketplace, REALTORS® Federal Credit Union, a division of Northwest Federal Credit Union, Liberty Mutual, Drug Card America, REALTORS® Dental Insurance, REALTORS® Core Health Ins., SMART Short Term Medical, Members Major Medical Plans
34. Transaction management: DocuSign, ZipForm, relay
35. Marketing resources: Lowe’s, FedEx Office, Multi Merchant Prepaid Card, Ifbyphone, Xceligent[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Education
Helping you increase your professionalism through degree-, designation-, and certification-granting programs and through continuing education credit:
36. Master of Real Estate (MRE) degree through REALTOR® University
37. CE credit, designations, and certifications through REALTOR® University
38. Designations and certifications include, among the newer ones, Military Relocation Professional (MRP), Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource (SFR), and Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES)
39. NAR’s business specialty divisions, including Global, Commercial, and Land, among others, each offers classes and other education opportunities targeted to their specialties
40. E-books from NAR’s Virtual Library that are available for borrowing via computer or tablet
41. REALTOR® Magazine’s Architecture Guide, which offers members basic illustrations and definitions of popular residential architecture styles and features
42. Classes, booklets, and other resource material aimed at keeping you aware of, and operating in accordance with, federal Fair Housing laws prohibiting discrimination in the marketplace[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Networking
Helping you extend your referral partners nationally and internationally:
43. REALTORS® Conference & Expo every November
44. REALTORS® Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo every May in Washington
45. Young Professionals Network, which in addition to offering networking opportunities, provides to an entry point into association involvement
46. REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC), which in addition to its critical role in association advocacy, offers opportunities to network with some of the real estate industry’s most involved practitioners
47. NAR’s business specialty divisions, including Global, Commercial, and Land, among others. Each offers opportunities to network with one’s peers in those specialties[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Legal Help
Supporting you, your brokerage, and your association on legal matters:
48. Financial and technical help on industry-important legal cases through Legal Action Program
49. Legal help through friend-of-the-court briefs and other actions to help inform court analyses of cases
50. Compliance best practices on regulatory matters of national scope
51. Summaries of latest real-estate-related state and national court decisions[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Safety
Offering resources to help you operate your business safely:
52. Regularly occurring safety webinars and articles for managers and agents
53. Pre-packaged presentations for managers
54. Banners and widgets
55. Safety checklists and other handouts for agents and their customers[symple_divider style=”dashed” margin_top=”10px” margin_bottom=”10px”]
Professionalism and Cooperation
Advancing your industry through standards of professionalism:
56. Establishing and maintaining the REALTORS® Code of Ethics, the cornerstone of the REALTOR® organization and the distinguishing characteristic of your membership
57. Setting forth policies and procedures to ensure vigorous, fair, and impartial enforcement of the Code by local and state associations
58. Using dispute resolution, mediation, and arbitration tools and procedures to provide efficient and economical resolution of contractual disputes between members
59. Providing resources and tools to communicate your commitment to the Code and professionalism to clients and customers
60. Offering new and continuing member ethics training available online 24/7 at no cost
61. Providing world class mediation and advanced professional standards training
62. Minimizing the potential for fair housing violations through assistance in understanding and complying with Article 10
63. Efficiently and effectively facilitating cooperation between REALTORS®, contemplated as the norm in the Code, through the MLS
64. Ensuring through MLS and membership policies that REALTOR® membership and MLS participatory rights are available on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms
65. Using the IDX and VOW policies to ensure the ability of MLS participants to conduct brokerage activities, including advertising other participants’ listings online[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”Benefits–Resources”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
