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director’s report Suzanne Des Marais 2014 GCAAR President-Elect, NAR Director NAR Midyear Meetings Get New Name and Focus
Good Neighbor Awards Applications Due May 16
Realtor Party ®
The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has changed the name of its Midyear Legislative Meetings to the REALTOR® Party Convention & Trade Expo. NAR President Steve Brown says the new name reflects REALTORS® growing advocacy presence at the federal, state and local levels. NAR’s May meetings are extremely informative and an excellent way to reach out to your representatives. I encourage you to attend this event, and be sure to attend the Region 3 Meeting and Reception on Friday, May 16. Region 3 includes the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia.
NAR 2015 Committee Selection Process Is Open – Ends May 23 The selection process to be part of a NAR Committee for 2015 opened on March 11. If you’re interested, you’ll need to complete an Expertise Profile so that NAR has a detailed resource when it selects committee, work group, and presidential advisory group appointments or when seeking members for other volunteer opportunities. You will be able to indicate the level of participation with which you feel comfortable when completing the profile form. Completing an Expertise Profile is not synonymous with submitting a committee recommendation. If you wish to serve on a committee, you must still submit an online recommendation during NAR’s recommendation period which ends on May 23.
REALTOR® MAGAZINE’S
GOOD NEIGHBOR AWARDS If you, or someone you know, are doing great work serving the community, REALTOR® Magazine wants to hear about it! The Good Neighbor Awards recognize REALTORS® for extraordinary accomplishments in community service. Good Neighbor Award winners receive $10,000 grants for their charities, as well as national and local publicity for their cause. Winners also will be flown to the National Association of REALTORS®’ annual conference in New Orleans, where they will receive their award in front of thousands of fellow REALTORS®. Past winners all report that their charity benefited from additional donations and volunteers as a result of the exposure. Nominations must be received by
Friday, May 16, 2014.
GCAAR Property Management Committee
GCAAR Events Committee
The Property Management Committee reviews the association’s current property management and rental forms making recommendation on revisions, and also creates new forms as needed (determined by market conditions and changing regulations). 51 percent of their real estate work must be in rentals. The committee meets monthly.
The Events Committee solicits and secures sponsors for GCAAR’s annual education summit and trade show, plans self-funding networking and other member events, and also plans and executes international events through its International subcommittee. The committee meets monthly.
2014 Roster
William Rozek, Chair David Bediz, Vice Chair Thomas Allotta Claire Buchner Constance Davis Sara Demb Goldstein Asmeret Demeter-Medhane Mary DeRose Joe Detrick Edward Giles Zulekha Jennings-Rahman Emiliana Lobos-Kirker, GRI Pushpa Mittal Yella Reddy Michael Schimmel Christopher Suranna Brian Willingham
Jean Poitevien, Chair Lewis Laws, Vice Chair San Luisa Mosaid-Barnes Thomas Bateman Hubert Brucker Cynthia Davis Mitchell Farrah Sally Hamidi, GRI F. William Howell Harold Huggins, CCIM, CPM, CRB, CRS, GRI Richard Humrichouse Tim Knobloch, CRS, GRI Zacchaeus Odebo Matthew Rogers Charles Sullivan, ABR, CRS, GRI Shahnaz Tehraniazad Gordon Young
2014 Roster
Scan the QR code to access the Good Neighbor Awards entry form. The deadline is May 16, 2014
The timeline for the recommendation process and the online application can be found at www.realtor.org/governance/committees
L-R: Sandy Hargis and Yvette Robinson, Co-Staff Liaisons; Lewis Laws, Vice Chair Not pictured, Jean Poitevien, Chair.
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Capital Area REALTOR® • Mar/Apr 2014
L- R: Bill Rozek, Events Committee Chair; Hakeema Jones, Staff Liaison; David Bediz, Co-Chair Capital Area REALTOR® • Mar/Apr 2014
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