By 2012 President-Elect Gary Thomas, National Association of REALTORS® There is a persistent truth about home ownership. No matter how difficult the last few years have been, and no matter how much of a battering the housing industry takes, Americans still want to be homeowners. A New York Times/CBS News poll earlier this year said [...] Click Here To View More
Down with Higher Down Payments
By Gary Thomas, 2012 President-Elect, National Association of REALTORS® In 2011, all of you heard quite a bit about a devastating provision in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law called the Qualified Residential Mortgage or QRM. There was quite a bit of activity before the August 1st deadline for a letter to be submitted to federal [...] Click Here To View More
What Do Today’s Home Buyers Look Like?
By Gary Thomas, 2012 President-Elect, National Association of REALTORS® There was so much helpful and interesting information presented at Annual. Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming! Only now, a few weeks later, am I catching up on all of the excellent information. One item that is particularly valuable and worth taking a closer look [...] Click Here To View More
The Sky’s the (Loan) Limit
By Gary Thomas, 2012 President-Elect, National Association of REALTORS® I have some great news to share with everyone! Last night Congress voted to restore loan limits and the maximum cap for Federal Housing Administration loans. Their action reinstates the loan limit at 125 percent of area median price up to $729,750 for two years and [...] Click Here To View More
At the Epicenter of Foreclosures, Some Hope for Home Owners
By Gary Thomas, 2011 First Vice President, National Association of REALTORS® Just yesterday I attended the Home Ownership Matters bus tour stop in Las Vegas. It was heartening to see Nevadans’ excitement, including REALTORS®, as the bus rolled into town in the city that has suffered the most over the past several years – a [...] Click Here To View More
National Association of Realtors: Our Children’s Future
For more than a decade, NAR’s public awareness campaign educated consumers about the value of REALTORS® when it comes to buying or selling a home – our unsurpassed ability to find and market homes fairly and at the best price, our deep knowledge of local markets, our substantial negotiating skills during a purchase, and of [...] Click Here To View More
National Association of Realtors Good Neighbor Awards
We REALTORS® work hard to help people realize their dreams of home ownership. However, that’s not all we necessarily do. Many of us go the extra mile by volunteering our time and skills to help improve our own communities or communities across the globe, making an extraordinary impact on people’s lives. I cherish the time [...] Click Here To View More
REALTORS® AT OUR VERY BEST, Posted by Gary
While it has been several months since the terrible earthquake and tsunami struck the island nation of Japan, the images of lives being devastated in an instant are hard to forget. That’s why our good friends at the Asian Real Estate Association of America and their foundation, the AREEA Education Foundation, created the Japan Relief Fund. [...] Click Here To View More
Taking Charge of Our Legislative Priorities, Posted by Gary
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Building Wealth Through Real Estate
Interested in building wealth through real estate? Imagine if you had enough passive income from your real estate investments to cover all of your personal overhead…in other words…you were independently wealthy. That’s what this Superstar interview is all about. Listen now as Tim and Julie Harris interview one of the top commercial real estate experts in the country. On this call you will hear how to create an exact road map to financial independence through real estate. Listen Here Click Here To View More
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