WHAT CAN THE
®
REALTOR PARTY
DO FOR YOU?
BY LAURA SHAY, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR AT RPCRA
May marks REALTOR® Advocacy Month – which is a celebration
designed to engage and educate REALTORS® to Vote, Act, and
Invest in advocacy. The REALTOR® Party is a powerful entity
made up of REALTORS® and REALTOR® Associations working to
protect and promote homeownership and property investment.
The REALTOR® Party voice helps promote candidates and
policies that help build communities and promote business.
Want to know the absolute latest happenings from the world
of the Realtor® Party? You can now get REALTOR® Party
Mobile alerts sent right to your phone! Tens of thousands of
REALTORS® already get these alerts. It’s simple to sign up!
Just enter your mobile phone number and your name on the
Action Center website (realtoractioncenter.com/text) or you
When banded together, the REALTOR® family is a force. Events
like Great American REALTOR® Days puts issues that affect you
and your clients at the forefront of legislators’ minds.
From the REALTOR® Party website:
“Politics is business when you consider the types of changes that
are now being contemplated by mayors, governors and Members
of Congress across the country:
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What would happen to the real estate market in your
community if the mortgage deduction was eliminated from the
tax code?
•
What would happen if your customers were unable
to afford the property insurance they needed to qualify for a
mortgage?
Our allies in local, state and federal government span the political
spectrum — and we need to work with each one of them to make
sure they continue to support the interests of the real estate
profession. In fact, the REALTOR® party has been a leader in
building the bipartisan relationships necessary on both sides of
the aisle in jurisdictions in every state.”
If you’re not involved with the REALTOR® Party, now may be the
time to look into it. Ask your fellow REALTORS® what they think
– many of them are already involved. Want to know more about
REALTOR® Party Month? Just visit www.RealtorActionCenter.
com/RealtorAdvocacy.
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can text the word “network” to 30644 and you’ll start getting
short text messages from NAR when they need your help!
There’s also a REALTOR® Party mobile app you can download
for Apple or Android. It has everything you need all in one
place – VOTE, ACT, and INVEST on the go! You can get
notifications when there’s a new Call For Action, and TAKE
action on the spot! You can make your annual investment
right in the app, and it can event track your REALTOR® Party
engagement. To get started with the app, search for “NAR
Action Center” and download it. Then log in, and make sure
you click “yes” when the app asks you if you want to receive
notifications.