REALTOR Awareness Tour

Taking real estate news on the road. Your 2008 REALTOR Awareness Tour members are, Barry Peck, Harriet Averill,  Jackie Moore, Jane Mostow, Martin Carpenter, Chris Teelin, Jeff Roney,  Nancy Quigg,  Dave Manzano, Sandy Kirnan  Dean Cummins, Laurie Omans, Terry Marchfield, Doborah Pridgen, Linda Thomas-Caster, Mark Haws and Sandy Farrands.

First leg of the tour topics include -

Get the Most out of Your Membership

Free Marketing   

GSAR and CNYIS having been working hard to promote you and your listings!

Your Listings  “Buy Now” campaign highlighting the positive points of the local housing market to encourage consumers to buy. Make sure your listings include complete details and lots of pictures. Over 31,000 visitors to your listings each month.

Your Open Houses  “Open Houses 24/7” campaign encourages the public to use cnyrealtor.com to find open houses all week long, and not wait until Sunday to find out where open houses are. Make sure you post all your open houses in the MLS at the start of each week. Over 9,000 visitors to our open houses each month.

Your Contact Info “Find a Realtor” button on cnyrealtor.com was created to drive visitors straight to your contact information. Make sure it is up to date with your correct info. You can also include your email and website address. Over 1,000 visitors to membership directory each month.

Member Benefits

Save money by using the below Member Benefits.

At&t - 20% off qualified plans

Verizon Wireless - 11% off qualified plans 

KinaneCo Printing - 20% off all your printing needs

Fiscal Fitness - discounted health benefits and many more!

For a list of all Member Benefits click here 

Realtor Information Exchange Professionals

Brand new group open to any REALTOR member who is interested in learning from other professionals and networking with fellow agents.  Events are held the first Thursday of every month from 1-2:30 PM at the GSAR office unless state ortherwise. For more info visit www.cnyrealtor.com/riep

New Communications

Keeping you connected better then ever. 

Central New York Housing News updated weekly on www.cnyrealtor.com. Includes local and national news, housing reports from NAR, NYSAR and GSAR. Everything you need to know about Central New York housing in one place!

GSAR Media Room all of GSARs video and commercials can be found on www.cnyrealtor.com/mediaroom 

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) Feed available from cnyrealtor.com Central New York Housing News. Have the CNY Housing News show up on your website in real time, automatically.  

Link to www.cnyrealtor.com using hypertext or our Open House, All Listing      logos

Redesign of Realtor Newsletter and HotNews Email to make them more enjoyable to read and serve you better

For more info email moon@cnyrealtor.com

Realtor Political Action Committee (RPAC) 

This year’s RPAC priorities include: commission protection, property tax relief, the sex offender ban and affordable health care to name a few. You should be supporting RPAC if you are not already.RPAC Goal Set by NYSAR at $22,680. As of 2/29 we were at $19,564 (86% of goal reached). Support RPAC by contributing as little as $20 by calling Cindy Dawson, at (315) 457-5979 ext. 26. For more information visit www.cnyrealtor.com/members/governance/rpac

GSAR “Action Center”

Have an Issue with Your Local Government? The GSAR “Action Center” is here to help you! GSAR’s Legislative Committee has created a new program to support members with government policies that affect their business or home ownership in their town or village.

Issues reported to the Action Center will be presented to the Legislative Committee on a monthly basis where we will take appropriate action where we feel necessary on behalf of our membership. 

Send to action@cnyrealtor.com

ActiveKey Exchange

New device to replace Dkey. Benefits: ActiveKEY is a wireless device, eliminating the need for a cradle or phone line. The ActiveKEYnetwork provides optimal cellular coverage nationwide. Your connections are seamless, continuous, and automatic.ActiveKEY is more than a just a lockbox key, with instant showing alerts, you will know right awaywhen another ActiveKEY user has opened one of your keyboxes.Exchange Date – Week of June 2nd

Central New York Housing Market

When speaking with buyers and sellers make sure they know that…

All Real Estate is Local Whatever the national trends are with regard to real estate - whether they are booming or busting - what really matters is what the market conditions are in your region, town, or neighborhood. NAR produced a Syracuse Housing Market 14-page report which provides insights into the fundamentals of the local and national housing market.

For full report visit www.cnyrealtor.com/syracuse-report

CNY Market is Much Stronger then the National Average

 Central New York Housing Is a Great Investment   In 2005 Onondaga County had all time record year in sales. In 2007 Syracuse region was ranked 5th best market in the Nation to invest in housing by Fortune Magazine. Sales have gone down since 2005 but home prices have gone up and our local market is very strong. It’s a great time to buy in Central New York because…

• Housing Very Affordable – Median Price $130k vs. NYS Average of $222k
• Sixth Lowest Foreclosure Rate
• Excellent Quality of Life – Water, Four hours from NYC or Mountains…
• Major Economic/Housing Projects Underway in Onondaga County
• Insert your reasons here…Fore more info visit www.cnyrealtor.com

Education

New Education Requirements

• Broker’s license to 120 hours, formerly 90 hours
• Actively participated in the general real state for a period of not less than two years, formerly one year
• Sales qualifying course from 45 hours to 75 hours
• Must have three hours of Fair Housing when renewing license
• Effective July 1, 2008

 Free CE for 2008 All GSAR members are entitled to up to 25 hours of free continuing education in 2008. Cancellation Policy: A $15 fee will apply if you fail to cancel 48 hours prior to the start of the class. All cancellations must be done in writing to dawson@cnyrealtor.comSalesperson Scholarship Offered through the GSAR Equal Opportunity Committee. April 11th deadline. Scholarship includes price of Salesperson’s class, AND start-up fees including GSAR dues through 2008, CNYIS dues through 2008, token fee, and lockbox fees. $1,200 value End of Current Ethics Cycle is 12/31/08The National Association of REALTORS four year mandatory ethics cycle will end this year. This means you need proof have taken your ethics course between 1/1/05 and 12/31/08.