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Posted on November 25th, 2007 by Jonathan Dalton

Here was the basic premise … rather than ranting and raving (my usual MO, I admit), I decided to e-mail Dick Gaylord, NAR’s President, to see if he’d like to share NAR’s perspective on the mandatory $30 assessment to fund NAR’s “successful” Public Awareness Campaign.

To Mr. Gaylord’s credit, I received a very quick response, excerpted below:

“What I can share with you is that in my travels around the Country I am receiving rave reviews from members everywhere on our Public Awarness Campaign, and the 800+ NAR directors have overwhelmingly approved it[’s] continuance.”

Rave reviews? Makes me think either the real estate blogging community is out of touch with our brethren and the public, or our brethren are out of touch with the public. Because from this lonely REALTOR’s perspective, I spend most of my time defending myself against the standard “It’s a great time to buy or sell” ads running in USA Today.

Continuance, of course, isn’t the issue. Forcing all of us to pay an additional $30 on top of our regular dues (which alone fill NAR’s coffers to the tune of $11.2 million (based on the 1.4 million members) is the troublesome part.

Mr. Gaylord was forwarding my e-mail on to Frank Sibley, NAR’s Senior Vice President.  Stay tuned.

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