November Gener al Member ship Meet ing

DATE: Thur sday, November 13, 2014

TI ME: 9:00am WHERE: RACC

COST: FREE f or Realt or Member s & Pr imar y Business Par t ner Guest : $7.00 if r egist er ed pr ior t o 11/ 10/ 2014 $9.00 af t er t he 10t h or at t he door

SPEAKER: Heidi Blanchet t e, Cit r us Count y Housing Ser vices Dir ect or J oan Cout u, Count y Updat e

Br eakf ast cat er ed by Oyst er ’s including Cof f ee, Or ange J uice, Bacon, Sausage, Sau-sage Gr avy & Biscuit s, Scr ambled Eggs, Home Fr ies and Gr it s

To r egist er , visit www.r accf l.com, log in and click “associat ion calendar ”. Choose eit her November Gener al member ship Meet ing wit h meal or Wit hout Meal, add t o your car t

and click ent er payment inf o at t op r ight t o complet e t he t r ansact ion or call 746-7550.

Fer o & Sons I nsur ance is t he Business Par t ner of t he Mont h

Brannen Bank Hobson’s Herb’s & Florist

place: Jim Beachler, Tom O’Bien, Mike Travers and Ricky Nakagawa

Woods (and their wonderful staff) who offered the course to Habitat, there wouldn’t have been a golf tournament. A huge

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2015 Oĸ cers and Directors Elected at S\ ptember General Membership MeeƟng On September 11, 2014 RACC held elecƟons for the 2015 Oĸ cers and Directors at our General Membership MeeƟng. 83 Realtors and 38 Business Partners and guests were present for the annual event. Networking began at 11 a.m. and President Greg Younger called the meeƟng to order at 11:30 a.m. Secretary Rob Tessmer, Jr. provided the invocaƟon and pledge followed by Business Partner Chair Melissa Seney introducing the business partners that were present. Business Partners of the Month, Rhonda LesƟnsky and Paul Mellini with Nature Coast Bank took a few moments to address the members. President Elect Debbie Rector introduced the 2014 Oĸ cers and Directors before inducƟng our new members. Please welcome: Stephen Abrams Realty Connect Michael Barth Coldwell Banker Investors Realty Carol Bartolet Sherri C Parker & Assoc. Deborah Beck EXIT Realty Leaders Carol Burns Century 21 J W Morton James Callaghan EXIT Realty Leaders John Carey Coldwell Banker Next GeneraƟon Realty BeƩy Heller EXIT Realty Leaders Lisa LoŇey TroƩer Realty Heather Peacock ERA American Realty Andrew PonƟcos The Andrews Group Stephan PonƟcos The Andrews Group Mark Schroder Century 21 J W Morton Michael Smith Century 21 J W Morton Kelly Tedrick ERA American Realty Carolyn Tucker ERA American Realty Next, ElecƟon CommiƩee Chairman Steve Varnadoe conducted the ElecƟon, CommiƩee Members Sarah Spencer and Dennis Pilon conĮ rmed we had a quorum. The slate of oĸ cers and directors were approved as slated. Congrats to our 2015 Leadership Team: President Debbie Rector President Elect Rob Tessmer Jr Treasurer Linda Cridland Secretary John Maisel Past President Greg Younger Directors GiƩa Barth Jackie Davis Karen Morton Donnie Bass Marvia Korol Holly Jones District7 Vice President Cheryl Lambert spoke about the Florida Realtors® conference, the Ňoat and winning the award. Cheryl also talked about the road rally and encouraged members to aƩend. For more info please visit hƩp:/ /www.Ňoridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/ roadrally.cfm A delicious lunch of Salad, Chicken Parmesan, Lasagna, Garlic Rolls and cookies was catered by Oysters.

Legal FQA’s - L i cense Law Q:A:

Q: I’m a broker, and my business focuses on property management and rentals. I plan to register a home office to use as my main

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Q: May I share a referral fee with someone who doesn’t hold a real estate license?

A: Section 475.25(1)(h), Florida Statutes, prohibits a Florida licensee from paying a fee or compensating someone who doesn’t hoin Florida or another state. However, there’s a very limited finder’s fee exception in Section 475.011(13), Florida Statutes

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Q: I’m a sales associate and want to set up a company using my team name so that my broker can pay my commissions to this separa

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Q: I’m a sales associate, and a seller wants me to list her property. We’ve decided to enter into a 12will renew automatically for an additional six months if the seller doesn’t cancel it in writing. May the listing agreement r

A: No. Section 475.25(1)(r), Florida Statutes, provides that it’s a violation of real estate licensing law if a real estate lice e “has failed in any written

cancel the listing after such definite expiration date.”

Flor i da Ranked No. 5 For Best ‘Business Tax Cl im ate’

MLS WARNINGS AND FINES FOR OCTOBER

In October the MLS issued the following to ParƟcipants and/or Subscribers: Warnings: Duplicate LisƟng (0) Wrong Category or Area (8) Pending and Closed (2) Lender owned (0) No Photo (3) Branded Virtual Tour (0) Lockbox Code in LisƟng (0) Name/Phone# (0) Sign in Photo (0) Alt Key (0) Fine: (0) $50

• Failure to submit contingent, pending and closed information within two (2)

• Failure to enter a photo. Note: The seller may request in writing a photograph of the

• Failure to enter a listing in the correct category. • Duplicate address and/or alternate key for the same property.

landlord because of the applicant’s religion?

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for our customers.”

10/9 USDA 101: “Sean knew more

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