F A Y E T T E C O U N T Y B O A R D O F R E A L T O R S ®
September 3, 2010
CONTENTS
Upcoming Committee Meetings 2
Welcome New Members 2
Our 2010 Affiliate Members 2
FCBR Notes, Member Announcements 3-8
FCBR Real Estate School 9
GAMLS Board Store 10
2010 Nominating Committee 11
2010 Leadership Team 12
Contact Information 12
FRIDAY FACTSFRIDAY FACTS Mark your calendars!!
Annual General Membership Meeting
Election of Officers and Directors for 2011
Tue, September 7, 2010, 11:30am to 1:00pm
Flat Creek County Club, Peachtree City
See Page 4 for details
REALTOR® PARTNERS
Harry Norman, REALTORS®
[email protected] www.HarryNorman.com Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners, PTC [email protected] www.kw.com Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners, Fayetteville, [email protected] www.kw.com
Prudential Georgia Realty, Fayetteville [email protected] www.fayetteville.prudentialgeorgia.com Prudential Georgia Realty, PTC [email protected] www.peachtreecity.prudentialgeorgia.com Solutions Realty Network [email protected] www.srnhomes.com
The Home Source, REALTORS®
[email protected] www.thehomesourcerealtors.com Tri-City Realty Services, Inc. [email protected] www.TriCityRealty.com
AFFILIATE PARTNERS
BRONZE
Gary Lawson, P.C. [email protected] Georgia MLS [email protected] www.georgiamls.com Slepian & Schwartz, LLC [email protected] www.slepian-schwartz.com Morris Hardwick Schneider LLC chunt@closing attorney.com www.closingsource.net Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco [email protected] www.wncwlaw.com
PLATINUM
GOLD
SILVER
Jeff Lindsey Communities [email protected] jefflindseycommunities.com First MLS [email protected] www.FMLS.com
ABRA Auto Repair [email protected] www.abraauto.com
Dickenson Gilroy, LLC www.dgllclaw.com
Discovery Inspections [email protected] www.discoveryinspectors.com
Dustin Shaw Homes Linda @dustinshawhomes.com www.dustinshawhomes.com
MetLife Home Loans [email protected] www.metlifehomeloans.com
Regions Mortgage [email protected] www.regions.com
Reynolds Development & Mgmt. Group [email protected] www.reynoldsdevelopmentgroup.com.com
SunTrust Mortgage [email protected] www.suntrustmortgage.com
The Citizen Newspaper [email protected] www.thecitizen.com The Fayette Daily News [email protected] www.FayetteDailyNews.com The Real Estate Book of Fayette/Coweta/South Fulton & Troup Counties [email protected] www.realestatebook.com
MEET OUR PARTNERS!MEET OUR PARTNERS!
NEW!NEW!
NEW!NEW!
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Mon, Sep 13 Education at 9am Programs at 10am Tue, Sep14 Executive at 9am Thu, Sep 16 Board of Directors at 9am
Tue, Sep 7, GARPAC (Starbucks) at 9am Thu, Sep 9 Building Task Force at 10am Budget & Finance at 3pm
Upcoming Committee Meetings
Lindsey, Jeffery, Jeff Lindsey Communities, Inc. Loeffler, David, MetLife Home Loans Love, Greg, Greg Love Homes, Inc Meyers, Todd, Radon Mitigation Specialists Monsour, David, SunTrust Mortgage Morris, David, Real Estate Mortgage Network Payne, Jason, Ultimate Fitness Phillips, Trevor, The Moving Men Pierce, Ami, Slepian & Schwartz, LLC Pratt, Jackie, Real Estate Mortgage Network Presley, Michelle, Regions Mortgage Ryan, John, Georgia MLS Sellers, Tonia, Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco Seney, Gary, GBS Financial Corporation Shaw, Dustin, Dustin Shaw Homes Slepian, Eric, Slepian & Schwartz, LLC Sloan, Gary, Discovery Inspections Taylor, Liz, SunTrust Mortgage Tynes, Sylvia, The Southern Federal Credit Union Weaver, Geneva, Fayette Dailey News Wilson, Keith, Georgia Mortgage Services, Inc Wingfield, Jason, Reynolds Development Group Young, Marlene, Weissman,Nowack,Curry & Wilco
Alou, Jennifer, Morris Hardwick Schneider Baker, Joely, Gary Lawson, P.C. Batchelor, Michelle, The Real Estate Book Bishop, Deborah, MetLife Home Loans Bradley, Karen, Bank of America Mortgage Brown, Bettina, Weissman,Nowack,Curry & Wilco Compretta, David, FMLS Cummings, Clark, Choice Home Inspection Service Cupertino, Diann, The Citizen Newspaper Dembsky, Karen, Peachtree Home Staging Dognazzi, Heather, Glover & Davis Gailey, Will, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Gronner, Deborah, Countrywide Home Loans Hancock, W. Robert, Glover & Davis P A Hardiman, Joi, FMLS Harmon, Richard, Allgood Pest Solutions Hunt, Christina, Morris Hardwick Schneider Jones, Gail, Northwest Exterminating Jones, Tony, ABRA Auto Repair Kearns, Ernie, Ernie Kearns Nationwide Insura Knox, Cindy, Trinity Air, Inc Lawson, Gary, Gary Lawson, P.C. Lester, Ernest, Community Capital Bank
Our 2010 Affiliate Members
Applications for membership in the Fayette County Board of REALTORS® have been received from the following individuals.
In accordance with the Bylaws of the Fayette County Board of REALTORS®, members wishing to comment on their approval may do so, in writing, and send their comments to the Fayette County Board of REALTORS®, 205 Brandywine Blvd., Fayetteville, GA 30214.
Affiliate Members: Sherry Driver, First American Home Buyers Protection
Jason Wingfield, Reynolds Development & Management Group
REALTOR® Member: Charles Kirk, Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners
Welcome New FCBR Applicants
FCBR Notes
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2010 Board Due Dates:
~Important dates to remember~
Oct 1 REALTOR® Membership Renewals due
Oct 15 Noel November Participation forms due
Dec 1 Affiliate Membership Renewal due
Dec 31 Final REALTOR® and Affiliate Membership Renewal Deadline
2010 Membership Meeting Dates:
Sep 7, 11:30am Sep Annual Meeting Lunch
Oct 5, 11:00am Affiliate Speed Networking
Nov 13, 10am-10pm Noel November 2010
Dec 7, 4:00pm December Holiday Reception
Please keep LaWanda Floyd (Prudential Georgia Realty) and her
family in your thoughts and prayers as LaWanda’s father goes
through Chemo for Lung Cancer.
Please keep Susan Fitzgerald (The Home Source, REALTORS) and
her family in your thoughts and prayers. Susan’s mother, Sara Catherine Gann passed away suddenly August 29th.
Requests for Thoughts and Prayers
Safety is a YearSafety is a Year--Round Priority Round Priority
For REALTORSFor REALTORS®®
NAR is committed to help educate and empower every one of our 1.3 million members to ensure that they make good choices and practice personal safety on the job.
Keep it light Show properties before dark. If you are going to be working after hours, advise your associate or first-line supervisor of your schedule. If you must show a property after dark, turn on all lights as you go through, and don't lower any shades or draw curtains or blinds. Checking in When you have a new client, ask him/her to stop by your office and complete a Prospect Identification Form (Find a copy online at www.REALTOR.org/Safety). Also, photocopy their driver’s license and retain this information at your office. Be certain to properly discard this personal information when you no longer need it.
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION RAFFLE Drawing will take place on Saturday, September 25, 2010
during the GAR Board of Directors Meeting in Destin, Florida.
You do not need to be present to win.
1st Prize: $2,500.00 2nd Prize: $2,000.00 3rd Prize: $1,500.00 Sale limited to 750 tickets
Price: $25.00 for 1 ticket or 5 tickets for $100.00
Contact Stephen Walker
[email protected] Office: 770-487-8300 or Cell 678-758-7389
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FCBR Notes
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FCBR Notes
VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED
For the Realtor-Affiliate Work Program at the Clothes Less Traveled Thrift Store.
Help us earn $10,000 TOWARDS „NOEL NOVEMBER‟ FUNDRAISER
Contact Cynthia Cromartie to volunteer: [email protected] or call 678-570-5083
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FCBR Notes
Stop by
FCBR‟s
NOEL
NOVEMBER
booth!
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Member Announcements
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Member Announcements
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ONLINE REGISTRATION is required for ALL classes at www.FayetteRealtors.com. This helps to ensure class is not overbooked and educational database is kept current. Use your NRDS # as Username & your last name as the password.
Online Classes are also available* FCBR has partnered with Career WebSchool to offer online real estate courses for your convenience. Go to www.FayetteRealtors.com to see a list of all online classes.
Check your CE credit totals:
Go to www.GREC.STATE.GA.US
Choose “Check your education”
Enter your license number
(use your license number as the password also
if no password has been created yet)
and get a complete list of CE credits to date.
Fayette County Board of REALTORS® Real Estate School
2010 Education Program
NOTE: Classes may be cancelled (if registrations are too low to
justify the cost). If you register
online you will be notified prior to
cancellation.
GREC Education Requirements Recap Every licensee is currently required to obtain 6 hours CE per year of licensure, which equates to 24 hours CE for a 4-year renewal period. Those licensees in their first year of licensure must take a 25-hour Post-license course and this course also serves as the 6 hours of CE needed for that first year, leaving 18 more hours of CE before renewal.
GAR Scholarship Application Process Change The GAR Scholarship application process has gone green. GAR will no longer be accepting paper applications. All applications will need to be processed online.
NOTE:
Remember -
you must be ON TIME and
PRESENT FOR ENTIRE CLASS
to receive CE Credit.
Sep 13 Lunch & Learn-Financial Success Starts Here 12pm-1pm Instructor: So. Fed. Credit Union/CCCS Free/Free Oct 8 Staying Ahead of the Competition 3 Hrs CE 9am-12pm Instructor: Gail Jones Free/$25 Oct 14 GAR CF2 Purchase & Sale Agreement 3 Hrs. CE 9am-12pm Instructor: Howell Haunson $15/$25 Nov 9 New Member Orientation/Code of Ethics (3 Hrs CE) 4pm-5:30 NMO Instructors: FCBR Volunteers Free 6pm-9pm COE Instructor: Vickie Rogers Free/$25 Nov 19 Title Insurance for the REALTOR 3 Hrs CE 9am-12pm Instructor: Heather Dognazzi Free/$25 Dec 10 Surveys, Legal Descriptions & Contracts 3 Hrs CE 9am-12pm Instructor: Heather Dognazzi Free/$25 Dec 13 Lunch & Learn - Identity Theft 12pm-1pm Instructor: SFCU/CCCS Free/Free
Education Notes
For a complete list of classes and to register, go to www.FayetteRealtors.com
Instructor Tom Gillett at FCBR April, 2010
For registering online!
www.FayetteRealtors.com
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For your convenience, The Board‟s
GA MLS Mini Store Hours are Mon-Fri, 9:00am to 4:00pm.
If you need something
and we don‟t have it in stock, we can order it for you.
Stop in and browse!
Prices in RED are sale/discontinued rates.
FCBR‟s Georgia MLS Mini Store Items
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Recommendation of the 2010 Nominating Committee
THE BOARD MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Fayette County Board of REALTORS® is to provide members with the
resources that enable them to conduct business with professionalism, integrity and competency. We strive to protect
Private Property Rights; to be the voice of real estate in issues that affect our
profession; to serve our communities; and to educate the public as to the benefits of
working with a REALTOR®.
President
Patty Tarver President-Elect
Jackie Begg VP, Administration & Finance
Steve Freeman VP, Governmental & Pub. Affairs
Mary Watts VP, Member Services
Martin Wise VP, Professional Development
Dorrie Marsh Immediate Past President
Johnny Bolton*
Local Directors: Johnny Bolton* (Immediate Past President)
Chandra Smith (WCR President) Ron Adams
Malinda Shelley Chris Flanigan
Jeff Warlick Terri Kellerman
Michelle Johnson Merry Holley Pam Adams Linda Huff
Debbie Lowe
State Directors: Patty Tarver (President)
Mike Faulkner Sue Monson
Cheri Scranage Ernie Curtis Kay McInroe
Stephen Walker
Committee Chairs: Awards Kristina Stephens Budget / Finance Jeff Warlick Bylaws & Policy Ron Adams Cultural Diversity Marlene Futch Education Sheree Gripper Executive Johnny Bolton* GARPAC Deanna Beckwith Grievance Merry Holley Governmental Affairs Erin Hawkins Leadership Development Jackie Begg Membership Development Sue Monson Noel November Joan Velsmid Nominating Johnny Bolton Professional Standards Roy Mathis Programs Vickie Butler Public Relations Karla White Special Events Chris Flanigan Strategic Planning Jackie Begg Technology Ron Adams
*NOTE: Veronica Bangsboll will be serving out Johnny Bolton’s remaining 2010 term of office.
2010 Leadership Team
Cherie Jolley, Association Executive Ext. 100, [email protected]
Karen Dorsey, Education Coordinator
Ext. 101, [email protected]
Shawn MacDonald, Bookkeeper Ext 103, [email protected]
www.FayetteRealtors.com
205 Brandywine Blvd Fayetteville, GA 30214
FAYETTE COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS ®
Phone: 770-461-2401 Fax: 770-461-5608
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda