{"id":832,"date":"2007-01-01T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2007-01-01T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:25:40","slug":"nar-dead-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/832\/nar-dead-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"NAR dead pool . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Cathy did yesterday between finishing her real estate work and popping the cork on the champagne (she makes me do that, of course), was paying our dues. Not figuratively &#8212; literally. Yesterday was the deadline to pay the following creditors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phoenix Association of Realtors<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Association of Realtors<\/li>\n<li>National Association of Realtors<\/li>\n<li>Real Estate Buyer&#8217;s Agent Council (ABR)<\/li>\n<li>Council of Residential Specialists (CRS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what this cost us, but I&#8217;m sure it wasn&#8217;t cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interesting thing, though: How many people didn&#8217;t do it?<\/p>\n<p>The first three are paid in one lump sum. You don&#8217;t have to belong to ReBAC or CRS, but you have to belong to the local, state and national Realtor&#8217;s associations to call yourself a Realtor. Taking account that we know that some significant number of Realtors didn&#8217;t do very well in 2006, how many, do you think, did not renew their membership?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/PublicAffairsWeb.nsf\/pages\/NARFactSheet\" target=\"_blank\">The NAR Fact Sheet<\/a> touts 1.3 million members for now. How many fewer will there be at the next reckoning&#8230;?<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Cathy did yesterday between finishing her real estate work and popping the cork on the champagne (she makes me do that, of course), was paying our dues. Not figuratively &#8212; literally. Yesterday was the deadline to pay the following creditors: Phoenix Association of Realtors Arizona Association of Realtors National Association of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2302,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2302\/how-could-the-initial-crs-stand-for-clueless-morons-club\/","url_meta":{"origin":832,"position":0},"title":"How could the initials C.R.S. stand for Clueless Morons Club?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The printed membership directory came in today's mail. 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