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Vermont Association of Realtors®
VAR is the state’s Realtor® membership association.

Your membership in the Southern Vermont Board of Realtors® (SVBR) gives you membership in Vermont Realtors®, the state association for Realtor® members, and in the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). NAR is the largest trade association in the nation, and works behind the scenes and in the spotlight to protect private property rights, promote home ownership, and maintain sensible credit and other standards at the federal level so you can help your clients buy, sell, and rent real estate in a fair and profitable market environment. This advocacy on your behalf is among the most valuable benefits your NAR membership adds to your business, but it’s just one among the hundreds of the association’s value-adding services.

Here are 55 services that put money in your pocket by shaping the environment in which you work or making free and discounted products and services available to you.

Advocacy

Representing you and your customers before Congress and federal agencies:

1. Protecting the mortgage interest deduction and other tax incentives for homeownership and real estate investment
2. Protecting private property rights
3. Advancing sound and reasonable lending standards and access to credit
4. Advancing sound environmental policies
5. Providing financial and technical assistance to your state and local associations on advocacy matters:
6. Supporting candidates who protect real estate interests
7. Helping you and your colleagues improve your communities and enhance home values

Business Advantage

Offering you an identifiable, marketable brand identity:

8. Protecting the REALTOR® trademark
9. Promoting the trademark and REALTORS®’ adherence to a Code of Ethics as points of difference among practitioners through national advertising campaign
10. Creating and managing the .REALTOR top-level domain

Creating and partnering with companies offering valuable services and products to you:

11. Providing extensive property data and listing information through Realtors Property Resource® (RPR)
12. Bringing to market tools that can help your business, including SentriLock lockboxes, through Second Century Ventures
13. Helping companies tailor their products to your needs through REach technology accelerator program

Linking you to consumers through far-reaching media properties:

14. realtor.com®, NAR’s official web site containing the most accurate and up-to-date national listing data on the Internet
15. HouseLogic, NAR’s popular website for home owners looking for trusted information on managing their home
16. Real Estate Today, NAR’s weekly syndicated two-hour radio show, now in 200 markets
17. Handouts for customers, covering topics such as why use a Realtor, how to prepare for a home sale, and what you need to know about home inspections
18. REALTOR® Content Resource, from HouseLogic, which makes free information available for agents, as part of their marketing efforts, to share with customers on home improvements and maintenance, among other consumer-oriented topics

Research Intelligence

Producing market research unavailable elsewhere:

19. Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers
20. Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends
21. Profile of Home Buyer Feature Preferences
22. Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey
23. Profile of International Home Buying Activity
24. Member Profile and Commercial Member profile (which enable members to benchmark their performance against their peers)

Advancing your industry through authoritative, closely tracked economic indicators:

25. Monthly existing-home sales data
26. Monthly pending home sales index
27. Quarterly  housing affordability index
28. Quarterly metropolitan median home prices

Member Benefits

Discounting products and services from major providers to save you money:

29. Technology: Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sprint, Xerox
30. Autos: Chrysler, Avis, Budget, Hertz
31. Office services: FedEx, OfficeMax
32. Financial services and risk management: American Home Shield, Victor O. Schinnerer,
33. Personal finance and insurance: REALTORS® Insurance Marketplace, REALTORS® Federal Credit Union, a division of Northwest Federal Credit Union, Liberty Mutual, Drug Card America, REALTORS® Dental Insurance, REALTORS® Core Health Ins., SMART Short Term Medical, Members Major Medical Plans
34. Transaction management: DocuSign, ZipForm, relay
35. Marketing resources: Lowe’s, FedEx Office, Multi Merchant Prepaid Card, Ifbyphone, Xceligent

Education

Helping you increase your professionalism through degree-, designation-, and certification-granting programs and through continuing education credit:

36. Master of Real Estate (MRE) degree through REALTOR® University
37. CE credit, designations, and certifications through REALTOR® University
38. Designations and certifications include, among the newer ones, Military Relocation Professional (MRP), Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource (SFR), and Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES)
39. NAR’s business specialty divisions, including Global, Commercial, and Land, among others, each offers classes and other education opportunities targeted to their specialties
40. E-books from NAR’s Virtual Library that are available for borrowing via computer or tablet
41. REALTOR® Magazine’s Architecture Guide, which offers members basic illustrations and definitions of popular residential architecture styles and features
42. Classes, booklets, and other resource material aimed at keeping you aware of, and operating in accordance with, federal Fair Housing laws prohibiting discrimination in the marketplace

Networking

Helping you extend your referral partners nationally and internationally:

43. REALTORS® Conference & Expo every November
44. REALTORS® Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo every May in Washington
45. Young Professionals Network, which in addition to offering networking opportunities, provides to an entry point into association involvement
46. REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC), which in addition to its critical role in association advocacy, offers opportunities to network with some of the real estate industry’s most involved practitioners
47. NAR’s business specialty divisions, including Global, Commercial, and Land, among others. Each offers opportunities to network with one’s peers in those specialties

Legal Help

Supporting you, your brokerage, and your association on legal matters:

48. Financial and technical help on industry-important legal cases through Legal Action Program
49. Legal help through friend-of-the-court briefs and other actions to help inform court analyses of cases
50. Compliance best practices on regulatory matters of national scope
51. Summaries of latest real-estate-related state and national court decisions

Safety

Offering resources to help you operate your business safely:

52. Regularly occurring safety webinars and articles for managers and agents
53. Pre-packaged presentations for managers
54. Banners and widgets
55. Safety checklists and other handouts for agents and their customers