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Hi, I'm Doug Covill
I want to talk to you today about the REALTOR® Action Fund
This fund
which is totally funded by volunteer investments from REALTOR® and REALTOR® Affiliates
goes to help protect real property rights and our way of doing business
I've been in real estate for about 30 years now
and it wasn't until I got involved with the Sacramento Association of REALTORS®
that I realized how vulnerable our industry is
I don't know if you realize it or not but
our industry is under constant attack and from many different fronts
any bad decision from a ballot initiative
City, county, state or federal government can have a devastating affect
on our industry.
Now the Sacramento Association of REALTORS® is the largest association in the Greater Sacramento Area
California Association of REALTORS® is the largest in California
it's the largest in the country, second only to the National Association of REALTORS®
So we are very big in numbers, but we are not very big in dollars
and many times we are going up against large funded organizations like unions
where their membership is required to pay towards these funds
Now we've got a great Government Relations team of volunteers and top notch lobbyist and attorneys
which comb through literally thousands of things through out the year that affect our business
and they do a great job, but we need to give them the tools that they need to help protect our industry
We can do that by investing in the REALTOR® Action Fund
It's very important that we all do our fair share to invest in the REALTOR® Action Fund
It's just like, you have to have a car to do business in real estate
Investing in the REALTOR® Action Fund should be considered the same thing
How much should you invest?
The California Association of REALTORS® figures that if we all did our fair share
It would be about $197 a year
Not very much money when you consider what one bad decision could do to our industry
How can you do it?
You can go to www.sacrealtor.org and click REALTOR® Action Fund
It's very easy
or you can go to the Association if you wish
But please invest in the REALTOR® Action Fund and think about it every year
Invest in the REALTOR® Action Fund to protect our way of doing business
Thank you for your time