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Services for Real Estate Pros - MAINSTREET Organization of Realtors -Suburban Chicago
Usually Political, Real Estate and Property Rights issues that are the bedrock of the Realtor community. Encouraging discussion and advocacy to bring Realtors® and their clients an open and fair marketplace.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Not if we have anything to say about it!There have been two important transfer tax bills in the General Assembly this Spring Session. While they have not garnered the attention that the GRT or budget have, they are still important bills. The Mainstreet Organization of Realtors is committed to bri...
06/22/2007
Children are a great excuse for taking the day and just having fun.Yesterday was the last day of school for my eldest son (I'm still getting used to saying that). Of course, this means that he had school for an hour followed by me hanging out with the "Mom Squad" and my four-year-old daughter wai...
06/08/2007
DuPage County Treasurer Gwen Henry announced Tuesday that her office collected almost $1 Billion in property taxes from homeowners this year. But not from active duty servicemen.There is a provision in Illinois law which is designed to protect our servicemen and woman who are serving overseas. Il...
06/06/2007
Do you have plates?His father smiles at me and in broken English tells me that they have the title and will go tomorrow to apply for plates.His father is a man who has seen things, done things, and experienced a life I hope never to encounter. He toiled years in southern Poland under the crushing...
06/03/2007
Pick-up that Phone - Mike Scobey reports on our Call To Action (CTA) "Please encourage your more activist members to make calls.  This is not over yet.  At this point, SB 1674(the predatory lending and 4050 provisions) is in the Senate.  The RTA transfer tax is in a larger bill, SB 572, still in ...
06/01/2007
"...gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime....let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as sacred charges upon the Nation's gratitude,--the soldier's and sailo...
05/28/2007
All Realtors in Illinois should have seen this story already, but just in case, I'll repeat it. The IDFPR announced that there was a breech of security in their computer system, placing at risk the business data on all licensees. While the  Martinez letter clearly states that they don't think the...
05/23/2007
NAR's Board of Directors had a very active meeting this morning.  The buzz all week was about NARs program planning for the next several years; technology programs and PR maintaining the Realtor as the center of the transaction being the general theme. One of the items on my "to do" list is to st...
05/19/2007
I have a meeting of lobbyists from all over the country in about 30 minutes. So the blog today will be brief and light, an with a Friday smile to start things off. Wrapping up a week of great meetings, but I found this link last night. Having spent more than my fair share of time meeting Congress...
05/18/2007
Excellent seminar this afternoon by Lawrence Yun, Senior Economist from NAR's research department concerning handling data and media communications.  The short story at this meeting was an economists reaction to recent media scare stories, ala the 60 Minutes story or the AP story "Largest home sa...
05/17/2007
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