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President Trump Speaks at the National Association of REALTORS Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo

With all of the happenings this week at the NAR Legislative Meetings and Expo in Washington, D.C. we want to remind everyone that the President will address the members. We are posting the live stream here.

For more information on the meetings, please visit https://www.legislative.realtor/.

 

 

Instructors: REfresh Expo Taking Speaker Applications

Instructors/Speakers/Trainers and Industry Leaders - Join in for this extraordinary experience for real estate professionals. The REfresh Expo will feature inspiring speakers, lively industry conversations, an interactive expo and unmatched opportunities to engage with other industry professionals. REfresh Expo includes 100 exhibits and over 40 sessions.

We invite you to submit ideas for current topics to help our attendees stay ahead of their competition. The Expo focuses on the future of real estate and how new advancements can help our audience keep up to date in this fast changing industry.

Interested in speaking?

Please submit your proposal today!    Click Here for the Speaker Application

Thank you for your interest in speaking at the REfresh Expo, the region’s newest, most creative and relevant real estate show. We are looking for dynamic speakers who can educate and excite our audience about new advances in the field. Submission deadline is June 8.

Instructors: 2018 NREC IDW ~ Save the Date!

This message serves as the SAVE THE DATE for the 2018 Instructor Development Workshop.. You will not want to miss this year’s Workshop featuring Karel Murray.  You may have had the pleasure to see Karel in action before, but this happens to be her last year working on the road.  Her visit to Lincoln will be your last time to learn from the best in person!

July 19, 2018

Southeast Community College’s Continuing Education Building

South at 68^th and “O” Street

Lincoln, NE

“Karel Murray’s extensive national speaking career highlights her ability to deliver content with a memorable energy and impactful insight about personal accountability through her “nothing but the truth” delivery style.. When you work with Karel, you will improve your presentation skill set and discover that you have uncovered how to be innovative and more open minded when it comes to presenting in your own authentic way.”

This year’s IDW offers 6 hours of continuing education credit for Nebraska instructors at no charge.

In order to ensure we have enough room for everyone interested,  please send a quick, “I’m interested” E-mail reply (click here).

We will ask for a complete registration at a later date.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Alane Roubal

Deputy Director for Education

Nebraska Real Estate Commission

Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit ~ Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

BizWest’s inaugural Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit, covering the ever-changing and growing real estate landscape in Northern Colorado. Expert panels make up this conference, with development officials from Weld and Larimer counties joining us, will provide a look at significant developments in these communities.   What will you find at this conference?

 

Who can afford to buy a home with the affordability and inventory constraints of today’s market, the changing demographics of home buyers, student loan debt and the role the real estate agent plays? The morning Keynote presentation will examine the impact of rising home prices on home buyers and sellers. 

Communities throughout Northern Colorado are seeing a wave of new commercial construction, with some projects in the planning stage and others already emerging from the ground. Our panel of development directors will provide a complete rundown of the region’s top projects. 

Development, investment and ownership of commercial real estate require knowledge, instinct and strategic thinking. So how do the region’s commercial experts do what they do? Ask questions of the Northern Colorado’s top real estate developers, investors and founders in this second annual panel of leaders in commercial real estate market.

View the entire conference schedule online at the BizWest site by clicking here.  

VanEd will be offering 6-hours of Continuing Education credit for those staying at the conference for the full day of sessions. You can learn more about the conference and register for CE credit with VanEd using the link below;

https://www.vaned.com/BizWest

 

Heading to the TAR Convention & Expo? Stop in and Say Hello!

If you will be in attendance at this year's Texas REALTORS® Conference and Trade Expo be sure to come by and see VanEd at booth 904! 

With over 10 years in the TX online education industry, we are one of the most trusted online schools in the state, and we are ready to be your education partner. Visit with us on Sunday to learn more and see our 2017 TREC-compliant coursework.

One Day Only

Trade Expo

Sunday, September 10, 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

View the Schedule by Clicking Here!

(View last year's Trade Expo in Action below!)

 

2017 Appraisal Institute Annual Fall Conference - Oct. 13th

The annual Real Estate and Appraisal Symposium Will be held Friday, October 13th at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.  This years event will feature over 25 panelists and presenters.

– Opening Keynote – Mary O'Hara-Deveraux, PhD CEO & Founder, GlobalFORESIGHT

THE FUTURE: Outlooks & Trends Forces that Impact How We Work & Live

– Closing General Session  – Bay Area Housing and Traffic Crisis: Impacts, Consequences of Inaction & Most Viable Solutions

Select From 12 Breakout Sessions

Special Purpose Properties Case Studies in Residential Litigation It's a Bird, It's a Plane - It's Drones in the Air! Deep Learning, the Appraiser and the Paperless Office Residential Hot Topics: Compliance and Marketplace Issues Commercial & Residential Green Market Update Right of Way: Front-End Issues in the Process Understanding Legal Parcels & Descriptions: So What Makes it Legal? Measuring Real Estate Damages I Am a Real Estate Appraiser . . . Appraisals for Assessment Appeals Commercial Market Update

BEST VALUE RATE expires 9/8 – ACT NOW & SAVE up to $90!

Register Online

View List of Presenters Earn 6 Hours of CEC (BREA / AI / SBE)

– Sponsors Include – • Liability Administrators & Insurance Services • BBG • Valbridge Property Advisors  • ParcelQuest  • Berliner, Kidder & Trish  • Bradford Technologies  • AppraisalToday

Questions? Contact www.norcal-ai.org / 925.932.7753 / [email protected]

Missouri YPN presents 7th Annual REBarCamp St. Louis, September 21st at T-Rex

Early bird registration of $10 through the end of August. Proceeds benefit the Realtor Relief Fund.

Get Tickets!

 7th Annual REBarCamp St. Louis 7.0

BarCamp is an open, participatory workshop-event whose content is provided by attendees. RE BarCamp is a BarCamp for Real Estate. Bring your Laptop, iPad and tablets and be ready to learn.

• 8:30 AM Registration & morning coffee provided by Choice Home Warranty
• 9:00 AM Opening Remarks, kick off the day
• 9:30-10:15 AM Breakout Sessions
• 10:30-11:15am Breakout Sessions
• 11:30-12:30 - LUNCH with many options within 2 blocks
• 12:30-1:15pm Breakout Sessions
• 1:30-2:15pm Breakout Sessions
• 2:15pm Afternoon break, snack provided by Insight Title
• 2:30-3:15pm Breakout Sessions
• 3:30-4:15pm Breakout Sessions
• 4:15-5pm Happy Hour

Morning refreshments and Happy Hour are provided. Follow our Facebook page to hear about the latest updates! facebook.com/rebarcampstlouis Watch our Twitter hashtag #rebcstl for more details!

Have questions about REBarCamp St. Louis 2017? Contact [email protected] with any questions.

Proceeds from 2017's event will support Realtor Relief Fund in Missouri.

There are NO REFUNDS offered for canceling or not attending this event. You may transfer your registration to someone else. Contact Kim for details and assistance @ [email protected].

DATE AND TIME Thu, September 21, 2017 8:15 AM – 5:00 PM CDT Add to Calendar

LOCATION T-REX 911 Washington Avenue St. Louis, MO 63101 View Map

REFUND POLICY No Refunds FRIENDS WHO ARE GOING   Connect to Facebook

 

Use the link here to get your $10 early bird tickets today.

Get Your Tickets at Eventbrite

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Prince Philip "Graduates" ~ Along with a few other notable people! Our Favorite Stories from May

All month issues surrounding both rulemaking and legislative issues were at the forefront of the real estate industry news cycle. We could hardly even glance at Instagram before we were drawn right back into the fray of policy and debate. 

Below are the top stories this month our staff spent time discussing. Whether we wanted to or........  well, you decide.

 

The ARELLO Mid-Year Meetings went off without a hitch. We were in attendance speaking with regulators from around the world on issues ranging from approvals to policies.  Many were focused on possible changes to the structure of the CFPB and tax reform issues. Also, look for coming changes in Washington's pre-license course outlines.

NAR holds Mid-Year... errr... Legislative Meetings in D.C.

Two years on and we still can't get the name of the Biannual Meeting correct. Oh well.

We posted the NAR 360 video before we saw the Internal News Service Special Report. We would have preferred that option first, and think you may as well. In the report, NAR discusses rule changes to MLS and IDX systems, as well as key issues surrounding UpStreamRE's new structure (and funding through 2018).  Our takeaway was the same as the only comment on the article - should they change the name to DownStreamRE? 

Click Here to Read the Internal News Service Special Report.

Click Here to watch the NAR 360 Video.

 

AdAge

Ad Age magazine reported on the new bill sponsored by Rep. Marsha Blackburn called (ready for this?)  Balancing the Rights of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibility Act of 2017.    That's right.... it's the BROWSER Act.  After voting to remove the privacy rules for ISPs, it appears that this representative may have heard from constituents who wanted some protections put back in place.  Apparently, not without a catchy name for the Bill, which has not yet made it to a committee.

Click Here to read more in Ad Age.

 

Speaking of Bad Acts

In his piece in The Hill David Reiss, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, writes on the Financial Choice Act and how it will gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This will, in his words, "return us to the Wild West days of the early 2000s".  Hopefully, for Professor Reiss and the rest of us, legislators remember that history repeats itself before they make any changes that would allow predatory lending to again rise to the level of "commonplace".

Click Here to read more in The Hill.

 

Missouri GRI Launch Date Announced

One of our favorite things to do around here is announcing new programs, and this month was very cool!  The Missouri Association of REALTORS® and VanEd are proud to announce that the Missouri GRI program will launch online on June 1st, 2017!   

With the first wave of courses coming we will also be offering a 12-hour CE package that includes Core, Elective and Ethics renewal coursework.  All of us are very excited about the new program and the launch. You can learn more online below or contact us here for more information.

Learn More about the Missouri GRI Program by Clicking Here.

 

Real Estate Book of the Month

We currently have 7 books we are looking at right now, but this month we revisited Mark Leader's book, Mark of a Leader.  You can find his book online at LeadersChoice.com.  Back in 2008, this book became popular and now we are looking back at some of the insights. 

Learn more about when this was the book of the month in 2008 on Lisa Spaulding's Active Rain blog.

 

Graduation Announcements

Prince Philip declares he will retire from royal public duties at the age of 96 (quitter) and now we know more about what his "graduation" to private life will look like. The Sun reported this month that Buckingham Palace said in a statement: “His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has decided that he will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year. In taking this decision, The Duke has the full support of The Queen."   

We were pleased to hear that since we're just not settled on if the Queen can still order the Duke's head to be removed or not.  Learn more in this handy article from The Sun.  (Yep - Royal Watch is always on over here)

And then, in what is becoming an almost annual event, we here at VanEd are proud to announce another high school graduation. Congrats go out to Katarina, daughter of Managing Partner, on her recent accomplishment and graduation this month. We look forward to all your coming endeavors, and we even saved all those words of wisdom for the celebrities!

 

REITWise 2017 Scheduled for this week ~ Learn More

Panelists to discuss state of the real estate markets

John Worth, NAREIT's senior vice president for research and investor outreach, along with Calvin Schnure and Green Street Advisors' Cedrik Lachance, will be panelists at next week's REITWise 2017. They will be talking about a range of commercial real estate topics, including e-commerce, the state of the economy and where the CRE cycle is.

REITWise 2017^®: NAREIT's Law, Accounting & Finance Conference^® provides attendees with a broad, yet focused educational program that presents a clear picture of current political, economic and market events that impact legal, financial, tax and accounting operations within REITs and publicly traded real estate companies.

REITWise is being held March 22 – 24, 2017, at La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, CA.

REITWise 2017 | REIT.com

Detailed Schedule / Prices & Policies / Hotel Information / Questions

 

 

Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference is Next Tuesday ~ Nov. 15th

Join BizWest for the annual Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference, covering the ever-changing and growing real estate landscape in the Boulder Valley. Expert panels make up this conference, with development officials from Boulder and Broomfield counties joining us to provide a look at significant developments in these communities. 

Van Ed will be at the event providing Continuing Education credits for those interested. The cost for 6 credits is $15, payable beforehand and/or at the event, although it is encouraged to sign-up and pay prior to the event. Please click here if you are interested in purchasing Continuing Education credits for this event.

When:

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Where:

CU Stadium Club, Boulder, Colorado 

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Thomas Thibodeau CU Real Estate Center Academic Director and Global Real Estate Capital Markets Professor John Covert Regional Director, Colorado/New Mexico Metrostudy

 Other Speakers Include:

-Roger Caruso, Economic Specialist, City of Lafayette
-Aaron DeJong, economic development director, City of Louisville
-Charles Ferro, development review manager for planning, City of Boulder
-Clint Folsom, Mayor, Town of Superior
-Paula Mehle, economic-development coordinator, Town of Erie
-Dave Shinneman, acting community development director, City and County of Broomfield
-David Starnes, redevelopment & revitalization manager, City of Longmont

And many industry speakers, including;

-Bill Reynolds, W.W. Reynolds Cos.

-Lou Barnes, mortgage banker, Premier Mortgage Group

-Leslie Durgin, strategic policy adviser, Boulder Housing Partners

Seperate registration is required for Continuing Education. Information and Registration for CE is online at: http://VanEd.com/BVREC.  To register for the event, please visit http://fallrealestateconference.com/