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housing stimulus: Congressman Ken Calvert - Working the Realtors Corner Again. - 03/10/09 07:03 PM
I'm not sure how I missed the big announcement from NAR about these two bills. Let's see - every time they want me to support some hunk-of-pork stimulus bill or additional spending bill, I always get the email encouraging me to contact my legislator to get it passed.
But here are two bills by Assembly member Ken Calvert, the long-time sponsor of the Banks Out of Real Estate Bill, and I hear nada? H.R. 1245 brings the $15,000 buyers tax credit back to the table. You might recall this was on the table at one point of the stimulus debate only … (4 comments)

housing stimulus: NAR - Redefining Win, Lose & Draw - 02/23/09 12:55 PM
Let me begin by saying I like our NAR President Charles McMillan. I think he's a good guy, he works hard for us and he truly believes in the Realtor Party. Having said that I must beg to differ with some of the recent utterings from the national office regarding Realtors 'success' with the recent stimulus bill. 
In his most recent update, posted immediately before this one, he refers to the major gains by Realtors in the bill:
Dear Fellow REALTOR®,

For nearly four months, NAR has been working to deliver to you and to our nation a comprehensive … (29 comments)

housing stimulus: NAR Four Point Stimulus Plan - A Call To Action! - 11/13/08 08:04 PM
11-13 call to action On Monday I wrote a post from NAR regarding their Four Point Housing Stimulus program. Today that program came out to us in the form of a Call to Action from the Realtor Action Center. Coincidentally, it was announced on the same day that Sec. Paulsen decided our $700 Billion bail-out package was going to the wrong people by being earmarked for people in trouble on their mortgages and that the money should instead go to buy interest in banks, help banks buy other banks and maybe bail-out GM and/or the auto industry in general so people … (4 comments)

housing stimulus: NAR's Four Point Housing Stimulus Plan - 11/10/08 03:35 PM
11-10 BOD & stimulus plan In my ongoing effort to bring you more from the business side of the 2008 NAR Conference & Expo,  today was the Board of Directors Meeting. It was an epic event spanning more than four hours in spite of the fact that there were no items of controversy on the agenda. I'll write another post on the meeting in general as there were some interesting announcement but the item that generated the most discussion today was NAR's Four Point Housing Stimulus Plan. In an effort to be more inclusive of commercial Realtors, there were proposed amendments … (4 comments)