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Financial crises created by the mismanagement at NCAR necessitating more member involvement in the Service Corp and RealfastSource: WRAR/MLS
“Negative Campaigning: Is Negative the [...]
According to the Raleigh News&Observer's Under the Dome, Tim Kent, Executive Director of NCAR is leaving the organization at the end of this year. Story: Kent to leave Realtor group
Not content with government help in the form of an $8,000 first-time homebuyers tax credit and a property tax break for homebuilders' unsold inventory which will have a negative impact of $40-45 million on local government revenues, the Triangle Community Coalition (an organization of realtors and' [...] 
It is generally accepted that the housing bubble precipitated the current recession. Easy access to money and low interest rates fueled housing inflation that made housing speculation profitable without growth in the underlying economy. In 2007 the Chief Executive of the National Association of Homebuilders acknowledged [...] 
It looks like the transfer tax referendum was approved in Avery County today.
The North Carolina Association of Realtors (NCAR) reported spending $373,155 through the North Carolina Homeowners Alliance (NCHA) for direct mail services for 4 NC House seats, 4 NC Senate seats and 2 County Commissioner races in the 2008 election. The money went to Cornerstone Solutions & Communications [...] 
A Second Mortgage Disaster On The Horizon?
Mary Edna Williams is 2009 President-elect of the North Carolina Association of Realtors and President of the NC Homeowners Alliance responsible for the content of this disgusting mailer that came in Wake County mailboxes this afternoon.
In an Editorial this morning the Raleigh News & Observer says that the NC Realtors attacks on Stan Norwalk and Ty Harrell are
Recipient's name, mailing address and ZIP code:
Realtors Political Action Committee
430 N. [...]
AUSTIN HATCHER REALTY, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v .
HAZEL GAITHER ARNOLD, MICHAEL JAMES ARNOLD, ROGER WADE ARNOLD, CHARLES TONY ARNOLD, [...]
Raleigh Realtor Becky Harper, running on a platform of change and of opposition to the the Issues Mobilization Assessment by NCAR has been elected to the board of the Raleigh Regional Association of Realtors.
· What position are you running for? RRAR Board of Directors
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One of the things they do so that they will have 100% office participation for RPAC is that if you refuse to give, they give in your name...then they bill you [...]
By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Voters in Clay County head to the polls Friday to decide if they want to raise the local real estate transfer tax by .4 percent to build a new elementary school.
Hayesville, [...]
Through Aug. 8, the committee organizing the campaign received $10,000 from the N.C. [...]
Realtors statewide [...]
"Like it or not, [...]
In states other than California, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, whenever an association is confronted with a request or demand by an individual for access to the association’s multiple [...]
In a little noticed action in 2007 the National Association of Realtors was fined $78,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violations of election law including $282,500 spent on mailings and advertisements expressly advocating the election of Richard Burr for Senate in 2004. The FEC found that [...] The NC Realtors Association dropped a bucket of bucks on a bash for legislators in June according to lobbying reports. $19,820 plus $556 previously spent on invitations works out to $170 a head in legislative lobbying largess. It's more than the $15,809 NC Homebuilders spent on a [...] Meeting in May in Washington, D.C., the National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors took a major strategic leap [...]
The NC Association of Realtors may be in violation of IRS rules by failing to notify members that the amounts of annual dues and mandatory assessment going towards the Issues Mobilization Fund, lobbying and other political activities are NOT tax deductible. An email to Raleigh [...] NC Home Builders dropped a bucket of bucks on a bash for legislators in June according to lobbying reports. $15,808 works out to $200 a head in lobbying largess.
Faced with the prospect of a crushing defeat this coming July in US District Court in Chicago, the National Association of Realtors has folded its hand in a case that accused the Association of unfairly restricting access by discount brokers to online listing information. Swimming in an acronym [...] 
We appreciate all this interest, but it is our position that the citizens of Ashe County are quite capable of deciding how they wish [...]
Orange: Sprawl lobby just says no to LTT, From the Independent Weekly:Big money from across the state—and as far away as Washington—is piling on to beat the land transfer tax in Orange County. Real estate agents and homebuilders have donated nearly a quarter of a million [...]
Land Transfer Taxes: The NC Experience
This policy brief draws on the experience of the six North Carolina counties with land transfer taxes. The success of these counties in utilizing this revenue source to provide high quality services to their citizens is [...]
Homes have continued to appreciate here very nicely, BECAUSE of how nice it is to live here and the quality of the schools. What do the citizens in the county get in return from the [...]
Ron Fitzwater writes at MountainTimes.com:Ashe County Board of Commissioners Chairman Richard Blackburn calls the tax "a hard sell" but something that is badly needed for the county to meet the capital needs for projects
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Chel White is a brilliant independent short filmmaker, whose work is very poetic. Wind is a montage of motion controlled time-lapse photography of the earth and weather. Set to a poem by Antonio Machado, White [...]
The commissioners chose the land transfer tax because they said it would provide the most money with the least impact on local residents.
Commissioner Larry Rhodes [...]
NC Realtor astroturf popped up yesterday in Gates County:
They're baaaack, realtor astroturf in Orange County:
Board members spoke of the everyday burden a sales tax would place on residents and the benefit of being able to defer [...]
Raleigh’s realtors and homebuilders, unless they wake up politically, are about to get another does of castor oil from the City Council.It seems the group [...]
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Stan Norwalk, candidate for Wake County Commissioner, gets his family's endorsement:
