REALTOR® & Consumer Advocacy

FCBR’s REALTOR & Consumer Advocacy Department helps to ensure the success of our members via the 4 “I’s”- Involvement, Investment, Information, & Influence. Our Advocacy efforts are predicated on meaningful Community Involvement, Investment in key organizations, trustworthy local real estate Information, and effective Influence on local public policy.

Key committees/task forces of this department include Government Affairs, REALTOR® Political Action Committee, Community Outreach, CARHOF, Linda Norton Good Neighbor Scholarship Fund, Public Relations, & Monthly Market Information.

To learn more about this department and its related activities please contact Department Director Clint Skutchan at 402-0852 or clint@fcbr.org.

REALTOR & CONSUMER ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT INFO

RPAC Monthly Drawing: Wells Fargo offers $100 D.B.A. Card

Have YOU invested in our Housing Future Yet? Well what are you waiting for.. each month that passes means you are missing out on our fabulous iPad+ RPAC Campaign's Monthly Drawing!

Thanks to FCBR's amazing Affiliate members we will be adding a monthly prize drawing to our RPAC iPad+ Campaign. Each month one FCBR Affiliate member will offer up a prize of at least a $100 value that will be drawn on the final Tuesday of each month.To learn more about all of our Affiliate Partners and upcoming drawings visit www.fcbr.org/RPACMonthly.

May's RPAC Drawing of the month is courtesy of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. Time to for you or your clients could enjoy all that Old Town has to offer with a $100 Downtown Business Association Card.

Just like our end of year iPad+ Campaign, FCBR members will receive one entry for every $25 invested in RPAC during our current RPAC fundraising year that runs from *Oct. 1st through Sept. 30th but members can also increase your odds of winning by investing early. In fact members who give with their annual dues will not only be eligible for 12 drawings we will double the number entries for those investments.

Announcements of winners will take place on the final Friday of each month via our website, News For You, and social media.

Invest Now for your chance to win:

Click here to Contribute Online to RPAC
Contact FCBR at 223-2900 to make a contribution over the phone
Make a check out to RPAC and send to FCBR offices located at 110 West Harvard St., Fort Collins, Co 80525

Many thanks to the Affiliate Advisory Council and our RPAC iPad+ Drawing Sponsors!

If you are interested in becoming a RPAC Drawing Affiliate partner please contact us at 223-2900 or clint@fcbr.org for more info.

*Limit one monthly drawing win per RPAC fundraising year (Oct.1-Sept.30). Monthly winners will still be eligible for all end of campaign drawings including the iPad Mini.

CAR Releases Economic Impact of Real Estate 2011

CAR’s Issues Mobilization Committee commissioned an update to a report titled, The Economic Impact of Real Estate in Colorado, which was first published in 2005. Given the recent economic downturn, one might suppose a dramatic shift in real estate’s impact on Colorado’s economy and our region. However, the data for the Northern Front Range (Boulder, Weld and Larimer counties) has changed little since the first report six years ago.

House Passes Budget With Senior Homestead Exemption:

The House passed a state budget for FY 2012-2012 on a 64 to 1 vote. The budget features $7.5 billion in spending from the state's general fund — the largest single pot of money in the budget and the one over which lawmakers have the most discretion. General-fund spending for 2012-13would be about 6.5 percent more than what lawmakers approved for the 2011-12 fiscal year.

Mortgage deduction benefits USA: Editorial from NAR President in USA Today

The current tax code encourages behaviors and actions that we, as Americans, believe are good for individuals, communities and the nation. We incentivize retirement savings, child rearing and, yes, homeownership.

Some say there's no evidence the mortgage interest deduction (MID) has an effect on homeownership rates; to those people I say, "Just look around you."

What is Advocacy Anyway?

The Fort Collins Board of REALTORS® (FCBR) recently restructured the way we do business, allowing us to focus on delivering those services that most empower our members to be successful via three core service areas. Our Networking & Events along with our Education & Professionalism departments are self-evident in purpose and function. However, our third department, REALTOR® & Consumer Advocacy, may not be as well understood solely by name, but can be easily explained by 4 “I’s.”

Community Outreach Tour Demonstrates Food Bank's Value

Have you ever known anyone who has received the services of the Food Bank for Larimer County? You may not think so, but the statistics speak a surprisingly different story.

Statistically speaking, one in ten Larimer County residents has received assistance from the Food Bank. And in January 2012, the Food Bank served their highest ever number of individuals in the Food Share (direct service pantry) program: 14,000.......

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