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 Supports Prohibition of Local Government Sprinkler Requirements

After FCBR and many other local REALTOR Association in Colorado were successful in removing mandatory installation of fire sprinklers from the local adoption of 2009 Residential Building Code in the past couple of years a movement is afoot to see that extended to the entire state of Colorado via a proposed bill.

Attorney General Announces Colorado Will Receive $204.6 Million in Foreclosure-Relief Funds Under Multistate Settlement

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced this week that Colorado has joined a $25 billion multistate settlement with the five largest national banks: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, and Ally, who account for 60 percent of the home loan servicing market, to end problematic business practices and to help distressed homeowners.

2012 REALTOR® Day at the Capitol: Homeownership Matters

The Fort Collins Board of REALTORS® & Colorado Association of REALTORS® would like to extend a thank you to all of those who attended REALTOR® Day at the Capitol on Thursday, February 3rd. A special thank you is extended to State Representative Tom Massey and Mark Snead for speaking at the lunch program. Also big thanks to Rep. Randy Fischer & Rep. John Kefalas for attending the Legislative Reception even under circumspect weather conditions.

Obama Adds Detail to His Refi Plan

President Barack Obama today released details of the mortgage refinance plan he introduced in his State of the Union speech last week. Among other things, the plan would expand existing federal refinance assistance to borrowers who don’t have a federally backed mortgage and takes steps to smooth borrowers’ mortgage modification efforts.

CAR Takes Positions on Numerous Legislative Issues

The Legislative Policy Committee met in early February and took a number of positions on legislation affecting our industry. If you are interested in learning about the bills that the LPC tracks, or learning more about CAR's Government Affairs Division, click "read more." Updated CAR Legislative Bill Sheets are posted the Monday following LPC meetings. Read More

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