President McMillan’s Healthcare Podcast

On June 16, NAR President Charles McMillan released his podcast on healthcare. If you haven’t yet already, make sure you have a listen. The podcast can be found on REALTOR.org: http://www.realtor.org/about_nar/presidents_report/_podcast_archive/mcmillan_healthcarereform_20090616. On Tuesday, June

23, NAR will host a webinar for FPCs to review the healthcare issue and answer any questions you might have. There will be two opportunities to join – at 10:00am EST and 3:00pm EST. An email invitation with instructions to register was sent to all FPCs on June 16. If you have any questions about

the upcoming webinar, please contact Laura Vogel at lvogel@realtors.org.

Don’t forget to keep checking NAR’s new dedicated page to the issue: www.realtor.org/healthreform.

Short Sales

There are so many of you out there that express the same thing to us when it comes to short sales – the current system isn’t working! The Obama Administration is working on a plan to address these systemic problems through the Making Home Affordable Program, and guidance is expected in the next

couple of weeks.

To help you navigate the short sales process, NAR has created a special page on REALTOR.org: www.realtor.org/shortsales. There’s lots of valuable information and the help you’ll need, as well as important news updates about the issue. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Jeff

Lischer at jlischer@realtors.org.

FPC Online Training

Congratulations to Dennis Norman, FPC for Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who won the $100 Visa gift card! Dennis, and 225 other FPCs, completed the online training course by the June 15th early bird deadline. Thank you for getting your course completed!

There’s still time to complete your training. We understand how busy you REALTORS® are right now. The online class will be available until June 30, and you can participate at your own pace. For returning FPCs, the class should take no more than 30 minutes and for newly appointed FPCs, a little

longer. If you attended the February FPC Conference you are exempted from the on-line courses, although you are most welcome to take them.

To access the training, please visit: http://www.learninglibrary.com/governmentaffairs/indexnew.asp and log in with your email address and temporary password “fpctraining” (do not include the quote marks).

If you have difficulties accessing or completing the course, please contact the Learning Library’s support line: 877-762-9322 ext. 222 or support@learninglibrary.com. If you have other questions about the training, please contact Laura Vogel (lvogel@realtors.org).

Tip of the week: Stay tuned! New ways for NAR to communicate with you are just around the corner. Hint: does your mobile phone receive text messages?

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