It’s a new day for REALTORS and I am proud to be a part of it! What a thrill it has been to be in Washington DC for NAR’s Midyear Legislative Meetings and to experience such a positive attitude among our fellow REALTORS.

We all know that real estate is local and that couldn’t be more true today. While talking with agents and brokers from California to Texas to New York and everywhere in between they are positive beyond belief. Let’s try to pay closer attention to our local success stories and the positive attitudes and less attention to the front page horror stories on real estate dredged up by the national media. If you have a great positive local story, let NAR’s Surround Sound Campaign know about it.

Is it perfect out there in every marketplace? No. Are attitudes positive and looking up? Absolutely! Our members are here in DC to make sure all Realtors across this Nation can have the opportunity to stay in business by marching on the Capitol Hill to lobby for a revamped FHA, higher loan limits for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, plus new possibilities of small business health insurance and so much more. Go to Realtor.org and look at joining us in our efforts! — Pat V. Combs, Immediate Past President