The top 10 hottest luxury real estate markets

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Travel Dates

Good Morning!!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Don't you all just love the Energy Bus! Great book. I wanted to give one to all our members as part of our top producer luncheon but I dont think it will fit in our budget this year. I might by some and raffle them off??? Not sure yet ...

I have a quick question.

I pulled the travel dates from the FAR and NAR website for next year but does anyone have the dates for WCR events.

Thanks
Kathleen.

Thoughts on Blog

Yes, great idea with the blog! Thanks.

I'm an avid blogger for my business with 2 blogs currently (www.phxcityliving.com and www.urbanvertical.com/blog) and a third in the works. If anyone has any questions about blogging, feel free to email or call me anytime....I'm more than happy to share my experience and suggestions. My first bit of advice...don't take it up unless you are prepared to set aside the time everyday to blog. I spend a minimum of 2 hours each day, 7 days a week. And since we cannot sacrifice normal business hours (especially in this market), my nighttime hours have been reduced :-). I just share that so no one goes to all the work and effot of creating a blog and then realizing the time committment the hard way. For some, there's definitely other ways you'd prefer to spend your time or market yourself. Again, feel free to contact me if you have any questions on blogging.

I look forward to this blog for sharing ideas, questions, etc. for WCR.

Hope to see everyone in Vegas as well!

Ideas for 2008

Rae,

Thank you for starting this blog, and for inviting me. This is one of my first blog posts ever, but I do intend to create one soon on Active Rain, which I just joined as well. Another networking tool I discovered is LinkedIn, which I have been a member of for about 6 weeks, but have networked it hard (it the evenings) and am now up over 300 contacts, mostly Realtors around the nation and world.

Back to WCR, I echo the comments that the Lake Buena Vista conference was excellent, and as PE for Venice, I am greatly looking forward to the state retreat Rosemary and others are putting together for October. We also have our Board in place, most of whom you will see in Vegas. We are now finalizing our programs for the first quarter of 2008, put out a call for committee volunteers (and some chairmen), and beginning to organize our member renewal process. I would be interested in hearing how other chapters, particularly local chapter Board members for next year are specifically looking to renew members, both national members and local affiliates (i.e., e-mail, letters, personal visits, etc.).

Best wishes for 2008 to all,
Rory A. Dubin, President Elect
Venice, FL Chapter

So Glad that you like this idea

Thanks to all who have said that they really like the idea of the blog...everyone who has been invited - all of you - may post on the blog as well as make comments. Several of you have said see you in Vegas - I am looking forward to the trade show as well as some of the educational sessions. The Florida Assoc. of Realtors conference in Orlando had really great sessions. This is certainly the time for us to get some new "nuggets" of information to run our business smarter. We are all going to be in a time crunch.
I have at this time..have my board chosen and will be meeting with them next week for a half hour to let them know what I think we should be focusing on next year. I have also planned our retreat. If you would like the agenda for the retreat let me know and I will email it to you.
Next week I will start working on our budget. The more I can get in place now the easier next year will be.
Have a great day!
Rae

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