Day 2 - continued

Next we got to hear from Alan Langston with AZREIA in the Arizona markets.  Please take a look at his site and see what they have going on. 

He was sharing with us some new models for the local REIA like MAREI to work with our national Business Partners like Home Depot and Sherwin Williams and still support National REIA and the efforts that they do for us every year.

You don't know it, but the REIA groups like MAREI need money to keep going and bringing you great services, but we also want to offer your more services, education, benefits, and fund a way to track and react to legislaion at the local city and state level as well as at the Nationl Level.  So we all have to play nice to create the revenue so we can offer service -

So think about it, last week we had many people who had issue with something Kansas City Missouri did.  Now we all wanted to be a part of a committee that would follow up, take our concerns back to the city council and then get it changed.  And to do that we can form a committee and do something and we should.  But if we had the funding, we might be able to hire a watch dog whose job it is to tell us about things before the happen instead of us reacting and trying to change something once it's already a done deal.

So Alan's plan would allow us to parnter better with large National Vendors like the Home Depots and Sherwin Williams stores that would bring in more national companies with large discounts for you as members, bring in additional members that benefis us all as well as their membership dollars to fund more services, which would in turn give us buying power as a whole to negotiate larger local and national discounts and influence our lawmakers more effectively.

This probably does not make any sense, as I am still on the first cup of coffee after a late night trying to figure out how the craps tables work.  I will stick to real estate or see if I can find a YouTube video instruction, cause I still don't get it.