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| Elections for 2012 DAR Officers and Directors
Nominations Open until July 3, 2011
| The Board of Directors has three positions becoming vacant next year. In addition, DAR will be electing a new Treasurer and a President-elect. If you know someone who would be interested in running for one of these positions please have them fill out and submit the candidate application forms.
Candidate For Officer or Director Form
Code of Conduct For Officer or Director
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| Dues Statements Emailed
June 1, 2011
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Dues statements for the second half of the year were emailed to each member on June 2. This billing will be email only so we ask that you pay attention to all emails from DAR. We need your help as we strive to make our association greener. If your fellow REALTORS haven't received their bill it has probably ended up in their spam or junk mail folders. Please let them know that DAR membership dues invoice for this period is paperless and ask them to watch for the invoice in their inboxes. DAR WILL NOT BE WAIVING LATE PAYMENT FEES.For your convenience, you may pay your dues on line at the Delta Association of Realtors Website. Go to the "Members Only" tab and under the drop down menu, click on "My Account." You will need to enter your NRDS number and your password to access. Call us at 925-757-8283 if you need help. |
| Horse Races This Week
Golden Gate Fields Turf Club
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Includes: Charter bus trip to the track, admission, reserved Turf Club seating, daily racing program, Prime Rib buffet meal and a race named in honor of our group. The registration deadline has passed, but we might be able to get you tickets.
Catch the bus at DAR in Antioch for a great day of fun at the racetrack on June 10. Click here for further info... |
| Duane Gomer and Continuing Education
Come To DAR on June 16
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Get your CE courses here!
Registration Form Here
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| Education and Professional Development
What Topics Should DAR Seek?
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DAR is constantly looking for quality education courses for delivery to our members. Maybe you've got an idea for a class that we should be offering. Send your thoughts to us or to Education Committee Chair James Britto.
Contact: Tonia@Deltaaor.com
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| You Be The Judge
Test Your Ethics Awareness
| Case #6-6: Disclose Affiliated Business Relationships Prior to Recommending Real Estate-Related Products or Services (Adopted November, 2006)
REALTORŪ Z, a broker and sole proprietor, had invested considerable time, money and energy into developing her website. Seeking to recoup some of her costs, she approached virtually every provider of real estate-related products and services in her area, including financial institutions, title insurance companies, home inspectors, mortgage brokers, insurance agencies, appraisers, exterminators, decorators, landscapers, furniture and appliance dealers, rug and carpet dealers, moving companies, and others about advertising on her home page. As a condition of having a link to their own sites appear on her home page, REALTORŪ Z required that a fee be paid to her each time a consumer "clicked through" from her site to an advertiser's.
Ads for providers of real estate-related products and services who agreed to REALTORŪ Z's terms appeared on her home page under the heading "Preferred Providers". Immediately under that heading read "These vendors provide quality goods and services. Please patronize them."
Buyer A frequented REALTORŪ Z's website seeking information about available properties. Using that website, he became aware of a property on Elm Street that he made an offer on through REALTORŪ Z, which was accepted by the seller. The sale closed shortly afterwards.
Buyer A was an avid remodeler and, using REALTORŪ Z's website, linked to the Real Rug company website, among others. Interested by what he found there, he subsequently visited their showroom in person and purchased wall-to-wall carpeting and several expensive area rugs.
Given the size of Buyer A's order, one of the owners of Real Rug came to oversee the delivery and installation. In the course of conversation with Buyer A, he commented favorably on the amount of referral business received from REALTORŪ Z's website. "And to think I only pay a small fee for each customer who's referred to me by REALTORŪ Z," he added.
Buyer A was somewhat surprised that REALTORŪ Z would receive money for referring clients and customers to providers of real estate-related products and services and contacted the local association of REALTORSŪ. The association provided him with a copy of the Code of Ethics. Reading it carefully,
Buyer A concluded that REALTORŪ Z's actions might have violated Article 6, and he filed an ethics complaint against REALTORŪ Z.
At the hearing, REALTORŪ Z defended herself and her website, stating that the advertisements for real estate-related products and services on her website were simply that, only advertisements and not recommendations or endorsements of the products and services found there. She acknowledged she collected a fee each time a visitor to her website clicked on the links found under "Preferred Providers" but claimed that simply referring to those advertisers as "preferred" did not constitute a recommendation or endorsement of the products and/or the services offered.
WHAT DID THE HEARING PANEL DECIDE?
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The Purpose of the Delta Association of REALTORS is to support and enhance the professionalism and success of its members. John Bedford, CEO
Delta Association of REALTORS
Call us at (925) 757-8283
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