The GBAR Community Service Committee's Annual  Team Trivia event will be held Saturday, October 27th, beginning at 5:00 pm.  This year, the event will raise money to establish a scholarship fund for Lucy Singleton, the daughter of Kelly Comfort Singleton and her husband Bruce Singleton, who passed away tragically late last year.  Click here for an announcement  flyer, or click here if you'd like to sponsor or donate a gift basket.   For tickets, call Sara Reifler at 607-768-4422 or Jenn Greenmun at 607-761-4814.

 

We regret to advise you of the passing of Nancy Wood Sisco, mother of GBAR Affiliate Member and Affiliate Council Chair Kent Sisco, on September 24.  Please join us in offering our deepest sympathies to Kent and his family.  For a full obituary and planned services, click here. 

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• PDF on the GBAR Members-Only Website under Member Forms, Miscellaneous (click here, but you must log-in to the site)
• Picked up at the Association Office
• From your Principal Broker
• Fax (upon request)

  

Please take this opportunity to participate in the operation of your Association.

 

 

Ballots were mailed with complete voting instructions to voting GBAR Members on Friday, September 14, 2012.Ballots are due back at the Association Office no later than 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 and the results of the vote will be announced at the October Association Business Meeting/Luncheon on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. The results will also appear on Hot Topics on the GBAR Website, Board News on the MLS, and in the October 15 issue of the REALTOR® Review.

 

 

Be Sure Your Vote Counts!

 

Please keep in mind these facts when you are preparing your ballot for the Budget Proposal:

 

·If you are mailing your ballot, be sure to allow enough mail time for the ballot

 

·         Be sure to use the envelope provided and DO NOT remove your agent number from the back of the envelope.  This information is used only to assure that a Member votes only once.  If the number is removed it will void your vote.

 

·         Do not sign your ballot.  This also will void your vote.

 

Martha Tubaugh, our GBAR MLS Support guru, will be providing MLS tips each issue of the REALTOR® Review.  Here's the first:

If you are unable to save a listing that you have just input and you get a message that says "CGI error": 

 

The most common reason why you would get this error message is that you have copied and pasted your remarks in the field and you have used too many characters or you have put a letter, number, or symbol in a field where it doesn't belong.  You can check if you have too many characters in the remarks section by putting your curser in the COMM SUB/AGCY field and tab into the remarks field and then into the private remarks field.  If it cuts off any of your words then you have gone over the allowed characters.

 

Questions?  Email Martha at finance@gbingar.com.

  

 

 

So if you've got a suggestion, comment, concern or frustration, simply send it to the Committee at members@gbingar.com, and they'll be sure to get right back to you.  Or simply click here to send an email.

 

 

 

Please join us in welcoming the following New GBAR Members approved at the August 21, 2012 Board of Directors Meeting:

 

New REALTOR® Agent Members:

• Shannon DuMond, McKinney Real Estate 
• Karen DeFilipps, McKinney Real Estate 

 

 

Click here for the August, 2012 edition of our Monthly Statistics from 10K Marketing. 

 The Quadrennial Ethics period expires at the end of 2012 - each REALTOR® must have taken a 3-hour Ethics course by then.  If NAR's records show you haven't yet  satisfied this requirement,  we will send you a reminder each month. But don't worry!  You can meet your requirement in two ways:

• CLASSROOM:  We've scheduled 2 more classroom Ethics courses in the coming months, to be instructed by Anne Schoonover.  The dates are October 9 and December 4, all at the Association Offices from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 
  For more information and to register, click here.

 

 

• ON-LINE:   Click here to visit our on-line CE provider, the CE Shop, and sign up!  Be sure to use Promotion Code TREAT to get an instant 15% off on Ethics and other CE Courses through the end of October.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Mark your calendars!  The 2013 GBAR Agent's Day and Trade Show will be held at the Binghamton Riverwalk on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.  The Trade Show Committee, chaired by Dawn Roessing, is already hard at work  to create the best Trade Show yet!  Watch this space for more information in the weeks to come.

 

 

If you're looking for CE Credit, there's no better place than The CE Shop!  All New York CE courses are now offered with a 15% discount by using promotional code TREAT through the end of October, and Pennsylvania courses are offered at a 25% discount using promotional code GBARINPA.

 

 Click here to visit The CE Shop and sign-up now! 

 

 

• Click here for information and to register for GRI 405 - Construction & Environmental Issues - October 23, conducted by Joseph Whittington (substituting for Russ Romano).

click here.