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Your Internal News Broadcast 
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Zillow to Wed Trulia
After a very short courtship, Zillow and Trulia will merge and become one powerhouse. Zillow announced today that they will buy Trulia for about $3.5 billion in stock, creating a giant repository for online listings for real estate and home values. The deal, which is expected to close sometime in 2015, will allow both entities to maintain their separate brands. Read the full story. This recent Inman News article does a fantastic job illustrating the pros and cons of Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com from the listing agent's perspective. NAR responds to proposed merger.
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June Reflects First Annual Gains of the Year
Illinois home sales were up .1 percent in June and the median price  climbed 5.8 percent to $179,900, marking the 22nd month of consecutive year-over-year price gains, according to the IAR housing report. County-by county data, talking points, and more can be viewed by logging onto IARMarketStats. Share this June Sales Infographic with your clients.
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Blarney on the Greens
A Day of Shananagans
Over 170 members and guests attended the Annual Golf Outing, Blarney on the Greens, at Rockford Country Club on Monday, July 21st. Weather was great, sponsors were generous and engaged, Irish Buffet was fabulous, and lots of prizes for everyone. Some even managed to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow by playing Shananagans at the Awards Banquet. To view a few of the highlights from the day, click on video below.
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How Can RPR Help You Help Your
Customer?
REALTOR Property Resource (RPR) is an extremely comprehensive data  site that can save you time and money. It can also make you look like an expert in the eyes of your clients with the reports the site offers. To view a short video that explains how this tool can benefit you click here. To review the training options that fit your schedule go to http://blog.narrpr.com/training/.
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Managing Brokers Class
Monday and Tuesday, September 8th & 9th
All Managing Brokers will need to complete the two-day Broker Management Course before they renew by April 30th of 2015. The Association will be offering three date options for members to consider. The first Managing Broker class for the 2015 Managing Broker renewal period will be on Monday and Tuesday, September 8th and 9th. See the attached Broker Management Registration Form for more information or to register go to the Calendar of Events at raarmls.com.
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REALTORS Cautioned Against Using Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively trying to stop the commercial use of drones and seems to be specifically targeting  real estate brokers. NAR will be commenting on the rules, that become effective sometime in 2015, as soon as they become available. Read more.
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Pilot Program Soon to Be Released
Cast Your Vote
The NAR Board of Directors approved a five-year pilot program that includes publishing names and photos of the members and a summary of ethics violations on a website accessible only to association members. Although the California Association of REALTORS will be the pioneers of this pilot program, set to be released in August, they could be setting presidence on what level of information gets published and to whom in the future. Read more and voice your opinion by casting your vote online.
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Instanet Announces Open Support
Instanet Solutions, the leader in paperless solutions for the real  estate industry, has rolled out 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year support for its clients and end users. The Rockford Area REALTORS offers Instanet as a member benefit and can be accessed through the Paragon site under the resources tab. Instanet is sensitive to the needs of the active real estate professional and understands that often times agents need assistance at all times of the day. Get the full story.
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Rockford Public Schools Decreases Expenditures
In the last two years, the Rockford Public Schools has saved nearly $1.4 million by streamlining processes. Families will see the benefits with improved registration for the coming year. The streamlining is all part of a comprehensive, project-based look at processes and how to borrow "lean" manufacturing principles to do things more efficiently and effectively. Others areas of efficiency improvement is in textbook distribution and inventory, and purchasing.
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What Does that Icon Mean?
We are all familiar with the Twitter logo and of course the Facebook  logo, but are you starting to see foreign icons appear on various communications and wondered what they represented? Well, just when you figured you had the social media world all figured out, it just keeps getting bigger. For a one-stop shopping site to keep you up-to-date on all the new emerging social media go to http://findguidelin.es/. The site also provides image files of all logos for you to use in your publications.
Check out "reddit", a site that had 114,540,040 visitors in June and is becoming as popular as Youtube!
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS
August 12
Governmental Affairs
2:00pm
August 13
Education
2:00pm
August 21
BOD Meeting
2:00pm
EVENTS
August 6
WCR Summer Outing
Chicago
August 6 & 7
New Member Orientation
September 4-6
IAR Fall Conference
Chicago
September 8 & 9
Managing Broker Class
September 16
Academy Expo
BMO Harris Bank Center
8:00am - 3:00pm
September 25
Annual Program
and Installation
"Harmonizing Your Life With a
October 16 & 17 Leadership Retreat Lake Geneva November 5-10 NAR Annual Conference New Orleans
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Rockford Area REALTORS
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Rockford, IL 61106
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