Northshore Area Board of REALTORS® members and affiliates, it is my sincere honor and pleasure to be serving as President of NABOR in 2020 but sure didn’t see this coming! Your health and well-being was and continues to be our first concern when the pandemic impacted our state. The entire Board of Directors and Association Executive, Cynthia Tarver, worked quickly to provide you with important information, links to financial resources, a public health emergency contract addendum, postponement of scheduled events and continued encouragement. What we have seen from each of you has been a steadfast effort to promote public safety while providing the essential real estate services and loving one another. We are very proud of all of you and commend you for your heartfelt actions.
During the stay at home order, the Board has maintained full operation albeit in a different fashion than normal. New members have been processed, online Boot Camp was held and the regularly scheduled Board of Directors’ monthly meeting was held virtually. We felt it our obligation to continue offering as many services as we possibly could without jeopardizing anyone’s health. During this time we have also continued working on large projects that will have a lasting positive impact on you, the members. None of this stopped us from moving forward for your productive future with NABOR. We also took this opportunity to add online education to our services for members. These online options are an ongoing, cost effective way for you to obtain needed CE hours while we work to get free, live classes back in operation when it is deemed appropriate and safe. These online classes also include Pre and Post-licensing courses so those wanting to get started or need to finish their requirements can also keep moving toward their goals.
Moving forward, past the crisis, your 2020 Board of Directors and Association Executive will continue working to reschedule the Awards Gala, PAT Fundraising Event and other events to support Special Olympics and LynHaven to the best of our abilities. All businesses, non-profits, employees and self-employed have been impacted by this event and we need to be even more diligent in all our efforts going forward. We will need to come together to celebrate each other at the Awards Gala; meet and exceed our PAT contributions goal to effect change in legislation making sure the real estate profession and home ownership is better protected in times like we are enduring; and, reinvigorate our giving to other community services such as LynHaven and Special Olympics that have been dramatically impacted as well. Think hard and prayerfully about all the gifts you have and how we can all work to pay our communities back for our beautiful lifestyles.
In closing, we at NABOR appreciate and value each of you as people first and as members of our growing organization. No matter what we are enduring, you have remained focused and you will continue to see many positive growth initiatives throughout 2020. Maybe during this time you have felt compelled to get involved to give back so let us know if you would like to take an active role in NABOR as we would more than welcome the additional help. Stay strong, stay smart and stay healthy!
#NABORSTRONG2020
Steve Hayes, NABOR President 2020
