realtor ™ domain names only while their NAR or
CREA membership is in good standing.
The agreement is subject to ratification by
the CREA membership at its Special General Meeting in St. John's on October 24.
TREB with over 1/3 of
CREA membership I am sure has no interest in spending needed GTA advertising dollars on a «little old lady in the shoe ad» for Thompson Manitoba consumers.
Current litigation has already shown this to be true, with requests for punitive damages that are calculated by a multiple of
CREA membership.
CREA membership dues are high and are going up.
What is the quorum requirement regarding the vote by
the CREA membership during the impending October vote?
As the poll continues to trend in favour of a 63 % desire to terminate
CREA membership, you do not want your position to be overrun with illigitimate?
Patrick Juanéda, president of the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board (GMREB), says the board remains open to maintaining
its CREA membership, «but we don't want to go into 2014 without having settled the issue one way or the other.»
What would happen if 60 % of the current
CREA membership was allowed to terminate its relationship with CREA, do you think?
«Let's start recruiting» says REM's publisher, since
CREA membership has dropped by one - third in the last decade.
So, one of FCIQ's boards — Montreal, terminated
its CREA membership.
Real estate agents and brokers must comply with CREA's rules in order to maintain
their CREA membership, but any restrictions on a seller to negotiate the purchase of a property on their own would be a matter of provincial law in the province where the property is located.
In our own 2005
CREA membership survey, 80 per cent of respondents said it was their preferred way to advertise listings.
«As a result, withdrawal of membership from CREA by the ARR would require that all other local boards / associations and the provincial association in Saskatchewan also withdraw from
CREA membership for a non-Realtor provincial association to exist in Saskatchewan,» says Archibald.
Meanwhile, Pierre Tanguay, president of the Chambre immobilière de Saint - Hyacinthe, says the main reason his board decided to rejoin CREA is because the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board has maintained
its CREA membership.
I have not yet been able to discern the value of
my CREA membership, other than the right to use the work REALTOR (TM).
Clearly, since this item was removed from the agenda totally, the statements made by CREA leadership were blatantly misleading, politically centered and designed to hide the option number 3 that was approved without any communication to
CREA membership.
CREA can legally PROMOTE Full Representation, if it (meaning
CREA membership) believes that Full Representation protects consumers while all other forms of Representation DO NOT.
Ontario represents well over 60 % of the total
CREA membership.
In short, I dispute everything M Juaneda asserts as reasons in his Declaration of Independence, I dispute the assertion that GMREB members have given him a mandate to bluff and bluster for new / better terms of
CREA membership in conjunction with carte blanche to quit the national association and if unsuccessful in negotiating.
In an interview, Juanéda acknowledged that the close Montreal vote result indicates division among members on the question of
CREA membership but notes that 61 per cent of members did not vote.
I have an excellent contact vis a vis a sitting committee member of TREB re trying to get hold of
the CREA membership email list; I will follow up immediately on that idea.
I had been led to believe that
CREA membership was only possible through a Provincial Association.
Since, as of last week, the vast majority of
CREA membership remained totally uninformed (over 300 engaged members were solicited and only 1 had documentation) or had awareness of the NEW VOTES to take place on MARCH 24TH.
The fact is the entire
CREA membership, including each independent brokerage, who is fighting for local search traffic against royallepage.ca, has unknowingly been fighting against their own cash ongoing contributions to royallepage.ca
Not exact matches
The Edmonton Real Estate Board has now adopted
CREA's direction, with the support of its
membership.
Belonging to
CREA is a
membership and we all pay dues.
Why has no one at
CREA ever disclosed this FACT to the national
membership?
DeLeeuw adds that he is hopeful that BCREA and
CREA will be able to make presentations to Vancouver members and persuade them of the value of continued
membership in the associations as well.
Maybe the
membership has opted instead for private letters to
CREA and TREB in which case these ought to be published.
In the wake of an agreement between
CREA and Quebec boards, the boards pay lower
membership dues to the national organization in exchange for the right to conduct their own advertising.
Little also noted that TREB, as
CREA's largest member, represents between 35 and 40 per cent of
CREA's
membership, and therefore, have the greatest number of votes when electing
CREA's Board of Directors.
Counsel Andrew Little, cross-examining
CREA CEO Gary Simonsen, had him confirm that TREB is
CREA's largest member, comprising between 35 and 40 per cent of its
membership, and that several members of its Board of Directors were TREB members.
I find it funny that members constantly complain about
CREA and how little it provides yet they fail to simply walk away and give up their
membership.
Look
CREA moved from mls.ca to realtor.ca for the same reason, lets not tell
membership something different.
CREA and it's
membership recognized the valid points that Quebec members presented and offered solutions that were fair and balanced.
In reality, the GMREB President - of - the - day has stick - handled a «50.9 % (of 39.6 % of
membership) on a «consultative plebiscite» into a personal, absolute - and - irrevocable «mandate» to threaten
CREA officials with the withdrawal of his Board en masse from the national association.
Effective implementation of the DDF, under the rules and regulations already passed by
CREA, allow the majority of
membership to bypass the limitations inherent in
CREA (as pointed out by Merv below) and remedy the current situation in a way that is compliant with the competition bureau.
This came after three years of discussions and after six boards and the provincial association ended their
membership in
CREA.
To Consult you would also have to drop your
membership with
CREA and thus any real estate association because you could not provide unbiased reviews of REALTORS without being able to clearly state which one is better than the next.
A notice distributed by
CREA says the Montreal
membership voted 50.9 per cent to 49.1 per cent in favour of leaving, while the Quebec City vote was 57.5 per cent to 42.5 per cent in favour of leaving.
May 1997 — In an in - depth interview,
CREA president Tom Bosley talks frankly about
membership dues, the financial woes of
CREA's Internet provider, politics and the future of organized real estate.
However, both TREB and
CREA issued official statements to their
membership.
While touting accomplishments of threatening
CREA and receiving advertising money back from same (which they had already spent), they avoided telling
membership the steps they had already decided which was to assess
membership to cover excess budgetary spending.
The impact of the departure by the Quebec boards on
membership levels will not be known for several weeks or months «given the decision by many members to remain in
CREA,» the association says in the notice.
He says the whole project was communicated to the
membership, explaining that
CREA received permission from the majority of the real estate boards and associations early in 2012 to communicate directly to their members.
Actually Marny I would humbly suggest that through the mandatory inclusion of ALL boards into the DDF (without a
membership vote by the way) that yes
CREA gave the info away... just sayin:)
Ergo, fewer members will be paying «more» money in grand total to an organization with pipe dreams of income generation (for the benefit of the «private» corporation only owned by and income supported in favour only of...
CREA... and not for the «direct», but only hoped - for, «indirect» economic benefit of
CREA's PAYING
membership in - the - streets.
Remember, you the
membership ultimately controls
CREA, it's Board and it's Staff.
Furthermore, during August and September, Morse says
CREA sent out six different emails, one per week, encouraging the
membership to watch a short video that addressed a specific action in the plan and answered related questions.