It was wonderful seeing so many CRB’s at the August 2014 Florida Realtor’s® Convention and Expo.
The course we offered, “Sales Leadership that Drives Performance” with Steven David, was a big success with 33 students participating.
No less than five of them completed their CRB designation requirements with this course. Nancy Macaluso, our Education Chairman, and Andre Boutte, our Treasurer, did a fantastic job organizing and maintaining the requirements for the course.
Our booth at the Expo was a hit too, with many people stopping for a photo in front of our colorful “Rio Carnivale” display.
We had the opportunity to meet CRB’s who didn’t know about our Florida Chapter and to speak with brokers, managers and team leaders who didn’t know about CRB.
Many thanks to Israel Ameijeiras and Andre Boutte who put the whole thing together and toted and stored all our brochures and flyers.
We had a busy Thursday starting off the day with a tasty breakfast and great networking with the Florida CRS Chapter.
At our General Membership Meeting we elected our 2015 officers as follows:
President – Sandra Fernandez, Miami
Vice President – Andre Boutte, Jacksonville
Treasurer – Honora Giumenta, Palm Coast
Secretary – Vicky Santana, Sebastian
Our semi-annual CRB Forum was a Panel comprised of seven Florida Chapter Presidents of the NAR Institutes, Societies and Councils. It was a very informative and interesting presentation and everyone in attendance learned a lot and had an opportunity to meet with and ask questions from the panelists:
Peter J. Barnett – CCIM, Certified Commercial Investment Member
Elizabeth Ruvo – CRB, Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers
Paula Angelopoulos Urbinati – CRS, Counceil of Residential Specialists
Aaron M. Bosshardt – IREM, Institute of Real Estate Management
Sage N. Andress – RLI, Realtors® Land Institute
Van H. Akin – SIOR, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors®
Penny K. Ericksen – WCR, Women’s Council of Realtors®
When you’re ready to join our group or renew your membership you can complete your application and pay by credit card right from the site. Susan Barnes with Florida Realtors® has been wonderful in managing our website and helping to get this set up.
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Elizabeth Ruvo CRB
2014 Florida Chapter President
2014 Florida Realtors® Director