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Hello Realtors, Affiliates, and Friends,
June was a busy month, but July is going to be hotter than ever - and not just in degrees! I hope that one of your Independence Day plans are to Register for the 2012 Florida Realtors Convention. This year, Florida Realtors is helping you make a splash in your market by helping you “Catch the Waves of Opportunity!” You know what they say: hang around successful people it and it rubs off on you. Well, how about hanging ten with one of the most successful Realtors in the country? Barbara Corcoran, billion-dollar Broker and “Shark” featured on “The Shark Tank.” Her story didn’t always start out from success. Barbara’s tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a refreshing approach to success, especially when her credentials include straight D’s in high school and 20-some jobs by the time she turned 23. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1,000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed that loan into a $5 billion real-estate business. You won’t want to miss her speak!
There is a great line up of professional development sessions this year at the conference and expo. This could be the year your business makes the waves you’ve been waiting for! But you won’t know unless you go. REGISTER NOW! https://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/Annual-Convention-Registration.cfm
Enjoying the freedom that this country has given us is not only to be expressed by hamburgers and hotdogs and time on the grill on the 4th of July (though I hope each and every one of you have a great day on Independence Day!). You can celebrate and utilize your freedom by building your business. You can make as little money or as much money as you work for - but your business will only go as far as you take it.
Enjoy your Independence! Gregory De La Rue 2012 President
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Special points of
interest:
• MIXER July 10th
In this issue:
Affiliate
Information
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CONVENTION 2
Calendar of Events 5
A monthly publication of the
East Pasco Association of Realtors® July 2012 Volume 2, Issue 5
E.P.A.R. NEWS
Think Green! Think
before you print.
May Mixer
Sponsors
5
RPAC Info 4
Video from FR
President,
Summer Green
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We’re on
facebook!
REGISTER NOW! CLICK BELOW!REGISTER NOW! CLICK BELOW!REGISTER NOW! CLICK BELOW!REGISTER NOW! CLICK BELOW!
http://convention.floridarealtors.org/http://convention.floridarealtors.org/http://convention.floridarealtors.org/http://convention.floridarealtors.org/
You have heard the spiel. Do you ever get the feeling that RPAC is walking around asking for "money, money, money?"
Well, maybe they are. But like any investment or purchase, you have to weigh the return against the cost. Your fair share for 2012 is $15.00, but what does that $15.00 do for you? That's a fair question, one which Summer Green, 2012 President of Florida Realtors has answered just for you. Click the image below, or go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbm0Gs1qLcs&feature=player_detailpage to see How RPAC helps ME - and YOU, and what changes they have made in Florida.
Can't watch the video? Here are a just a FEW ways that RPAC and YOU have made a difference.
• Remember when Gov. Martinez added a 6% tax to Real Estate services? Your Florida Realtors PAC said, "No way!" and overturned it!
• When property values skyrocketed, and sellers couldn't sell, it was Florida Realtors PAC that supported the Amendment that gave us portability.
• The First Time Homebuyers Tax Credit was both created AND extended by the PAC.
Need to hear more? Click this link to watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbm0Gs1qLcs&feature=player_detailpage
Heard enough and ready to be a part of something life changing? Invest in your Profession by donating to RPAC. It's easy, and takes only a minute of your time. Just click here: https://www.floridarealtors.org/LegislativeCenter/RPAC/invest.cfm
Capitol Club Jane Mooney
$99 Club Gregory De La Rue Candy Nathe Linda White Lynne Tonte Susan Davis Leanne Zinkula Manny Funes Herb Weinstein Twinkle Cooper Melissa Hileman
Other Donors Jessica Floyd John Morel John Robert Amber Olsen
Tell Me More https://realtorparty.realtoractioncenter.com/site/PageServer?
pagename=rac_TellMeMore_RealtorParty&AddInterest=1361
Thank you, investors! If you have not received your 2012 FRPAC investor pins, please stop by the office to pick yours. If you would like to invest in RPAC, click the image at the top of this message, or go to: http://www.floridarealtors.org/LegislativeCenter/RPAC/
RPAC Update
EPAR thanks the above members on behalf of the Florida Realtors PAC and our RPAC Chairman, Manny Funes, for in-vesting in both their profession and future!
If we have missed your birthday, please call or email me at the office so I can update our records.
Thanks to our Sponsors:
Magnolia Title Area Mortgage Gulf Atlantic Title Home Banc - Adam Mervine Signature Pest Control Suntrust - Jim Quirk Sunstate Title Wells Fargo - Jody Wilner
T H AN K YO U, S P ON S O RS !
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June 2012
ATTORNEYS/LAW FIRMS
JOHNSON, AUVIL, BROCK, & PRATICO, P.A.
Jon Auvil http://www.dadecitylaw.com/our-people/johnathan-l-auvil
[email protected] Tele: 352-567-2500 Fax: 352-567-6813
BANKS/ CREDIT UNIONS
CENTERSTATE BANK
Hazel Greene
Tele: 813-780-3302 or 813-469-1054 FAX:
813-783-3599
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PASCO
Angela Miller [email protected]
Michelle Brown [email protected]
Tina Potter [email protected]
Tele: 352-521-0141—FAX: 352-567-6967
FLORIDA TRADITIONS BANK
Amy Chappell [email protected] Melissa Oakley
Tele: 352-523-1800 – FAX: 352-523-1880
SAN ANTONIO CITIZENS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Jill Evans [email protected], Laurie
Aultman [email protected], Dawn
Newsome [email protected],
Carrie Zappulla [email protected],
Joyce Horn [email protected], Roz
Carr [email protected]
Tele: 352-521-5606 Fax: 352-521-6900
CLEANING AND RESTORATION (MOLD, WATER/SMOKE/CARPET CLEANING, ETC)
APEX EMERGENCY SERVICES
James Fleming
Mark Jordan
Venessa Perez
Chris Nethercutt
Tele: 877-251-2798 Fax: 713-893-4797
RAINBOW INTERNATIONAL
Steve Dumas
Tel: 813-907-0503 [email protected]
http://www.rainbowintl.com/
CASH ADVANCES
COMI$$ION EXPRESS of WEST FLORIDA Steve Cohn [email protected] Tele: 813-712-3080 Fax: 813-283-4900 http://www.cewfl.com
HOME INSPECTIONS
ACCUCHECK HOME INSPEC-TION SERVICE
Stephen Brown and Makenzie Brown
[email protected] Tele: 813-783-2662
NATIONAL PROPERTY INSPEC-TIONS
Fred Tonte and Lynne Tonte [email protected] Tele: 813-973-2004 Cell: 813-298-8228
HOUSING GRAND RESERVES APART-MENTS Helen Schwetz
[email protected] www.grandreserve-fl.com Tele: 813-377-3000
WORKFORCE HOUSING VEN-TURES, INC.
Harold Sample, Joey Wubbena, Karin Lloyd, [email protected]
Tele: 352-458-4635 FAX: 352-458-4657
INSURANCE
BEALL INSURANCE SERVICES
Nieta Alford [email protected]
Tele: 813-788-5900 FAX: 813-788-9654
BOYETT INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.
Kimberly Seay [email protected] Tele: 352-521-3030 – FAX: 352-521-6697
CHRIS BLACK INSURANCE
Chris Black [email protected] Tele: 813-782-1777 Fax: 813-782-355
SCOTT BLACK - MOST & BLACK AGENCY Scott Black [email protected] Tele: 352-567-2260 – FAX: 352-567-2661
SMITH & THOMAS INSUR-ANCE
Dave Thomas [email protected]
Tele: 863-688-1141 Cell: 813-783-4884 - FAX: 813-788-1341
MAGAZINES
THE REAL ESTATE BOOK
Rhonda Johnson – Mona Ducker [email protected] Tele: 352-567-7221– FAX: 352-567-5431
MORTGAGE COMPANIES
AREA MORTGAGE SERVICES INC.
Leanne Zinkula [email protected] Tele: 813-269-1407—FAX: 813-269-2712
HOMEBANC
Adam Mervine [email protected] Cell: 727-992-3212 Tele: 352-424-0443
Efax: 866-838-0919
METROPLEX MORTGAGE SERVICES
Sean Stephens [email protected] Tele: 813-935-8330 x:260
SUNTRUST MORTGAGE
James Quirk [email protected]
Tele: 813-780-4122 Cell: 813-230-9487 Fax: 813-782-7766 www.suntrustmortgage.com/jquirk
WELLS FARGO HOME MORT-GAGE
Jody Wilner
[email protected], Tele: 813-469-1010 Cell: 813-469-1010 FAX: 866-674-8907
Peggy Bolden [email protected]
Cell: 813-380-5489 Fax: 866-924-054
PEST CONTROL
HUGHES EXTERMINATORS
Greg Kearley Office: 813-884-1555 Cell: 727-643-4500 [email protected]
REAL ESTATE SCHOOL
BOB HOGUE SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE
Robert Hogue [email protected], Katie Marshall [email protected] Francis Allen [email protected]
Tele: 1-800-330-9411 or 727-526-5338 FAX: 727-525-6129
ROOFERS ELITE ROOFING SERVICES Camille Austin Cell: 813-630-0800
SIGNS AND GRAPHICS FAITH SIGNS AND GRAPHICS (Zephyrhills) Chris Odom [email protected] Tele: 813-714-5395
SIGN-A-RAMA of NEW TAMPA Beatriz Cardona [email protected] Roberto Hiller [email protected] Tele: 813-347-9797
TITLE COMPANIES
GULFATLANTIC TITLE AND APPRAISALS
Melissa Donaldson [email protected] Dawn Wiser [email protected]
Tele: 813-964-8300 – FAX: 813-963-0135
MAGNOLIA TITLE AGENCY, LLC
Mary G. Castro [email protected]
Tele: 352-437-4875 – FAX: 352-437-4880
MERIDIAN TITLE COMPANY
Jon Auvil [email protected], Leslie Auvil [email protected] , Jo Larkin [email protected],
Lani Prilliman [email protected] Beverly Barth [email protected] Jeanne Burger [email protected] Tele: 352-567-1241—FAX: 352-567-0457
SUNSTATE TITLE COMPANY
Suzie Morrow [email protected]
Tele: 352-567-1141—FAX: 352-567-3830
TaxWatch Analysis of Amendment 4 Results Posted on: June 7th, 2012 by WCTV TALLAHASSEE— A proposed Constitutional Amendment on the November 2012 ballot would create Florida jobs, grow Florida’s Gross Domestic Product, and increase the personal income of Floridians, if passed, according to an independent economic and fiscal analysis of the amendment by Florida TaxWatch, the nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy research institute and government watchdog. Amendment 4, a legislatively proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that would make changes to the property tax system, was analyzed by a new Florida TaxWatch report, Fiscal and Economic Impact of Amendment 4. Dominic M. Calabro, President and CEO of Florida TaxWatch, explained: “As an integral part of our mission to educate taxpayers and citizens, Florida TaxWatch has been conducting analyses of the likely impacts of proposed Constitutional Amendments for more than three decades, and I know that this independent analysis will help Floridians judge the potential benefits of this Amendment.” Amendment 4 would take effect on January 1, 2013, and proposes: • an additional homestead exemption for first-time Florida homebuyers, equal to 50 percent of the Just Value of a property up to the median Just Value of a homestead property in that county, which phases out over 5 years by reducing by 20 percent each year;
• a reduction in the nonhomestead maximum annual Assessed Value increase cap from the cur-rent 10 percent (on non-school levies) to a new level of 5 percent and an extension of nonhome-stead Assessed Value caps through the 2022 tax year (which also does not apply toschool levies) and; • providing legislative authority to eliminate the Save Our Homes “Recapture Rule.”
Using the best available data and an advanced econometric analysis, Florida TaxWatch esti-mates that the passage of Amendment 4 would result in the creation of 19,483 private, non-farm jobs over the 10-year period of the analysis (2013-2022), that Florida GDP would increase by ap-proximately $1.1 billion, and personal income would increase by more than $5.3 billion. Jerry D. Parrish, Ph.D., Florida TaxWatch Chief Economist, Executive Director of the Center for Competitive Florida, and author of the study, explained that, “The increased economic activity esti-mated by the dynamic econometric model used in this analysis is the result of the savings from Amendment 4 being distributed throughout theeconomy. From an economist’s standpoint, these findings are not surprising because the proposed Amendment 4 would reduce uncertainty for both personal and business investment, and when individuals and businesses can better estimate their future costs, including property taxes, they are more likely to invest. Basically, reducing the uncer-tainty of potentially large property tax increases will increase investment in both nonhomestead residential and commercial property in Florida, and the econometric model bears that out.” The Florida TaxWatch analysis also estimates that between 319,861 and 383,810 additional home sales would occur due to the effects of Amendment 4 during the 10-year period following its pas-sage and implementation.
According to the report, “the additional home sales attributable to Amendment 4, over and above those estimated to have occurred in the absence of Amendment 4, are due to the effect of the addi-tional homestead exemption, the additional income for Floridians, and the population growth pre-dicted by this analysis. Additionally, there are effects from both the nonhomestead exemption on additional residential sales and the number of homes that are purchased by persons who have sold their homes and moved up in size or downsized.” One important effect of Amendment 4 that does not directly affect the estimates in the economic analysis but is worth noting is the effect of the nonhomestead property tax cap reduction (from 10 percent to 5 percent) in reducing uncertainty. Property tax caps have two main economic effects. First, they reduce uncertainty for personal and business investment, and when businesses can better estimate their costs, including property taxes, they are more likely to invest, so reducing the uncer-tainty of potentially large property tax increases will increase investment in both nonhomestead residential and commercial property in Florida. However, property tax caps can also reward early investors and give them an advantage over later investors, which could affect investment timing decisions, by potentially moving them to earlier periods, at the expense of future investments. The full report can be found on the new Florida TaxWatch website. Originally posted on WCTV.tv SEE THE NON-PARTISAN REPORT HERE: http://www.floridarealtors.org/LegislativeCenter/TopInitiatives/upload/Amendment4-study-Tax-Watch.pdf
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