| 2011 – Kick-off into a new decade. This decade presents each of us in IREM Chapter 57 a variety of opportunities to grow ourselves within IREM, both as a part of the Chapter and individually. | ||||||||||||
| A good start to this growth is to get involved in the Chapter, to volunteer with IREM National, to take advantage of the educational opportunities, to attend conferences, and to browse IREM.org for current updates and information. | ||||||||||||
| Volunteering is one of the most rewarding means to expand your industry knowledge, skill sets, expand your network and develop new friendships. With each member giving a little bit of themselves, the whole chapter reaps the reward and everyone enjoys success. It is now time for our millennium members to step in and prepare themselves to steer our Chapter forward and to carry it into this decade and the ever changing future. | ||||||||||||
| Your opportunities are boundless in IREM. There are numerous national committees that need membership involvement – Legislative, Education, Organizational, Student and Academic Advisory Board, to name a few. Your Chapter needs committee support in the varied objectives and goals we strive to achieve each year. IREM will hold two conferences in 2011. These conferences will provide rich and varied opportunities to maximize your knowledge, address current industry events and challenges, enjoy networking functions, brainstorm ideas, connect with colleagues, make new friendships and bring many new ideas back to your job and chapter. Everyone is welcome to attend. We encourage you to inquire and join your fellow chapter members at the 2011 Legislative and Leadership Summit on April 9th – 13th in Washington DC in April and IREM iCon on October 11th – 15th in San Diego. IREM Jobs is a source to post job positions or resumes. IREMEd offers many education opportunities to its members and non-members. | ||||||||||||
| In 2011, our Chapter objectives and goals include education, membership growth, offering informative meetings, supporting national goals and achieving chapter goals as well as offering social events. Our website will receive well deserved maintenance and consistent updates to stay abreast of the chapter’s events and opportunities and today’s fast paced social networking world. We need the involvement of our members in completing income and expense analyses so that each of us can benefit from the results of the entire national organization. IREM offers a Members-get-a-Member (Student) incentive program that will support sustaining membership levels in a time of staffing and financial cutbacks and will reward existing members for each member and/or student they bring to the membership. | ||||||||||||
| Education includes our Chapters very own qualified educator, Karen Schultz, who will conduct Ethics for the Real Estate Manager on February 15th. IREM First at IREM.org offers information to its members in the following areas: | ||||||||||||
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| IREM is diligent in its efforts to keep its members apprised of the current technology in this ever changing world. EX: IREM comps app is a tool that allows you to establish competitive rents for your residential, office, or retail property; Social Network connections; web/software integration – linking your website to your property management software. | ||||||||||||
| This is just a glimpse of what IREM offers its members. There is so much more. Please – get involved. Join us. Learn. Have fun and extend your path to leadership. | ||||||||||||
| Kathleen Festa, CPM, CSM IREM Chapter 57 East Tennessee 2011 President |
