Realtors step up for wildfire victims
This blog has featured a lot of bad news lately regarding the residential real estate industry. Today, though, it’s time to applaud the industry’s largest trade group for doing its part to help the victims of the wildfires that have left thousands of people homeless in Southern California.
The National Association of Realtors, through its REALTORS Relief Foundation, is donating $500,000 to help the victims of the wildfires. You can read about the association’s relief plan here.
The association is also calling on its members – about 1.3 million of them – to donate to the relief fund.
Real estate agents, and the associations that serve them, get a lot of bad press during even the best of times. Today, with the housing and mortgage industries mired in slumps, they’re receiving even more of it. Granted, much of this is justified, and the real estate industry certainly deserves its share of the blame for the housing and mortgage problems we’re now seeing. But when these same people do something good and generous, it deserves notice, too.
This isn’t the first time the National Association of Realtors has offered significant financial help to the victims of a natural disaster. Reacting to hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 and the South Asian tsunami in 2004, the association sent more than $6 million in financial assistance, along with volunteer labor and supplies.
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