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Catawba Valley AOR REALTOR® Membership
This membership is for you if you are a principal, partner, corporate officer, trustee, or branch office manager. If you are actively involved in the real estate industry, whether it’s buying, selling, exchanging, renting or leasing, managing, appraising for others for compensation, providing counseling, financing, building, developing, or subdividing real estate, this is the right membership for you!
Catawba Valley AOR Affiliate Membership
CVAR proudly promotes our Affiliate Members, who are comprised of attorneys, mortgage lenders, financial advisors, home inspectors, pest control experts, restoration specialists and other service providers who assist the local real estate industry. We offer many sponsorship and networking opportunities for our Affilates. Each year in the month of April, we honor our Affiliates by hosting an Affiliate Expo!
Benefits of being a REALTOR® Member:
- Downloadable web access to all pre-printed North Carolina Bar Association approved forms for the listing, selling and leasing of both residential and commercial real estate
- Publications from both NCAR and NAR, with invaluable articles on the real estate industry
- Discounts from nationally recognized businesses such as Nationwide Insurance, Office Depot, Cingular Wireless and Airborne Express through the REALTORS® Partners Program
- CVAR Educational Scholarships available to members seeking REALTOR® designations
- Educational courses leading to professional designations such as the coveted GRI (Graduate of the REALTOR® Institute), CRS (Certified Residential Specialist), and ABR (Accredited Buyers Representative)
- Continuing Education courses offered at substantially reduced registration fees
- Lunch and Learn programs focusing on current “hot issues” in real estate
- Automatic enrollment in NCAR’s Legal Hotline program, providing legal assistance for all North Carolina REALTORS®
- NAR Annual Conventions in such places as San Francisco and Orlando, and NCAR Annual Conventions in such locations as Asheville and Myrtle Beach
- Membership meetings/luncheons held on the second Wednesday, every other month, at Lake Hickory Country Club
- The annual Installation of Officers and Directors Banquet, held at the December Association Luncheon
- A variety of fund raising activities is provided by the CVAR Community Service Committee, and by our annual CVAR Golf for Charity tournament. Thousands of dollars have been raised by each of these committees for local organizations such as Hospice of Catawba and Caldwell Counties and Habitat of Catawba and Caldwell Counties.
Becoming an Affiliate Member entitles you to the following:
• Your company name and contact information listed on the CVAR website
• Opportunity to participate as members of CVAR committees
• Option to sponsor educational classes
• Tables set up in the lobby during the Association Luncheons for your company brochures/literature
• Access to our CVAR website, which includes a list of our REALTOR® members
• Association Luncheon held every other month