Rob Reuter

By Rob Reuter, YPN Manager

Happy New Year and congratulations on an outstanding 2010!  YPN has taken great strides in the last year growing to 8,700 registered members in 134 networks across 43 states!  We had 500 attend the YPN Fire & Ice Reception in New Orleans during the 2010 REALTORS® Conference & Expo, and more than 80 YPN chairs and liaisons attend a YPN Leadership Retreat last August in Chicago.  After a successful year of networking, educating, fundraising, and charitable events, we look to continue the momentum into 2011.

One of the changes we have made moving forward is a revised YPN Startup Kit.  While most of the revisions are minor, the most prominent clarification is that we are no longer referring to the term “chapter” within YPN.  NAR’s legal team has determined that the term is inaccurate since local and state YPN networks aren’t chapters of the national organization.  The suggested terminology can be found in the startup kit, but, in short, the appropriate title would be, for example, the Chicago Association of REALTORS® Young Professionals Network.  The clarification should not impact how your networks are currently structured.

Here are several other announcements for 2011:

• The YPN Advisory Subcommittee has two major goals for 2011: Continue reading »