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March/April 2017 WWW.GCAR.COM CARING COMMITTED ACROSS THE COMMUNITY-MINDED Association OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE GREATER CAPITAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® VOLUME II 2017 Trustco Bank Mortgages Making Home Ownership a Reality Low Closing Costs No Borrower Paid PMI* No Points, No Appraisal Fees Friendly, Local Service At Trustco Bank, we know that there are as many options for your mortgage as there are homes to choose from. Finding the perfect fit is equally important for both. By offering top notch lending products and delivering the best in customer service, we make the mortgage process easy and are with you every step of the way! Stop in to any location and see for yourself why so many of your friends and neighbors are choosing Trustco! TRUSTCO BANK R Your Home Town Bank Visit www.TrustcoBank.com or call 518-377-3311 for more information. *PMI - Private Mortgage Insurance. Lender paid Private Mortgage Insurance on loans over 89.5% Loan-to-value. Please note: We reserve the right to alter or withdraw these EQUAL HOUSING products or certain features thereof without prior notification. LENDER Across the Association VOLUME II 2017 Official Publication of the Greater Capital Association of REALTORS® Table of Contents 4-5 With The President 5 With Our Sympathy 451 New Karner Road Albany, New York 12205 6 GCAR 2017 Bowling for RPAC (518) 464-0191 • Fax: (518) 464-0196 7 Affiliate Corner - Meet Anna “The Greater Capital Association of REALTORS® is a professional trade association which provides its members with programs and services which Smith from PrimeLending! enhance the members‘ ability to successfully conduct their businesses in a competent and ethical manner, promotes cooperation among its members, and promotes the public‘s right to own, use and transfer real property.” 7 27th Annual CIREB Golf Tournament & Fundraiser THE VOICE FOR REAL ESTATE IN NEW YORK‘S CAPITAL REGION. CARING | COMMITTED | COMMUNITY-MINDED 8 NYSAR Education Scholarships www.gcar.com Available E-mail: [email protected] 9 NAR Membership Requirement The Greater Capital Association of REALTORS® makes no warranties and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy on the information contained 10 New Members herein. The opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily the opinions of the Greater Capital Association of REALTORS®. The Greater Capital Association of REALTORS® does not necessarily endorse 10 REALTOR® Trademark/Logo Rules the companies products or services advertised in the newsletter unless specifically stated. 12 WCR Breakfast of Champions OFFICERS 13 WCR 19th Annual Golf Outing Joel Koval – President Susan Sommers – President-Elect Jay Christiana – Secretary-Treasurer 14 Education Calendar Marie Bettini – Past President Chief Executive Officer – Laura Burns 14 Upcoming Education Courses DIRECTORS Janet Besheer Meg Minehan John Bevilacqua Rory O’Connor ADVERTISERS Christopher Culihan Kathleen Sullivan Jeffrey Decatur Jennifer Vucetic Trustco Bank Mortgages .......................................................2 Nancy Klopfer Barbara Walton Arnoff Moving, Storage & Rigging .......................................2 Thomas McGroder Linda Yetto 1st National Bank of Scotia ..................................................9 The Daily Gazette ..................................................................9 PRODUCTION & PRINTING: Foley Publications, Inc. • (800) 628-6983 NYSAR ................................................................................16 ADVERTISING INFORMATION: Foley Publications, Inc. • (800) 628-6983 Across the Association VOLUME II 2017 3 WITH THE PRESIDENT Championing Property Rights In late March my extended family families living within them, since Cuba and I traveled to Cuba. We have no has a terrible shortage of housing. connection to that country, but now As we traveled through Santiago that relations with the United States and Havana we saw some beautiful old are beginning to normalize, we wanted churches and government buildings, to see it before things began to change. but for the most part the housing It was a very interesting trip — I stock we saw was in poor condition. learned a lot about Cuba and its people. I wondered: In a country where As a REALTOR® I was particularly everyone has a government-assigned interested in how the Cuban housing job, is given free health care, and can market operated. Is there private get a free education through university property ownership? Is there a market if they choose, why is the housing stock to buy and sell? Are there real estate so ramshackle? agents? Can foreigners buy Cuban The answer to that question starts property? with the revolution itself, and winds its way through often confused socialistic Sobering Conditions policies that never quite produced the One of the first things that strikes intended results. you when visiting Cuba is the general living conditions. Traveling on our Disincentivizing and Disrepair tour bus, we saw many buildings that When Fidel Castro gained control in looked about to fall. Our guide said Cuba in 1959, one of the first things those buildings probably had multiple his government did was to mandate a 50% reduction in rent payments and suspend evictions for any tenant who was in arrears. Not long after that, the government put an end to private rental of housing altogether. Tenants got an additional 50% reduction JOEL KOVAL – 2017 GCAR PRESIDENT – 2017 GCAR PRESIDENT JOEL KOVAL in rent (which now got paid to the state), and after 10 years were given ownership of the house or apartment. Landlords were offered a lump sum payment or a monthly payment for life to compensate for the taking of their properties. Owners could sell their properties, but the state had first right of refusal. This effectively ended the private market. In 1984, a new law allowed for sales between private parties, but the 4 Across the Association VOLUME II 2017 transactions required state approval, which was rarely homes, are properties built before the revolution. What given. In 2003, even that limited ability to buy or sell happened? property was ended. Cubans’ rights as property owners The pre-Castro government was massively corrupt, so were limited to occupying their properties; passing them while there aren’t many Cubans pining for “the good on to heirs; or swapping them with another property old days,” there is no argument that when the socialists owner — straight up, with no exchange of cash, regardless took over, property rights as Cubans knew them were of differences in property value. upended. State officials created laws intended to assist These policies caused a collapse in new construction of and appease the peasant population that helped put residential property and removed the financial incentives them in power. Further laws restricting sales removed typically related to improving or even maintaining a home. the incentive to build or maintain property, resulting Although homeownership in Cuba was (and is) very high, in an enormous housing shortage and decaying living without financial incentives most owners allowed their conditions. Regardless of what the original intent of the properties to fall into disrepair. property law changes may have been, it’s hard to imagine that anyone is happy with the results. Freer but Not Free While no one here in New York is anticipating anything In 2011, Cuba’s property ownership laws changed again. like the events that rocked Cuba in 1959, every year we see Where now people can buy and sell property, the country new laws proposed in the legislature that have an effect on is still far from having a free market economy. Property property rights. Most of those laws are proposed with the ownership is limited to Cuban nationals, and to foreigners best of intents, but their implementation could have actual who have established legal residency, usually because of unintended consequences. Who is looking over these long-term employment or marriage to a Cuban national. proposed laws and anticipating what the real-world effects No one can own more than two homes (one primary might be? Who is looking out for the rights of property residence and one vacation home). Private rental of homes owners? In a word: REALTORS®! is still not allowed. One of the biggest impediments faced by potential REALTORS® Call to Advocacy home buyers in Cuba is the lack of mortgage financing — Through RPAC, the REALTOR® Party and advocacy on the payment in full is due at title transfer. This is not likely to part of local and state associations like GCAR and NYSAR, change anytime soon, as government officials state that REALTORS® make it our business to promote laws that are foreclosures will never be allowed. Without a method of in the best interest of property owners, and to fight laws taking back the asset that secures the loan, it’s hard to that threaten to strip away property rights. I encourage you imagine how a viable mortgage market could exist. all to participate in this fight. Contribute to RPAC. Answer the “Calls to Action” that come into your email inbox. A Cautionary Tale Participate in lobby day at the State Capitol (call GCAR for You may be wondering what any of this has to do with details) and be aware of local laws in your community that GCAR and its membership here in upstate New York — threaten property rights. which brings me to my point. Cuba had a vibrant real estate As REALTORS®, one of our primary duties is advocacy. market prior to 1959. In fact, some of the most desirable Remember your duties! homes in Cuba today, known as “capitalist construction” Sympathies are extended to: GCAR member, Michelle Poccia, Keller Williams, on the passing her mother, Dorotha Dailey Hershey, on April 28, 2017. Across the Association VOLUME II 2017 5 GCAR RPAC GCAR 2017 Bowling for RPAC Over 100 GCAR members enjoyed an evening of strikes, spares and gutter balls on Tuesday, May 2nd for our fourth annual Bowling for RPAC event. Together, we raised more than $5,000.00 for the REALTORS® Political Action Committee. A 50/50 fundraiser held at the event raised $475.00 to be donated to Logan Strong- a charity to help Kevin, Jennifer and their 4 month old son, Logan Fogg.
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