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Thursday, June 13th at Borio's Restaurant

Come out to the beautiful Oneida Lake in Cicero and network with the Mortgage Bankers and Home Builders!

4:30pm - Meeting registration opens, silent auction to benefit RPAC **

5-6pm - GSAR Annual Membership Meeting (this portion open to GSAR Realtor Members only)

Featuring Mike Kelly, NYSAR Director of Government Affiars

Then, Member Mixer to follow with HBR and MBA members!

6-8pm - Tri-Association Member Mixer! Heavy hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, live music at 7pm by Grupo Pagan!

NYSAR is now accepting applications for the 2013 REALTORS Honor Society. This is to recognize Association members for their involvement during the 2012 elective year. If you have been involved on the local or State level and would like to apply, click these links below to learn more!

Have you been wondering how the cleanup at Onondaga Lake is going? If so, click here for an update on what is going on at that site!

http://www.lakecleanup.com/

Leadership Greater Syracuse Graduates Working as Scientists and Engineers on Onondaga Lake Improvement Projects

May 1, 2013 - More than 50 volunteers from Leadership Greater Syracuse (LGS) gathered at Nine Mile Creek on Saturday, April 27, to volunteer with the Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps as part of a 2012 class project celebrating Earth Day. The environmental stewards helped enhance habitat at Nine Mile Creek, which is becoming part of a green corridor connecting habitat from Onondaga Lake to the Geddes Brook wetlands.

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

2-4pm at the Empire Room, NYS Fairgrounds

FREE FOR ALL GSAR, MBA, AND HBR MEMBERS!

As outspoken supporters for fair housing issues and homeownership, the Greater Syracuse Association of Realtors (GSAR) joins the nation as it honors Fair Housing Month this April. For over 100 years, Realtors have promoted and protected the dream of property ownership for millions of Americans and strongly support the Fair Housing Act.

We hope that you were able to attend our Hats Off Event on April 11th, and see the Economic Forecast presented by Dr. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the National Association of REALTORS. He was able to share some great information with all of us about the National market, as well as our local CNY real estate market for 2013 and beyond.

Attached below you will find a PDF of his Powerpoint presentation.

What happened…why did the MLS go down?

Multiple Listing Service provider, Corelogic, explains what happened within 8 days as to why the service was interrupted twice. 

Todd Taggart, Corelogic representative explains: “The last time I can remember that we had an outage like this past week, was back in 2002, we had a similar issue in the Vienna Data Center with the fire system which shut down the data center for several hours.”

As part of the budget that was passed last week by the New York State Legislature, homeowners will have to re-register to receive Basic STAR benefits by April 1, 2014. 2013 benefits will not be affected.