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We often focus on all the great events and networking opportunities offered by the RECS, but there are other benefits, and one of the most significant is the Florida ARECS Resource Center.  The Resource Center is located at https://www.flarecs.com/resources/resource-center  and is full of valuable tools including:

By Patricia A. Nugent, President, Florida ARECS

This past August I was honored to be elected President of the Attorneys’ Real Estate Councils of Florida, Inc. (“Florida ARECS”). I am a strong proponent of the Real Estate Councils and how they can be a vehicle for promoting the use of real estate attorneys in real estate transactions.

One of Florida ARECS’ most important strategic priorities is to promote the value of using a real estate attorney in real estate transactions to Realtors®. Since our inception in 2014 we have supported dozens of events to fulfill this objective including:

Florida ARECS and The Fund are always ready to support our Real Estate Councils and their efforts to build relationships with their local Realtor® Associations.

We would also like to take this opportunity to recognize REC member attorneys who have been appointed to the Florida Realtor®-Attorney Joint Committee. The Florida Realtor®-Attorney Joint Committee was formed in the early 1970's by the Joint Accord entered into between The Florida Bar and the Florida Association of Realtors®, to fulfill several purposes:

Late last year The Fund took another step in its support of Florida ARECS by launching an advertising campaign in the Florida Realtors’ Legal News, a bi-weekly email newsletter that reaches over 105,000 Florida Realtor® members. 

Florida ARECS continues to work with Florida Realtors^® to build awareness of the RECs and the value their attorney members bring to real estate transactions. So we are pleased to offer two new opportunities for REC member attorneys to promote themselves and their RECs.

We spend a considerable amount of time and effort in developing tools for REC Members to use in reaching out to Realtors®, however, we have not forgotten about the Consumer.  Today’s digital world offers you a wide variety of opportunities to communicate with Buyers and Sellers directly.  Here are a few of our most popular options that you can use to market your practice in person, using your website, an email drip campaign, print media and/or social media.

If you have been a Fund member for more than 10 years you likely remember the Consumer Education Campaign sponsored by The Fund to promote the use of real estate attorneys on radio and television.

If you have spent any time on Florida ARECS consolidated REC website www.flarecs.com you have undoubtedly discovered it is full of useful tools and resources for the real estate practitioner.