{"id":12288,"date":"2017-09-11T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2017-09-11T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:52:11","slug":"realtors-hurricane-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/corporate\/realtors-hurricane-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Realtor.com is helping shoulder the burden of Hurricane Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurricane felt around the country<\/h2>\n

In light of Hurricane Harvey, many businesses and individuals have donated time, money, services, and supplies, but the devastation is beyond what anyone expected. Now imagine you\u2019re a REALTOR\u00ae and not only is your own home submerged, but all the homes you have listed are underwear too.<\/p>\n

Read also: Keller Williams takes multi-million dollar hit to turn conference into Harvey relief effort<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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\nYour primary source of income disappears and the timeline for resuming business is uncertain. What if you don\u2019t have another source of income or skill to fall back on? Do you give up on real estate? Do you move to a different area?<\/p>\n

REALTORS\u00ae have been doubly-hit<\/h2>\n

If your home was lost in a hurricane, you\u2019re likely not going to be thinking about work right away, but eventually, you\u2019ll begin to wonder how you\u2019ll pay for things while waiting on insurance and other assistance.<\/p>\n

The thing is, for REALTORS\u00ae , even when the water recedes and the rubble begins to clear, their main source of income is gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s going to take months, and likely years, to rebuild what was lost in Hurricane Harvey; in the mean time, REALTORS\u00ae have no homes or businesses to sell, no properties to manage, they\u2019re at a total loss for income. What is the next step?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the next step?<\/h2>\n

While this is largely a very personal decision as to whether you remain in the area, or leave to pursue work in an area unaffected by the storm (but even then you face competition from other REALTORS\u00ae fleeing the effected area, as well as, the competition of REALTORS\u00ae in the new area you decide upon), or attempt to find work in another field, the decision is a difficult one to say the least.<\/p>\n

This is of course not meant to minimize the far-reaching effects of all the other victims because we know they\u2019ve lost everything as well; it just seems as though REALTORS\u00ae, as well as many other Texan business owners, get doubly hit \u2013 losing their homes and businesses.<\/p>\n

Realtor.com\u00aeoffers assistance<\/h2>\n

These \u201cwhat ifs\u201d and \u201cwhat do I do\u201d are some of the questions Realtor.com\u00ae is tackling. They are getting in on the Harvey relief efforts by donating 100% of the cost from the sale of every realtor.com\u00ae Results Summit ticket sale to the REALTORS\u00ae Relief Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Results Summit is an annual two-day summit, offering REALTORS\u00ae hands-on learning, keynote speakers, and game-changing innovations through technology and strategies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This year, 100% of the sales from the summit will be donated to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.<\/p>\n

About the RRF<\/h2>\n

NAR first launched the REALTORS\u00ae Relief Foundation (RRF) as the REALTORS\u00ae Relief Fund in 2001, wishing hours of the horrendously devastating September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The RRF raised more than $8.4 million to provide assistance to surviving family members so they could stay in their homes. Since then, more than $25 million has been raises for victims of disasters, including, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes. Hopefully this money will be used to aid the victims of Hurricane Harvey.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to contribute to the RRF, you can donate online through this link, or you can mail a check to: REALTORS Relief Foundation, 430 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60611 and please put in the memo line of your check that it is a \u201cRRF Contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

For some people, they may not have the option to leave the area due to finances, family, or other reasons, but some may have a long road to getting back anywhere close to \u201cnormal.\u201d What do you think, would you leave the area to pursue Real estate work elsewhere, or would you stay?<\/p>\n

#RealtorsReliefFoundation<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CORPORATE NEWS) The devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey is undeniable, but for many Texans, they haven\u2019t just lost their homes, they\u2019ve lost their primary source of income as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[1682,1681,1675],"class_list":["post-12288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate","tag-harvey","tag-real-estate-news-realtor","tag-relief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}