Largest individual membership trade association in Houston, and the second largest local Association/Board of Realtors® in the United States
Member Benefits
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Promote Listings – The HAR web site is drawing an ever-increasing audience of Houston homebuyers. Consumers are
generating an average more than 51 million page-views per month on the site to find information about you and your listings. Daily
visitor sessions average 43,000 with potential homebuyers spending an average of 23 minutes reviewing your listings and personal
REALTOR® web sites. To promote our site, we have incorporated billboards, ads in the Houston Chronicle, regular press releases and guest columns into our marketing plan. All Realtor listings are also advertised to the public at no cost to members on a growing number of licensee sites, including: ... HAR.COM ... REALTOR.COM ... HOUSTON CHRONICLE.COM ... HOMES.COM ... HOUSTON.ORG Our efforts to drive consumers to you and your listings translates into increased sales and more take-home pay for you. |
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TEMPO MLS – This is HAR’s state-of-the-art, Web-based MLS system created specifically to meet your needs. This tool enables to access more than 42,000 properties online, archived information on the thousands of properties sold in the past six years and the current public records information for Harris and surrounding counties. For more information on Tempo, logon to www.har.com/newmember. |
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HAR Member Web Sites As an HAR Member, you can now create your own HAR Member Web Site FREE of charge! All of your listings, as well as all MLS listings on HAR.com, will be displayed on your HAR Member Web Site, giving buyers and sellers specific information about you and your business. To create your FREE HAR Member Web Site, login to the Members Only Portal today! |
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HAR Appointment Manager The HAR Appointment Manager is the newest productivity tool available to Real Estate Professionals. It incorporates an attractive user interface, centralized data storage and direct access to MLS Listings and data. The Appointment Manager may be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. This innovative tool allows Realtors to effectively manage their appointments right from their desktop. Click Here for More Information |
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HAR Schedule Showing Schedule showing allows you to view, manage, and schedule showings for your listings on HAR.com. |
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HAR Listing Traffic Report Listing Traffic Report allows you to view the web traffic to your listings on HAR.COM. The Listing Traffic Report shows the number of times each of your listings has been viewed on HAR.COM during the term of the listings. |
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HAR Email Leads Report In excess of 100,000 email leads have been generated and delivered by HAR.com. Check your email leads daily! The Email Leads Report shows the total email leads to you during the term of your listings on HAR.COM. |
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HAR Member Account Manager The HAR Account Manager is the most convenient way to access your membership account, to update your information, and pay your dues online. Over 10,000 Realtors used the secure online system to pay over $1.3 million in 2004 dues. |
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HAR Form Manager HAR Form Manager gives you the ability to download HAR, TAR, and TREC forms. |
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STAR Report Strategic Traffic Activity Report - a basic overview of Email Leads from HAR.com to you & Internet Traffic to your listings on HAR.com. Listings have been viewed over 69 million times and email leads from HAR.com to Realtors exceeded 130,000. |
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Featured Listing Manager Create a Featured Listing Gallery for your Company Web Site instantly on HAR.COM |
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HAR
Member Finder Search for all HAR Realtor® and Affiliate Members Click Here to Start Your Search. |
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Home Finder Consumers have access to search for over 40,000 properties that are available for sale and lease in HARMLS. Click Here to Start Your Search |
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School Finder The School Finder allows you to search and compare information on any Texas school. You can search for schools based on the county, district, campus and/or zip code. Click Here to Access the School Finder. |
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Home Value Finder Currently 110,000 recent home sales are available to search. You may also view similar homes currently listed for sale by HAR Realtors®. Click Here to Start Your Search. |
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Neighborhood Information Finder View subdivision current facts, price trends for the past 8 years, and create comparative subdivision analysis reports online. Click Here to Access Subdivision Price Trends. |
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MyHomeFinder MyHomeFinder allows you to: Click Here to Access MyHomeFinder |
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HAR Real Estate Dictionary HAR Real Estate Dictionary gives users the ability to define common terms used in the real estate industry. Click Here to Access HAR Real Estate Dictionary |
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HAR Member Surveys As a member of HAR, your financial success in real estate is our top priority. From our mission statement helping members achieve ongoing profitability to the projects we manage every day, we at HAR seek to help you make more money. And we want to know how we're doing! Throughout the year we take member surveys to find out your opinion, and to find out how we can better serve our members. |
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Online Voting HAR provides its members with an online ballot for the annual Board of Directors election. |
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Tempo
Support - (877) 805-7301 |
| Training & Member Profitability | |
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Member Training Do you suffer from technophobia? Do the words "bandwidth" and "IP address" confuse and bewilder you? Never fear. HAR has a vast array of educational courses designed for everyone from the computer whiz to the technophobe. Whether enhancing your business potential through technology training, designation courses for GRI, CRS, CBR, Mandatory Continuing Education, or HARPRO for new agents and unlicensed assistants, HAR is bringing you excellent professional development opportunities so that you can expand and grow your business. A complete, current schedule of these opportunities can be found day or night at /edu. |
| Free MCE – We
now have available free MCE for our members! Such classes include Tempo
Basic, HAR Appointment Manager, Tempo Advanced and Tempo Add/Edit.
Orientation – Gone are the days of long orientation courses that remind you of high school. HAR recently streamlined its orientation schedule to hold two orientations sessions a day, three days per month, to give you the opportunity to schedule orientation at a time convenient. Virtual University – You can now sip on your cocktail, in your bathing suit, by the pool and complete your MCE required license renewal courses in the comfort of your own home. Many students prefer this method of class because of its convenience and it gives you the ability to stay in the office. Designation Classes – HAR offers more than six prestigious designations. Whether enhancing your business potential through certification courses for GRI, CRS, CBR, Mandatory Continuing Education or HARPRO for new agents and unlicensed assistants, HAR is bringing you excellent professional development opportunities so that you can expand and grow your business. Technology Classes – We offer a wide variety of technology courses
from Internet/e-mail to Managing Client Files in Windows. This allows
you to better serve your clients through the use of technology. All technology
courses are approved for MCE credit. |
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| New Member Web Site Our New Member Web Site gives our newest members a brief overview of the multitude of services that HAR has to offer. Click Here for Details |
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Real Estate Course Finder With more than 16,000 registrations, our Yellow Pages is the most convenient way for you to browse HAR’s wide variety of courses available and register for the course you wish to attend. The "Real Estate Education Yellow Pages" is a database available to HAR members to search and register for more than 1,000 courses online from seven area schools. The Yellow Pages even allows you to register online using a credit card. Click Here for Details |
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Networking Meetings Networking meetings provide you with the opportunity to network and establish relationships with Realtors as well as other real estate professionals in your area. These meetings provide the perfect opportunity for you to exchange ideas, obtain valuable updates about our ever-changing industry and learn the latest scoop on who works where. HAR holds networking meetings in Montgomery County, Great Northwest Area, Deer Park, Bear Creek, Katy, Westside, Fort Bend, Texas City & Mainland, Waller County, Pearland/Friendswood/Alvin Area and Near Northwest. Click Here to View This Month's Schedule |
| Realtor Celebration! – Looking
for an elegant night out? Each January the Houston Association of Realtors® serves
as host to the induction of HAR’s new chairman and its board at Realtor
Celebration!
Homebuyers Seminar – Each year HAR sponsors a homebuyers seminar designed to teach people how to purchase homes using a Realtor. Realtor Expo – This is HAR’s annual tradeshow and networking
event, open to all members. The afternoon speaker sessions include information
designed to help the residential agent become more profitable, from how
to use the latest technology to your advantage to up-to-the-minute legal
updates. The exposition contains more than 175 exhibitor booths and a
spacious member-networking lounge complete with light hors d’oeuvres
and musical entertainment. |
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Houston Realtor® Do you prefer to receive the latest real estate information online? Each month HAR publishes an online version of the Houston Realtor giving you the ability to search from more than two years worth of information online. Click Here to View This Month's Issue |
| Houston Realtor® Magazine – Each
month you receive the latest information in real estate law, technology
and the Houston resale market on your doorstep in the Houston Realtor magazine.
Weekly member e-mail – Staying informed and aware is essential to your business, and the HAR’s weekly e-mail is the fastest, most thorough way to stay current on everything you need to know about the real estate market locally and globally. Realtor advertising – Have you seen one of the six billboards
dedicated to promoting Realtors rotating around the city? You also may
find advertisements created to promote using a Realtor in the Houston
Chronicle, Here’s Houston, Greater Houston Home Buyer’s Guide,
Houston Housing Guide, among many others. This year we crafted a campaign
with the slogan: Right Home. Right Realtor. Right Here. HAR.com. This
was specifically created to promote your business and your listings. |
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| Commercial Information
Exchange – One of Commercial Gateway’s most prominent features
is the Commercial Information Exchange (CIE) that is available online at
www.commercialgateway.com. This facility makes participating firms more
profitable by providing a shared information infrastructure that eliminates
the wasteful duplication of effort between member firms. The CIE also identifies
and promotes a set of “Best Practices” in the marketing of
properties and has greatly reduced the wasteful and inefficient practice
of broadcast faxes and spam e-mails. The CIE also is an excellent way for
commercial brokers to monitor market conditions. Also, HAR will soon make
a greater investment in research by hiring another research assistant and
plans to include aerial photographic images on CommericalGateway.com soon.
Education – HAR designs commercial MCE programs that Commercial
Gateway sponsors and promotes, like the South Texas “Super MCE,” or
the CCIM Forecast Competition specifically for commercial brokers. Commercial
Gateway-sponsored education is an important means of teaching ethics
and best business practices to new brokers. For more information logon
to CommericalGateway.com. |
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| Technical Support Worried over Word? Failing to Excel? Crashing through Windows? Before you hire an expensive consultant to solve your computer problems, try calling HAR's technical support hotline at (713) 629-1900 ext. 201. This "members only" service will provide instantaneous answers to your hardware and software headaches. Your calls are answered by fast, friendly computer whizzes who have experience responding to Realtors®' specific technical challenges. As always, any questions for TEMPO MLS can be answered by calling (877) 805-7301. Dispute Resolution – We live in an increasingly litigious society and HAR does not just teach Realtor ethics, we help enforce these rules and regulations. All Realtors agree to abide by a shared Code of Ethics and to submit disputes to binding arbitration. HAR cooperates with the state association in the performance of these duties. This is an excellent service that creates a non-litigation scenario for resolving many of the typical disputes that can arise between brokers and their clients. |
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Legal Advice – Good legal advice does not come cheap unless, of course, you are a member of HAR. If you find yourself needing the counsel of an excellent attorney who understands real estate, call the TAR Legal Hotline at (512) 370-2273. Have your member ID number ready, and leave your request in this hotline voicemail system. A highly regarded attorney will return your call promptly and provide free answers to your legal questions. |
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HAR Videos – HAR
provides complete coverage of most of the HAR events in digital video format
both in Windows Media and Real Player. You can access these on HAR.com. Click Here to View Videos |
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Online SuperCenter – The
HAR SuperCenter offers many tools of the trade, and is a one-stop convenient,
cost-effective way to purchase those items you need for your day-to-day
business operations. Some of the more popular items for Realtors® include
contracts and forms, key maps, rider signs, brochure holders and marketing
books. Click Here to Shop Online |
| Governmental Affairs | |
| Governmental Affairs Every single legislative session, lawmakers propose a tax on your hard-earned commissions. In other states, such policies have been passed, and real estate professionals forfeit a significant amount of their income to Uncle Sam. HAR represents you with a strong, powerful political voice at the local, state and national level and has consistently defeated such onerous proposals as a tax on commissions. To see HAR's latest governmental affairs projects, click here. Representation on and Lobbying of Issues – Every single legislative session, lawmakers propose a tax on your hard-earned commissions. In other states, such policies have been passed, and real estate professionals forfeit a significant amount of their income to Uncle Sam. HAR represents you with a strong, powerful political voice at the local, state and national level and has consistently defeated such onerous proposals as a tax on commissions. Candidate recommendations – Don’t know who to vote for in the upcoming city council race? HAR’s Political Affairs Committee does the homework for you by interviewing each candidate and approving only Realtor-friendly candidates Education on issues – The Governmental Affairs Advisory Group researches and meets on issues with local politicians to educate them on issues impacting your business. Legislative updates – HAR’s governmental affairs department keeps you in the know with its legislative updates designed to educate you on issues impacting the real estate industry. Local opportunities – HAR provides its members with opportunities
to serve on area boards, commissions and community advisory groups. |
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 REALTOR®-- A registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the National Association of REALTORS® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. |
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