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TAREI Advantage article from the Greater Houston Chapter Press Release dateline September 9th 2005
The Houston Chapter had its initial organizational meeting in January of 2005, the GHCT has come a long way since then, we now have a charter, bylaws and board of directors. The Chapter members and area inspectors have also benefited from several educational seminars.
Houston has been lacking a direct TAREI presence for several years, for the benefit of area inspectors, agents and the home buying public. The inspectors felt that increasing the TAREI educational opportunities was very important. Also it was critical that the TAREI name and member inspectors must be promoted whenever possible.
The first set of Chapter brochures advertising TAREI went to print in May 2005 and reprints (so as to include additional members) are scheduled three to four times per year. Members spread these to brokerages around the Houston metro area.
As of this writing, the Chapter is contracting for website services with the site expected to be up and running in the fall of 2005.
The Chapter would have participated in the Houston Association of Realtors "Realtor Expo" on October 6th 2005, another opportunity to get the TAREI name out to 5000 agents who attend, had hurricanes Katrina and Rita not come to visit. We plan to participate next year.
The meetings are not just association business, each meeting has a speaker of inspector interest. In August 2005 the Director of the Texas Residential Construction Commission was be present. Dinner is provided at this time and ALL inspectors are welcome. Networking always happens and our affiliates provide an extra boost to the conversation.
At GHCT we feel strongly about getting the TAREI name out as a ‘go to’ group for inspections and for educational opportunities for inspectors.
THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER’S HOUSTON CHAPTER,
ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND.
Andrea Barnard (TAREI State Director), Brenda Roebuck and Doug Haubold at the TAREI Woodlands seminar in April of 2005
A note from the membership director……….
Houston Area Inspector,
Allow me to introduce myself I am Roy Thomas TREC #5537, the Director of Membership for the Greater Houston Chapter of TAREI. On behalf of myself and the board of directors please consider this our personal invitation to join and become involved in the Greater Houston Chapter of TAREI. We are proud of our new chapter and are working hard to develop and grow an organization to benefit all local Inspectors. Our meetings are open to all Inspectors however as a member you will receive substantial and increasing benefits.
Join Us Today To Become A Part Of The Greater Houston Chapter
* Joining before July 1st insures Charter Membership Status
* Joining before May 5th insures representation in our Chapter brochure which will be available to all members to distribute as they wish to Agents and Clients
* Joining before May 5th insures representation in our WEBSITE
The March Chapter meeting, numbers of inspectors in attendance out-strips expectations.
Benefits of Membership
- Entry into the Chapter full color brochure, distributed to Brokerages in the greater Houston area. Produced 3 times per year.
- Monthly dinner/networking/meeting/speaker
with other
inspectors and our affiliates. Held on the 4th Tuesday of
every month. Please supply email to MLCInspections@aol.com
for flyer delivery. These are open to all inspectors.
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Representation on the TAREI Houston premier website designed for use by homebuyers, real estate agents, real estate inspectors, inspector members and affiliate members.
- Entry onto this website’s "find an inspector" on-line listing. This rotating membership list shifts each time a visitor goes to this button so that every inspector is "featured".
- Chapter advertising on Houston Association of Realtors® website (HAR.com) with link to TAREIHouston.com
- Other advertising avenues are being studied by the Greater Houston Chapter.
- The purpose of everything we do is to inform and educate our inspectors & to promote our membership to agents and homebuyers.
- Membership in the largest Inspector association in Texas with over 900 inspector members at present. TAREI was formed in 1977.
- Discounted access to TAREI education functions.
- Members benefit from the statewide and Chapter TAREI associations advertising and promotion campaigns.
- TAREI is the only ‘Texas only’ inspector association and is, therefore, active in monitoring and participating in governmental actions regarding the inspection industry.
- Legislative
representation thru our own lobbyist to help monitor and provide input
on laws that affect our profession
- TAREI discounts.
- Notifications on product recalls, governmental regulations.
- Access to "Technical Expert Council" on inspection questions.TAREI membership advancement potential. Providing credibility and confidence with clients. http://www.tarei.com/membership.shtml
- TAREI
merchandise
http://www.tarei.com/merchandise.shtml
The bottom line, is the Texas inspectors are not licensed nationally but by the State of Texas and are, therefore, subject to issues and interests which are exclusively Texan. TAREI is a Texas association for Texas Inspectors.
Mike Crow came to Houston just for TAREI in July of 2005
Membership Requirements
You
must be a current member of the Texas Association Of Real Estate Inspectors
to qualify for Chapter Membership Greater Houston Chapter Yearly Dues
$100.00. Dues are currently prorated at $50.00 until July 1st. We accept
Cash or checks only made payable To TAREI - GHC.
For more information please contact
Roy Thomas, Director Of Membership
281 788-5244
E-Mail : rmtt@wt.net
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For Membership Information
on the Texas Association of Real Estate Inspectors Association please
contact Andrea Barnard andrea@tarei.com
State application for membership http://tarei.com/tareiapp.pdf
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