Join YPN for a Top Producer Panel featuring 3 of today’s most successful REALTORS from the DC Metro Area. Light refreshments will be served. Late arrivals will not be accommodated.

Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:30-8:30pm

Georgetown Public Library, Washington, DC

Meet the Panelists

Creig Northrop
The Creig Northrop Team of Long & Foster, Inc.

Creig’s integrity and unquenchable drive are touchstones that have made The Northrop Team one of the most productive and successful teams in real estate history. Recognized as Maryland’s #1 Real Estate Team, Creig has earned many distinguished awards including:

#2 Team in the Nation*
#1 Real Estate Team in Maryland
# 1 Real Estate Agent in the U.S. in 2004 & 2005
#1 Team in Long & Foster the most consecutive years running
# 1 Overall Top Producer for Long & Foster
Top Sales Team of the Year with over 757 homes sold in 2008
*By Wall Street Journal, Real Trends, & Lore Magazine
His record-breaking sales allow him to sell more than two homes every day! With over 20 years of experience and a team of professionals with distinct specialties, Creig is known for his outstanding client service and unparalleled marketing. He has been the keeper of the company’s value system, relentlessly articulating and living out its precepts. Creig runs 4 offices, 2 in Howard County, his hometown, 1 in Carroll, and the a new office in Montgomery County opened in May of 2008. The Northrop Team’s mission is to be the leader in the real estate marketplace using the highest degree of professionalism and expertise to meet and exceed the needs of their clientele. A tireless supporter of community causes, Creig believes strongly in giving back to the communities that have given so much to him.

Jane Fairweather
The Jane Fairweather Team of Coldwell Banker

A 30 yr. veteran of the business, Jane Fairweather is a staple in the Maryland Real Estate community. Together with her team of highly specialized assistants and buyer agents, Jane sells an average of 170-190 homes per year. She has been named the # 1 Coldwell Banker agent in the Washington Metropolitan Area for 7 years. Jane has consistently ranked among the Top Coldwell Banker agents in the nation since 1998. Bethesda Magazine readers recently voted Jane Fairweather “Best Realtor” for the fifth year in a row! Jane career sales currently exceed 1 billion dollars.

Jane is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery (2009). She currently serves on Montgomery County Executive Isaiah Leggett’s Economic Advisory Council and was invited by Maryland State Comptroller Peter Franchot to testify in Annapolis in September 2008 on the state of the real estate market. ??Jane has given a residential real estate “State of the Market” speech at the Bethesda/Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce’s Real Estate Update Presentation for the last 5 years.

Bo Menkiti
The Menkiti Group of Keller Williams Capital Properties

Bo Menkiti, the founder and CEO of The Menkiti Group, has been active in Washington, D.C. real estate for over 6 years. Bo has built a team of highly skilled and trained professionals focused around the company’s core values of Knowledge, Teamwork, Community, and Excellence. He has received numerous awards and distinctions including the National Association of Realtors’ prestigious “30 under 30” award.

Bo has a wide array of leadership and strategic management experience in both the corporate and non-profit sectors.  Working at both the board and the executive staff levels, Bo has founded, developed and led successful organizations in a number of industries.  In addition to his entrepreneurial experience, Bo has experience working with public-private partnerships and with local CDC’s and community organizations around development-related issues.   Prior to founding The Menkiti Group, Bo served as the Chief Operating Officer of College Summit, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the college enrollment rate of low-income students. Over a period of three years Bo oversaw the organization’s 400% growth from a local organization into a multi-site national organization, serving over 4,000 students nationwide. Before that Bo served in a number of management consulting positions at the Advisory Board Company, Atlantic Media and Prism Consulting International.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Bo was awarded the Houston and Morland Awards for Public Service and Social Action, as well as the City of Cambridge’s Mack Davis Award for the highest service to the Cambridge community. Bo currently serves on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations dedicated to uplifting youth and developing inner city neighborhoods.

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Members, we are seeking REALTORS to volunteer for several board positions opening as soon as possible.  We are specifically in need of a Communications Committee chair that will be responsible for:

• Taking minutes for all scheduled monthly board conference calls
• Posting of all events/news/member updates to membership via E-mail and the official YPN Metro DC website
• Handling all press inquiries
• Maintaining accurate online community registration records

We are ALSO seeking to fill the following positions:

1. Marketing & Outreach Co-Chair
2. Communications Co-Chair
3. Sponsorships & Finance Co-Chair

Please contact Mia Orantes if you are interested at info@YPNMetroDC.com (be sure to attach your photo, bio, contact information and number of hours you can commit monthly to position duties.

ALL board position commitments REQUIRES solicitation of sponsors, attendance of ALL board conference calls held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month (1:30-2:30pm), and an estimated 1-2 hours per month of communications duties

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YOU CAN NOW PURCHASE MULTIPLE TICKETS AT A TIME, PAY AT THE DOOR, AND REGISTRATION IS NOT RESTRICTED TO ONLY GCAAR MEMBERS!!!

Join us for the 2nd Annual YPN Networking Cruise!  Enjoy an upscale networking/cocktail mixer with light fare, beverages, background music and lots of networking. Guests of the event will be strictly YPN official members.

ALL attendees MUST be members of the real estate community. 

Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011 (7-9pm)

Dock Location:
1300 Maine Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20024

Parking: A parking lot is available ($10/car). Limited street parking is also available

OPEN TO YPN OFFICIAL MEMBERS ONLY! Become a FREE Member

Registration Dates

Early Bird Registration (Ends July 22nd) $20 per person

Regular Registration $35 per person

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Based on sponsorship, we reserve the right to raise ticket prices at any time for future ticket sales.

If you would like information about sponsorship packages, please contact Mia Orantes at (202) 489-2867 or E-mail info AT YPNMetroDC.com

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OutreachRebuilding Together® is the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize communities. Rebuilding Together® believes we can preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize communities by providing free home modifications and repairs, making homes safer, more accessible, and more energy efficient. GCAAR is a sponsor for 2011 Rebuilding Together® programs in Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington, DC. GCAAR volunteers will be working on two houses — one in each jurisdiction.

Please join us by volunteering to help
on Saturday, April 30, 2011

We have many opportunities available. We need volunteers to help us throughout the course of the day. You can help for a few hours or all day. If you have a special skill or can just lend a small helping hand, WE NEED YOU! Do you know a skilled laborer, licensed plumber, or licensed electrician who might be willing to donate their services? Do you have tools we can borrow? Please let us know! We may also need volunteers with trucks to help with picking up or dropping off supplies and hauling debris. Please join us by clicking the Montgomery County or DC location links below. Feel free to contact Ritu Desai at info@enovahomes.com with questions.

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Housing prices across the country are at multi-year lows and mixed with low interest rates bargain hunters are targeting real estate.

More investors are heading to the market looking to make cash buys for real estate, investing in second or even a third home, Reuters News reports.

“We’re starting to get a lot more inquiries and assisting in transactions,” says Rocco Papandrea, a senior vice president and wealth management adviser at Merill Lynch in New York. Papandrea says he’s seeing more interest in properties along the West Coast and in Colorado, as well as Florida.

Canadian buyers in particular are expected to be looking to purchase U.S. homes. The Bank of Montreal estimates that one-in-five Canadians is considering buying U.S. property.

With dropping home prices, more cities are looking to be attractive buys, such as the increasing affordability in popular vacation-home designations along the U.S. Sunbelt. For example, home prices have fallen 44 percent in Tampa, 54 percent in Phoenix, 57 percent in Las Vegas, and 49 percent in Miami, the Bank of Montreal reports.

“If the economy keeps clicking along and jobs keep growing, housing will be fine,” says Dean Frankel, a portfolio manager at Urdang Capital Markets in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, who oversees around $1.7 billion in real estate equity investments.

The economy–and ultimately housing–may then get a boost from the latest unemployment report released Friday. The unemployment rate reached a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March as companies began a brisk wave of hiring, adding employees at the fastest two-month pace since before the recession even started, the Labor Department reports.

The unemployment rate has fallen a full percentage point in the last four months, which marks the sharpest drop since 1983.

Source: “U.S. Housing Market Attracting Bargain-Hunters,” Reuters News (March 31, 2011) and “Unemployment Rate Falls to 2-Year Low of 8.8 Pct.; Employers Add 216k Jobs in March,” The Associated Press (April 1, 2011)

Link to Full article :http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2011040101?OpenDocument

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We look forward to seeing everyone at tomorrow’s Internet Marketing & Social Media seminar with a keynote address by AOL SVP, Eric Singleton. If you are taking the metro, please call the hotel at (301) 589-5200 to be picked up from the Silver Spring Metro Station shuttle.

If you haven’t registered yet, registration has been extended until tomorrow. You may also PAY AT THE DOOR ($25) to gain entry if you miss the deadline or would prefer a cash/check payment.

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Join your fellow YPN’ers and other industry professionals at this exciting seminar and networking event featuring a keynote address by Eric Singleton, Senior Vice President of Technologies at AOL!  Enjoy a full buffet-style dinner and get up-to-date information on how to get more business on the Internet using the social media and Internet technology.

This is an event you don’t want to miss!

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