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A real estate investment association (REIA) is a trade organization for real estate investors. The purpose of a REIA is to provide networking opportunities, educational events, to advocate on behalf of the industry, to help members connect with the local community and to bring buying power to the members in the form of local and national discounts.
Real estate investment clubs have been booming since the 1990s, [2] so much so that the National Real Estate Investors Association was formed in the United States late 1990s. By 2002 the US Real Estate Investors Association had 44 active affiliated groups, and by 2008 they had over 230 groups. [3]
Ginnie Mae, formerly the Government National Mortgage Association, which originally only provided insurance for bonds issued by FHA and VA mortgages in special affordable housing programs. [ 3 ] In 1970, Ginnie Mae became the first organization to create and guarantee MBS products and has continued to provide mortgage funds for homebuyers ever ...
On the surface, real estate investing seems fairly straightforward. You buy a house, sit back and wait for the market to increase its value. Or you rent it out and wait for the rent checks to roll in.
The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
A post office called Jamaica was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1905. [2] The community was named after Jamaica, New York , the home of a railroad promoter. [ 3 ]
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association [4] for those who work in the real estate industry. As of December 2023, it had over 1.5 million members, [5] making it the largest trade association in the United States [6] including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
Georgia voted Republican in six consecutive presidential elections from 1996 to 2016, a streak that was broken when the state went for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in 2020. [154] Until 1964, Georgia's state government had the longest unbroken record of single-party dominance, by the Democratic Party, of any state in the Union