Prior to the event, AIME launched its State Captains program, which created over 100 grassroots broker advocates from almost every US state. Through the program, brokers identify and address issues that create barriers to homeownership for consumers in their communities. Many of AIME’s appointed State Captains attended the event to represent their state.
One of the event’s highlights was AIME’s first-ever Broker Advocacy Training Day for the new State Captains and other influential brokers and industry partners. The training day consisted of over eight hours of in-depth, hands-on workshop sessions featuring Congressman French Hill (AR-02), Congressman Wiley Nickel (NC-13), Senior Congressional Advisor Ed Skala, Sarah Edelman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), lobbying experts from Forbes Tate Partners, best-selling author and transformational speaking coach René Rodriguez, and AIME leadership.
On the second day, brokers attended meetings with legislators on Capitol Hill, which saw constructive discussions about various topics on federal issues such as protecting homebuyer privacy with regulatory reforms for Trigger Leads with HR 4198, supporting homeownership opportunities for first responders and local heroes with the HELPER Act, and state issues like granting exemptions that allow more disabled Veterans to achieve homeownership with the Disabled Veteran Tax Exemption.
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Additionally, the trade association launched a fundraiser for the Broker Action Coalition (BAC), AIME’s grassroots network of brokers and their supporters, which funds the organization’s advocacy efforts for state and federal lobbying campaigns. The effort aims to raise $1 million this year in support of mortgage broker advocacy. Attendees of the fly-in event have already contributed over $500,000 so far.
Source: mpamag.com