February 9, 2022

• Have fun with your Q1 RPAC investment and visit auctions.njrealtor.com to place a bid. The current theme is travel and wine—a sneak preview of our top story this week.
• NJ Realtors^® Member Perks Partner Midas IQ wants to help you understand inflation and how it relates to taxes in a free webinar on Feb. 24 at 11 a.m., click here to register.
• Home prices are $80,000 higher than pre-pandemic and inventory continues to drop, click here to read NAR's Double Trouble of the Housing Market Report.
• Need new tech? Click here to save through NJ Realtors^® Member Perks Partner Lenovo.

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Grab Your Passport, RPAC is (Virtually) Traveling for a Wine Tasting

You do not want to miss the upcoming Realtors^® Political Action Committee wine tasting event on March 9. This highly rated Passport Collection tasting through In Good Taste is a curated selection of French and Italian wines that will leave you thinking you're in Verona. Wine not register?!

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Save on A New Car with New Member Perks Partner

Just like the real estate industry, the automotive industry is seeing higher prices and low inventory, but NJ Realtors^® has a new Member Perks Partner that can help.

Go Car Subscription eliminates the need for traditional car ownership and can help you lower your monthly payment, click here to learn more.

Real Estate Commission Under New Leadership

This just in! Two New Jersey Realtors^® Past Presidents were elected to the Real Estate Commission leadership—Jean Bonilla as President, and Bill Hanley as Vice President.

New Jersey Realtors^® is looking forward to continuing to work with them both.

• Read Erasing Institutional Bias by Tiffany Jana and Ashley Diaz Mejias which focuses on workplace bias and challenging institutional biases.
• Listen to Black History Year, a podcast connecting you to the history that is left out of mainstream conversations.
• Explore the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
• Earn your At Home with Diversity Certification.
• Take Project Implicit's Race Implicit Association Test.

We're still watching Encanto, obsessed with Trader Joe's Chili Onion Crunch, tried pinkglow pineapple (found at Wegmans), and reading The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue.