The Complete Resource Center for Affiliated Businesses

Join RESPRO®

RESPRO® members have all chosen to offer diversified services (one-stop shopping) for home buyers and owners through affiliated businesses and strategic alliances.  Our membership represents a cross-section of the home buying and financing industry, including: 

• Real estate broker-owners Real estate franchisors 
• Mortgage lenders/brokers 
• Title insurers/agents 
• Home builders
• Home warranty providers
• Homeowners insurance providers
• Employee relocation companies
• Law/consulting firms
• And others

Help in Managing Your Regulatory Environment
Membership in RESPRO® provides you resources to help you assure your affiliated businesses, joint ventures, and marketing agreements comply with RESPA and other relevant federal and state laws.  We also keep you posted on emerging state and federal regulatory issues that affect your ability to create and manage successful affiliated businesses and strategic alliances.  Membership benefits include:

• RESPRO^® Online Regulatory Compliance Center:  Members-only access to an on-line library of information at www.respro.org that helps answer your day-to-day RESPA and other regulatory compliance questions about your joint ventures, affiliated businesses, and/or marketing agreements.  
• Access To RESPRO^®’s Washington Office: Access to RESPRO^® staff who can work with you on your particular regulatory compliance issue, and to others across the country who are wrestling with the same challenges as you.
• RESPRO^® Regulatory Compliance Workshops and Seminars:  RESPRO^® members and their employees get substantial discounts to RESPRO^®’s Spring Annual Conference with its full array of Regulatory Compliance Workshops, RESPRO^®’s Fall RESPA Regulatory Compliance Seminars, and RESPRO^® Audio Seminars on specific RESPA developments throughout the year.  RESPRO^® regulatory compliance sessions always feature the nation’s leading RESPA attorneys and are consistently ranked “Excellent” by attendees.
• Affiliated Business Regulatory Compliance Kit:  A substantial discount on RESPRO^®'s Affiliated Business Regulatory Compliance Kit, with readily accessible, easy-to-understand information designed to help you comply with RESPA and state laws affecting your joint venture or affiliated business.
• RESPRO^® E-News: Timely alerts to fast-breaking regulatory news that can affect your joint ventures, affiliated businesses, and marketing agreements.
• RESPRO^® Magazine:  A quarterly publication with hard-to-get information on the “hot” RESPA issues of the day (e.g., “Making Sense of Busby:  Is Your Pricing RESPA-Compliant?”), Legal Corners by the nation’s top RESPA attorneys, and an overview of the latest RESPA enforcement actions.
• RESPRO^® Regulatory Compliance Publications, CDs and Audio Cassettes: Member discounts on a wide variety of Regulatory Compliance Publications and Regulatory Compliance CDs and Audio Cassettes. 
• RESPRO^® State Issues Task Force:  Interested members can meet monthly to share information on pending state legislative/regulatory proposals affecting joint ventures, affiliated businesses and strategic alliances.
• RESPRO^® Homebuilders Task Force: A forum for RESPRO® homebuilder members and for companies that have home building affiliates to proactively formulate policy that protects and promotes their joint ventures and affiliated businesses.

Help in Making Your Joint Ventures and Affiliated Businesses Financially Successful

 Membership in RESPRO^® provides you resources to help you grow your affiliated business’ revenues and capture rates.  Benefits include:

• RESPRO^® Online Affiliated Business Growth Center:  Members-only access to an on-line comprehensive Affiliated Business Growth Center with tips and advice from the nation’s leading affiliated business executives and consultants on how to make your joint ventures, affiliated businesses, and/or marketing agreements more financially successful.  
• RESPRO^® Affiliated Business “Best Practices” Sessions and Workshops:  RESPRO^® members and their employees get substantial discounts to RESPRO^®’s Spring Annual Conference with its full array of sessions and workshops on how to grow your affiliated business revenues and capture rate, which are consistently ranked “Excellent” by attendees.
• Affiliated Business “Best Practice” CDs and Audio Cassettes: RESPRO^® members get substantial discounts on CDs and Audio Cassettes from recent RESPRO^® conferences and seminar sessions on how to grow your affiliated business revenues and capture rates.

The Voice of Affiliated Businesses

RESPRO^®’s specialized expertise, broad coalition of industry leaders, and targeted focus has enabled us to be an effective and credible voice for diversified companies in the home buying & financing industry before federal and state policy makers.

RESPRO^® also provides its members empirical studies, public endorsements, consumer surveys on one-stop shopping, and other information that they can use to educate their state legislators and regulators on the current and potential consumer benefits of affiliated businesses and strategic alliances through our Affiliated Business Advocacy Center, “The Truth About AfBAs”.

We are not distracted by other issues. Your ability to efficiently offer and cross-market diversified services through legally-compliant affiliated businesses, joint ventures and marketing agreements, regardless of your industry, is always our top priority!

What Members Say About RESPRO^®

Ron Peltier, Chairman & CEO, HomeServices of America, Inc.
“Our company receives a tremendous benefit from our membership in RESPRO®. The opportunity to interact with a cross- section of industry leaders about current trends, legislative issues, and business strategies provides a unique perspective and valuable resource. I encourage anyone, who wants to maintain a competitive edge, to join.”

Jim Rose, CEO, Rose & Womble Realty
“Based on years of membership and attendance, I believe any company that has an affiliated business needs to be a member of RESPRO®. The knowledge gained through the conferences, the newsletter and Q&A support is invaluable.”

P. Wesley Foster, Jr., Chairman, The Long and Foster Companies
"As a diversified real estate brokerage company, we've consistently relied on   RESPRO® to protect our ability to offer mortgage, title and other home services to our customers. We consider RESPRO® one of our most worthwhile investments"

Ted Eric May, Esq., Managing Partner, Sheldon May & Associates, P.C., New York
“As a member of RESPRO® our firm understands the needs for a strong voice when it comes to issues that affect our industry.  RESPRO® has consistently provided our firm with the most current information available as well as listening to our concerns and making sure they are addressed.  In today's world it is more important then ever to have a strong voice and RESPRO® gives us that.”

Dana Strandmo, Vice President, Corporate Counsel, HomeServices of America, Inc.
“As always, you, your staff and the other RESPRO® members provided timely and critical information necessary for the preservation of the affiliated business model as the various states continue to introduce legislation and rule making to limit or eliminate affiliated businesses.

Marx David Sterbcow LLM, JD, Managing Partner, The Sterbcow Law Group LLC
“RESPRO® is the premier organization for RESPA information, research, industry trends, legal analysis, education, and unique access to state and federal decision makers around.  

C. Wayne Keech, President, Colonial Valley Abstract Co.
“To ensure success in an affiliated business, RESPRO® membership is a must. The synergy is unparalleled.”

Michael J. Maddiex, President, Long & Foster Settlement Services
“If you do not support RESPRO®, you are definitely missing the boat.” 

Ken Kirkner, The Trident Group, Prudential Fox & Roach
“The legislative/regulatory information we receive at RESPRO® events combined with the contacts we have made throughout the years makes RESPRO® a great investment for our company.”

Gerard Griesser, Principal, Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors
“RESPRO® is the best affiliated business organization in the country.  I’ve developed many excellent contacts around the country from belonging to RESPRO®. The contacts have been most helpful with advice on day-to-day situations as well as long-term planning strategies.”

Anonymous

“If you or your company needs information on RESPA and you aren’t a member of RESPRO®, you or your company will waste several thousand dollars in legal fees because the odds are the information you seek was readily available on the RESPRO® website for the mere price of a membership.”
 
“We could never have successfully offered multiple settlement services without the huge RESPRO® resource!”

“RESPRO® continues to be a great resource for insight and direction for affiliated business arrangements.”

“If you’re an affiliated business arrangement, RESPRO® is the one organization that is on your side.”

“RESPRO® keeps me informed of regulatory changes and actions that impact my business and acts as an advocate for affiliated businesses at both the state and federal level.”

“RESPRO® promotes the value of affiliated businesses to HUD, Congress and the public and provides counsel and forums in which to exchange ideas and gather knowledge.

“RESPRO®’s strength is lobbying and political activism in terms of allowing honest affiliated businesses to be conducted without unnecessary hindrance.”

“RESPRO® is the great watchdog in alerting me regarding pending legislation and continues to provide spring and fall conferences where I can learn so much including forums designed to exchange best practices.”

“One-stop shopping is here to stay! If you have any interest in entering this lucrative market, RESPRO® is absolutely the best source to learn how to navigate your way to starting an affiliated business.”

“If you have or you are planning to do any type of Affiliated Business/Joint Venture you should become a Member of RESPRO®.”

“The legislative/regulatory information we receive, combined with the contacts we have made throughout the years makes RESPRO® a great investment for our company.”

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Or contact Sue Johnson at sjohnson@respro.org