It’s pretty much the same every year.

The Sunday after Labor Day in beautiful Ocean City, MD, the Maryland Association of Realtors holds their annual conference.  It’s got a couple of purposes.

It’s a place for the leadership of MAR to come together to decide on the direction of the Association in the year to come. New leadership is voted on and installed.  The Board of Directors meet to talk about and vote on policy direction. Awards are granted for various charitable and community service activities by local Associations.

For a lot of Realtors, though, it is a chance to get away to the beach for a few days, connect with people they haven’t seen in awhile, catch up on their continuing education requirements and, yes, do a some partying.

It seems that, as the years go by, some companies try to outdo the other with the parties.  This is great for the Ocean City economy since they actually rent out entire clubs and other hot nightspots to invite Realtors to come out and have fun n the hopes of getting some business down the road.  After all, it’s a “‘relationship” business and what better way to build a relationship then with an open bar and lots of food.

To be fair, there is also a lot of good information available from the exhibitors and, most of the time, the continuing education is interesting and informative.  It’s important to “keep up”.

All in all, it’s worth coming down…and I’ve attended every year since 1999.

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