rofessional growth and relationships.
1990 Association President Norman D. Flynn commented on the division of responsibility between local boards and the National Association in a speech to the National Association of Real Estate Editors:
The National Association should be dealing with national legislative and regulatory issues. The local boards and state associations can't comfortably spend their resources on such matters. And if we're going to be efficient and effective nationally, we can't have a cacophony. We need a clear harmonious voice, and the National Association can speak much more clearly than local groups with narrower viewpoints (Koslowsky, 1990, pp. 10-17).
Some members see the NAR as a roof of a house encompassing all of the services available to members of the largest trade association in the nation. The NAR has four major organizational goals: to create unity in the real estate profession; to compile relevant data about real estate; to protect and promote private ownership of real property; and to establish and maintain professional
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