The Kansas Association of REALTORS® created this website to assist local board officers in their official duties as caretakers of their local boards of REALTORS®.
KAR congratulates you on your service to the association and we are here to help. Following are helpful links which will guide you through your duties as an officer of the local board and hopefully, make your time as an officer run as smoothly as possible! Thanks for your commitment to the association!
Click here to access a list of contact information for all Kansas Local REALTOR® boards.
Click here for a Local Board Jurisdiction map.
Click here for a KAR Zone map.
The bylaws of all REALTOR® boards and associations states,
"ARTICLE XV RULES OF ORDER
Section 1. Robert's Rules of Order, latest edition, shall be recognized as the authority governing the meetings of the Board, its Board of Directors and committees, in all instances wherein its provisions do not conflict with these Bylaws."
If you don't have a copy of Robert's, visit this link for a great FAQs section on the Robert's Rules of Order website.
Click here for an Installation of Officers script.
The KAR feels that all boards must be incorporated so as to protect themselves from potential liabilities. A corporation is a separate legal entity from the person who owns it. This means that if the corporation enters into business deals, owns property, borrows money or conducts other business activities that you, and your personal assets, will in most cases be protected from personal liability. Only the corporation's assets will be at risk to satisfy claims against the corporation. In other words, if someone were to sue the Local Board and said board wasn't incorporated, the suit would name every individual and their assets on that board. if the board was incorporated, the corporation and its assets would be named in the suit. Further, that corporation would be covered under the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® "Errors and Omissions and Directors and Officers Liability Insurance," which would protect all officers and staff of the corporation and further, the incorporated board could acquire their own insurance.
If you don't know if you board is incorporated, you can check the Secretary of State's online directory of Kansas Corporations to see if your board is incorporated and if so, what its current status is.
If you decide to pursue incorporation, the KAR can complete the process for you, from beginning to end, for a fee of $95, plus the $20 filing fee for your not-for-profit status. Please contact Maura Dingman at 800-366-0069, X2127 or mailto:mdingman@kansasrealtor.com?subject=Please%20help%20us%20with%20local%20board%20incorporation%21.
Click here to visit the Association Executive area of REALTOR.org. This website is filled with association policy information and documents.
The National Association requires that Local Associations and Boards certify every three years to verify that they meet a minimum standard of service. Associations are now able to fill out the Organizational Standards forms online at realtor.org. Click here to access the NAR Online Organizational Standards Certification Form. For a schedule of boards and their recertification dates, click here.
Please call the State Association if you need any help with the documentation or email: mdingman@kansasrealtor.com.
During the 2008 Midyear Legislative Meetings, the NAR Board of Directors approved a new policy that requires all MLSs to add new language to Section 5 of the Model MLS Rules and Regulations. This policy requires multiple listing services (MLSs) to allow participants to disclose to other participants any potential for a short sale in a transaction when the listing participant reasonably knows that a short sale may occur.
As a result, all MLSs must provide their participants with the means to disclose a potential short sale to other participants. However, the MLS has the discretion to determine if these disclosures will be required or at the option of the participant. Accordingly, each MLS in Kansas must adopt one of the following amendments in their respective MLS rules and regulations. Since the Kansas Real Estate Commission considers the disclosure of potential short sales an adverse material defect, KAR would recommend that MLSs adopt the that requires the disclosure of potential short sales. To view the entire Short Sale Notice, including the model language for all MLSs to adopt, click here.
One of the greatest benefits - and responsibilities of being a REALTOR® is the privilege of participating in a Multiple Listing Service. The officers of the MLS, whether it be a committee of the board or a stand alone corporation have fiduciary duties to that MLS and need to be knowledgable about all aspects of Multiple Listing Service. To visit the MLS area of REALTOR.org for more information and governing document models, click here. This is a secure area of REALTOR.org and you will need your unique NRDS ID to register/log in.
Managing and protecting listing content is a paramount concern to real estate professionals and the multiple listing services in which they participate. In response to this concern, the National Association of REALTORS® has developed a toolkit to help facilitate the understanding and implementation of proper listing content management. The purpose of this toolkit it to assist brokers, agents, and multiple listing services in understanding the various assets they each control and how to secure and manage the contractual and intellectual property rights of the listing content. To access the toolkit for your local MLS, click here.
It is up to the Treasurer of the boards who don't have a staff person to process dues and membership transmittals for new members and to remit renewing dues for current ones. Click here to access the Local Board Membership website for information on processing dues and membership data.
Another responsibility of all boards is to orient their new members to the governing documents of all levels of the association. KAR has created an Online Orientation for use by local boards in meeting this responsibility. To visit the KAR Online Orientation website, click here.
The governing documents of your board are the roadmap to running your association. NAR requires all boards and associations to have them reviewed at least every two years, although, typically, mandatory changes to the model documents are made yearly. KAR can help you keep up your documents with Automatic Governing Documents Updates. For just $90 per year, per document, KAR will update your docs and send them to NAR for review. For more information, contact Maura Dingman at 800-366-0069, X2127 or email at mailto:mdingman@kansasrealtor.com?subject=I%20Want%20Automatic%20Governing%20Document%20Updates%21To access all the latest REALTOR® board/association documents, visit the Model Documents area of the REALTOR.org website by clicking here. You will need to logon to the REALTOR.org website before viewing/downloading these documents. If you haven't registered on REALTOR.org before, you will need your NRDS ID. If you don't know that number, email Maura Dingman.
