Rob Reuter

By Rob Reuter, YPN Manager

Beginning January 1, 2012, YPN will be shutting down its online community feature narypn.memberfuse.com due to a lack of activity, competition with a successful YPN group on Facebook, and the  cost to maintain the site.

As a result, we have been looking at a product known as the REALTORS® Association Management Cooperative (RAMCO).  The primary purpose of this program is to help association staff track membership, but it has a number of other features that makes it appealing to YPN. Along with having a personal profile, a portal feature would provide YPN members with access to a directory of other YPN members for referral purposes.  It will also be synced with the NRDS database, so it won’t require a lot of maintenance and consistent logging-in to be effective.

Once the program is ready, hopefully early in 2012, we will provide further details and instruction both here on the YPN Lounge and directly to state and local associations.  Until that time, we encourage you to join the Facebook group “National Association of REALTORS® YPN” and continue to communicate with each other there.