EDUCATION NEWS

Scholarships Awarded

The North Carolina Real Estate Educational Foundation recently named this year's recipients of two scholarships sponsored by the Real Estate Commission recognizing outstanding achievement at the North Carolina REALTORS Institute. Deanna C. Zurenko of Huntersville was awarded the "Joe Schweidler Memorial Scholarship" for attaining the highest scholastic average in Series 200, and Candice L. Montero formerly of Fayetteville received the "Blanton Little Memorial Scholastic Achievement Award" for outstanding academic achievement at the Institute

It's Your Move

For the eleventh year, the Real Estate Commission has funded the publication- and distribution of "it's Your Move" booklets to North Carolina high school students. The booklets contain basic information about buying, selling and renting real estate and are used in conjunction with economics, consumer education and related courses.

This year, 8,500 booklets have been produced bringing the total to nearly 300,000 copies printed and delivered to high schools since 1979.

Buyers Guide To Vacation Real Estate in North Carolina

Your Place at the Beach: A Buyer's Guide to Vacation Real Estate is being expanded to include information regarding the purchase of real estate in the mountain areas of western North Carolina.

The booklet was originally co-published by the Real Estate Commission and the UNC Sea Grant College Program in 1987. Additional material relating to the purchase of mountain real estate has been contributed by Dr. Linda L. Johnson, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at Appalachian State University.

A sample copy of the booklet will be sent to real estate offices in the resort areas of western North Carolina and to each local Board of REALTORS. Firms wishing to obtain additional copies to distribute to their customers as a public relations gesture may then obtain them from the Commission free-of-charge.

Any person who wishes to have a free sample copy may obtain one by contacting the Real Estate Commission office.

The Commission wishes to thank the North Carolina Division of Travel and Tourism for its assistance in this project and UNC Sea Grant for its continued assistance and cooperation.

Resort Property Management Seminar

In May, a series of "Resort Property Management Seminars" was conducted by the Real Estate Commission in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Section of the Attorney General's Office and the Division of Emergency Management of the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety 221 persons attended the one-day seminars held in Atlantic Beach, Wilmington and Kill Devil Hills

Commission Legal Counsel Tom Miller addresses seminar participants.

L. Ted Gayle, the Commission's Director of Audits and Investigators, spoke on "Trust Accounting" aspects Of resort property management. The Commission's Legal Counsel, Assistant Attorney (general Thomas R. Miller, and Assistant Attorney General David W. Kirkman addressed the subjects of "Tenant Payments and Deposits" and "Legal Responsibilities" in managing resort property. And Barry A. Williams,Jr., Chief of Operations for the N.C. Division of Emergency Management, discussed "Emergency Management and Disaster Relief." Seminar planning and arrangements were coordinated by Evelyn Johnston, Commission Education Officer.

The seminar participants were especially appreciative that attention was being focused on those areas of interest and concern unique to the management of resort property and encouraged the Commission to sponsor similar programs in the future