RPAC: Your Investment Provides $13,488!

Your RPAC investment helped us elect 90% of our REALTOR®-endorsed candidates. Those are the local, state and national candidates who understand our issues and support REALTORS® in our fight to protect homeowners, improve our quality of life and the marketability of property in our neighborhoods.

Through RPAC we have won many victories that strengthen your real estate business today:

Reduced Business & Occupation Tax
REALTORS® convinced the state legislature to roll back the B&O tax on real estate services. Since 1997 you have been saving $25 per transaction in B&O taxes.

If you do 10 transactions in a year, your savings is ...............................................................................................$250

Provided More Homes
REALTORS® led the effort to pass legislation that accommodates population growth by increasing housing opportunities in communities. This means an additional 39,644 new homes each year. That's an average of 1.5 home sales per REALTOR®.

Adding to your bottom line at least............................................................................................................................. $5,738

Cut Capital Gains
REALTORS® convinced Congress to increase the amount excluded from tax when you sell your principle residence. The year following this change, 600,000 more homes sold than in the previous year. That's one extra sale for every REALTOR® in the county.

For every agent each year, that's an extra...............................................................................................................$3,825

Stopped Tax on Real Estate Commissions
REALTORS® stopped the legislature from adopting a sales tax on your commissions. That would have been 8% of your bottom line!

Every year, the average REALTOR® saves...............................................................................................................$2,400

Buried an Increase in Real Estate Taxes
REALTORS® led a successful campaign to stop a $1657 increase in the real estate excise tax that would have shut out 7,604 households, your clients, from buying a home.

Saving each REALTOR®.................................................................................................................................................$1275