Thanks so much for all the relief efforts from REALTORS® across the country. We have been receiving emails, donations, volunteer assistance, ideas and much-needed advice since the day after the hurricane, and words can't express how important this family has been.

President Al Mansell personally brought us our first relief check this week, and we have already started the process of sending relief checks to REALTORS® and other victims in the Gulf Coast region. And to borrow his words, "Never before have I been more proud to be a REALTOR®!"

Our RVP, Mo Veissi, Florida, who knows well the horrors of a hurricane, calls every day just to see what we need and has jumped in with all of his gusto to guide us through this.

Thanks to NAR leadership and staff, to each of the state associations, to individual REALTORS®, to all of you for doing what you can, but above all for caring. Many of the REALTORS® from the Gulf Coast still have no means of communication, particularly e-mail and Internet, but they send their thanks for the heartwarming care being poured on them from each of you.

Pam Beard
President-Elect, Mississippi Association of REALTORS®

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