How REALTORS® Are Working For You

REALTOR® members and organizations like SAMCAR work hard to help home buyers and sellers, and protect property owners by providing valuable resources, legislative advocacy, giving back to our communities and holding our members to the highest ethical standards. Learn more about how REALTORS® are working for YOU!

Connecting you with Real Estate professionals

• At our association website we offer a variety of tools and information to assist buyers and sellers. Our online member directories makes it easy to search for and contact REALTORS® and a varied list of professionals in lending, building, junk hauling, insurance and much more. www.samcar.org/REALTOR®Directory and www.samcar.org/AffiliateDirectory  
• You can also find information about local ordinances and the issues that affect homeowners in each city in San Mateo County plus monthly home sale statistics. www.samcar.org/Cities and www.samcar.org/Stats   

Advocating for Private Property Rights

• Our Government Affairs staff constantly monitors local city council actions as well as state and federal legislation in order to protect homeowners from ordinances, rules and regulations that could infringe on your private property rights. Local SAMCAR victories for private property rights include advocating against onerous point of sale ordinances for sewer lateral repairs in many peninsula cities. www.samcar.org/GovernmentAffairs

REALTORS® Giving Back to our Communities

• Every quarter our charitable foundation makes grants available to organizations in San Mateo County doing work to improve housing affordability and quality of life in our communities. SAMCAR members also visit the homes of local senior citizens every spring for REATOR® Service Volunteer Program (RSVP) week, to offer free home services like changing light bulbs and flipping mattresses so San Mateo County seniors can age in place. www.samcarfoundation.org

Holding REALTORS® To the Highest Ethical Standards

• We enforce the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics and offer arbitration service for binding resolution of disputes, holding our REALTOR® members to the highest ethical standards in conducting business. www.samcar.org/ethics