To: Real Estate Finance Committee Members

From: Skip Zeleny, Chair

The Real Estate Finance Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, January 22, 2009; 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Please consult the C.A.R. Board of Directors January, 2009 program to confirm the committee room location. Should you have any questions about the committee meeting, please feel free to call the committee staff coordinators Stan Wieg at (916) 492-5200, or e-mail him at stanw@car.org or Matt Roberts at (213) 739-8284 or e-mail him at matthewr@car.org.

In June 2008, C.A.R. launched its new and improved website at www.car.org. With the recent website changes, it is necessary to offer some instruction on our new Quick Print function.

The procedure for "Quick Print" has changed:

For members seeking to print their entire meeting packet, please begin by going back to the main "C.A.R. Business Meeting Materials" web page and click on the "Quick Print" link. On this web page you will be able to print all of the committee materials for any committee in one step. When selecting the committee materials to be printed, please select the committee cover memo box, and then select the boxes below in order to get all the committee materials. When finished selecting committee materials, please scroll to the bottom of this page and click "Continue" in order to compile the requested documents. Once compiled, the document may be printed.

C.A.R. Business Meeting Materials page:  http://www.car.org/meetings/carmeetings/currentmeetingmaterials/

The C.A.R. State Legislative Issues Report (SLIR) is also available on the web. The Report is prepared by the Association’s Governmental Affairs staff for use by C.A.R. policy committees as a foundation for policy development.  All policy committee members are encouraged to use this document as a resource throughout the year.  The 2009 Report can be found by clicking here: http://www.car.org/governmentalaffairs/statelegislation/slir/

PLEASE NOTE: The SLIR is in excess of 80 pages. It may be beneficial to only select portions of this document that pertain to the issue area your committee is addressing. Please review these materials before the January 2009 Board of Directors Meetings.

Please print and review these materials before our meeting on January 22, 2009; I look forward to seeing you in Monterey.

Agenda
Agenda Summary  
Bankruptcy Laws
S.A.F.E. Act Implementation of Loan Originator Licenses
"Shortclosure" Legislation
Lender Pre-Foreclosure Access to Default Properties
Evaluating Proposals for Sponsored Legislation