IRM Welcomes 157 New Sales Designees to the Fold

More than 150 new home sales professionals were inducted into the Institute for Residential Marketing (IRM) Class of 2006 during a commencement breakfast at the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla. earlier this month.

The graduation class included:

• 47 new inductees as Members of the Institute of Residential Marketing (MIRM) — the top-level of achievement for professionals in new home marketing
• 61 new Certified New Home Marketing Professionals (CMP) — the mid-level designation for IRM students who have completed the marketing-intensive IRM courses I through IV
• 49 new Master Certified New Home Sales Professionals (Master CSP) — to acknowledge additional educational achievements of Certifed New Home Sales Professional graduates
  
  

The inductees were honored during a breakfast at the builders’ show on Jan. 11.

Several awards were also presented during the breakfast.

Long-time MIRM, Dan Levitan, of Levitan and Associates, Inc. in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., was given the IRM President’s Award. Levitan has been involved in the IRM education program since its inception 33 years ago. IRM is “a phenomenal educational opportunity and a phenomenal networking opportunity,” Levitan said.

Another long-time MIRM, Kay Green, of Kay Green Design, Inc. in Orlando, Fla., received the Trina Ripley Excellence in Education Award at the breakfast. Green, a commercial and interior designer, is also an instructor of NAHB IRM qualifying courses. Her son, Aaron Jennings, received his CMP designation at the breakfast.

For more information about the Institute of Residential Marketing, visit www.nahb.org/designations.

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