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Mahoney Recruits 21 New Memphis Remodelers This Year
 Pat Mahoney, chair of the Memphis Area Home Builders Association Remodelors® Council in Tennessee and one of this year’s Bryan Patchan scholarship winners, recruited 21 new remodelers since the beginning of the year as part of the national council’s “7 in '07” membership recruitment campaign.
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The NAHB Remodelers’ “7 in '07” campaign rewards successful recruiters with prizes, NAHB-wide recognition through several of the association’s e-newsletters and with Spike credits that are applied toward an invitation to a private reception.
The Bryan Patchan Scholarship is a $1,000 award given to the chairman or vice-chairman of a local NAHB remodelers council for travel expenses to attend the NAHB Spring Board of Directors meeting in Washington, D.C.
Mahoney focused on recruiting the people he did business with who were not yet members and he touted the knowledge and education available through NAHB as a particular member benefit.
“I shamed a few people into joining,” Mahoney laughed. “I said, ‘If you’re in this business, you have to get involved. Things in the remodeling industry are different than in new construction, and you need to be up-to-date on what’s going on.’”
“If you don’t hang out with other home building professionals, you’ll find out important information after the fact — instead of when everything’s current,” Mahoney said, while pointing out that getting colleagues and friends to join NAHB is good for the industry and good for himself.
“You get out what you put into it,” Mahoney said. “You can’t afford not to be involved.”
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