At the end of his historic two-year term as president of the National Association of Realtors, Kevin Sears reflects on his legacy, the DOJ, 50-year mortgages and more.
Source: Inman News
NAR’s Kevin Sears: We need to ‘show everybody that we as Realtors are pro-consumer’
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