Now that I am a NARPM member I was reading the latest newsletter and read a nice invite from Gail Phillips to try out the Yahoo User Group for NARPM. The way I read the invite is that the group is for all NARPM members.
I thought this was really neat idea, especially since I have given NARPM a hard time before about not building a sense of community online.
So I went to that page and then requested to join the group. After about 45 minutes I got the follow in my email:
“Your request to join the narpmceos group was not approved.
The moderator of each Yahoo! group chooses whether to restrict membership in the group. Moderators who choose to restrict membership also choose whom to admit.”
Oops! Looks like I got rejected. Did I do something wrong?
When I did my interview with Sylvia Hill she told me in the interview once I became a member that I would have access to all these neat things online.
I guess someone at NARPM doesn’t like me - or I misread Gail’s invite to participate.
Update 6/1/07: In the latest NARPM headquarters report from Gail Phillips writes:
“This list serve is just for Professional members of NARPM.”
I went to check what a “Professional Member” is defined as on the NARPM site and it appears to not include affiliate members like myself. I take exception that I am excluded from this online community if NARPM doesn’t have anything else for me to participate in online.
I am sorry to make a big deal out of this but access to that list serve was the primary reason I joined NARPM. In the podcast interview I had with Sylvia before I joined NARPM, she stated that the “most active one (list serve) is one that all members can join”. So I guess I need to find out which one is the most popular - perhaps I am wrong here and I am not sure which one is the most active.
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I’ve read the item that you talked about. What seems to be forgotten is that when NARPM talks about “member” they mean Property Manager member, not affiliate member. I know that to me a member is a member is a member but many real estate membership communities look at membership differently.
Thanks Wendy, I was thinking a “member” is member too.
I am feeling left out of the online NARPM community - am I wrong in saying that they will happily take my $245 a year but they don’t want me to be a part of their community online?
I am new to NARPM, perhaps they have something else for me to participate in and I have just not found it yet.
Just an update, I emailed with someone from the management group that runs NARPM and that person indicated that I did not misread Gail’s invite and the newsletter is not geared towards affiliate members.
I think that stinks! You provide a valueable service to narpm and there members!
Hmmm…Maybe that is why they have a low membershio in my area????
There are over 100+ P.M. in my area but only a handful of narpm members…I wonder why????