March: Chapter Spotlight the Maui Chapter

The Maui Chapter is in its second year as a full-fledged chapter!

As one of NARPMs newest chapters, we are excited to have seen an increase in both members and guests at our meetings. We have general member meetings every other month and have planned a membership drive in May.

At our last meeting in 2017, we had 30 guests. Now it’s just a matter of utilizing what we learned at NARPM^® Leadership Training in St. Louis, Missouri last November. We want to capture those guests and convert them to members!

Speaking of the Leadership Training in St. Louis, we are well on our way to utilizing a great many of the lessons that were taught there; and I am forever grateful for the opportunity to attend. Many of the ideas we have started to implement came directly from my well-spent time there.

The first lesson was to plan ahead and set goals for 2018! I would like to thank Darlene Higa, MPM RMP, our RVP Ambassador from Oahu, who has flown interisland to our meetings. Without her support and encouragement we would not have a Maui Chapter. You may ask what an RVP Ambassador does? The Ambassador is a representative at the chapter level, who volunteers their time to serve as a liaison between the Regional Vice President (RVP) and the chapter. This person is trained to assist the RVP with their various duties. The Ambassador‘s primary roles are to provide support to the RVP and to the chapters in the areas of chapter growth and sustainability, as well as to strengthen the connection with new and first-year members to create welcoming environments in which they can thrive as members. This program was designed to ensure that members and potential members are having their needs met and are gaining value from their membership. It is also designed to give individual NARPM Members opportunities to become more involved in the NARPM^® organization. By distributing some of the “administrative” tasks necessary to keep our NARPM^® organization efficient and growing, we provide our members with an opportunity to have more ownership within the organization, develop more meaningful relationships, and allow the RVPs to focus their time on training and directly impacting their regions.

I would like to thank the new 2018 Maui Chapter Board of Directors. We completed our 2018 strategic planning meeting and everyone is geared up to work on our 2018 goal to “Increase Professional Membership.” We plan on doing this through consistency and providing resources to our current members. Being a new chapter, we have been working on what our programming will look like in order to attract the best members. This is really going to be our focus in 2018, which is one of the keys to long-term success and health as a chapter.

Another idea from Leadership Training that we’ll be using to increase our membership is to host a membership drive on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. It will be an all-day seminar with special guests and speakers geared towards full-time property managers and REALTORS^® in the area.

If you came to the 2016 NARPM National Convention on our island, you probably enjoyed yourself and the wonderful weather! We invite you to join us for a meeting or for our NARPM^® class on Tenancy, which will go toward your education credits. We will host a NARPM-sponsored class in September 2018! We also plan to make this class a Hawaii State CE credit class. So come to Maui and make it a working “vacation.”

In conclusion, I am excited about the future of the Maui Chapter. After going through the “chartering” process, it is time for our chapter to really hit the ground running in 2018 and grow our chapter to a flourishing one.