"Door County Real Estate" by: Kevin Nordahl, REALTOR®
REALTOR® DESIGNATIONS
Average home buyers and sellers rarely pay notice to the three letter acronyms tagged onto a business card or letterhead after an agent’s name. Have you ever wondered why some REALTORS® have them and why some don’t?
These designations are most often associated with national organizations within the REALTOR® community that have established benchmark training courses which designated agents must take. It’s a bit like taking a college elective. It usually doesn’t matter for graduation but it expands the student’s breadth of knowledge within their chosen field.
These courses will identify REALTOR® members as having accomplished a core collection of coursework and membership into an elite group of individuals in the real estate business. Such designations such as the Graduate REALTOR® Institute, GRI or the Council of Residential Specialists, CRS or Accredited Buyer Representative, ABR are just a few. As a consumer you get the knowledge of knowing that a REALTOR® with such credentials has taken courses designed to make their fields of practice up-to-date with industry trends and consumer needs.
Additional information on what these courses entail and how agents benefit from them is available at www.realtor.org.
Kevin Nordahl is a life-long resident of Door County, a REALTORŪ and a member of the Door County MLS. He is a Past President of the Door County Board of REALTORS® and a Senior Sales Consultant at Coldwell Banker Door County Horizons in Fish Creek. He may be reached online at knordahl@doorcountyrealestate.com or by phone at (920) 493-4004.
Kevin Nordahl is a life-long resident of Door County, a REALTORŪ and a member of the Door County MLS. He is a Past President of the Door County Board of REALTORS® and a Senior Sales Consultant at Coldwell Banker Door County Horizons in Fish Creek. He may be reached online at