The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22
REALTORS WILL
 MEET TO FORM
 RENT DIVISION
Board Members Urged To
 Attend Conference Scheduled Tuesday

On Saturday, according to Executive: Secretary Starke, letters were mailed to the active members of the Birming- ham real estate board calling for an important meeting to be held at the offices of the board Tuesday at noon, looking to the organization of rental division. ks &
 The grouping of the board mem bers,"' explained Mir. Starke, lis in line with the effective working plan Estate Boards, which is divided into seven great divisions or departments under the following heads: Brokers, mortgage and finance, home builders and subdiyiders, farm lands, industrial, property management, and realtor sec retaries. There is a disposition to make even subdivisions of some of -the above departments when the necessity or the desirability of such action warrant 1t;
 The psychological meaning of this divisional form of working organiza- tion," continued the secretary, is sim pie enough and it's advantages are ap- parent to all who have given the mat ter any thought. Not all the mem bers of a large organization in any business are equally interested in every activity germane to it.. Again, men work better in smaller groups. Thus it is that the divisions serve both. the small office covering only one or. two activities and the large office, covering every phase of great business. In the latter case a representative can be en- rolled in each of the several divisions. :"
 Has Listing System
 The secretary further explained that the Birmingham real estate board al- ready has, its multiple listing group and it's sales division, and it now pro- poses to inaugurate the rental division, to be followed later by possibly a mort gage and finance division. The rental division will have, of course, it's own organization and machinery for work ing efficiently. .asa@
 s1t is earnestly hoped" added the secretary, "that Tuesdays meeting will be largely attended and will develop marked interest in this new project, which has been in the mind of some, of the realtors for many moRths. Now that the Birmingham realtors have; brought home from the Washington con- vention many new ideas and renewed enthusiasm for. their work, it is emi- nently wise to strike while the iron is hot and offer them a new form of ac- tivity in the Birmingham board.". l.
 An important project was started at last Thursdays regular meeting of the board, when Ebert Jemison, vice chair man of the sales division, presented to the general board suggestion from the sales division that the latter 'com- mittee on ethics meet with. the arbitra- tion committee of the general board with the purpose of putting in permanent form the rules of ethics of the sales division and of the general board. At tention was called to the sfact that the combined rules to govern the local realtors should be carefully made to conform in all necessary particulars to the code of ethics that has been adopted by the National Association of Real Estate Boards.
 To Publish Book
 It 5is now proposed" stated the sec retary5 Co publish the rules of ethics in-a year. book of the Birmingham real estate board for general distribution among its members and with limited supply for other judicious distribution. It is hoped to publish in sthis book a full list of the active and associate menl- bers of the board, many telling and out standing statistics in regard to Bfr- mingham. and other data of. live. inter- est to the property owners and tax payers of this district. It has been several years since a booklet of this character has been issued by the Bir- mingham board.
 'The above year book" concluded the. secretary, twill, of course, carry scale of charges for the official ap- praisals by the appraisement rcommit- tee. These -appraisals are made out on regular form, signed by fhe apprai. sers, the president and the executive secretary and are issued under the of ficial seal of the organization. This scale of charges for official appraisais should itself be of interest to banks. trust companies, executors and ad. ministraters of estates, and to all others acting in fiduciary relation to real estate that~so often calls. for an. ap- praisement of property values by men competent to perform such important