Immediate Past President

Gary Rogers, ABR, CRS
RE/MAX First Realty
689 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
781/891-1600
Garydwl@msn.com

Waltham resident and broker Gary Rogers of RE/MAX First Realty in Waltham, will serve as immediate past president of the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® (MAR) in 2010.

As the immediate past president of the Association, Rogers will serve in an advisory capacity to the MAR president, act as an association spokesperson, and assist in the administration of the affairs of MAR between meetings of the MAR Board of Directors.  In this role, he also will serve on the MAR Executive Committee and Board of Directors during 2010.

A REALTOR® since 1994, Rogers served as MAR President in 2009.  Prior to being elected president, Rogers served as president-elect in 2008 and MAR secretary-treasurer in 2006 and 2007.  He has been a member of the Building Task Force, Finance, REALTOR® of the Year, Professional Standards, Milton H. Shaw Award and Investment, Leadership Development, and Disaster Assistance Relief Committees.  He was chairman of the Personnel Committee in 2006 and the Finance Committee in 2006 and 2007.  In 2005, Rogers was named MAR REALTOR® of the Year.

On the local level, Rogers served two consecutive terms on the Professional Standards Committee and served as a regional director of the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® (GBAR) in 2005, a division of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.  The 2005 chairman of the GBAR’s Regional Outreach Task Force, he has been an active member of his local association’s Professional Standards Committee since 2003.  He previously served as president of the local association’s Council K in 2001.

On the national level, Rogers serves on the Membership Policy and Board Jurisdiction Committee, REALTOR® Political Involvement Committee, and on the Strategic Planning Committees of the National Association of Realtors®.

Rogers has successfully earned the Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) and Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) professional real estate designations.