Real Estate Rewards Takes the Stress out of Relocating for 20-Year Union Member
Union Plus is here to help our fellow union members navigate any residential move. Check out our tips and offers and make your move a lot less stressful and expensive.
Moving has to be among the most stressful of life events — from the house hunting and home buying process to the packing (some purging) and physical relocation of your worldly possessions. There are change-of-address notices to send out, and often new jobs and new schools take a social, even psychological, toll.
When 20-year BRS-member, Howard Forte, and his wife first started shopping around for a different address several months back, it was with great apprehension. Real-estate agents weren’t high on their list of favorite people.
“We’ve owned before — this was our second time purchasing a home,” said Forte. “We’ve just always had a difficult time with real estate in general.”
His expectations already abysmally low, Forte found a local real estate agent through the Union Plus Real Estate Rewards Program, powered by SIRVA.
“Rosemarie Cazzorla and her associate agent at Century 21 have been absolutely amazing,” said Forte. “She helped us purchase our home in North Bellmore, N.Y. We just moved in a few days ago and she’s still helping us with stuff now. They’re the most amazing agents we’ve ever worked with.”
The Union Plus Real Estate Rewards Program features:
- Union members receive $50 for every $10,000 in home value after closing when they use a Real Estate Rewards agent to buy or sell a home,
- Over 4,600 agents participate in the program throughout the U.S. which means a local agent is easy to find,
- And every SIRVA agent is pre-screened as the best, based upon performance, service and coverage around you.
A long-time signalman for the Long Island Railroad, Forte is looking at a daily commute of about 30 minutes from North Bellmore into the city, where his wife also works. While the couple and their three children are still getting settled, they’re already enjoying their new home — though the kids would prefer it came with a dog! “Maybe in a few years,” said Forte.
Union Plus is here to help our fellow union members navigate any residential move. Check out our tips and offers and make your move a lot less stressful and expensive.
Find a real estate agent and save some money. By leveraging our relationship with SIRVA –one of the world’s largest moving and relocation companies – and their network of preferred real estate agents, SIRVA Home Benefits is able to connect you with real estate agents that are trusted by FORTUNE® 1000 companies and offer you cash back after closing.*
Learn more or Call 800-284-9756
When you search for a mortgage, don't forget to consider the Union Plus Mortgage program. The Union Plus Mortgage program can help you purchase a home while also receiving special benefits by virtue of your union membership.
*Certain state restrictions apply to the real estate cash back program. To qualify for cash back reward (in cash back states), you must use a SIRVA-referred real estate agent. Program designed as a referral service to provide you the opportunity to select a real estate agent to meet your needs. You must evaluate the brokers, agents and their services and make selections and decisions based upon your best judgment, interest, priorities and concerns. Call 800.284.9756 or visit UP-RealEstateRewards.com for important program details and state restrictions. The minimum home value required for cash back or reduced commission is $75,000. There is no monetary reward for members, who use the program to buy a home, in non-cash back states. You must use a program-referred real estate agent in order to qualify for the cash back reward.
SIRVA is an independent provider of services. Union Plus is not affiliated with SIRVA and does not manage SIRVA or its programs.
SIRVA is paying Union Plus for advertising services including dissemination of information about SIRVA and its programs to participating unions and their members as well as participation in Union Plus events and programs. No referral, recommendation, service representation or exclusivity requirement is intended by the Union Plus’s mention or dissemination of the SIRVA name and delivery of this information to participating union members. It is important that you evaluate the information provided and make decisions based upon your own best interest, priorities, and concerns.