Business View Magazine Feb 2023

40 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 the pandemic created, such as the increased stress put on local Realtors®, the need to work around COVID protocols, and the need to combat buyers’ fears during the pandemic. “We just didn’t know what the future held and people who already lived here, who may have transferred into our area, and companies that might have expanded didn’t either,” he added. Since 2020, McBrayer relays that interest in the association has continued to increase. “I was the RPAC Chair in 2020 and COVID-19 had a negative impact on investments but the following year and ever since we have exceeded our goals because more of our 10,500+ members have come to realize the importance of investing in RPAC.” The region itself, McBrayer pinpoints, was another reason that the pandemic did not deter the work of the association and the business seen by local Realtors® serving the area. “Raleigh and the Triangle are very well positioned due to low taxes, good public education, great health care, good climate and it is centrally located between the Tim McBrayer President-Elect