June 27 Update

Relocation Announcements

Bercen Inc. - Moving from Rhode Island to Livingston Parish, LA

FAA Offering Hefty Relocation Packages

According to United Press International and ABC News,the FAA has confirmed that they are offering $100,000 incentive bonuses to Air Traffic Controllers to relocate to new duty stations such as Westbury, LI and Aspen, CO among other cities.

Major Merger Action In Oklahoma

In the past several days there has been a flurry of merger action in the real estate community within the state. It started with Coldwell Banker Rader Group and Terry Garside Realtors combining operations to create Coldwell Banker Select. Then two days later, Coldwell Banker Select purchased the operations of Marilyn Pryor Realtors. The total combination created a firm of 700 agents and the largest brokerage in the State of Oklahoma.

Latest News From Relo Land

IRS Raises Mileage Rate

IRS has raised the rate for mileage reimbursements from $.505 per mile to $.585 per mile effective June 24, 2008

Manpower Releases Relocation Survey

A recent Manpower study presents an interesting challenge for today's employment market. Manpower interviewed nearly 28,000 employers and 31,000 employees worldwide. The results of the interviews presented a picture in which 37 percent of the employees said they were willing to relocate anywhere in the world for a better career, but 31 percent of the employers were worried about the talent they need migrating abroad away from their markets. The Chairman of Manpower stated that about 3 percent of the world's population are living and working away from their home country representing the highest percentage in history. Employee's under age 30 were more receptive to moving then their older peers. Men were willing to undertake longer assignment durations then women. The survey also found that the most popular destinations were the US, UK and Spain.

KBA announces Relocation

KBA North America announced that after more than 20 years is moving it's operations from Williston, VT to Dallas, TX in the summer of 2009 according to American Printer.

News from the front lines

Orion Mobility

Orion Mobility, co-sponsor of the 2008 CRP Review Seminar, has announced that September 22-24th they will conduct their 21st Annual Relocation Tax and Legal Seminar . It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, N.Y.

Challenges Ahead

Every year Jim Cathcart, author of the book Relationship Selling, send out a list of the rsults of the briefing given to the faculty at Beloit College. The purpose of the briefing is to help them understand the incoming freshmen. I would suggest to you the college is alsotalking about the transferees of the future. In this year's breifing they are talking about individuals who were born in the year 1986. Here is their frame of reference. Consider how that might affect the way you work with them when they becoming your transferring clients:

• They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagon Era and do not know he had ever been shot
• They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged
• Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression
• There has only been one pope and they can only really only remember one president
• They were 10 when the Soiet Union broke apart and they don't remember the cold war
• They have never feared a nuclear war
• They don't remember the Challenger explosion
• Tianamen Square means nothing to them
• Their lifetime has always included AIDS
• Bottle caps have always been screwed off and plastic
• Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums (one of our friends told us that they were looking at a turntable recently and their young son saw the reference to 33 1/3 RPM and asked them what that referred to)
• The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them beacuse they have never owned a record player
  
• They have never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong
• They have never heard of an 8-track
• Stamps have always cost about 32 cents
• They have always had an answering machine
• Most of them have never seen a TV with only 13 channels
• They have never seen a black and white TV
• They have always had cable
• There has always been VCR's, but don not ask them what Beta is
• They can't fathom not having a remote control
• They were born the year the Walkman was introduced
• Roller skating has always meant in-line
• Jay Leno has always been on the tonight show
• They have no idea why Jordache Jeans were cool
• Popcorn has always been cooked in a microwave
• They have never seen Larry Bird Play
• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws
• Viet Nam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII and the Civil War
• They have no idea that Americans were held hostage in Iran
• They can't imagine what hard contact lens are
• They don't know who Mork was or where he was from
• They never heard "Where's the Beef," "I'd Walk a mile for a camel." or "de plane, de plane."
• The Titanic was found? They thought we always knew where it was
• Michale Jackson has always been white
• Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America nd Alabama are places, not groups
• McDonald's never came in styrofoam containers
• There has always been MTV
• They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter
• They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. is
  

They are currently 22 years of age, that means in another two to four years they will be our transferees. Are we prepared to deal with them?

Dan

California imposes new restrictions on Relo

Layers and Settlements.com recently reported that an employee was able to sue his employer because California statutes state that "NO person, or agent or officer thereof, directly or indirectly, shall influence,persuade, or engage any person to change from one place to another in this State or from any place outside to any place within the state, or from any place outside, for the purpose of working in any branch of labor, through or by means of knowingly false representations, whether spoken, written,advertised in printing form concerning either a) the kind, character, or existence of work or b) the length of time such work will last, or the compensation therefore. It further states that violation of this statute subjects the violator to civil action for double damages. Action can be brought by the injured employee, his assigns or successors without establishing criminal liability.
In the case discussed an employee was asked to move to another city. Once he arrived they cut his base pay. They also made no mention of covering his relocation costs.

CRP 2008 Seminar Results

The results are in and DBAI set a new record with this year's review. The seminar was attended by 18 individuals and each and every one passed the exam. In 18 years of conducting the seminar we have never had a perfect score from every one in the class. Congratulations to all.

June 1, 2008 Update

ThyssenKrupp to Relocate and Cut 160 positions

ThyssenKrupp plans to move its operations in Janesville to Auburn Hills, Michigan by the end of September. In the process it will eliminate 160 positions from its payroll.

Coldwell Banker United Continues to Grow

Coldwell Banker United REALTORS has expanded its market by acquiring Sandpiper Real Estate Group in Charleston, SC and Dean-Kelby Realtors in Summerville. The company now has 77 residential offices, 3 commercial offices, 2400 sales associates and 450 employees covering six states