On this episode, we are joined by two commercial real estate brokers that are passionate about their industry and believe that involvement in trade, advocacy, and industry associations to influence policy is important to them, but should also be important to you.

D. Scott McLain, CCIM, of Huntsville, Alabama, is Principal and Managing Broker at Coldwell Banker Commercial McLain Real Estate. Scott is a retail developer, advocate for downtown redevelopment, and proponent of adaptive reuse of existing real estate improvements. In June of this year, Scott was lobbying on Capitol Hill with other ICSC members, the national retail real estate association.

Kimberly Iler-Morgan, is a Commercial Real Estate Broker in Savannah, Georgia for over 15 years. On Feb. 15 of this past year, at the request of the Georgia Association of Realtors President, Kim Iler-Morgan testified in front of the House Small Business Development Committee on behalf of the Commercial Alliance. They spoke on the increasing difficulty of buying and selling property, especially affordable property.