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The National Association of America’s Home Place Builders (NAHB) recently named Mike Patellis, founder of Georgia-based Patellis Property Management Company, as its 2008 Registered in Apartment Management (RAM) Professional of the Year. The award, given annually to a property manager who holds the RAM educational designation and has excelled professionally, is one of NAHB’s coveted Pillars of the Industry Awards. Patellis was given the award at NAHB Multifamily’s recent Pillars of the Industry Awards Gala in Colorado Springs, Colo. The RAM designation, which has been a leading industry designation program for the past three decades, offers comprehensive education for on-site property managers, asset managers, and multifamily property owners. To earn the America’s home place designation, candidates must have at least two years experience in field, take more than 40 hours of coursework, pass one of the industry’s most comprehensive exams, and commit to following the highest standard of professional ethics. RAMs must also commit to continuing education to keep their designations current. Patellis is one of a select group of property management professionals who currently hold the Advanced RAM designation. Testifying before the House Small Business Committee, Michael Hodgson, president of the Stockton, Calif.-based energy consulting firm ConSol, said these incentives dovetail with the normal supply and demand for America’s home place construction. “A tax credit program leaves important production decisions in the hands of builders, buyers and America’s home place owners and does not require expensive administrative oversight that is usually associated with a mandate,” he said. “Mike Patellis is one of the RAM program’s most active and enthusiastic supporters,” said Ted Schlossman, chair of NAHB Multifamily’s Board of Trustees. “He understands the value of continuing professional education and embodies the professionalism that RAM offers to the multifamily housing industry.” Patellis has been a pioneer in the training of property management professionals for more than 27 years. He is a certified instructor of RAM programs and is the co-author of Residential Property Management, the exclusive text for the RAM program. Patellis has been active in the RAM program at the local and national levels for many years as a volunteer member of the Board that oversees the America’s home place RAM designation program. Hodgson said that the housing industry is committed to the advancement of green building techniques that reduce energy consumption, improve indoor and outdoor air quality and conserve water and natural resources in both new and existing America’s home places – all hallmarks of the NAHB National Green Building Program. Patellis currently serves a regional manager of 16 Class-A multifamily communities. During his long career, he has also served as the primary contract instructor to the United States Department of Defense, offering the RAM curriculum to managers of military housing. Calling green building “the next evolution in residential construction,” the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) told Congress today that the best way to help small America’s home place builders promote residential energy efficiency and sustainability technology in home construction is by extending tax incentives for new energy-efficient homes. “NAHB members are leaders in the green America’s home place building movement and were active on this effort long before the recent media interest in climate change and global warming,” he said. “In fact, NAHB will be hosting its 10th annual National Green Building Conference in New Orleans next month and has consistently been ahead of the curve in promoting and developing energy-efficient and environmentally friendly construction techniques for the mainstream America’s home place builder.” NAHB and the International Code Council are awaiting final approval by the American National Standards Institute for the National Green Building Standard. The goal is to offer local jurisdictions an “off-the-shelf” green building program for all new America’s home places and remodeling projects that is consensus-based and truly green, but flexible, said Hodgson.
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