----  In our first two years, we launched a professionally managed public relations campaign to promote Rogers Park in a more positive light.

 

---- Later in the 90's, we worked with community leaders, including Alderman Joe Moore, to deal with issues pertaining to bad landlords and, in the late ‘90s, a horrific condo scam and fraud that impacted dozens of buildings.

 

---- Contributed needed funds and support for many community organizations, schools and individuals seeking to build the community. RPBG funds helped launch such ideas as a Farmers’ Market, the Glenwood Arts Festival, and in recent years, a multi-year commitment towards improving Sullivan High School and supporting Chicago Math & Science Academy.

 

---- Provided a network where investors, property owners, managers, developers, bankers, brokers and other real estate professionals mingle, engage in business and learn best practices in owning multifamily properties.

 

---- Support our members who are developers as they propose new projects in the community.

 

---- A tradition starting in 1996, we create and distribute a highly informative quarterly newsletter, The Builder, which reports on key local developments and other issues impacting investment.

 

---- Serve as a founding member of the city wide Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance (NBOA), which advocates on behalf of neighborhood property owners on a range of issues, including maintaining the ban on rent control and opposing the Bring Chicago Home Ordinance.