The Florida Association of Mortgage Professionals has voted to "pursue re-affiliation" with the National Association of Mortgage Brokers.
Once one of NAMB's largest state chapters, FAMP split from the parent group two years ago over issues involving dues increases.
Now, pending some minor issues regarding a dues structure that would allow the Sunshine State's brokers to be members of the state group without joining the national organization, they will reunite.
"All that's about is math and timing, and that's the easy part," said NAMB executive vice president Roy DeLoach, indicating re-affiliation is a foregone conclusion. "It's great that we can once again speak as one voice."
At the Florida group's annual convention in Orlando, where the vote was taken, Joe Falk, a past NAMB president from Miami, said, "I'm very pleased that after a period of great disagreement, the two groups are going to get back together again."
In its heyday, the Florida group had some 4,200 members. Now, it counts only about 1,500.
According to Allan Lenentine of Certified Mortgage Planners in Lake Mary, who is secretary of FAMP's Central Florida Chapter, NAMB approached the Florida group about re-affiliation, and he's "glad it did. I didn't want us to separate. I think it is great and I fully support it."
