Originally Posted by
Richard Stanley
Last time I looked over there, they were "limiting" the membership to only 10,000 and were weeding out the deadwood to make room for the multitudes waiting to join.
With the demise of the housing boom and the relentless pursuit of licensing legislation everywhere it is highly likely that membership has suffered a blow across all organizations.
Once licensing is established everywhere though chances are real good associations will become powerless and most likely obsolete, well at least those national associations who traded the control of their SoP for a bowl of porridge.