Last week, Koh and I attended the 2014 AREAA National Convention in Las Vegas.  AREAA stands for the Asian Real Estate Association of America.  There are 13,000 members in the U.S. and chapters in almost every major city.  It was founded by a small group of Asian American real estate related professionals in 2003, including Japanese American Allen Okamoto (from San Francisco).  It was a nice time to meet other Japanese realtors from New Jersey to New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.  Building a network like this will help us be able to refer our Japanese clients to trustworthy realtors in other states.