“There’s a ton of benefits to becoming a member of MEREDA. MEREDA is an advocate so it’s helping the industry. I’m on the commercial lending side so to the extent we’re able to develop; I’m able to finance those things, so that’s good. The educational piece, and this is an example of it [the 2011 Spring Conference], you learn an awful lot from the best people in the industry through what MEREDA does. There’s also a very good networking capability here. Again you take a look at the breaks here, they have breakfast sessions as well, and social gatherings and anybody really who’s involved in the commercial real estate business, it’s not just the developers, it’s the brokers, it’s the bankers, it’s the architects, it’s everybody, they’re all there, all in one spot and so that’s a huge benefit.”