News Release

John McAllister Realty Consulting
420 Aiken Hunt Circle - Columbia, SC 29223 - Office 803-788-7168 - Fax 803-699-1270

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 25, 2002
Contact: John A. McAllister, Jr., Accredited Land Consultant, John McAllister Realty Consulting
               Office 803-788-7168, john@jmalc.com

Chicago, IL - John A. McAllister, Jr., ALC was selected REALTORS® Land Institute Member of The Month for August 2002. Mr. McAllister was designated by The REALTORS® Land Institute Board of Governors as an Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) earlier this year. He is President and a charter member of the South Carolina Chapter of the REALTORS® Land Institute. Under his leadership the chapter membership has more than doubled. The South Carolina Chapter of The REALTORS® Land Institute sponsored education courses, hosted numerous networking opportunities and developed a comprehensive plan of action. The chapter took a bold stand supporting the United States Department of Commerce's position that Canada's provisional government unfairly subsidizes their lumber industry, and urged an end to unfair trade practices that jeopardize the US economy, forest industry, and land values. Mr. McAllister represented the state at the REALTORS® Land Institute midyear legislative conference in Washington, DC in May 2002 and the annual conference in November 2001 in Chicago, IL. He serves on The REALTORS® Land Institute Board of Governors, is Vice-Chairman of The Development Land Committee, and is a member of the South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia Chapters of the REALTORS® Land Institute. In recognition of his leadership the South Carolina REALTORS® Land Institute awarded him the 2001 Thad S. Cwik Leadership Award. He has recently participated in a work group at National Association of REALTORS® Headquarters in Chicago to determine operational policies for each staff and member position within the REALTORS® Land Institute.

Mr. McAllister founded John McAllister Realty Consulting in 2001 and serves as Broker in Charge. He has over 25 years experience in the real estate profession, and is licensed to practice real estate in South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina. His practice is focused on five specialized areas: (1) plantations and timberland, (2) undeveloped tracts of land, (3) transitional and development land, (4) subdivision and wholesaling of lots and (5) site selection and assemblage of land parcels. Mr. McAllister is a graduate of The Citadel. He is also a graduate of the Executive Program of Professional Management Education at the Kenan-Flager School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a graduate of the program for Senior Managers in Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mr. McAllister is a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. He is married to The Honorable Carolyn Matthews, Administrative Law Judge. They have three daughters and live in Columbia, South Carolina.

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