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January 18
Lunch & Learn: Historic Districts
January 20
Re-21: Around the Table January 26 Core Course January 27 New Member Orientation Ethics Seminar February 1 Broker Only Luncheon February 2 Lunch & Learn: Getting in Good Form February 8 Lunch & Learn: Gen Y
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Need a unique closing gift? Try a Homeowner's Book of Records! Visit the ACAR Store - Now open! |
Looking for Affordable Sign Riders? The ACAR Store has more than 18 different ones available - Starting at only $8 each! |
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Greetings!
After 4 ˝ years, the very successful Agent2Agent has run its course, so we said our final goodbyes with a special celebration in December. Now we are ready to Ignite 2012 with a revolutionary new program designed for ACAR Members with a new name, new location, new time, and new format.
MATCH
The Clubhouse Events Center
7311 W. Potomac Drive (former First American Title)
Thursday, February 16th - 9:45 to 11:00 AM
To allow adequate time for the planning committee to finalize details, there is no event scheduled for January, but mark your calendar to "Meet At The Club House " (MATCH) in February to connect with your colleagues through meaningful face-to-face interactive networking. You won't want to miss it! |
2012 Circle of Excellence Banquet: Applications Due to Broker This Week
Applications for 2011 production and honor society awards are due to your broker by Friday, January 20th.
Brokers, all your documentation is due to ACAR by Friday, January 27th.
The 2012 Circle of Excellence banquet is Saturday, March 10th at Boise Centre on the Grove.
All applications, nomination forms and sponsorship forms are available at www.myACARonline.com.
Tickets to the banquet go on sale Thursday, February 9th. Get your ticket order form here.
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2011 December sales were 477 in Ada County, a decrease of 9% over December 2010.
Total sales for 2011 are 6,299; up 7% over 2010. In July of 2011, we exceeded YTD 2010 sales for the first time in 2011. This is our first year-over-year increase, without influence of the home buyer tax credit, in a few years. This is our first time crossing the 6,000 homes sold threshold since 2007...how long ago that seems!
December sales decreased 3% from November's 487. Historically, December sales decrease from November.
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NAR is pleased to introduce REALTORS® Dental Insurance, an affordable and valuable benefit for NAR members nationwide.
REALTORS® Dental Insurance plans are the only dental plans designed exclusively for National Association of REALTORS® members and their families. Plans provide coverage for preventive, basic, and major dental expenses with the dentist of your choice. There are four plans to choose from and most plans include bonus benefits like orthodontia, professional whitening, dental rewards, and more.
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4 Ways to ID Borrower-Assistance Scammers
Scammers have targeted delinquent borrowers during the past few years, hoping to take advantage of their desperation and financial inexperience. Their approach typically involves posing as a representative of a nonprofit or government agency who can help with a loan modification or some other form of assistance.
Sheri Stuart, education manager at Springboard Nonprofit Consumer Counseling, says she frequently encounters consumers at courses offered by her organization who have been victimized by these scams. Stuart says she recently met a couple from Southern California at one of these events who'd paid $3,000 to a fraudulent company in an attempt to keep their home out of foreclosure
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The Future of Real Estate?
Enter a world where robots, holograms, and even time travel might well upend the business of buying and selling property as we know it.
It's not as implausible as you might think. Popular Science reported in 2010 on IBM's work developing digital billboards that display individualized ads. They pick up data from radio-frequency identification chips embedded in your credit cards or cell phone to retrieve details about you and your spending habits and serve up an advertisement just for you. Is it so odd to think that it could plug your name into that? Or measure changes in your body chemistry to figure out that you're slightly dehydrated and could use something cold and refreshing right about now?
What would that kind of individualized marketing do for real estate listings? How would it change multiple listing systems?
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How to turn leads into real estate clients
Real estate professionals take note: The key to converting online leads into clients is to make sure consumers have an "amazing" experience start to finish, beginning with your website, according to a panel of speakers at Real Estate Connect Wednesday.
Simply put, a website needs to be easy on the eyes; interactions with agents should be nonintrusive; and agents should respond to questions quickly, speakers said.
But the oft-overlooked nitty-gritty of website design is also important: Which headlines are most likely to make a visitor stay on a page and fill out a contact form?
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