R-BAR NEWS & EVENTS
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That's what you'll say and how many people you'll need to get together to sign up for the Annual R-BAR Golf Outing on Wednesday, September 22nd at Willow Hollow! Click here for all details!
TRIPLEPLAY - December 7-9, 2010, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Registration for the 10th Annual TriplePlay Convention (which promises to be the best ever!) opens Sept. 7th! Click here for a sneak peek!
2010 School Tax Rates - effective July 1, 2010. Please click here for the current information.
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FHA Update:
FHA Refis for Underwater Borrowers
FHA has launched a refinancing program to assist homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than their home is worth. Beginning Sept. 7, the agency will offer qualified non-FHA borrowers the opportunity to refinance with an FHA-insured mortgage on their primary residence. Borrowers must be current on their existing mortgage, qualify under FHA underwriting requirements, and have a credit score of at least 500. The first lien holder must agree to write off at least 10 percent of the remaining amount owed under the mortgage, bringing the combined loan-to-value ratio of all mortgages to no more than 115 percent. The LTV for the new FHA mortgage may not exceed 97.75 percent. The Treasury Department will provide incentives to second lien holders who agree to forgive all or part of their liens.
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PAR JUST LISTED NEWS:
Podcast: Increase sales with multicultural website Aug 23, 2010 Samantha Elliott Krepps
Click to listen to the podcast REALTORS® have free access to the Gonzales Group Experience, a multicultural website which is a repository of multicultural information, according to Dan Carrillo, managing partner of the Gonzales Group. "The website is a compilation of the research we've done and public information that we've repackaged," said Carrillo. Read more.
Today's consumers expect instant responses Aug 17, 2010 Kim Shindle
Putting the consumer's needs first is imperative to success, according to Marilyn Wilson of the WAV Group, a real estate research company. Read more.
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TREND UPDATE:
WANT LISTINGS DESELECTED ON REPORTS? CHANGE YOUR PREFERENCES
In June TREND released new MLS preferences that allow you to decide how to manage your "listing selection" process with our new interactive maps and the MLS. At the same time, they also released interactive maps into Public Records. The following are the new preferences that were added and what their defaults are:
· Search results selected by default: This preference lets you decide whether or not all of your results will be automatically selected or deselected. The default for this preference is: YES
· Show map by default: NO
· Print individual map (on client reports only): YES
· Print map of all listings: NO
The addition of these preferences will improve your report workflow and allow you to customize the MLS to work the way you want. When viewing your results in public records, all of your listings will be automatically deselected. This functionality has not changed.
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EDUCATION NEWS:
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