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 Your Internal News Broadcast
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Effective Marketing in a Digital Era  Friday, February 8th8:30-12:30As a result of a grant awarded by the National Association of REALTORS, the Rockford Area REALTORS will be hosting a Signature Series Program called, Effective Marketing in a Digital Era. Award winning International instructor for CCIM Institute, Todd Clarke, will demonstrate to students how to harness the powerful tool of the internet and how to implement social marketing into your business plan. Mr. Clarke is the award winning author of the "Gadgets" column in IREM's Journal of Property Management. If you make it difficult for potential customers to find you or see you as relevant, they will use your competition! Click here to read more or go to raarmls.com to register. Top of Page
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New Forms for 2013
After many months of hard work, your Forms and Contract Task Force has developed a new Short Sale Rider for your use. The Association Attorneys will be explaining the usage of this form at the January Hot Topic Series on Monday, January 14th at 1:30pm at the Association Meeting Facility.  This will not be a short sale transaction education session, but simply instruction for usage of the new form. Effect January 1st, the Illinois Radon Awareness Act has been revised resulting in a new Radon Disclosure Form. The verbiage of "all available records" was changed to read "most current available records". In other words, if a Seller has a bad radon test and has the system mitigated and retested, only the retest needs to be disclosed to the Buyer. Both of these new forms are available on your Paragon MLS site located in the "MLS Documents" tab. Also as a reminder note, effective January 1st, 2012, the Illinois Radon Awareness Act requires written disclosure for certain landlords and tenants if Landlord has received test results indicating that a radon hazard may exist. Top of Page
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Having Problems Opening PDFs?
If you have been having problems opening PDF files that are embedded, through links, in our Constant Contact e-mail communications below are some directions for you to check.
Sometimes your Adobe browser add-ons can cause viewing issues. By following the steps below, you can force all PDF files to open in Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
1. Start Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
2. Choose Edit > Preferences.
3. Select "Internet" in the list of the left.
4. Uncheck "Display PDF in Browser".
5. Click OK.
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New Laws for 2013
On January 1, 2013, the Senate and House passed H.R. 8, legislation to avert the "fiscal cliff," the bill will be signed by President Obama on January 2, 2013.
Click here to view the Real Estate Provisions in the Fiscal Cliff bill.
You also may want to view the December IAR Legal Webinar, if you haven't already, which covered many areas including  an amendment to the cell phone usage bill for construction areas and school zones, amendment to the Security Deposit Return Act, and Amendment ot the Property Tax Code. Reminders were also discussed about the requirements for electronic signature documents, record keeeping requirements and laws for sponsoring brokers when their agents retire or when the sponsoring broker ceases business operations.
To view the webinar in its entirety Click here.
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Update Your Internet Browsers
With the ongoing decline in usage of Internet Explorer 8 and extremely low usage numbers for Opera browsers, Your Paragon MLS System will no longer support these browsers as of Monday, February 4, 2013. Paragon will continue to suport the most recent versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (9&10) browsers on a rolling basis along with the compatible browsers for iPad 1-3 and Android Tablets. Detailed Compatible Browser documentation is always available via the Paragon Connect site. Top of Page
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MLS Updates  It is now over 30 days since you went live with your new MLS. The Rockford Area REALTORS will continue to send out "Frequently Asked Questions" to assist you in your day to day operations. Those will be sent via your e-mail so be sure to watch for our communications. It has been determined that your Legacy System will remain accessible for an indefinite period of time. This will give you the same limited capabilities which were extended in December. The MLS Committee will be meeting in January to assess the needs versus the progress on forms and new system fixes. Top of Page
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Heads Up Stagers
You will be seeing green in 2013. Plan on incorporating  some emerald in your home decor this year. Pantone LLC, a global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries has named Pantone 17-5641TCX Emerald as the color of the year.
To read more about what certain colors say about your home read NAR's Styled, Stagged & Sold Blog.
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS
January 3rd
Finance Committee 1:30pm
Affordable/Fair Housing Committee 4:00pm
January 9th
RPAC Committee 1:00pm
January 14th
REALTOR of the Year 2:00pm
January 15th
Executive Committee 12:00pm
January 16th
Education Committee 1:30pm
January 17th
Board of Directors 2:00pm
C&I Committee 3:00pm
EVENTS
January 3rd
Instanet Webinar- Session A 9:00am
January 10th & 11th
Broker Management Course
9:00am
January 10th
Instanet Webinar-Session B
9:00am
January 14
Hot Topic Series-1:30pm
Short Sale Rider
January 25th
CE- COR1625A- 9:00am
CE-Reducing Radon Risk- 1:00pm
February 8th
Effective Marketing
in a Digital Era
8:30am-12:30pm
February 18th
CE-COR1616B- Residential Rentals 9:00am
CE- Game On- 1:00pm
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Rockford Area REALTORS
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Rockford, IL 61106
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