Weekly Notices

Friday, January 1, 2016

Your SAR will be closed today - Friday, January 1st - to keep the New Year holiday.

Report Your Closed Sales

DEADLINE: JANUARY 5TH

All of your 2015 closed sales must be reported to the MLS by noon Tuesday, January 5th, 2016.

If you need an MLS Status Change Form (pictured above), that document is available online here.

Completed MLS Status Change Forms can be emailed to angie@spokanerealtor.com or faxed to (509) 326-1544.

2016 Installation Luncheon

Red Lion Hotels photo

NEXT WEEK!

Welcome to your 2016 SAR Leadership Installation and first Quarterly Member meeting of the new year:

Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at Red Lion Hotel at the Park (pictured above).

RSVP DEADLINE: JANUARY 4th

See the event flyer with details and registration information (pictured above) online here.

TransactionDesk Advanced Class

The SAR will have NWMLS trainer, Debra Wuts, at the Association in January to offer two TransactionDesk Advanced classes.

This course focuses on strategies for staying organized, how to use the advanced menu features such as the markup tools and the PDF slicer feature for secondary signings and counteroffers, how to create and use templates and checklists, and how to use the advanced features in Authentisign.

Completion of TransactionDesk basic is highly recommended before this class.

You can see the schedule and register here or click on the SAR Education link on your MLS Dashboard.

Legal Hotline Letters

Your Washington REALTORSŽ Legal Hotline attorney Annie Fitzsimmons is back with Episode #8 of her answers to your questions from the Legal Hotline Mailbag.

Here, Annie responds to a Legal Hotline letter regarding the termination of an Agreement (by the Seller) in response to the Buyer's Inspection Contingency.

Watch the five-minute video online here:

Legal Hotline Letters #8

2016 Education Requirements

Both NAR and SAR require you to take certain classes in four year cycles.

The current four year cycle ends December 31, 2016.

You you must take an ethics class (NAR) and a Purchase & Sale Agreement class (SAR) before the end of next year.

If you have taken both of these once since January 1, 2013, you're done for this cycle!

Additionally, the Washington State Department of Licensing requires you to take the Core Curriculum class once during every two-year renewal cycle.

See a handy guide to WA-DOL, NAR and SAR education requirements (pictured above), online here.

2015 REALTORŽ Education

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Quality of Education

through SAR/WR Education Instructors

Here is the latest class listing of your SAR - offering the best live and local continuing real estate education classes for 2016.

Click on each class title, underlined in blue, to bring up a flyer for that class - suitable for posting in your office.

Register for these classes online here:

Please be in touch with Debbie at the SAR if you have any questions about these classes or your license education requirements, by phone at 326-9222 or by email.

2016

Statewide Purchase and Sale Agreement

CLASS FULL!

Tuesday, January 12 - Statewide Purchase and Sale Agreement - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

Current Issues in Washington Residential Real Estate

Thursday, January 14 - Current Issues in Washington Residential Real Estate - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the SAR

3.0 clock hours

The Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals

Thursday, January 21 - The Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

Code of Ethics: Standards for Success

Thursday, January 28 - Code of Ethics: Standards for Success - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

Statewide Purchase and Sale Agreement

Tuesday, February 9 - Statewide Purchase and Sale Agreement - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

Home Inspections for REALTORSŽ and Appraisers

Thursday, February 11 - Home Inspections for REALTORSŽ and Appraisers - with Matthew Pederson.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

The Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals

Friday, February 12 - The Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

Code of Ethics: Standards for Success

Tuesday, February 16 - Code of Ethics: Standards for Success - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

In This Issue

Report Your Closed Sales

2016 Installation Luncheon

TransactionDesk Advanced Class

Legal Hotline Letters

2016 Education Requirements

2015 REALTOR® Education

SAR CALENDAR

2016 SAR Dues Due

Code of Ethics - Are You Current?

Tech Helpline

2016 Installation Luncheon

SpokaneOpen Advertising

Open House Weekend - SAVE THE DATE!

ListHub Report - November

Market Activity Report - November

You Be The Judge - December

Member Roster Update

Suggestion Box

SAR CALENDAR

Click on the image below to see the current SAR calendar

showing dates and times of classes, committees and events.

2016 SAR Dues Due

Your 2016 SAR annual dues are due today, January 1st, 2016.

You should have received an email, sent November 19th, which contained payment instructions. If you did not receive this email, please call the SAR at 326-9222 or continue with the online payment process here.

To pay your 2016 SAR annual dues online, click on the graphic below, which will bring up the login screen for the SAR member portal:

Once online, use the Review and Pay Balance section to make your payment online. Alternately, you may retrieve an invoice while online to pay by mail or you may pay in person at the SAR, 1924 North Ash Street.

Thank you for your continuing membership in your SAR!

Code of Ethics - Are You Current?

If you have not taken a Code of Ethics class since

January 1, 2013, then you need to take a Code of Ethics class before the end of the year!

Check the SAR's class schedule and register for a class via the Member Portal:

Starting January 1, 2017, you must complete a Code of Ethics class once every two years. This two year cycle will begin January 1, 2017, and end December 31, 2018.

Help us spread the word. Announce this in your sales meetings.

Email Debbie at the SAR, or call her at 326-9222, with questions.

Tech Helpline

If you received a piece of new technology for Christmas this week and find yourself scratching your head trying to figure out how it works, remember you have free technical support waiting for you on your Washington REALTORSŽ Tech Helpline!

The Tech Helpline is a member benefit offering support for hardware, software, networking, and digital devices.

The best part is that you have the choice of contacting their friendly and knowledgeable analysts via phone, fax, email, or online chat.

They troubleshoot problems and offer solutions, often by remotely into your computer.

They will advise you on hardware and software purchasing and most importantly, they understand your needs as a REALTORŽ.

Tech Helpline contact information is online here.

Best Business Tips

NAR reports the sales and marketing stories that drew the most traffic, shares, likes, and comments on its online channels, this year, mostly centered around how members can better communicate, negotiate, and maintain relationships with clients.

That's a testament to where you see your biggest value in the transaction: being an in-the-flesh guide and advocate for buyers and sellers. That's something that technology will never replace.

Take a look at our most popular tips of 2015, and see how you can apply them to your business, online here.

SpokaneOpen Advertising

SAR Affiliate Members: SpokaneOpen.com - the official open house website of the Spokane Association of REALTORSŽ - now offers an exciting, first-ever, consumer-facing advertising opportunity (see sample above).

Every open house scheduled through the Spokane MLS appears on this site. Now your message can too!

See the official announcement letter (pictured above) with details on this new advertising opportunity - open exclusively to SAR affiliate members - online here.

Visit the SpokaneOpen.com website now and imagine your message here.

Open House Weekend - SAVE THE DATE!

Save the date for the

2016 Spokane REALTORSŽ Open House Weekend!

April 23 - 24, 2016

More details coming soon here
in the Weekly Notices.

ListHub Report for November

See the November ListHub report, online here.

Market Activity Report - November

The SAR Market Activity Report for November is now online.

See the latest report - and archived reports - online here.

See the November 2015 summary report (pictured above) online here.

See the 2015 year-to-date summary report (pictured above) online here.

You Be The Judge - December

Here is You Be The Judge for December:

Case #16-16: Buyer Agent's Demand that Listing Agent Reduce Commission.

Read the case and submit your judgement online here.

Winner to be announced next month.

Congratulations, Juli Evans, RE/MAX of Spokane, our November Starbucks card winner!

NOVEMBER ANSWER

The Hearing Panel concluded that REALTORŽ A had engaged in misrepresentation in omitting from the prospectus information which he reasonably should have known to be relevant and significant and that the disclaimer did not, in any respect, avoid his obligation of full disclosure. REALTORŽ A was found in violation of Article 2.