Weekly Notices

Friday, June 3, 2016

PSA Addenda

Did you ever wish there was a class to go over all the possible addenda to the Purchase and Sale Agreement?

If so, your wish will come true Thursday, August 18th!

Your SAR proudly presents an all-new, four clock-hour class on Purchase and Sale Agreement addenda, focusing on all the additional forms that can be added to the PSA document - the foundation of the transaction between buyers and sellers of real estate.

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

Watch a personal welcome to this class from instructor Sabrina Jones-Schroeder, online here:

PSA Addenda

REALTOR Ž Safety - Empower Yourself

It's here - by popular demand and professional need - a new clock-hour class for REALTORŽ safety!

Thursday, September 22nd, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at your SAR

Real estate professionals are in dangerous positions every day, young, old, man or woman. You must equip yourself with basic safety concepts and habits.

Curriculum created and presented by Beale Luebben and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

You'll be glad you've taken this invaluable training opportunity!

See the class flyer (pictured above), online here.

Watch a personal welcome to the class from instructors Beale Luebben and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder, online here:

REALTORŽ Safety - Empower Yourself

Appy Hour

The Spokane Young Professionals Network (YPN) has created an excellent list of mobile applications (apps) that is the bees knees. We thought it was so good, we had to share it with all of our members.

The list was born from the YPN's recent Appy Hour event. It covers apps in three categories: real estate centric, business/productivity, and everyday life and entertainment.

You can download your very own copy online here.

Homespotter

The Spokane MLS app is now called Homespotter.

The Homespotter app has all the functionality and agent level details that our Spokane MLS app had, but it includes full Paragon integration and Client Collaboration!

The Homespotter app integrates with your Paragon account to give you access, to Saved Searches, Listings Carts and Contacts in the app. Additionally, if you can input your listing, you can do updates for price, status and more directly from the app.

Client Collaboration lets you send an invite to your client and, when they install the app, they will have an app that is branded to you and allows them to share and comment on listings directly through the app and you will be notified of what they are viewing and saying.

Homespotter is available in the Apple Store and Google Play store. Click on your device below to download the app now:

Install Homespotter today and get started, then watch this 20-minute video to learn how to work with it and invite your clients to participate:

Homespotter

REALTORŽ Broker Summit

NEXT WEEK!

The 2016 Broker Summit will be held June 9-10 in Denver, Colorado, at the Denver Marriott City Center.

REALTORŽ Broker Summits are designed exclusively for designated broker and broker owner members to come together and learn from presenters, panels, and peer leaders in the industry offering fresh insights on current conditions while looking to the future of real estate.

Opening Keynote: Adam Savage (pictured at left), co-host of the hit Discovery Channel show MythBusters, will share how curiosity, critical thinking, and learning from failure can help your business

Read more about this event and register online here.

See the fact sheet on this year's REALTORŽ Broker Summit (pictured above), online here.

DOL Trends

NEW!

Washington REALTORSŽ Legal Hotline attorney Annie Fitzsimmons begins a new video series this week: Department of Licensing Trends.

When the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) receives complaints or audits sale transaction files, it frequently looks for issues pertaining to Earnest Money . . . was the Earnest Money deposited timely by the Buyer? . . . was the Seller notified if that the timely deposit didn't happen? . . . does your Transaction File contain "Proof" or documentation of these details?

Find out what Annie has to say about this in her new seven-minute video online here:

DOL Trends #1

The Voice for Real Estate

NAR's The Voice for Real Estate is back this week with news on these topics . . .

Younger REALTORSŽ
Popular cities
Patent troll fight
Commercial financing
Home sales

See the seven minute video here:

The Voice for Real Estate #47

Free and Low-cost Tools

The recent REALTORSŽ Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington DC included a forum on emerging business issues and technology.

The presenters there shared their experiences with a long list of free and low-cost tools that you can quickly and easily integrate into your business.

Here are a few of our favorites.

Lunch & Learn: Mortgage Insurance

There are more benefits to mortgage insurance than you think. It's the misunderstood affordability gem - and sells homes!

Learn why you and your clients should embrace mortgage insurance in our June Lunch & Learn at your SAR, Monday, June 13th.

See the event flyer with more details (pictured above), online here.

Lunch & Learn: Mistakes & Blunders

Learn from all the common mistakes and blunders other people make on the Purchase and Sale Agreement at the July Lunch and Learn at your SAR:

Monday, July 18th.

See the event flyer with more details (pictured above), online here.

FREE RPR Workshop

RPR is coming to town and offering a free workshop covering exciting technology that is available free for all REALTORSŽ!

Did we mention it's free?

The event will be Monday, August 1st, from 2-4 p.m. at the SAR, hosted by a live and in person RPR representative who knows her stuff and welcomes your questions.

More information is available in the event flyer (pictured above), online here.

2016 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.

Tips, Tricks, and Strategies
for working with Difficult People

NEXT WEEK!

Tuesday, June 7 - Tips, Tricks & Strategies for Working with Difficult People - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 1:15 p.m.
Class: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

3.0 clock hours

Land and Acreage 101: Rural Property

NEXT WEEK!

Wednesday, June 8 - Land and Acreage 101: Rural Property - with Jim Palmer, Jr.

Registration: Noon
Class: 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

Washington State Purchase & Sale Agreement

Statewide Purchase & Sale Agreement

NEXT WEEK!

Thursday, June 9 - Statewide Purchase and Sale Agreement - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

You must take this class once between

January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2016.

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

7.5 clock hours

Code of Ethics: Standards for Success

Tuesday, June 14 - 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

The Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals

Thursday, June 23 - The Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: Noon
Class: 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

PSA Addenda

Thursday, August 18 - What else do we need? Purchase and Sale agreement addenda - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

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

4.0 clock hours

REALTORŽ Safety - Empower Yourself

Thursday, September 22 - REALTORŽ Safety - Empower Yourself - with Beale Luebben and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

ALL NEW CLASS - by popular demand and professional necessity!

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

3.0 clock hours

SAR CALENDAR

Click on the image below to see the current SAR calendar

showing dates and times of classes, committees and events.

MLS Fees Due

Third Quarter MLS fees have been posted to the SAR member portal. Your payment is due by June 30th.

Please email Brenda at the SAR if you have a question about your fees or contact her by phone at 326-9222.

Thank you!

ArtFest

THIS WEEKEND!

ArtFest returns to Spokane's historic Browne's Addition neighborhood this weekend for the 31st time - this time, to help celebrate the centennial of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society at the Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC).

ArtFest is a festival of art, creativity and friendship, featuring free music and much to do for all ages, all weekend. A walk through the neighborhood - especially with children or grand-children - is a good way to come to an appreciation for some of our city's grandest architecture and pioneer homes.

See the schedule of events online here.

Neighbor Day

THIS WEEKEND!

One of the aircraft type that participated in D-Day - June 6, 1944 - will be flying over Spokane this weekend as the featured attraction of the sixth annual Neighbor Day celebration at Felts Field.

About 10,000 copies of the B-25 bomber (pictured above) were built for the war effort, beginning in 1941. The one flying here this weekend is from the Historic Flight collection, based on Paine Field in Everett, Washington. It will be open for ground tours and flights.

This year also features the debut of Honor Point, the area's only military and aerospace history museum. The museum commands 10,000 square feet of space in the new Felts Field Flight Center. Several vintage aircraft and items from the museum's large collection of local military artifacts will be on display.

Neighbor Day is free and open to the public. See the schedule of events online here.

YPN June Event

NEXT WEEK!

The Spokane Chapter of the REALTORSŽ Young PRofessionals Network invites you to its June event: Cash Flow Forever on June 8th.

See the event flyer (picture above) for details, online here.

Love House

Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review photo

The Love House, a quintessential Craftsman bungalow on the South Hill, seems to rise from the earth.

"This house is supposed to look like it is erupting out of the ground," said Linda Yeomans, a historic preservation consultant who wrote a nomination to place the house on the Spokane Register of Historic Places.

Last month, the Spokane City-County Historic Landmarks Commission voted unanimously to recommend the house for the register because of its adherence to the Craftsman ethic. The listing is pending before the City Council.

Read more about one house's journey to recognition in Thursday's edition of The Spokesman-Review, online here.

WR Business Symposium

Washington REALTORSŽ invites you to its 2016 Business Symposium, September 29th at Sea-Tac Convention Center.

What you'll take away from the Business Symposium . . .

ˇ         7.5 Clock Hours

ˇ         Create a prospecting program that is effective and adds to your business profitability

ˇ         Understand real estate advertising do's and don'ts

ˇ         Recognize the legal requirements regarding property advertisement

ˇ         Calculate the cost of advertisement and evaluate promotion effectiveness

More details on the Business Symposium and online registration are available here.

2016 SAR Golf Tournament

REGISTRATION OPEN!

The 2016 SAR Golf Tournament will be Thursday, July 21st, at Downriver Golf Course.

Participation is limited to 144 golfing entrants only so register today!

See the event flyer with more information (pictured above), online here.

Member 2 Member

NEXT WEEK!

The Spokane Mortgage Lenders Association invites all SAR members to its 2016 Golf Tournament, Thursday, June 9th, at Downriver Golf Course.

See the event flyer (pictured above) with more details, online here.

Numerica Credit Union is proud to introduce two new members of its Home Loan Center team:

Chris Blotsky (top, left) is the new assistant vice president for the Home Loan Center. Chris has more than a decade of experience in the financial industry. In this new position, he will oversee all residential operations, including underwriting, processing, funding, shipping and secondary markets.

Jeff Berglund (bottom, left) is the new external sales supervisor for the Home Loan Center. Jeff has more than 22 years of experience in the lending field. He offers a wide variety of home loan expertise including conventional, jumbo, Veterans Affairs, WSHFC, and FHA.

NOTE: Member 2 Member is a member benefit of the Spokane Association of REALTORSŽ.

It is intended to announce a new product, service, location or affiliate event. If you are a member who wishes to share a message with your fellow members, please email it to Debbie at the SAR:

debbie@spokanerealtor.com