When you shop through the link on our website, www.bucksrealtor.com you will received a 10% discount using discount code BCAR or click here and start shopping!

DocuSign is a provider of cloud-based electronic signature technology that facilitates exchanges of contracts, tax documents and legal materials and it will work with ZipForms.

BCAR is offering DocuSign as a FREE member benefit. An activation email was sent to every BCAR member. If you need the activation email resent, please contact Kelly Wenhold, Director of Member Services at kelly@bucksrealtor.com 215-956-9176.

DocuSign Transaction Rooms (formerly Cartavi) is web-based software that lets you securely share documents with everyone involved in the process of buying or selling residential real estate. It gives you one place to store, access, and share all your transaction documents from your desk or on the go. It is a hosted application (nothing to install or update), which you can access from anywhere you have an internet connection and a supported browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8 or later). If you have a mobile device, download DocuSign Mobile.

BCAR is offering DocuSign Transaction Rooms as a FREE member benefit. Use promo code "1452bucks".

RPR

Member Benefit!

NAR's exclusive online real estate database "REALTORS Property Resource" will provide REALTORS with data on every parcel of property in the US, giving brokers and agents valuable tools and features to make them better informed and to increase their efficiency in the marketpalce. Go to https://www.narrpr.com/ and click Create New Acct.

Bucks County Association of REALTORS�

Weekly Update Newsletter

March 31, 2014

Field Guide to Preparing & Staging

a House for Sale

Banish the clutter! Trim the bushes! Hide your Star Wars collection! Take down the family pictures! What can you do to prepare a house for sale? Here are tips, hints, thoughts and ideas for sprucing up, cleaning out, decorating, staging, creating a great first impression and making a house appealing to buyers. (NAR) click here for further info.

3rd Annual Battle of the Bartenders

Dinner, Dancing and Silent Auction

Thursday, May 8 5-9 pm

Rose Bank Winery, Newtown

in the new "Rose Ballroom"

Ticket Prices:

$30 RPAC Contribution = Admission & Dinner --or--

$99 or more RPAC Contribution = Admission, Raffle Ticket for Top Shelf Liquor Basket, Dinner, Free Drinks and Appetizers in the VIP Lounge

How to Register:

Mail a check payable to "RPAC" & mail it to BCAR, 1452 Old York Rd, Warminster, PA 18974 --or--

Ask the Experts Seminar

Before You List That House

Topics & Speakers:

Recommendations on what to keep, donate, discard, recycle and sell in a home prior to listing along with many other helpful home downsizing tips.

Court Ebeling

Carter's Home Downsizing and Resale Specialists, LLC

Before you list that house, learn what you need to know, who has the authority to sign the Listing Contract, who has the authority to sign the Agreement of Sale, Learn what to look for and how to get the information you need.

Kathleen F. Ringler

Mutual Abstract Company

"What am I looking at, but not seeing?" We will help your clients with this important question.

Greg DuPey

Pillar to Post Home Inspectors

This is a FREE event for BCAR members sponsored by the Affiliate Committee.

Date: Wednesday, April 9

Time: 9:30-11:30am - Refreshments starting at 9am

Location: BCAR, 1452 Old York Rd, Warminster, PA

3 Ways to Register:

1- Online www.bucksrealtor.com

2- Email kelly@bucksrealtor.com

3- Call 215-956-9176

Bucks Break in Bensalem

The BCAR Affiliate Committee invites REALTORS to join them for a "Bucks Break" Business Card Exchange on Thursday, April 17 from 5-7pm at Pizzeria Uno Chicago Grill, Neshaminy Mall, Bensalem. The food is complimentary. Cash bar. Door prizes will be provided by Affiliate Committee members.

Save the Date!

Annual Golf Outing

Monday, July 28, 2014

Spring Mill Country Club

Ivyland, Pennsylvania

Union Plus Mortgage Lunch & Learn

Union Plus Mortgages has multiple benefits to union members, their family and children. It is a national program provided to union members for purchase money or refinance. The ultimate benefit of the program, along with other benefits state if the union member is out of work, on strike or loses his job, the union will make his mortgage payment thereby protecting his home and family. The only requirement is he has a union plus mortgage which is only available through Wells Fargo. This is FREE event for BCAR members!

Date: Friday, April 11

Time: 10:30am - 12noon (lunch will be provided)

Location: BCAR, 1452 Old York Rd, Warminster

Registration: Contact Jim Seamans at Wells Fargo 215-702-4758

Marketing and Advertising 101 for Real Estate Professionals Lunch & Learn

Successful real estate professionals know that when it comes to sales and marketing, you need a plan. Sales and Marketing 101 for Real Estate Professionals will improve your sales results by teaching you how to employ a complete, professional marketing strategy. Using real-life examples and a friendly, easy-to-follow tone, this workshop gives you the tools you need to list the right properties at the right price, and attract prospects that are ready, willing and able to buy.

This workshop will include:

* Comprehensive coverage of marketing strategies that draw the right clients to you, from the theories of product, promotion, price and place to practical advice on how to segment a market and implement a marketing plan

* Complete coverage of the selling skills you need to close the sale, including time management, ethics, professionalism and closing techniques

* Multiple choice questions in every chapter test your knowledge, and answers and rational are provided so you can check your work

Date: Thursday, April 24

Time: 12-1:30pm

Location: BCAR, 1452 Old York Rd, Warminster, PA

Registration:Email Joe Scorese

jscorese@3rdfedbank.com

Sponsored by: Joe Scorese, 3rd Federal Bank

National Speakers Cinemeeting

Wells Fargo is bringing Tony Robbins, motivational speaker, and Brian Buffini, well-known national realtor coach on "how to grow your business" to you as a Cinemeeting at the on April 3 at the Riverview Theater on Columbus Blvd in Philadelphia at 3pm for FREE. It is designed solely for REALTORS. Please register by contacting Jim Seamans at Wells Fargo to register 215 702-4758.

Creative Real Estate Marketing

Joe Lanza of Creative REM would like to invite you to explore how you can think outside the box with your marketing on April 10 at 9:30am. Learn how you can add value to what you are already doing. They will charge up your thinking of all the possibilities. Marketing is one of the most important components to your success.

Special Guest Speaker: Attorney George Kotsopoulos Esq. George is a very experienced real estate attorney. He will be speaking about how to avoid the common mistakes on an agreement of sale that could get you in some hot water.

Location: Bucks County Association of REALTORS,
1452 Old York Road, Warminster

Registration: Call Joe Lanza at 215-322-4460 or email to reserve your seat to info@CreativeRem.com

They also offer free workshops online at www.WeWillTellYou.com