Bay State REALTOR® News and Features
| Team Power |
| 5/1/2013 |
| Four Massachusetts REALTOR® teams reveal the secrets to their success, their top challenges, and their future plans. |
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| {president’s message} Come and Join Me |
| 5/1/2013 |
| You have my personal invitation to join me in participating in your industry’s political advocacy efforts. And my invitation is multi-layered! I hope you won’t tune me out after this opening and instead hang in here for a minute while I explain. |
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| Take Action to Help MAR Charitable Foundation |
| 5/1/2013 |
| The MAR Charitable Foundation has been working hard to gather enough applications to produce a Welcome Home License Plate which will help fund the Foundation and allow them to continue giving to needy charities in Massachusetts. |
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| The 15 Minute Open House Tour |
| 3/26/2013 |
| I can show you how to have fun and how to meet every seller and buyer in the neighborhood. In the same step, I can show you how to create a massive personal promotional campaign and form an alliance with your lender while being a hero to your sellers. |
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| How To Help Your Homeowners Keep Their House After a Short Sale |
| 2/26/2013 |
| If you specialize in short sales and REOs, there is a unique foreclosure prevention initiative that offers considerable benefits to realtors and their clients who want to keep their homes. It is called the Boston Community Capital SUN program (www.sunhomehelp.org). Realtors convey the program’s offers for short sales and REOs to the banks and receive commissions as listing agents. |
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| Lending a Hand - What to Share with Your Buyers on Financing Today |
| 2/26/2013 |
| One of the most crucial elements to a sale will always be the buyer’s financing. As a REALTOR®, while you cannot guarantee a loan approval, you can smooth the path by preparing your buyer with realistic expectations of what it takes to obtain a mortgage in today’s new financial world. |
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| Connect to Impact |
| 2/26/2013 |
| A golden rule in sales is to build your sphere of influence; to make lasting connections that as times goes on will reap benefits in your business. This same rule can apply to connecting with your fellow REALTORS® and the REALTOR® Association. Making these connections will provide you the same rewards and more. Let me explain. |
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| Is it Easier to Get a Short Sale Closed? |
| 2/26/2013 |
| We are working through a challenging cycle of real estate. The housing statistics are improving, but we aren’t quite finished with short sales and foreclosures yet. Foreclosure inventory is low, but default notices are increasing. Our clients and customers still need our help. |
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| Five Tech Tools That Produce Business |
| 12/19/2012 |
| Fed up with the hype surrounding Web 2.0 tools, social media, and Realtor®-centric technology applications? Here are five sales-producing tools that Massachusetts real estate agents swear by. |
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