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ActiveRain Training and Support - Your Virtual Classroom We are now offering RainMaker members an opportunity to join us for some "informal" on-line training and support.  Our ActiveRain Training and Support Program is where you can phone in, join a classroom environment, ask your questions, see...

We qualify our buyers before showing them a home, right? But are you qualifying the short sale listings you're showing them? If not, you may be wasting your time.  By contacting the listing agent and asking them a few basic questions prior to showing their listings you'll  accomplish 2 things. Yo...

I have agents asking me questions about my short sale listings all the time. Some of the basic questions is how far into the short sale process is this property? Now lets get one thing straight, most banks will not proceed without an executed contract.I have heard of transactions in which the ba...

I just read a very interesting article over at Web Pro News that talks about how Google will now be incorporating your social network connections as a factor in delivering search results! As Chris Crum, a writer for Web Pro News points out, "If you are one of those people still skeptical about th...

I hate the new appraisal system and non-local appraisers. (see video below) Let me explain. The government came up with a brilliant idea to curb another housing meltdown! Assuming (you know what they say: It makes an "Ass out of you and Ming") most lenders and appraisers were fraudulent, they de...