It's a fair assessment, something too many real estate leaders are beginning to discover. Too many Realtors are claiming to be "experts", and they don't know what they don't know!
America's Home Rescue has partnered with several national real estate companies, including the REALTY EXECUTIVES and The Realty Alliance, consisting of 68 individual firms around the United States (over 105,000 sales agents) in introducing the Certified Default Resolution Specialist (CDRS) designation to the real estate community. While this is not an NAR approved designation, senior members of the NAR education committee have audited much of the course content in the program and have said there is nothing else like it anywhere on the market. A Realtor who goes through this program not only understands Short Sales at a very finite nuts and bolts level, but why things, both positive and negative, occur in a Short Sale transaction, either at the fault of their own, or via the lender. Realtors do so many things in these transactions, they don't even know they're doing, that cause unnecessary delays, frustrations, obstacles, and commission losses.
Each Realtor, certified under the new CDRS program, also has their professional geocoded bio plotted on the first online geospatial mapping technology of its kind. Senior members of real estate brokerages say that the number one distinguishing difference is that the owners, Michael & Stacy Spickes, have been in the trenches working Short Sales for over 7 years and have personally experienced all the down-falls, obstacles, and frustrations of these transactions, and have built a business from the self-designed systems and processes, derived from many, many mistakes. They are also working with Fannie Mae, HUD, and Freddie Mac to establish new guidelines in how lenders and Realtors work together in these transactions. Get ready!!!
Too many Realtors are calling themselves experts in this market, but when they are questioned about the many technical aspects and nuts-and-bolts of working Short Sales, they have no idea how to answer appropriately, or even understand why the things they're experiencing in the transaction occur. This is scary! In truth, these Realtors don't know what they don't know! America's Home Rescue receives phone calls from Realtors almost every day expressing their frustration in working with other Agents that are holding themselves out to be "certified experts", yet, when asked simple transactional questions, they have no understanding of how to effectively answer. If Realtors, regardless of their certification, are going to "walk the walk", then you also need to "talk the talk", by truly understanding the finite nuts and bolts and all the technical details of working these transactions and how to actually build a business in what too many consider to be too challenging of a market. If Realtors are positioning themselves to be certified experts, the rising argument is whether or not they actually are an "expert".
Become a CDRS Elite Member of the 2009 National Short Sale Coaching Club. Join us on the call for a "Sneak Preview" of what will be considered the most advanced and elite team of Realtors working Short Sales in 2009!! Too many Realtors are allowing themselves to become way too vulnerable to this market, because they let others dictate what they should and shouldn't do, or because they haven't aligned themselves with the right group of professionals who have like-minded goals and aspirations. Sadly, these Realtors return to corporate America only to have their greatest undiscovered entrepreneurial strengths go to waste! With the government bailout, and many other efforts to attempt to save hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure, there will still be a very large number of them who simply can't afford to stay in their home. You must be ready and properly trained to take advantage of what many Realtors consider to be the greatest opportunity they have seen in a lifetime! If this sounds interesting, you are strongly encouraged to do your homework and join us on this call!
Michael & Stacy Spickes
America's Home Rescue
To register for one of our upcoming calls, please visit the CDRS Calendar at www.CDRSCertified.com
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