zoom call: Zoom Call 6.11.24 Debe Maxwell Unique Client Situations
- 06/13/24 07:34 AM
Zoom Call 6.11.24 Debe Maxwell Unique Client Situations
The Zoom call this week was lively if not for the topic but also the airing of like issues all had encountered in the course of dealing with clients. Debe Maxwell, CRS was the moderator, but the smile she had through the call was more of 'I'm lovi'n this' as the topic was so well understood by all the real estate agents.
I logged on a few minutes late and the conversation was already flowing with one person discussing the issues that were presented by a client, already under contract, seemingly attempting to get more … (10 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 5.28.24 Wanda Kubat-Nerdins Do You Know Your Garden?
- 05/29/24 07:19 AM
Zoom Call 5.28.24 Wanda Kubat-Nerdins Do You Know Your Garden?
This week's Zoom call was presented by Wanda Kubat-Nerdin and was a did you know experience and was a tutorial on what those plants in the garden should be called.
Wanda and her husband, Michael are raised-bed gardeners but while the name may imply hobby, for them it is far more and as it is so extensive, it almost sou like a typical Mid-West combine enterprise.
Do You Know What You Are growing?
Warned in advance, Wanda let all know there would be a quiz and prizes would be awarded.
Her presentation started out with a … (13 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 5.21.24 Lynnea Miller NAR Legislative Update
- 05/23/24 07:37 AM
Zoom Call 5.21.24 Lynnea Miller NAR Legislative Update
The blog presentation this week was given by Lynnea Miller who recently attended the NAR Legislative meetings in Washington, DC. This was her first visit to a NAR meeting and she was sent by request of a new Oregon regional MLS. There was app 8,000 people that attended this gathering
As she was not on any of the special committees that were meeting, she attended more of the general meetings as relates to MLS systems.
One of the sessions she attended was given by Trey Gowdy and Joe Cunningham, both former politicians who were consistent … (13 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 5.14.24 William Piotrowski Let's Talk Real Estate
- 05/15/24 09:27 AM
Zoom Call 5.14.24 William Piotrowski Let's Talk Real Estate
The Zoom call this week was monitored and presented by William Piotrowski. The tone of this call was more of an exchange of information very similar to the conversations anyone in the business may have had with fellow professionals while on a break at a seminar.
There was some conversation on the lack of support by NAR and their focus being revenues received by them and the lack of ROI received by agents. Many feeling it continues to be a one-way street.
He then offered comments on an article of dis-information that was in the … (10 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 3.19.24 Buzz Mackintosh Property Rights 2.0
- 03/20/24 11:49 AM
Zoom Call 3.19.24 Buzz Mackintosh Property Rights 2.0
This week's Zoom call was presented by Buzz Mackintosh.
His presentation was an update to the call topic of 9.20.22. Property Rights, which can be read by linking on the link.
A quick synopsis was a property rights situation created when legislators proposed an overlay to a private recreation area that would prevent development of the property, once a private trust set up by the original owner.
This tract of land was known as the Sugar Loaf Treasured Landscape Plan, which encompasses 20,000 acres of predominately rural area. There was 3,000 acres that was at the top … (11 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 2.13.24 Getting Engagement in ActiveRain
- 02/15/24 06:26 AM
Zoom Call 2.13.24 Getting Engagement in ActiveRain
The Zoom call this week was intended to get input from those in attendance to try and get more involvement in Active Rain.
Have the best days of ActiveRain passed, done by the cannibalizing with the past ownership that used the platform and the SEO generated by quality blogs to get clicks that they in turn were able to sell to agents seeking contact names.
The number of daily blog posts as dropped dramatically. There was a time when we would see 200 posts by members seeking to get exposure for their respective areas, and their niches.
On … (27 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 1.30.24 Jim Paulson NAR Benefits
- 02/01/24 09:58 AM
Zoom Call 1.30.24 Jim Paulson NAR Benefits
The Zoom call for this week was completely agent related and was presented by Jim Paulson. On numerous presentations by others, where appropriate, Jim would volunteer little tidbits of savins he has gotten through NAR. It seemed logical for him to just have a presentation where he shared this with all of us, especially when so many question NAR's value to us.
We all pay dues to NAR and they are equal for all at $156/year and there may be a special assessment which this year is $45, and that may be going to the war … (8 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 1.09.24 Buyer Agency and NAR Litigation
- 01/11/24 05:15 AM
Zoom Call 1.09.24 Buyer Agency and NAR Litigation
The issues nationwide on the NAR lawsuits over agent compensation has many agents and brokers concerned. With a society so litigious conscious, doing pir business has presented a new challenge.
The panel discussion was to offer the impact in regions as well as how agents are managing the turmoil and attempting to do our business without any legal complications.
First Speaker was Thomas Nelson, (T.J) from Southern CA. He has been an agent since 1999 and has always used a buyer agency agreement. He also had a background where contracts were essential, and clients expected a … (11 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 11.07.23 William Piotrowski Creating Customized Graphics with AI
- 11/08/23 06:52 AM
Zoom Call 11.07.23 William Piotrowski Creating Customized Graphics with AI
The Zoom call this week was a hands-on community design on creating customized graphics using AI with a program, Lexica.art, to get images tailored to the data being offered.
William Piotrowski had mentioned this program on a previous AI call and as it was so intriguing, he was drafted to offer his own presentation on a call.
Sharing his screen, he let all know that Lexica was a paid program with different levels of membership.
He is using the $8.00 a month plan and until he gets more familiar with the program, feels it is more … (32 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 9.12.23 Katerina Gasset Outsourcing to Elevate your Business
- 09/13/23 01:16 PM
Zoom Call 9.12.23 Katerina Gasset Outsourcing to Elevate your Business
The Zoom call this week was presented by Katerina Gasset, and she, again offered her pearls on making real estate easier to manage.
Real estate agents that find themselves busy will often have issues with not being able to complete all of their work on time and losing sleep and rest time because of the load they carry.
The realities of the load may cause one to consider hiring an administrative assistant to do the busy work and allow the agent to actually work the business. This again causes one to consider the dynamics … (17 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 9.05.23 Gail Hartnett Transitioning a Real Estate Business and life
- 09/07/23 09:52 AM
Zoom Call 9.05.23 Gail Hartnett Transitioning a Real Estate Business and life!
The Zoom call for this week was presented by Gail Hartnett as she offered her insights on relocating to an unknown area to forge a new career and learn the area at the same time.
Gail is originally from Long Island, but her life travels have led her around the country.
She started working in Ft Lauderdale as her husband was going to law school in Miami. She supplemented income working as a Tupperware salesperson. She grew that business to being a franchisee which gave her management as well as sales experience.
Her … (15 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 8.29.23 Laura Cerrano Geopathic Stress Dowsing
- 08/30/23 07:45 AM
Zoom Call 8.29.23 Laura Cerrano Geopathic Stress Dowsing
The Zoom call for this week was presented Laura Cerrano as a follow-up to her first presentation when the zoom calls were first starting.
Feng Shui Geopathic Stress Dowsing.
Dowsing, itself is a term that connotes different images for some people. It is commonly used when people are seeking water sources.
Geopathic Stress is a term used to describe negative energies that emanate from the earth and cause discomfort and ill health to those living above.
As Feng Shui is all about understanding and observing nature and how that environment affects our emotions and psychology, the foundations of … (22 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 8.08.23 Jan Green How to Keep the Sunshine in Your Transactions
- 08/10/23 06:14 AM
Jan Green How to Keep the Sunshine in Your Transactions
The Zoom call for the week was presented by Jan Green. Jan has devoted her professional career to helping her clients become familiar with energy efficiency.
She herself, is hoping to have a '0' energy footprint by the time she is ready to retire. To hear her speak, it will be far sooner than her retirement.
She has a significant knowledge of efficiencies not only for living spaces, but also for tax credits to individuals when donating a home that will be razed and the structure and components will be recycled.
She started with a … (23 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 8.01.23 Real Estate Activities Around the Country
- 08/03/23 05:44 PM
Real Estate Activities Around the Country
The Zoom call was an open Forum call with attendees offering insights on the state of real estate in their respective communities.
The moderator of the call was Eileen Burns, and she opened with detail on the 3 counties within her market. As there are over 6,000,00 people it is just beyond reasonable to expect to cover it.
There are 5 MLS systems that work listings, and the primary board is better than an hour away. As she is a commercial broker she can cover the entire state, but the logistics are not reasonable.
She gets her statistics from … (12 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 6.27.23 Jim Paulson Maximizing Credit Card Bonuses
- 06/29/23 05:11 AM
Jim Paulson Maximizing Credit Card Bonuses
The Zoom call this week was presented by Jim Paulson, and it was about his experiences with using credit cards for more than just an easy way to make a purchase.
Credit card companies are very competitive and when one considers the monthly interest rate on unpaid balances, it is understandable. A credit card purchase is a short-term loan, and the banks that issue the cards, make next to nothing in profit with people that pay their monthly balances in full.
As many more responsible people will do, he had no credit cards and chose to pay his … (14 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 6.22.23 Katerina Gasset AI Marketing for Real Estate
- 06/22/23 08:03 AM
Katerina Gasset AI Marketing for Real Estate
This week's Zoom call was presented by Katerina Gasset and was timely as it was on AI and marketing for Real Estate.
With the rapid evolution of AI, it was timely as she offered so much information in such a quick span of time and the attentiveness of the listeners was obvious.
She opened her presentation by talking about here recent completion of an AI course offered by Digital Marketer. She has been connected to the founder of this platform since early in 2007 as she learned about SEO under his tutelage. This company offers courses and certificates … (29 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 6.06.23 Craig Daniels Tech Smorgasbord
- 06/09/23 05:29 AM
Zoom Call 6.06.23 Craig Daniels Tech Smorgasbord
The Zoom call this week was a learning lesson with Craig Daniels on using Excel spreadsheets. He initiated the tutorial by preparing a list of attendees with names only and offered a link to straw poll where one could get details on using spreadsheets.
https://strawpoll.com/polls/poy9WPpDOgJ
This was essentially a poll to determine people's familiarity with using spread sheets.
Spread sheets are a useful tool for assembling data. People are familiar with the terminology of spread sheets and also Google sheets. Google sheets are kept online and spread sheets can be kept in document files to be added to … (17 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call with Carol Williams Knowing When It's Time to Retire
- 05/31/23 06:20 PM
Zoom Call with Carol Williams Knowing When It's Time to Retire
The Zoom call this week was presented by Carol Williams and was a combination of preparing for retirement. and adapting to the situations that life presents as well.
As Carol described her transition it was thrust upon her to attend to her ailing husband. With the pause, she essentially was away from the day-to-day operation of her businesses for over 18 months and during that period, she eased herself away from the day to day and as she had 2 separate business entities, she had a ready brand looking to acquire her … (26 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 5.16.23 John Arendsen Accessory Dwelling Units
- 05/18/23 07:44 AM
John Arendsen Accessory Dwelling Units
John Arendsen was the speaker for this week's Zoom call. As founder and owner of Crest Backyard Homes, he gave a presentation that explained the nature of the modules he builds as well as its advantages.
For Multi-generational families, an Accessory Dwelling Unit, ADU offers convenience and serves to keep the family close and still offer independence.
His company is very much a regional operation staying close to His San Diego area. This is predominately as the efficiency of his operation is maintained by contractors that he knows to perform their jobs well and be cost effective. If he … (23 comments)
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zoom call: Zoom Call 4.04.23 Lauren Williams Working With Hoarders
- 04/06/23 08:23 AM
Lauren Williams Working With Hoarders
The call was labeled as working with hoarders and as Lauren Williams started her presentation it was apparent that yes, it was about people that collect, but it really morphed into something far greater. The act and compulsion to hoard is a disease and is identified as such. Knowing how to identify people that have a genuine illness and the right way to assist them is essential and the fix is not just to clean out the place.
Lauren Williams offered that she has taken better than 60 hours of professional training in order to recognize and treat … (21 comments)
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Zoom Call 6.11.24 Debe Maxwell Unique Client Situations
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