If we belive what we've been saying all of these years and if we believe in what our value
as REALTORS then these changes shouldn't scare us, they should actually get us excited.
Not exact matches
Then they allowed «soft dollar» contributions to count
as part of the 3 % down payment, like seller concessions or
realtor commission concessions.
A seller,
then, would need to fork out more than $ 50,000 in commissions for the sale of that million dollar home — since the seller pays both their own
realtor's commission
as well
as the commission for the buyer's
realtor, at a standard rate of 2.5 % per
realtor.
Should it be the case that the Courts support that a
REALTOR doesn't have an obligation to see that «patent defects» are noted on an Inspection Report (pursuant to Agency and fiduciary obligations)
then the buyer clients of
REALTOR's might
as well buy privately, or at least, unrepresented by a
REALTOR,
as it relates to the question of the Inspection.
However,
Realtors then began pushing for licensing, at which point, Parham recognized that inspectors needed to have a seat at the table to ensure that their interests were protected,
as well
as the public's.
The fact of the matter is,
as a
realtor you definitely are NOT making the money you were
then.
Unsuspecting
realtors and sellers
then accept these letters
as proof of creditworthiness when reviewing and accepting offers.
My background was in corporate law
as a corporate attorney and litigator, and
then transitioned over to being a
realtor and a real estate attorney at the same time because it allowed me a little bit of more of an entrepreneurial feel where I can actually do what I want to do.
So I have a small correction for you and
then a comment on why
Realtors ® can't charge buyers for their services
as things stand right now.
By the time I pay my broker 20 %, add up all my expenses, the time & the liability, and
then I think about my ever increasing job description
as a
Realtor these days... Geese, don't even get me started on that one.
REALTOR ® A
then filed a complaint against
REALTOR ® B citing Article 16 of the Code of Ethics
as interpreted by Standard of Practice 16 - 16.
If you
as a consumer have a keen interest in an energy efficient home and want to sell,
then by all means inform your
Realtor to highlight this aspect the same way interiors of renovated homes are done.
Using providers such
as DocuSign (a
REALTOR Benefits ® Program Partner), you can review documents with consumers, have them sign contracts and agreements, and
then save or submit them for processing — all through your tablet.
A leader would not sit idle
as their profession is questioned (and rightly so, sorry to say) and
then whine
as other
Realtors, Brokerages & businesses start taking significant market share just because they listened to the growing sentiment of the public that they cater to.
REALTOR ® A
then filed a complaint with the local Board charging
REALTOR ® B with violating Article 16
as interpreted by Standard of Practice 16 - 16.
CREA chose to reduce the obligations attached to using the
REALTOR trademark, a decision they made for CREA's own corporate financial benefit to ensure
as many registrants
as possible could use it's trademark and
then pay CREA licensing fees.
whereby every
Realtor when having coffee with a colleague in a public place, spoke in WHISPERS for fear the people at the next table might possibility be a
Realtor they didn't know; someone who even thought they heard the use of the word «commission» and who could report it, anonymously, to the CB
as having overheard something (in their imagination)-- and if I recall correctly (and I am not certain) the deal was you could be charged under the Act and found guilty of collusion, even if you weren't, and
then had to prove your innocence.
In 2010, (with the October vote fast approaching) at a meeting with the
then CREA President, I stood in my place and I asked him what he knew about any legal opinion that CREA had received or was seeking in relation to acquiring an opinion from Lawyers who specialize in Trademark law,
as it would pertain to CREA's entitlement to reject any notion of «mere postings»
as being an infringement on CREA's legal rights to protect the
REALTOR trademark.
I'm a
Realtor in Edmonton, and I entirety agree with your point about getting known
as an individual first,
then an agent.
< / p. Must be nice for ORE operatives to be so well ensconced
as they look down on their never - ending supply of dues - producing / here - and - there / now - and -
then commission - producing professionals on their ways to the short - termers»
Realtor slaughterhouse.
It's no surprise,
then, that state and local
REALTOR ® associations have decided to build environmentally sensitive spaces
as they outgrow old ones.
Crampton
then asked Richardson what was preventing him,
as a consumer, from taking the property information he gets from a member
Realtor who emailed him the information with a «click of a button», and redistributing it to a relative or someone else he knows.
Leadership Express — The
REALTORS ® Legislative Meetings Leadership Express, for association staff and volunteer leadership teams, is formatted
as three 40 - minute sessions, scheduled concurrently and
then repeated, allowing attendees the opportunity to attend two of the three workshops.
More state
REALTOR ® associations are warning their members about a flood of suspicious phone calls that real estate agents are receiving from a man posing
as a prospective buyer who
then takes the conversation too personal.
As the 2014 president of the Illinois Association of
REALTORS ® and a team leader for The Real Estate Group in Springfield, Ill, the mantra was my inaugural conference theme, which carried through 2014 and was
then, to my delight, was adopted by the National Association of
REALTORS ®.
If a
REALTOR does not want to comment
then head on over to CREA CAFE or the CREA FACEBOOK page and never use your full name on REM anyway
as SEO juice is taken away.
That makes me feel great and if I've helped them achieve that
then I can feel better about myself and my role
as a
REALTOR ®.
Then there are the PIPEDIA issues, anti-spam
as PED noted, use of the Isign tracking software, etc etc, that would need RECO oversight in order to understand if it is even an option for a
REALTOR.
Then the term «
Realtor» will be regarded
as a professional by the public
as well
as by the
Realtors themselves.
Then we saw
Realtors promoting themselves
as «Condo Specialists».
If there were seventy - percent less registrants in the field, and ninety - five percent of those remaining registrants were actually fit to be designated
as «Professional
Realtors» (there are always some bad apples in any barrel, professional barrels or not)
then I would agree with the use of the BRA.
I don't care who you are, if you can think, if you can dream,
then your imagination starts
as soon
as you see a
Realtor's sign.
A part time
realtor will / can only take on
as much work
as they can handle and
then they will have to quit the part time job.
The best professionals that I am aware of are not self - marketing gurus first and foremost,
as seems to be the primary requirement to providing the quick start, and
then the enduring smoke - screen, to becoming a «star»
Realtor.
If Zoocasa earns the 35 %
as gross income (the
Realtor therefore is effectively Zoocasa's financial benefactor, so to speak) and Zoocasa
then pays income tax on that income, how does that 35 % show up on the participating
Realtor's T - 4 in order for the
Realtor to avoid being taxed on it but to thereafter be able to claim it
as an expense?
The beauty of that is, once you have established that's the person who you are planning your tools and services around,
then as you consider anything new you say, «Does this benefit the
Realtor?»
Why would a
Realtor who is already (by dint of his / her own efforts) making a good living «without» giving away a significant percentage of his / her income on a deal - a-month-or-more standard
then decide to start giving away significant money in an effort to gain more business for «less» income per transaction... (has anyone heard of the negative economic principle known
as «the principle of diminishing returns»?)
I don't know about you, but if I hired you to be my
realtor, and
then found out that the house I wanted to put an offer in on was getting two other offers that were to be presented on a Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 pm, but you were in the middle of a 4 on - 4 off,
as a police officer, A — I don't think your police boss would be too happy if you ran off to deal with an offer when there was a medical emergency to attend, and B. I don't think your buyer that was hoping to buy this home would be too happy to learn that they lost out on this home because you were at a police emergency, and not attending to their needs
as promised when you started working with them.
However,
then you went on to talk about how you can justify redirecting these clients away from their
Realtors because of the cost savings, and it seems
as though you are going through that justification by asking me the question above.
My point is when the parties sign the SPIS they are fully aware of the disclaimers (
as they are in bold), how
then can a «panel» find the
Realtor liable.
Nearly all of the
Realtors surveyed also didn't know that if the total commissions owed to all agents exceeded $ 1 million, including from co-operating brokerages, their claims would
then be paid
as a percentage of the total claim.
He
then explored other careers, including air traffic control, before returning to real estate in 1986
as a
Realtor and appraiser.
When I had my Brokerage, my intention was to hire New
Realtors as Emlpoyees for a 1 year term and if I assessed that they were capable,
then I would renew their contract
as Independant Contactor.
If working with a buyer agent
then this gives the
Realtor (buyer agent) the opportunity to prove his / her stuff by verifying or discounting the veracity of the square footage
as noted on the listing.
Lloyd has succinctly identified the key aspect of why
REALTORS ® are viewed
as glorified taxi drivers by far too many clients, and why the client base believes they can do the job of identifying what addresses their housing needs and
then buying and selling real property on their own rather than through the use of a
REALTOR ®.
As far as wholesaling goes if you use the mls to find your deals and sell your deals then you should be a licensed realto
As far
as wholesaling goes if you use the mls to find your deals and sell your deals then you should be a licensed realto
as wholesaling goes if you use the mls to find your deals and sell your deals
then you should be a licensed
realtor.
If we had real Leadership in our Profession, we would have one MLS system per Province, we already have a National MLS system with Realter.ca and
then we would have access to all the data (
as we are licensed to sell in whatever Province we live in) one standard set of rules, only one MLS fee to pay and
then we could access all the information we need to be truly Professional
Realtors.
If you follow the latter mentioned path, and earn what you earn
as the result, however much that may be per year,
then you are following the path of a hugely successful «Professional»
Realtor, with all of the responsibilities that that entails, including unquestioned high moral / ethical standards, character, honesty, truthfullnes and an inherent personality trait that embraces altruism toward one's clients» best fiduciary interests, whatever the monetary pay offs that may or may not be attached to said potential transactions.
Hence, if
as you say the SF can not be copyrighted in any fashion,
then without the listing brokerage /
Realtor's consent, said square footage may appear in someone else's advertisement but it would have to be sans all the relevant information.
In fact the
realtor will be the real winner
as many will first get paid for simply posting the house on MLS, and
then again for posting it
as a full service listing
as the house will likely not sell in the first instance.