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REALTOR® Mobile Search Tool – Goomzee

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REALTORS® now have access to a new mobile search tool powered by Goomzee.  Last week at Technopalooza I got a chance to talk with the reps and they informed me that all ARMLS subscribers have been “turned on”. That means you now have free access to their mobile search tool. Why would I use Goomzee?…

Upcoming AZ Real Estate Contract Class

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Ever since the Arizona real estate contract changes went into effect, Jim and I have been met with discomforting stories on our travels to weekly office meetings. These stories usually recall someone giving a bad explanation of the changes to the Arizona Association of REALTORS® Residential Purchase Contact. We can’t have this. Bad explanations must…

Maricopa Foreclosure Chart Turns Residential

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We have narrowed the focus of our Maricopa County Foreclosure chart. This improvement affects everyone that has embedded this chart on their website. Since our primarily focus is residential real estate, it only makes sense that our foreclosure chart tracks residential statistics instead of all foreclosures. Why change now? Last month when I was updating…

Highest Priced Home for Sale in Paradise Valley

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Are you a dreamer? I’ve been known. Every once in a while I get a few minutes to check out some of the luxury homes for sale in ARMLS. It’s kind of cool that John Hall & Associates REALTOR®, Joan Levinson, has the highest priced home for sale in Paradise Valley. Let’s help her sell…

MARS Class for REALTORS®

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Jim Sexton is teaching a MARS Disclosure class for REALTORS® in Arizona.  The class is Tuesday afternoon; 4/12 2-3:30 in Scottsdale. It’s $FREE.99, but requires an RSVP.  Here is the flyer with more details… Jim Sexton MARS 4-12-11

Updated: Intranet Discussions

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Since the fire was lit on our intranet discussion forum we have seen lots of activity and have received lots of feedback from you. Thank you. Because of the feedback, we have made some changes to continue to improve this tool. Vendor Recommendations and Property Management When we set up the discussions we intentionally left…

WordPress for REALTORS®: Contact Form 7

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Free and flexible. That’s why I like the Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress. Building custom real estate forms requires working with the contact form shortcode. To make creating these forms a little bit easier, I’d like to share the code from our buying a home and selling a house contact forms. Feel free to…

Phoenix Real Estate Bar Camp #3 is FRIDAY!

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RE Bar Camp snuck up on me this year – I can’t believe it’s this Friday!  And now a word from our organizer… Yes, this Friday — April 8. We are “Putting the Real Estate back in RE Bar Camp”. We REALLY want sessions to be participative, or interactive, or group discussions — whatever term…

Twitter: Sending DM’s to New Followers

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The John Hall & Associates twitter account recently followed about 80 people. From those 80 follows, I received a handful of direct messages (DM’s). View Survey (If survey does not show, you can find it here.) Why am I asking? I think we can learn from others. I plan on posting my favorite (and why)…

Property Management 101: Background Checks

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As property management becomes a service more REALTORS® offer their clients, we have found the need to explain our background reports. This article goes through some good and some not-so-good examples of what you’ll find in the reports.