Real Estate

Realtor Alexis Palkowski (propertiesByAlexis.tel) explains the benefits of the new .tel (dot tel) names for Realtors and business. www.telForRealtors.com. Give clients all your contact information using a single, easy to remember name. Make it easy for people reach to you, remember you and refer you.

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Are there other opportunities that you can do with a realtors licence besides just being an agent?

That’s the reason to get a license, either to be a broker or an agent.

Beyond that, there may be management opportunities with homebuilders or commercial developers if you have experience.

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I am interested in putting flyers together but I dont know what would catch a realtors attention. Also putting one together for potential home buyers Please help

Its all about networking, try putting a flyer together that offers special programs telling Realtors you will do flyers with different loan programs and monthly payments for different amounts down that Realtors can give to potential clients. Then you network with Realtors and potential buyers see your name and mortgage company. You can give lender market information on flyers for Real Esate offices. With the first flyer I mentioned you get to hit Realtors and potential home buyers at the same time. When you get to know some Realtors then you can offer to split advertising costs in Real Estate magazines and even on agent websites. I hope this helps get out to Real Estate offices and introduce yourself, hit Chamber of Commerce meetings and MLS meetings.

I am a new realtor just in the business one month today. I have 2 listings already and a few solid prospects for listings. But EVERY agent I have talked to has had discouraging comments about the lack of business, including my broker and only one other agent besides me even comes to the office! Is any other realtors out there making any money? Thanks!

Don’t feel bad, the market is really down right now but you have to find new ways to make money don’t just depend on the listings. Find buyers right now and also find people who want to lease and list lease rentals. Not as much money in it but better then nothing. Find buyers and you will be better off.

New Laws For California Realtors and Real Estate Investors

With the housing market taking center stage among the nation’s concerns, both Congress and California’s State Legislature have enacted significant new laws affecting REALTORS and Real Estate investors.

EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT ($700 Billion Bail Out)
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This bill also extends the tax exemption for debt forgiveness on home loans under the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 from December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2012. _Source:_H.R. 1424[4].

DRE LICENSE NUMBER MUST BE ON FIRST-CONTACT MATERIALS: Effective July 1, 2009, California’s real estate agents must disclose their Department of Real Estate (DRE) license numbers on all solicitation materials intended to be the first point of contact with consumers.

DEBT RELIEF INCOME EXEMPT FROM STATE INCOME TAX: Starting September 25, 2008, the federal income tax exemption for debt forgiven on a home loan now applies to state income taxes to a limited extent. Federal law provides a tax exemption for debt forgiveness on a loan incurred for acquiring, constructing, or substantially improving a principal residence up to $2 million if the debt is discharged from 2007 through 2012. Under the new California law, the maximum qualifying debt is only $800,000, not $2 million, and the maximum exclusion is $250,000.

Moreover, the California law only applies to a debt discharged in 2007 or 2008. Senate Bill 1055.

DRE CAN DISCIPLINE LICENSEE FOR INFLATING BPOS: Beginning on January 1, 2009, the DRE can suspend or revoke a real estate license if the licensee generates an inaccurate opinion of value (Broker Price Opinion or BPO) for a short sale of residential real property to manipulate the lender to reject the short sale or to acquire a financial or business advantage, such as obtaining a listing agreement. This new rule aims to preclude a self-serving agent from inflating a BPO in hopes that the lender will reject the short sale, foreclose on the property, and give the BPO agent an REO listing. Senate Bill 1737.

DUTY TO DISCLOSE AGENT IS ARRANGING FINANCING: Starting January 1, 2009, a listing or selling agent who undertakes to arrange financing for the sale, lease or exchange of real property (or an agent arranging financing who undertakes to act as the listing or selling agent) must, within 24 hours, provide a written disclosure of that role and any related loan transactions to all parties to the sale, lease, or exchange. Senate Bill 1737.

TENANT VICTIMIZED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CAN TERMINATE TENANCY: Beginning on September 27, 2008, a tenant can terminate a tenancy upon giving a 30-day written notice to terminate, if the notice also informs the landlord that the tenant or a household member has been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking as defined. The tenant must attach to the notice a copy of a temporary restraining order, emergency protective order, or police report issued within the last 60 days. The tenant is also entitled to a proration of the last month’s rent if, within those last 30 days, the tenant vacates and the landlord re-rents the premises to a new tenant. This law will sunset on January 1, 2012. Assembly Bill 2052.

LANDLORDS AND REO LENDERS MUST TAKE CHARGE OF ABANDONED ANIMALS: Effective January 1, 2009, any person or private entity with whom a live animal has been “involuntarily deposited” must take charge of it, if able to do so, and immediately notify animal control officials to retrieve the animal. An “involuntary deposit” includes the abandonment of a live animal on a property that has been vacated upon, or immediately preceding, the termination of a lease or foreclosure of the property. The animal control officers who respond can secure a lien to recover the rescue cost, but this law imposes no other liability upon a depositary who complies with these rules. Assembly Bill 2949.

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We are 2 realtors who are getting into representing buyers and sellers of luxury home. I’m done designing the site BUT STILL have not come up with a slogan/ motto. PLEASE HELP !
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I want to unofficially put my house on the market to sell it in the next 6 months. Can I call a few local Realtors who have sold houses in my neighborhood and tell them I’ll give them 4% if they find a buyer. Or should I only post ads on the internet?

I have 50% equity, so there wouldn’t be an issue with the banks.

Absolutely. This is a very good idea for you.

However, I would call their brokers (their bosses) instead of the individual realtors. Ask those brokers to bring their whole office of realtors by your house after one of their sales meetings. These meetings are generally on Tuesday mornings. This way, instead of getting one realtor per phone call, you’ll get entire offices with one phone call.

And this way, the realtors in the offices that you call will feel like they’ve got an advantage over their competitors at other offices, because they know where one more home for sale is than those other realtors. To the realtors that know about your home for sale, it will become known as a "pocket listing". This is a listing that a realtor knows about, but that does not show up on the local MLS.

And by the way, 4% is too much. Only offer 3%, because that’s all that a realtor would get from any other home for sale on their local MLS.

Good luck to you! Oh, and you also need to be prepared for 50+ different realtors to ask you to list your home with them. This is just a by-product of what you’re about to do. Just deal with it.

I am 26 and thinking about getting into real estate in upscale areas. Are young realtors ata a disadvantage?

You are not necessarily at a disadvantage.Your best source of customers can come from lenders.I encourage you to move forward in getting your real estate license.I have sold real estate now for three years and am earninga very good income.