The Livingston County Association of Realtors has scheduled a meeting with Congressman Mike Rogers on Wednesday, September 2 at 10:40 am at the Brighton Chamber of Commerce.
They have invited you to attend to discuss the expansion and extension of the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit that is scheduled to expire on December 1.
If you have questions, contact Meghan Webber, Executive Vice-President of LCAR at (810) 225-1100.
Our showing desk provider, Showing Solutions, is making some improvements to their process and had one suggestion for us.
The improvement:
They will keep track of all incoming calls now regardless of whether the call results in a showing appointment or not. So if an agent calls in to check status of a listing and it is pending, they will have record of the call.
Their suggestion to us:
If we have a vacant, foreclosed property in an area where we expect non-MLS agents will be interested in showing the property…but as an agent you are OK if they are scheduled by Showing Solutions, you can enter the following under “showing instructions” and “scheduling rules – special”:
If non-MLS agent requests to show, schedule under listing agent’s name after confirming license is valid with state. Provide contact info for feedback purposes.
They’ll enter the agent’s contact information in the remarks field so you can contact them for feedback if you need to.
A Las Vegas real estate agent featured in a Time magazine article this week, who bragged about her work assisting homeowners in buying a second home, then bailing on their primary home (buy-and-bail), is being scrutinized by Nevada’s licensing officials, left the brokerage she represented and is lying low…http://is.gd/2BP4k. Maybe even more interesting reading…the 94+ comments posted by readers below this article.
USA Today article “Foreclosure guilt haunts home buyers” http://is.gd/2BPWL. Some people buying foreclosed homes feel guilty that someone had to lose their home for them to get the deal they did. Names etched in sidewalks are a reminder to the new homeowner of the former owners. In some cases, the former owners even visit the home and the new homeowners. “Being house-proud, once trendy, is now socially awkward.” A new homeowner was quoted saying about the former owner:
“Her husband had lost his job because he got cancer and couldn’t work, and they couldn’t afford it anymore. My partner invited her in and it totally put a human face on what’s happening. I really wish she hadn’t done that to us. We cried about it for days.”
Chris Bonish will contribute the $361 raised at the CITO lunch yesterday on behalf of Preview Properties.com agents & staff. Thank you for your contributions today. And as an additional thank you, plan on having some more lunch today…we have leftovers.
Saw this article in USA Today on Tuesday and thought some of you might want to share it with your buyers who are struggling with the decision to buy now or not. Link to story – http://is.gd/2zK69.
The two reasons:
Leo Bonish will be in the Brighton office to take photos on Thursday, August 27 at 9:30 a.m. If you are interested in getting your photo taken then, please let Chris Bonish know. And SAY CHEESE.
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