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More tips on RESPA law, guidelines and violations for real estate agents and loan originators from former HUD investigator and RESPA expert, Dr. Gary Lacefield. The latest video continues the discussion of the new HUD/RESPA forms for Good Faith Estimate and Mortgage Package Offer. Dr. Lacefield reviews the rules and tolerances for these new items. […]
Posted: October 26th, 2006
Topic:
RESPA Updates
Concerned that the market won’t come back any time soon? Here’s an article from Don Hobbs with his usual good tips and comments that he published in the summer of 2004 that applies today. Reading this article, you would think he just finished it which should remind you that the market is cyclical, and this […]
Posted: October 26th, 2006
Topic:
Marketing
Too many choices? With constant advances in technology, the most difficult question facing the average real estate agent today is exactly which technologies they should take advantage first, which come last, and which ones might be a waste of time altogether. It would easy for most of us to assemble a “to-do” list of technology that […]
Posted: October 26th, 2006
Topic:
Technology
Q. Our mother died 5 years before father Quit Claimed their house (in its entirety) to another daughter and son-in law. If our parents had the Deed to the house as Community Property and not Community Property Right of Survivorship, could my father Quit Claim the entire Real Property or just his share? Wouldn’t […]
Posted: October 18th, 2006
Topic:
Ask the TITLEMAN™
More tips on RESPA law, guidelines and violations for real estate agents and loan originators from former HUD investigator and RESPA expert, Dr. Gary Lacefield. This week’s video begins a discussion of the new HUD/RESPA forms for Good Faith Estimate and Mortgage Package Offer. Dr. Lacefield reviews the rules and tolerances for these new items. […]
Posted: October 10th, 2006
Topic:
RESPA Updates
While Jim Gillespie specializes in coaching commercial real estate agents, his comments here apply to residental agents, too. When we begin our careers as commercial real estate agents we normally don’t have any clients or prospects at that time. So we begin prospecting to locate people we can begin working with, then we work on closing […]
Posted: October 10th, 2006
Topic:
Marketing
Well now you’ve done it! You’ve gone and taken a luxury home listing. Pop the cork on the Champaign , buy a new suit, and dust off your polo gear (you do have polo gear, right?) because today is truly an exciting day, after all it’s not everyday that you land a big juicy listing, […]
Posted: September 26th, 2006
Topic:
Marketing
More tips on RESPA law, guidelines and violations for real estate agents and loan originators from former HUD investigator and RESPA expert, Dr. Gary Lacefield. In this week’s video, Dr. Lacefield discusses an Atlanta branch of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate under investigation for RESPA violations that settled with HUD for a $250K payment. View […]
Posted: September 20th, 2006
Topic:
RESPA Updates
I was always excited to tell my prospective clients why they should consider my services! To elevate my message above the din of numerous competitive agents I constantly sought groups of clients with special needs that were grouped using specific criteria. As the criteria became more unique there was less competition! If the criteria was […]
Posted: September 20th, 2006
Topic:
Marketing
What is an infomercial? It’s a commercial for your business that doesn’t sound like a commercial. It sounds more like information. Thus: infomercial. What is your specialty? What do you know more about than the average Realtor? What could you use as an educational ploy in order to demonstrate your expertise? It might be the local resale […]
Posted: September 19th, 2006
Topic:
Marketing