WEEKLY NOTICES - July 8, 2016 - SpokaneOpen.com Summer Weekend

Weekly Notices

Friday, July 8, 2016

SpokaneOpen.com Summer Weekend

THIS WEEKEND!

Your Communication/Member Services Committee has approved a modest Facebook marketing push to promote your listings on SpokaneOpen.com this weekend - July 9th and 10th.

The SpokaneOpen.com Summer Weekend will be a mini version of our annual Spokane REALTORS® Open House Weekend, though there will be no prizes this time.

Please consider listing a property or two for an open house this weekend, to be supported by this social media effort.

Watch the SAR Facebook page for the ad (pictured above), and like/share it with your clients and friends. At press time, our Facebook boost reports our message has been seen by more than 2,500 people.

We'll be curious to hear how this push supports your business.

Call for Action

Thank you if you have already responded to NAR's current Call for Action!

Washington REALTORS® reports a 16% participation rate across the state. Our goal is to reach at least a 20% participation rate.

Please take a moment, now, to visit NAR's Call for Action page to learn more about the current call and how you can respond to it.

Together, we can help advance this issue in a favorable direction for all REALTORS®.

Thank you!

Education Excellence / Quarterly Meeting

Mark your calendar and plan to attend our next Education Excellence and Quarterly Membership Meeting on Thursday, August 11th.

This time, we'll be meeting in the Commons on the Mukogawa Fort Wright campus near Spokane Falls Community College.

The education piece will be a Purchase & Sale Agreement class, which is required for residential brokers to take once in every four-year cycle.

If you have not taken this class since January 1, 2013, you need to take it this year!

See the class flyer (pictured above), online here.

PSA Addenda

Did you ever wish there was a class to go over all the possible addenda to the Purchase and Sale Agreement?

If so, your wish will come true Thursday, August 18th!

Your SAR proudly presents an all-new, four clock-hour class on Purchase and Sale Agreement addenda, focusing on all the additional forms that can be added to the PSA document - the foundation of the transaction between buyers and sellers of real estate.

See the class flyer (pictured above), with class details and registration information, online here.

Watch a personal welcome to this class from instructor Sabrina Jones-Schroeder, online here:

PSA Addenda

REALTOR ® Safety - Empower Yourself

It's here - by popular demand and professional need - a new clock-hour class for REALTOR® safety!

Thursday, September 22nd, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at your SAR

Real estate professionals are in dangerous positions every day, young, old, man or woman. You must equip yourself with basic safety concepts and habits.

Curriculum created and presented by Beale Luebben and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

You'll be glad you've taken this invaluable training opportunity!

See the class flyer (pictured above), online here.

Watch a personal welcome to the class from instructors Beale Luebben and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder, online here:

REALTOR® Safety - Empower Yourself

Lunch & Learn: Mistakes & Blunders

Learn from all the common mistakes and blunders other people make on the Purchase and Sale Agreement at the July Lunch and Learn at your SAR:

Monday, July 18th.

See the event flyer with more details (pictured above), online here.

Lunch & Learn: Home Warranty

NEW!

What is a home warranty and how can one help your business?

The answers will be yours at our August Lunch & Learn at your SAR: Monday, August 15th.

See the event flyer with more details (pictured above), online here.

2016 REALTOR® Education

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Quality of Education

through SAR/WR Education Instructors

Here is the latest class listing of your SAR - offering the best live and local continuing real estate education classes for 2016.

Click on each class title, underlined in blue, to bring up a flyer for that class - suitable for posting in your office.

Register for these classes online here:

Please be in touch with Debbie at the SAR if you have any questions about these classes or your license education requirements, by phone at 326-9222 or by email.

Purchase & Sale Agreement

NEXT WEEK!

Tuesday, July 12 - Purchase & Sale Agreement - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
at the SAR

Code of Ethics - Standards for Success

NEXT WEEK!

Thursday, July 14 - Code of Ethics - Standards for Success - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

Core Curriculum

NEXT WEEK!

Friday, July 15 - Core Curriculum - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

Registration: 1:00 p.m.
Class: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

3.0 clock hours

Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals

Tuesday, July 19 - Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

Code of Ethics - Standards for Success

Thursday, August 4 - Code of Ethics - Standards for Success - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

7.5 clock hours

Thursday, August 11 - Education Excellence (Purchase & Sale Agreement / Quarterly Membership Meeting - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

All residential brokers must take this class once every four years. If you have not taken this class since January 1, 2013, you need to take this class!

Registration: 8:15 a.m.

Class: 8:30 a.m. to noon
Luncheon: noon to 1:00 p.m.
Class: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

7.5 clock hours

Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals

Tuesday, August 16 - Code of Ethics for Real Estate Professionals - with Linda Miller Sheets.

Registration: noon
Class: 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

PSA Addenda

Thursday, August 18 - What else do we need? Purchase and Sale agreement addenda - with Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
at the SAR

4.0 clock hours

REALTOR® Safety - Empower Yourself

Thursday, September 22 - REALTOR® Safety - Empower Yourself - with Beale Luebben and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder.

ALL NEW CLASS - by popular demand and professional necessity!

Registration: 8:15 a.m.
Class: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the SAR

3.0 clock hours

SAR CALENDAR

Click on the image below to see the current SAR calendar

showing dates and times of classes, committees and events.

New Exhibit A Rule

SAR photo

UPDATE!

Your SAR MLS Participants Committee met this week (photo above) to come to a final draft and recommendation on the new "Exhibit A" rules.

After about an hour of good discussion and input from many participants, a memo to the board was voted on and approved.

The recommendation now goes to the SAR Board of Directors for its final discussion and approval.

Watch this space for your copy of the final document as soon as it is approved and announced by your Board.

TransactionDesk Class

NEXT WEEK!

The next TransactionDesk Basics class will be offered on Monday, July 11th, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the SAR. To register, just click on the MLS Training button on the home page of Paragon.

You can also click here for TransactionDesk Resources or the TransactionDesk Resources button on Paragon for additional help.

2016 SAR Golf Tournament

FILLING QUICKLY!

The 2016 SAR Golf Tournament will be Thursday, July 21st, at Downriver Golf Course.

Participation is limited to 144 golfing entrants only so register today!

See the event flyer with more information (pictured above), online here.

Beware of Random Audits

NEW!

Your Washington REALTORS® in-house counsel, Annie Fitzsimmons, is back with another video in her DOL (Department of Licensing) series.

This time, Annie discusses the importance of making sure that your Continuing Education Certifications are up-to-date and accurate for the DOL because of random auditing.

Also covered is the importance of cooperating with the DOL should you be involved in an investigation (directly or indirectly).

Don't risk losing your license! Watch this video to find out how you can avoid trouble with the DOL by staying on top of some basic housekeeping issues.

Watch the four-minute video online here:

Beware of Random Audits

The Voice for Real Estate

NEW!

The U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union has resulted in lower mortgage rates and could make U.S. real estate more attractive.

That's the assessment of NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun in the Voice for Real Estate for the week of July 5th.

Other stories look at the final rule for the commercial use of drones and how laser technology can help lower flood insurance premiums.

The video also gives an update on NAR's efforts to get FHA condo financing improvements passed in Congress and it includes an excerpt from a recent tax planning webcast.

Watch the eight-minute video online here:

The Voice for Real Estate

Top Five Things you Should Know

NAR photo

NEW!

NAR just issued a new brief, "Top 5 Things REALTORS® Should Know About New FAA Regulations on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)."

This document (pictured above) outlines the final FAA rule that brings some predictability to the marketplace for drone-based services, and creates an environment for a broader base of trained operators and service providers.

Download your copy here.

FREE RPR Workshop

RPR is coming to town and offering a free workshop covering exciting technology that is available free for all REALTORS®!

Did we mention it's free?

The event will be Monday, August 1st, from 2-4 p.m. at the SAR, hosted by a live and in person RPR representative who knows her stuff and welcomes your questions.

More information is available in the event flyer (pictured above), online here.

If you'd like to know how to get started with RPR but can't attend this workshop, see a live online presentation on Thursday, July 7th at 11 a.m.; Wednesday, August 3rd at 9 a.m.; or Thursday, September 8th, at 10 a.m.

If, for some reason, you register for one of these live online presentations and have to miss it, a copy of the recording will be mailed to you at no charge.

WR Business Symposium

Washington REALTORS® invites you to its 2016 Business Symposium, September 29th at Sea-Tac Convention Center.

What you'll take away from the Business Symposium . . .

·         7.5 Clock Hours

·         Create a prospecting program that is effective and adds to your business profitability

·         Understand real estate advertising do's and don'ts

·         Recognize the legal requirements regarding property advertisement

·         Calculate the cost of advertisement and evaluate promotion effectiveness

More details on the Business Symposium and online registration are available here.

Summer Hikes Series

Dishman Hills Conservancy photo

NEW!

Do you know where in Spokane County this photo (above) was taken?

If not, perhaps you'd like to find out, and see this view and many others like it in person, on an upcoming Dishman Hills Summer Hikes event.

The photo shows Battleship Rock, just one of many spectacular views close to home in the 2,500+ acre Dishman Hills Natural Area that was once along the North American coastline when the Pacific Ocean was brand new.