Real Estate BarCamp

REBarCamp is a One-Day event where passionate real estate industry experts come together to share their knowledge on a peer to peer basis. Sessions evolve based on whatever topic one wants to share and whoever wants to learn. This is a great networking opportunity and great opportunity to find out about what is new and exciting in the world of real estate. RSVP’s for this event have increased so quickly that they had to change the location of the event.

This event is being held on Friday, May 22nd at DPPA Event Center.

First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit – Materials

The $8,000 Tax credit has been a popular topic of discussion the last few months. My customers have requested marketing pieces that they can use to send to their clients and prospects. Land Title has produced a couple of pieces that you can send out to your customers. First is the May Tech Bulletin, this is a great informational piece that can be emailed to inquiring customers. This piece answers the most common questions surrounding the tax credit.

The second is a post card. You can import this image into Publisher, Word or whatever program you design your post cards in. We can also help you produce and mail them to a FARM area or SOI. Shoot me an email for pricing.

Feel free to use these pieces, and let me know if you have any questions.

New service on www.LTGC.com

Land Title has recently added a very easy to use property search tool to their website. You can use this tool to find property details, plat map links, sold comps, and more. One of my colleagues, Jim Renshaw created a five minute tutorial on how to use this system. So far the feed back from our clients has been very positive. Let me know what you think of it.

April Technical Bulletin

Here is the Technical Bulletin for April 2009, “Hold Opens”. This piece describes what a hold open is and the cost savings it can produce for you or your buyers. This product is great for investors and short-term ownership.

 

Here is how it works. If your buyer is purchasing a property that they plan on selling in the next 24 months, they can pay a fraction above the premium the seller has agreed to pay and we will hold the policy open. The policy will stay open for 24 months until the property is sold to a new buyer. Holding the policy open provides a substantial cost savings to the middle buyer because we are not issuing a policy to the middle buyer. When the new buyer purchases the property we issue the policy to them.

 

If you have any questions regarding this topic please feel free to email me, or post your question in the comments section of this post.