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How to win listings and convert buyers with SMS texting

April 18, 2012 MGeslock

A slow conversation…

Agent: “Hello?”
Caller: “Yeah, I was wondering what that house cost over there on the south side of town…”
Agent: “OK, which one? I have several listings.”
Caller: “You know! The one over off of Congress.”
Agent: “I have three near there…..”
Caller: “Well I can’t remember the address and there were no fliers in your box but it’s the blue one on the left hand side of the street. Does that help any?”

Here is an excellent company that will help you market your listings and sell them faster.

DriveBuy Technologies has an affordable text marketing solution. When a customer drives by your property, they text a code specific code to 88000. Immediately they get all of the listing information back to their phone. Even more importantly, you capture their cell number. This allows you to call them back while they are standing infront of the property.

The owner of the company has allowed me to give away 1 free Ad Code.

Dylan writes “The free code is not a temporary discount or a trial. They can use one code as long as they like. Even your agents who have no listings should get an account so they can use the technology to demo on their listing appointments.”

Here is the link http://bit.ly/Jeo07o . This is for Keller Williams Agents only.

If you want to demo the the KW template Text KW3 to 88000

Its FREE…. what are you waiting for!!

Filed Under: Keller Williams, Real Estate Tagged With: Agent help, DriveBuy, Geslock, Keller Williams, Realtor Tools, SMS, SMS tech

2012 Changes to the Virginia Agency Law

April 10, 2012 MGeslock

There has been much discussion to the new agency law that will take place on July 1, 2012.

This is from the Virginia Association of Realtors Web Page.

Why the change?

  1. Inform the consumer: The law is to make sure consumers are fully informed about the real estate services they’ll receive and the nature of the relationship with the licensee.
  2. Mitigate REALTOR® liability: The law is designed to protect licensees by making sure full disclosure is provided and the nature of brokerage relationship is reduced to writing. It’s to eliminate much of the consumer confusion that can come back and bite the licensee.
  3. Discourage opportunisitic dual agency: The law is intended to make sure that licensees who practice dual agency are fully informing consumers about the risky nature of that relationship.

The changes in law from the 2011 Session of the General Assembly will require agents to:

  • Provide written agency and brokerage agreements to consumers; (Effective July 1, 2012); Please note: the only change to what is already required by Virginia law is that these agreements be in writing as opposed to verbally disclosed.
  • Provide a list of services that the agent will provide to customers; (Effective July 1, 2012)
  • Provide a schedule of fees that will be associated with service, and when payable; (Effective July 1, 2012)
  • Provide enhanced disclosure of limitations on what a Dual Agent can and cannot do for parties to a transaction. There are exceptions for situations where existing clients come together in a common transaction, and for independent contractors. (Effective July 1, 2012)
  • Take a 3‐hour course on the provisions of the Agency statute and the changes made in the legislation. (Course must have been completed for first license renewal after July 1, 2012.) You may exempt yourself from this only if you agree in writing that you will not practice residential standard agency during your license term.

MANDATORY 3-HOUR AGENCY CLASS INFORMATION

Agents in Virginia must take a three-hour course on the provisions of the agency statute and the changes made in the legislation.

When should I take the course?

If your current license expires after July 1, 2012, you may take the 3 hour agency course at any time, beginning right now. In fact, if your license expires in July 2012, you will need the course very quickly. However, if your license expires in February through June of 2012, you should wait to take the course until after you have renewed your license and your next licensing cycle begins. You may take the course now, but you will need to take it again (for credit) in your next license cycle.

If you want the rest of the details, follow this link  http://www.varealtor.com/Agency

Filed Under: Laws and Changes, Real Estate, Training Tagged With: Geslock, Keller Williams, Keller Williams Fredericksburg, New VA Agency Law, Real Estate, real estate definitions, Va Agency Law

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