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January's Continuing Education
Classes
Successful Real Estate
Marketing Tactics & Strategies
Chris
Ripley
January 17, 2007
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
0 clock
hours
$20 member/$25 non-member
Additional $5 fee for
walk-ins
Synopsis: Find out how to increase your bottom line
with improved marketing skills. Develop marketing strategies & techniques to
maximize the sales potential of your listings and learn how to measure your
marketing success. This class is not approved for continuing education clock
hour credits.
FHA & VA Financing
Updates
Bill Hocker
January 24, 2007
9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
3 clock
hours
Approved Topic: F) Professional Enhancement for practicing
licensees.
$40 member/$50 non-member
Additional $5 fee for
walk-ins
Synopsis: After 4 years of VA and FHA financing
receiving less that favorable acceptance, market conditions now suggest knowing
the ins and outs of VA and FHA is important. Attendees will be fully updated on
all the VA and FHA changes over the last four years.
Click here
to see the rest of SMAR's Continuing Education Schedule.
To register you may
contact Hannah Sanders at 888-340-8727 or register online at the above
link.
SMAR
Membership Survey Winner Announced
Congratulations to Mike Cook, Long & Foster Real Estate, Solomons,
Maryland, who just won a $100.00 gasoline card for being one of the SMAR members
who responded to our recent survey. Mike's name was randomly chosen from among
those who responded. The response rate to our survey was very good and
indicated that 83% of the members presently believe the value of membership in
the Association is Excellent/Good, with only 1% giving a rating of Poor
value.
One
Day and Contractor Codes
Be very
cautious when issuing a one-day code or contractor code. These codes are
essentially "keys to the house." Verify the contact information provided by the
party requesting the code is correct.
Ensure
that the party requesting the code is who he or she claims to be. Take a number
and call them back. Call the office and verify that the person works there.
Remind the recipient that the code is for their own use and is not to be given
or loaned to anyone else. Misuse of these codes is a serious violation of your
fiduciary responsibility to the homeowner and could endanger the homeowner, the
property and its contents as well as other people.
Maryland Association of
REALTORS®
Presents
MAR TOWN MEETING
Monday,
February 12, 2007
11:30 am
- 3:00 pm - lunch included
Greenbelt Marriott, Greenbelt, Maryland
You know that
question that you have been yearning to ask MAR Leadership, well here's your
opportunity to do so! Come join your colleagues from Howard County, Greater
Capital Area and Prince George's Associations for an informal lunch and meet the
MAR Leadership and find out the answers to those questions. Whether it's a
legislative, legal, help me, or a when, or why question, this is the time and
place to get your answers. Don't let this opportunity slip away?.No question
will be left unanswered.
Register: This Town Meeting will include members
from Howard County, Greater Capital Area, Prince George's County and Southern
Maryland Associations. Space is limited to the first 165. To register call
Tera Swann at 301-870-2323 or 888-340-8727.
Local
CRS Classes
Please
note date & location below for a local CRS (Certified Residential
Specialist) class. For registration information please contact Cindy Sellers,
from the Maryland Association of REALTORS®, at 1-800-638-6425.
CRS 200: Business Planning and Marketing
for the Residential Specialist
Date: January 18 & 19,
2007 (8:30 AM - 5:00 PM both days)
Location: Colony South Hotel, 7401
Surratts Road, Clinton, MD 20735
SentriLock Training Schedule
SentriLock Training is
mandatory and consists of a 20-minute video plus hands on demonstration. You
may call Ronnie Miles at 888-340-8727 to schedule for any one of the following
classes:
Thursday, January 18th - 1:30
p.m.
Thursday, January 25th - 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 31st - 1:30
p.m.
Download an order form, please click
here.
Winter
Coat Drive
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The Community Relations/CARE
Award Committee of SMAR is sponsoring a Winter Coat Drive. Coats are donated to
the Children's Aid Society. Now through January 31, 2007, donate your coats,
scarves, gloves and hats (must be clean and in good condition) to one of the
following locations: |
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Calvert County
Long and Foster
2810 Laurian Lane
Dunkirk, MD
Long and Foster
Fox Run Shopping Center
100 Harrows
Lane
Prince Frederick, MD |
Charles County
Davis
Realty
40 St. Patrick's Drive
Waldorf, MD |
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St. Mary's County
Leonard
Realty
22607 Three Notch Road
California, MD 20619 |
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