🎥. Webinar: Exploring The Cash Offer Phenomenon — The new-found buying power from cash offers suggests that increased legal protection and advanced guidance for your sellers is a near necessary update to your client experience. We explore the tactics for finding certainty in the real estate transaction.
HomeLight has acquired Disclosures.io!
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re taking a giant step in our journey to transform the real estate transaction by joining forces with HomeLight. Starting today, Disclosures.io will power the newly formed HomeLight Listing Management division, available to agents nationwide.
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(New) Introducing: Video Tours by Disclosures.io
(New) Form Filling by Disclosures.io
With Form Filling by Disclosures.io, Listing Agents can send their client's Seller Disclosures right from the property package within Disclosures.io. Sellers are guided through the process in simple achievable steps, and the legal FAQs/definitions are provided for them along the way. Once you’re logged into Disclosures.IO and in your desired package, it’s really simple from there.
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The much anticipated Disclosures.iO + Sellers Shield Partnership
At Disclosures.io, we have been working hard to build new features and products that help our valued community of agents maneuver to succeed. One such addition to our feature set is Form Filling.
With Form Filling by Disclosures.io, Listing Agents can send their client’s Seller Disclosures right from the property package within Disclosures.io. This new functionality is made possible by a strategic partnership with Sellers Shield.
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Facilitating the seller disclosure process safely, legally, and digitally.
There is a good reason the seller disclosures documentation holds the most weight in real estate lawsuits arguing “misrepresentation.” The seller disclosures are a notice to buyers of the seller’s knowledge. That means the party in the transaction who is most likely to suffer financial obligations in a real estate misrepresentation lawsuit is the seller.
How do you educate your sellers and help them to fill their disclosures out legally, completely, and efficiently? We have a recommendation for you.
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(New) A Fresh Design and New Features on the Property Package
You may have noticed that the property packages in Disclosures.io have a fresh, new, look. Even if you don’t have a listing right now, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the new improvements. This article will walk you through three important changes that we made to your Property Package.
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Managing PEAD forms — The best way to distribute, sign, and store your PEAD forms
Along with a whole lot of hand sanitizer, gloves, and face masks, listing agents are required to get the PEAD form signed by all individuals who enter the property. We’ll walk you through the most effective processes that agents have adopted, within Disclosures.io, to better manage these new forms.
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(New) Scan docs with an app made for real estate deals - Disclosures.io Mobile
Ask any on-the-go agent, their mobile phone is the life-blood of their business. Now with the mobile app from Disclosures.io, you can scan documents into your Property Package with a single click. “The scanning feature is kind of incredible. It’s fast, super smooth, and so much more than merely snapping a picture.”
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(New) A powerful addition to the way you manage offers
You can use the automatically Calculated Values module to make sure that the terms of the offer have been input correctly. The new offer fields help to make each offer as clear as possible. The automatically calculated values help buyers agents double-check their work and reduce errors.
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(New) Add A Video Tour Link Directly To Your Package
Learn These 3 Simple Skills To Create The Perfect Virtual-Video-Tour Using Nothing But Your Cell Phone!
Your guide to creating the perfect virtual-video-tour. You can hire an expensive professional videographer, but you don’t need to. We’re going to walk you through the easy to remember tips and tricks that even professionals use to make videos look professionally produced.
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Client behaviors and industry shifts moving forward. The New Era of real Estate.
We asked 50,000+ real estate agents across the country, what to expect, and what to do for the duration of the nationally recognized shelter in place. Both seasoned and up-and-coming agents shared their recommendations for best practices and surfaced some much-needed tips on how to make the most out of a uniquely challenging time.
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How To Keep Closing Deals During The Most Unique Moment In Real Estate History
From 2005 to 2019, The number of people telecommuting in the U.S. increased by 173%. In 2019 the US Census reported that “80% of employees want to work from home at least some of the time.” Fast forward just a few clicks to Spring 2020, if you’re lucky, right now, working from home is the only option.
For real estate, remote work is mostly normal. For Realtors, however, having their entire client-base be remote-only is very new, and is proving to be especially challenging.
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(New) Create listing information packages with the Disclosures.iO iOS App
The Disclosures.io mobile app just got a lot more powerful. Now, agents can now create a complete Listing Information Package from the convenience of their iPhone or iPad. It’s fast, it’s easy, and because it’s integrated with your iPhone/iPad, you can quickly add beautiful photography as well as supplemental documents to your listing information package.
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The single sentence that will secure your next listing
Potential Sellers Have Been Wondering: The answer is .“Yes, this year is looking like a great time to sell.”
Every great agent wants their buyers or sellers to be as informed as possible. Thats’s why you’ve established a simple and effective method to keep your clients educated.
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100% of Real Estate Deals Require Upfront Disclosure Documentation
Social media, public review sites, media publications, you name it; the pro-transparency movement is now a mandate in nearly every facet of our economy - it is also true for real estate. Upfront information is the single best thing that you can do to increase the quality of the offers that you receive. The reason is simple: confident buyers make better offers.
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The Share Link is the Most Important Tool in Your Back Pocket
The technology of sharing private information with a single url, is readily available. The problem with most of these tools is that they are not tailored for real estate. Sure, you can put docs into Google Drive or Dropbox, but the ability to store and share the information is just about all that they offer. For realtors, it’s helpful, but not enough.
One tool lets you do much more.
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Funding A Relocation: Pros, Cons and Alternatives to Bridge Loans
Guest Post by Aislinn Garza - Head of Customer Success at Faros.
Buying one home is hard enough; do you want your clients to have to pay two mortgages at once? Make relocation a seamless transition for your clients with a temporary place to live while they browse the housing market for their next forever home.
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