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Webinar: Exploring The Cash Offer Phenomenon

Webinar: Exploring The Cash Offer Phenomenon

🎥. 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.

Facilitating the seller disclosure process safely, legally, and digitally.

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.

Read time: 5 min, 17 seconds

Managing PEAD forms — The best way to distribute, sign, and store your PEAD forms

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.

Read time: 2 min 47 seconds

(New) Scan docs with an app made for real estate deals - Disclosures.io Mobile

(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.”

Read time: 2 min, 53 seconds

Client behaviors and industry shifts moving forward. The New Era of real Estate.

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.

Read time: 6 min, 27 seconds

The single sentence that will secure your next listing

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.

Read time: 3 min 35 seconds

100% of Real Estate Deals Require Upfront Disclosure Documentation

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.

Read time: 3 min 14 seconds

The Share Link is the Most Important Tool in Your Back Pocket

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.

Read time: 4 min 38 seconds

On working smart, and hard: There are no secrets driving the business of top-performing agents.

On working smart, and hard: There are no secrets driving the business of top-performing agents.

The best in the biz are repurposing the core requirements of the real estate deal to meet the new standards and requirements of their clients. There is a common theme: “Focus on the fundamentals: client relationships and business efficiency”.

Read time: 3 min 50 seconds

Don’t be late to the party. Embrace the modern expectations of the now generation of clients.

Don’t be late to the party. Embrace the modern expectations of the now generation of clients.

“If realtors haven’t yet absorbed or instituted workable tech in their operations, they are leaving money on the table, creating more work, and leaving their team open to inefficiency and ineffectiveness.” - Alf Nucifora

Read time: 3 min 23 seconds

Most likely, You can’t buy a home that you cannot insure.

Most likely, You can’t buy a home that you cannot insure.

Major insurance carriers have stopped covering high-fire-risk areas and flood zones. If you’re in-contract on a home and the buyer finds out that the home is uninsurable or that the premium is astronomical, it will be a surprise that can throw a wrench into your would-be smooth transaction.

Read time: 3 min 7 seconds

Side, the most agent-forward brokerage, you’ve never heard of.

Side, the most agent-forward brokerage, you’ve never heard of.

Side is on the forefront of taking agent-centric to the next level and a brokerage that you haven’t heard of for good reason. Side is, “agent-forward”. If you’re familiar with California Real Estate, you may have heard of some of the brands that they’ve partnered with - Thrive, City, Elevation, Real Estate Experts, Portfolio, and many more.

Read time: 5 min 46 seconds.

Advice From a Master Buyers Agent: 3 Tests of Confidence Smart Buyers Use When Assessing Agents

Advice From a Master Buyers Agent: 3 Tests of Confidence Smart Buyers Use When Assessing Agents

Anna Coles knows how important it is to have the right agent represent you. But, Anna has a deeper yet simple insight to share: your agent is just one individual of a team of should-be experts. As a buyer, you need to be aware of all the moving parts, the legal and tax implications, and everything that comes along with signing on that dotted line.

Read time: 4 min 43 seconds

5 reasons pre-listing inspections shouldn’t scare you

5 reasons pre-listing inspections shouldn’t scare you

Guest Post: Craig Ackerman, Top 1% in sales volume of all SF Realtors.

The offer we received on the home was $141,000 over the asking price. With no inspection contingencies. The trustees accepted the offer and were very pleased. Because of that success, the estate asked me and my team to upgrade and sell a property in San Mateo County.

Read time: 3 minutes 18 seconds

“Be the change you want to see in your industry” - Dave Silva

“Be the change you want to see in your industry” - Dave Silva

Dave has an ambitious goal for 2019; he plans on doubling his transactions from 38 to 75. Some might approach this challenge by scaling their team, adding Inside Sales Associates and Buyer’s Agents, but not Dave.

Dave Silva, a Team Leader at RE/MAX Gold in Rocklin CA is laser-focused on efficiency.

Read time: 2 minutes 19 seconds

🎥 Video: “I can't stress enough how much Disclosures.IO has changed my life!"- Butch Haze

🎥 Video: “I can't stress enough how much Disclosures.IO has changed my life!"- Butch Haze

“ What is the #1 game changer that you are using today that is making a huge impact in your business?, Every single one of them said Disclosures.io. It was unbelievable. Honestly, I can say, it’s the number one tool that we use.” -Butch Haze