Recent changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) present opportunities and challenges to agents and their clients.  DataQuick has  identified 6.7 million homeowners who meet the new eligibility requirements and will most likely benefit from the revised programs.  Now there’s a good excuse to contact past clients and be the go-to agent [...]

A third of NAR members have complained about appraisers bringing in values lower than the sales price, causing problems in transactions or worse, blowing up the deal. Help prevent this happening to you by helping the appraiser. A few suggestions:    Prepare the house! Make sure the water heater is strapped, smoke and carbon monoxide [...]

  Here are 10 important legal updates (though there are more) that affect our industry worth reviewing. Courtesy of Steve J. Zipperman, APC, Real Estate Attorney. 1. Condominium Units and PUD’s Owners of common interest developments (CONDOS, PUD’s) must be allowed to rent or lease their units unless restrictions were placed on the owner’s ability [...]

It is surprising how many people in real estate are using obsolete, inadequate equipment.  The same people regularly complain about their business not being at the level they would like it to be.  This means only one thing… time to upgrade and make more money!  Your old pokey computer would make a better doorstop than an inefficient business [...]

Ryan Smith of Temecula is opening escrow on a double end deal netting him $22,500 in commission!  Ryan is keeping 100% of his commission. The typical agent gives 30% of their commission to their broker.  In this transaction that would be $6750. There is a better way.  Allison James agents pay only $2950 per year and then keep [...]

Remote work using free wi-fi is getting easier by the day.  Recently while driving from South California to Northern California I needed to quickly fill out a spreadsheet and email it.  Even though I was on the Grape Vine it was easy.  I simply stopped at the McDonalds in Gorman, a very out of the [...]

Have ever wanted to convert a document in your computer to PDF format?  You can easily convert documents that you have either created in your word processor, received via email or downloaded to PDF.  What many do is print and scan to PDF using their scanner. Some will even fax the document to an electronic fax [...]

Several Allison James Agents met today in Modesto for an open forum style mastermind meeting with Ken Moon, State Broker of Allison James, California. Topics discussed included paperless transactions, short sales and current market trends.  Agents left the meeting with several great ideas.  The Allison James Mastermind Meeting in Modesto is the third Wednesday of [...]

Most of us have smart phones, but are we making the most of what they can do to save us time and money?  The following smart phone tips will increase your productivity by saving time and aggravation.  We all know about email, calendaring and web browsing.  Here are some other ideas: 1. Record your Agent [...]

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