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Real Estate Refresher: 3 uncommon ways to purchase real estate
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As REALTORS®, we have the answers. Or perhaps it's better to say, we have the tools and ability to show our clients their options. To do that, it's important to stay up to date on those options, including some of those you may not come across quite as often. It's perhaps more important now than ev...
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Now's the time to check your credit score
You normally tell your clients to check their credit scores, right? Well, now's the time for you to do that, too.
With applications for loan options, agents' personal information is being sent to many different places, increasing the chances of it ending up in the wrong place.
As we've noted in this previous article, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, so it's important to make sure reporting by credit reporting agencies is accurate to ensure you're not a victim of identity fraud.
To help combat the potential for foul play, the...
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Free or discounted association resources for REALTORS®
We are all working to establish a new normal both personally and professionally in light of disruptions caused by COVID-19. The full extent of the virus' impact on the Gulf Coast real estate market as well as how long that impact will last is yet to be determined. However, the good news is as a REALTOR®, you have associations working tirelessly to help you through this difficult time.
Many local and national REALTOR® associations are producing content to help you with your financial health, how to grow your business, how to adjust your business strategy going forward and the list just continues -- often for free or at a steep discount.
Have you been putting off checking out the RPR site or all that the National Association of REALTORS® has to offer? Well, let this be a sign that it's time to create an account and/or subscribe. The list below is by no m...
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Podcast: The current state of real estate
If you've turned on the news any time in the last two months, you've heard about the economic impacts of COVID-19. As we've noted in our April 2020 Market update, many are asking how virus uncertainties are affecting local real estate.
While no one knows for sure what the future of our real estate market holds, we can infer the projected impact of COVID-19 on the Alabama Gulf Coast's real estate market from past experiences and stats from Baldwin County and Mobile County property sales.
Check out this episode of Port of Call, an advertising and marketing podcast hosted by Portside Advertising's Joe Brown, for more information from Bellator Real Estate & Development's President Troy Wilson and Chief Operating Officer Geoff Stacey on market forecasts and how technology is being used in real estate during the pandemic.
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Now's the time to create a YouTube channel and gain followers
If you have all the real estate business you can handle, then you're probably going to want to stop reading this. But if you — like many real estate agents along Alabama's Gulf Coast — are looking for ways to generate more real estate leads for your business, consider using YouTube.
With social distancing at the forefront of everyone's minds, video is now one of the best ways — if not the best way — to connect both with your sphere of influence, and with those whom you don't necessarily share a personal connection. Learning more about YouTube and ways to shoot video are skills that can pay dividends for your real estate business.
The good news is creating a YouTube channel is a straight forward process, and it's a great way to...
