Friday Post February 24, 2017

It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | new tool to compete + battle of the barristers + old forms out the door + a cure for the winter blues – think spring!

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Welcome to FWL where this week! At a glance for this week >  tool to compete in this market + battle of the barristers is coming! + old NWMLS Forms are now out the door + welcome the 2017 NWMLS Forms revisions + a weekend cure for the winter blues + content delivered to you on a silver platter) + Tune Up sets your table...let’s sweep and see what we can digest, together.

Competing in this market requires us doing a masterful job in educating buyers and sellers. If you attended the Larry Kendall event earlier this month he shared with us a strategy + tool to help in this process. It was a one-sheet developed by one of his very successful brokers in Fort Collins. I’ve taken the “tool” and modernized it to our local marketplace, along with feedback from several of you…a quick glance below, your manager has the one-pager to drop in your toolbox where you deem fit.

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A few suggestion is use > buyer packets + seller packets + a worksheet in preparing a strong offer + specifically a worksheet to help your buyer prospects determine if they are fit for this market – aka, have the stomach and abilities to compete – all part of the process.

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Join me! I’m so excited to attend this event. I’ve heard such great things and each year it fills up and I’m out of luck. Thanks to Eastlake’s Eva Conner and Michael Nelson for the reminder I will not miss this year! Friday, March 24, 2017 | 9-noon

The Barristers | Annie Fitzsimmons | Chris Osborn | Lars Neste | Doug Tingvall

Hilton Bellevue | 300 112th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98004 *includes parking*

***Real Estate Legal Issues: Clock-hours pending*** Let’s go get smart.

Tickets: REALTOR® $60 (p.s. non-REALTORs pay more!) | Join me, register now!

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Yes indeed, February 23rd 2017 has come and gone!  Why should we care? Answer: our 2017 NWMLS Form revisions are here + the old forms out the door. As a reminder, the homepage of the NWMLS has all the goods – Legal Bulletin 209 (start here!) and my favorite – pull the “red-lined” forms in a PDF version and actually SEE what has been changed (hint: this is a 119 page document).***No doubt your office will break these down with you – in the meantime for those that would like to get ahead of what is NOW in our market, Annie Fitszimmons begins to break it down for us…

Click here to watch Annie Fitszimmons break a few of the changes down

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I’m ready for Spring, are you?  First Sign of Spring: The NW Flower and Garden Show and we’ve blogged all about it for you. Hint hint! Tell your people and give them something to do this weekend while our toes are still chilly and streets still very wet! A cure for the winter blues?

Click here, read + follow + shout it out! Seattle Spaces and Places

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…p.s. your Tune Up team met up last Friday for continued collaboration, training, planning + fun – with you as the target audience to stay on top of setting your table. What a fantastic group, love my work with these people!

Example…are you curious to know how you could better utilize our Seattle Spaces & Places blog in your “flow” – just ask them – tuneup@windermere.com – content delivered to you on a silver platter…

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Ok, let’s get on with our Friday! Hope you grabbed a digestible bite to put in practice this next week. Shout if you need anything, here to help – the ultimate goal! 206.227.7133 c.

Laura Smith, General Manager | Windermere Real Estate Co.

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