Quick Notes
Welcome!  Nneka Geter to our Summerlin office.  She is a former RE/MAX Experience agent who is focusing on short sales.  Shoot her an email and say hi!  nnekasg@yahoo.com

Victoria Mitchum joins our Anthem office from Prudential Americana.  She has spent extensive time in property management here and in Oklahoma.  Shoot Victoria an email and welcome her victoriamitchum@yahoo.com

****An appeal to all Advantage Agents.  We have increased inventory of REO properties in very good condition.  We need your referrals to hire a few more agents to use these for sales and new buyer opportunities.  Please send me your referrals – tim@timkuptz.com

#### Looking for a place to office?  Park yourself in a bank repo and meet some new people.  Check with Tom Rucci, Jim Eggers, Larry DeCoursey, Bob Little for opportunities.

Invest in Yourself
Designation Madness – this month at GLVAR!  It’s a perfect time to invest in yourself and earn some CE and designations.  Go to www.lasvegasrealtor.com for information.

Breaking News!
Revised Listing Agreement Now Available on zipForm®

GLVAR’s listing agreement has been updated with several clauses to address current legal issues and seller’s rights. The major changes include:

• The compensation section is broken out to clearly delineate commission earned in a sale or a lease, and to break out percentage commission and flat-fee commission. This change comports with a letter from HUD to NAR clarifying how brokerage fees are to be disclosed under RESPA.
• To assist agents in entering the listing, new spaces are provided for the seller to give information about the Common Interest Communities which may affect the property, the amount of the dues, and whether the dues are current.
• SID/LID information is requested in a new section which also provides the web address to look up the information.
• The seller opt-out provisions required by the Department of Justice since 2009 are now incorporated into the body of the agreement; no separate page or addendum is needed if using the GLVAR listing agreement. (Brokerages that use their own in-house form must still provide the seller with the opt-outs. The separate addendum will remain in the zipForm® library for this purpose.)
• A new section requires that the sellers disclose the status of their mortgage (if it’s in default or not) and requires them to alert the broker if the mortgage goes into default.
• Electronic/digital signatures are expressly agreed to and allowed.

These changes were made to the ER and EA listing agreements, as well as the unimproved land listing agreements (both ER and EA) as applicable. A redline version of the ER listing agreement and a podcast explaining the changes are available at www.lasvegasrealtor.com/formsupdate.

As REALTORS® continue to use and comment on the Short Sale Addendum, the Forms Committee will continue to revise and refine this form to keep it up-to-date and practical.

The most recent changes to the form include:

• A beefed-up explanation about the possible conditions that may be included in a lender approval;
• A reference to the lender approval form to facilitate the parties’ acceptance or rejection of the approval terms;
• A clarification of timelines, and that escrow is opened and earnest money is deposited as stated in the purchase agreement;
• The evisceration of the infamous “Paragraph 6″ which now merely states that the seller may accept other offers as backup offers.

A redline version of the revised Short Sale Addendum and a podcast explaining the changes are available at www.lasvegasrealtor.com/formsupdate

From the Technology Files
Looking for a very simple and FREE quick place to start a website/blog?  Try www.posterous.com  you can blog here, modify to look a website, and have it update your social media.  You can even post from your phone.  Or go to www.wordpress.com and build a website from their platforms for FREE.  Gone soon will be the days of fancy websites costing $100/month.  The evolution of  blogging platforms may make the website obsolete.

Reminder!  The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories. 

Quick Notes
Shirley and her mom should be okay.  Mom broke her leg on Friday and spent a crazy weekend in the Summerlin Hospital.  Shirley is so incredibly critical to our operation and she has given selflessly over the many years.  Please be patient as we crawl through this week.  Things will get better and up to speed next week.

Higher Commissions!  More and more listings are beginning to offer incentives on top their coops in the mls as well as builders.  DR Horton, Richmond American, Lennar are offering up to 6% on some of their quick delivery homes.  What does this mean?  Inventories are growing, absorption is slowing via fewer closings each month coupled with fewer able buyers thanks to our nation leading unemployment rate.  It is not unreasonable to believe prices will further decline in the last quarter of this year.

City Field in the MLS.  Listing agents are now required to complete the “city” field in the mls.  Many of us did not even realize there was no city field.  But now, there is one.

Major Props!  Congrats to Anthem’s Diane Dobson for earning her ABR designation.  Diane adds this to her CDPE designation she earned last month.  What’s cooler?  Diane got her first remax referral this past week as well due.  Keep it going Dobson!

Invest in Yourself
“A critical factor in an agents’ success will be the investor buyer for the coming few years”-Dave Liniger.  Dave said this on stage this week and I have the best place to sharpen your skills from the founder of CDPE.  The new CIAS designation is rolling out in October (I will be attending – come with me!)  Email me for information

CDPE Returns!  Remember about the REO companies now setting themselves to be short sale servicers?  They will require CDPE designations or private training by the servicers themselves.  Alex Charfen said last week they are working on 5 more relationships like the one with LPS for agent qualifying for these networks.  End of September here in Las Vegas is another Live! Event.  Go here to register and get the $200 discount www.cdpe.com/remax  Tom Rucci is registered and Jim Eggers too!�

Company News
Check out these top performers for RE/MAX in Nevada!  Individuals; Val Hyams #2, Leslie North #5, Larry DeCoursey #10.  Teams; Shawn Cunningham #4, Rebecca McKenna #7, Chad Andrew #9, Sandra Thomas #10.

Free Money Opportunity.  In August, 187 web leads were delivered to company agents through remax.com and advantageagents.com.  For the month, almost 3000 unique visitors landed on our remax.com sites or the company site – almost equal amounts for each.

Business Looking for You; we had 23 walk-in and 58 floor calls between both offices for the month of August.

From the Technology Files
REPEAT!  Kurio  NEW Mobile MLS Access! GLVAR’s MLS now offers a NEW & IMPROVED Mobile MLS service for all members.  Brought to you by the same company that created MarketLinx Wireless, Kurio takes real estate search to a whole new level, allowing you to search property listings including off market listings, view similar properties nearby, access critical property details, email property flyers to your clients, and instantly connect with the listing agent.  You can even access your own active listings and your office listings with a single click and get instant market updates for your area of business!  All this and more is now available on your mobile device (yes, it even works on the iPAD).  There is NO ADDITIONAL FEE for the service.  It’s included in your semi annual MLS fees and there is nothing to download!  A “data” plan with your wireless carrier is required. Check it out and REGISTER TODAY at http://las.kurio.mobi/reg   If you need assistance with registration or have any questions, contact Kurio Support at 1.888.We.Kurio (1.888.935.8746) or at support@kurio.com.   Support is available Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.  Once you’re registered with your new Kurio account you can access Kurio at http://las.kurio.mobi

Check out this tool!  Go to http://facebook.com/roostapp for a neat plug-in to your facebook page where it will add some real estate news to your site and a “scheduler” where you can write a whole week’s worth of posts and set the days to deliver them in advance.

Zillow Sends your Leads to other Agents!  Go to Zillow and complete your agent profile.  Doing so will ensure your listing leads go to you.  If you don’t, your leads go to their preferred advertisers.

25 Pictures on a Listing?  You bet!  Did you know that most of the top search sites for homes display their results based on the number of pictures with the listing?  More pictures, the higher the placement for the search result.  Are you helping your Seller get the exposure they deserve and are you getting all the potential return from your online marketing?  The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories.

Reminder!

Quick Notes
Joan Kuptz has left the Country.  Please direct any concerns to me and hopefully some action will take place.

How was your last 7 days?  I have been served as broker 2 lawsuits and a complaint from GLVAR with different agents as defendants.  Thanks for spreading the challenges around.  Who knew being Broker would be this much fun?
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Office Meeting! 
Office meeting will be coming this month.  Look for 3^rd week of this month on Wednesday.  Location to be announced.

Invest in Yourself
“A critical factor in an agents’ success will be the investor buyer for the coming few years”-Dave Liniger.  Dave said this on stage this week and I have the best place to sharpen your skills from the founder of CDPE.  The new CIAS designation is rolling out in October (I will be attending – come with me!)  Email me for information

Agent Reboot.  (Was going to be here but now have a CRS luncheon to run)   One day event will be here on September 15.  This is an action packed day full of technology, social media, marketing and mobility for the real estate agent.  One day only!  Click here for information.

CDPE Returns!  Remember about the REO companies now setting themselves to be short sale servicers?  They will require CDPE designations or private training by the servicers themselves.  Alex Charfen said last week they are working on 5 more relationships like the one with LPS for agent qualifying for these networks.  End of September here in Las Vegas is another Live! Event.  Go here to register and get the $200 discount www.cdpe.com/remax  Tom Rucci is registered and Jim Eggers too!�

Company News
We welcome 2 new agents to the company.  Pattie Orr comes to the Anthem office to work with Iris Fields.  Some of you may remember Pattie from selling Sun City Anthem for the builder for many years.  John Pope starts his new real estate career after spending lots of time in the heavy equipment / construction operation field.  He will be working on his own and looking to help out anywhere.  Please help them be the success you are.

Congrats to Diane Hawley as well for obtaining her property management cert in addition to her real estate license.  Diane was a former Property Manager assistant in the Summerlin office.

As an aside, RE/MAX Advantage is actively recruiting strong agents.  We have lots of space in the Summerlin office and a few opportunities in the Anthem office.  If you love us, help us please.  Look here to see some really cool new videos from RE/MAX for agent recruiting.

From the Technology Files
Kurio  NEW Mobile MLS Access!   GLVAR’s MLS now offers a NEW & IMPROVED Mobile MLS service for all members.  Brought to you by the same company that created MarketLinx Wireless, Kurio takes real estate search to a whole new level, allowing you to search property listings including off market listings, view similar properties nearby, access critical property details, email property flyers to your clients, and instantly connect with the listing agent.  You can even access your own active listings and your office listings with a single click and get instant market updates for your area of business!  All this and more is now available on your mobile device (yes, it even works on the iPAD).  There is NO ADDITIONAL FEE for the service.  It’s included in your semi annual MLS fees and there is nothing to download!  A “data” plan with your wireless carrier is required. Check it out and REGISTER TODAY at http://las.kurio.mobi/reg
If you need assistance with registration or have any questions, contact Kurio Support at 1.888.We.Kurio (1.888.935.8746) or at support@kurio.com.   Support is available Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.  Once you’re registered with your new Kurio account you can access Kurio at http://las.kurio.mobi

Help with your Email!   Buy this product: http://sendlater.4team.biz/ allows you to schedule emails to be sent out at any time or on a recurring fashion right out of Outlook.  Send out regular emails to a specific group of people with any degree of regularity?  This product can help you automate your communication.  Thank you Shawn Cunningham for this suggestion.    The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories.

Reminder!

Office Meeting! 
No office meeting this month!  But we are going to be back strong in September with a panel of producers, new ideas and information collected from all my travels, and technology updates.

@@@@ I want your suggestions for panel topics  @@@@  please email me @@@@

Harry Hall – Please join us for Harry’s retirement party at Famous Dave’s on N Rainbow on Saturday August 21.  Time to be announced (afternoon).

INVEST IN YOURSELF
“A critical factor in an agents’ success will be the investor buyer for the coming few years”-Dave Liniger.  Dave said this on stage this week and I have the best place to sharpen your skills from the founder of CDPE.  The new CIAS designation is rolling out in October (I will be attending – come with me!)  Click here to get the order form. 

Agent Reboot.  (I’ll be here too – come with me!)   One day event will be here on September 15.  This is an action packed day full of technology, social media, marketing and mobility for the real estate agent.  One day only!  Click here for information.

READ THESE
May I recommend… I finished reading a book by a fellow real estate agent and friend Michael Maher  “7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to Referrals.  7Lbook.com  It is an awesome read taking an agent from little prospects to very productive in about 8 weeks.  This is the business model Michael uses to generate over 500 referrals a year.  He shows agents how to be crazy busy without advertising – it’s soooo profitable.

Staying on the “7” thing, click here for a download of a 3 page article on  “7 Things You Need to Know to Double Your Income”  Thanks to Dave Matthews (Anthem) for submitting this to be included in our Hump Day Report.

COMPANY NEWS
Bob Little closed another Leadstreet lead for more than $7000.00.  Bob has closed several since he joined us – ask him how he does it.

RE/MAX Advantage is lighting up the lists!  Congratulations to the following for placing in the June’s Top Ten list with RE/MAX in Nevada.  Individuals;  #1-Val Hyams, #5-Leslie North, #9 Tom Rucci.  Teams; #7 Chad Andrew, #9- Rebecca McKenna, #10-Jim Eggers.

Congrats to Donna Cusey for Qualifying for DR Horton’s $10,000 commission bonus program for selling 2 of their homes this summer.  She is one of 6 agents in the city qualified at this time.

LOCAL CE OPPORTUNITIES
Property Managers!  August 24, is a full day of CE opportunities  at GLVAR – I’ll be here too!  Click here to get the registration form.

TECHNOLOGY TURN
Want a fun technology leader to follow?  Try Nicloe Nicolay.  Find her on twitter, via facebook or her blog MyTechOpinion.  Click on any of the items to link right to her pages.  I sat in 2 classes at the Broker/Owner Conference in Denver and found her to be good with the future of real estate marketing and relationships.

EyeJot – Take your email to a whole new level.  Use some free video technology to stand out from the crowd on web leads, good wishes, and more.  See my demo here.

Reminder!  The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories. 

VOTING ENDS TOMORROW (7/22) @GLVAR!!!  Click here to get your vote in for next year’s leadership!

Harry Hall Update!
As most of you may now know, Harry is home resting some and in the office resting some.  Harry had a pacemaker installed and now has a period of time to recover.  If you see him lifting his left arm – call Kathy immediately!

From the Opportunity Files
Wish you had the $8000 tax credit still around?  How’s this for motivation…$54,000 in credits!  That’s right, a buyer who locked in their rate in April will pay up to $54,000 more to borrow their money.  Rate have dipped more than 1/2% since the expiration of the tax credit.  Another angle is a buyer can afford more house as a result of the lower rate as well.

From the Company Files
Marilyn Mattson and Andi Ahart were omitted from the CDPE attendees from last week’s class.  We had 10 of the approximately 70 agents present in the class – of this I am very proud.  Congrats to the newest CDPEs in Las Vegas.  You’ll make the transaction that much better no matter what side you are on.

Facebook, can it work?  Another referral found in the world of Facebook in the last week.  This was the most talked about and the well attended topic in the CRS Conference this week in Las Vegas.  RE/MAX has a guide on Mainstreet in the marketing/public relations tab.

Shortsale Addendum.  We have a company short sale disclosure to be signed by EVERY seller in a short sale.  It is in the company library on ZipForms.  It is to be in your company file on the doc manager.  Please implement it immediately.  This was drawn by a short sale attorney to protect us from future action.

RE/MAX agent lands $58 Million Dollar Listing!  Click here to get the story…

From the Education Files
CRS Sell-a-Bration.  Wow! What a great SellABration this year in Las Vegas.  The buzz is social media, being “trust” agents, being well educated in distressed properties, and becoming “solution agents” rather than “sales agents”.  There are many great opportunities in any kind of market, we must remind ourselves and discipline our thoughts to see the opportunity in every challenge.  Many of the most successful people on the planet simply provided a solution to a challenge.  In Las Vegas and the surrounding areas we have a tremendous opportunity to help our community and homeowners in trouble reset their lives. 

From the Technology Files
Globalwolf.  Ever wanted an opportunity to really learn how to get the most out of the technology we provide?   LoneWolf the parent company of Globalwolf offers webinars to learn about the technology and how to make money.  Well the July and August webinar schedules are now available online, and guess what, they are 100% FREE! So pass these calendars around or schedule a group meeting at your office and get your agents more engaged!

See below for the list of upcoming webinars or click the following link to sign up now! www.lwolf.com/webinars.

From the News to Use Files
Did you get these last week?   June sale statistics – breakdown of sale terms (cash/loan/other) and % of sale type market share.  Go here to get them You will be able to forward to your social media network in just a click!

Reminder!  The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories.

Harry Hall Update!
Harry is in the hospital.  He had a very low heart rate and was feeling dizzy.  We’ll keep you posted.  I’m suspicious though – he just came off a 10 day vacation.

From the Opportunity Files
HUD homes.  They are a huge part of our market now and some interesting changes are coming down the pike.  New 30 day owner-occupant rules for insurable properties, 5 days for non-insurable.   New website, properties coming on the market daily instead of just one day a week and more.  Saw a man who sold 4000 HUD homes today talk about his buyer agent days – pretty interesting.  Did you know $100 dollars down is available?  Learn this market – there are opportunities for paydays.  Look at the numbers through end of June.  667 houses closed, 549 listed (336 in pending), $84,000 is avg sales price, $2,080,612 in commissions have been paid.
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From the Company Files
Sandra Thomas  was recognized as REALTOR of the Month for GLVAR for the month of May this past membership luncheon.

Top 25
Check this out – RE/MAX Advantage posts a very strong showing in the Nevada Top 25 through May.  Congratulations to the following for your hard work and success!

Individuals:  Val Hyams (2), Tom Rucci (6), Leslie North (8)
Teams:  Shawn Cunningham (8), Rebecca McKenna (9), Chad Andrew (11), Sandra Thomas (13), Tim Kuptz (14), Iris Fields (15), Jim Eggers (19), Jody Lenzie (21), Dan Edgington (24)

Facebook, can it work?  Anthem agent got a $600K plus referral through friend network in facebook this past week.  I listened in the RE/MAX University to an agent who made 6 figures last year mainly from his social media networks.

Shortsale Addendum.  We have a company short sale disclosure to be signed by EVERY seller in a short sale.  It is in the company library on ZipForms.  It is to be in your company file on the doc manager.  Please implement it immediately.  This was drawn by an short sale attorney to protect us from future action.

Propertyware.  Property managers , we have completed our first round of automatic payments – it was an overall success.  Look what was said by a manager with 160 properties yesterday “Just want to say that I love Property Ware. Everything from marketing to lease extension tracking and on and on. I keep finding things that are so much easier than Property Boss was. And I dont think it’s too soon to say that Echeck is a resounding success story for our office. 134 of my clients are signed up on this and so far not a single real complaint. If no one else says thank you for making the effort this year, I’ll be the first and hopefully not the last.”

From the Education Files
CRS Sell-a-Bration.  Starts on Monday and goes through to Wednesday.  It’s  awesome to have this in our backyard.  Shawn Cunningham is speaking on a panel about short sales.  I will be teaching on a panel about reinventing your business in a changing market.  Hope to see you there!

!!!!!CDPE Seminar in Las Vegas!!!!!  I want to personally congratulate RE/MAX Advantage for having 10% of the students in the class.  The following I know are in the class today and tomorrow; Thuy Hilliard, Bret Balance, Diane Dobson, Jacque Lowrie, Herb Lauteren, Joey Wakeen, Donna Cusey.  Like we lead the city in CRS designees, we will lead our market in CDPEs!

Bank of America Webinars.  Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insight into new directives with Bank of America.

Webinar #1: The Bank of America Traditional Short Sale Process
Date: Wednesday, July 21
Time: Noon Eastern / 9:00 a.m. Pacific
Hear about:

• Navigating and assisting the borrower with the Bank of America short sale process
• Tips to avoid delays in processing
• Using the Equator tool to complete the transaction
• Questions from real estate professionals

Webinar #2: Completing a Short Sale under HAFA
Date: Wednesday, July 28
Time: Noon Eastern / 9:00 a.m. Pacific

Hear about:

• The government’s Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program and the differences from a traditional short sale
• How real estate professionals can facilitate the process
• Questions from real estate professionals

To register for one or both events click this link: http://Webcasts.com/events/BankofAmericaHomeLoansWebinars1

Credit Counseling Workshop.  Credit Source One (company that presented at the bank) notified us of their next workshop.  If you recall, this company helps restore credit and does it well.  We need buyers in the coming years – these guys are critical to helping our upside sellers become buyers again.  Check below for the flier.  Thanks to Rebecca McKenna for sharing this with us.

From the Technology Files
iPad.  Have any of you bought one of these and have you incorporated it into your business at all?  Please share your experiences with me.

From the News to Use Files
Look tomorrow on our company blog for June sale statistics – breakdown of sale terms (cash/loan/other) and % of sale type market share.  You will be able to forward to your social media network in just a click!

Reminder!  The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories.

Quick Reminder!
There will be no office meeting this July.  It is a very busy month with conferences (CRS, Mike Ferry, StarPower) and education/designation classes (CDPE).  With all the choices available and many of them right here in our backyard, go get some inspiration and motivation!

From the Opportunity Files

Several of our company agents have renewed their farming regimens to secure listings.  AS we have talked before, this market is as “regular” as one can get.  The only thing missing is equity.  Local stats show that more than 30% of our closings are short sales.  One Anthem agent said last week in the hall “I’m going to CDPE because I can’t refer half of my business opportunities to other agents”  She is starting to farm an area again as well.

Dan Edgington (Anthem) went to the class about buying houses at the trustee sale auction.  Said the info was good and the class was packed! An advanced class maybe coming.  This was done by FATCO.  Look for future announcements for this class – this is an opportunity to play with investors and flippers.

From the Company Files

Some very interesting statistics regarding median price.  Market-wide, the median price for Las Vegas detached houses in June this year was the same number as last.  Our company Average Joe Index shows some interesting trend lines for 1500, 2000, and 2500 square foot houses.  Go here to download the report.  Use it to communicate with your clients, on listing appointments, or buyer consultants.

Look for some additional stats coming this week as we look at closings by term, inventory, and supply numbers.  FYI, for the first time in more than 2 years, we have consecutive weeks of increasing inventory numbers.

Todd Akes (anthem) qualified for his CRS designation this past month.  Congratulations Todd!  By the way, did you know Todd has one of the baddest ’69 Camaros on the planet – check it out.

Check this out!  RE/MAX Corporate and our agent network are featured in the largest circulated industry magazine RISMedia this month.  Click here to see the spread in a really cool “book-like” website – issuu.com.

From the Education Files

Check out the RE/MAX Mainstreet calendar.  There are many opportunities to learn about the technology RE/MAX has to offer.  Use it, it can make you rich!

Don’t forget to get into the local CDPE class.  Click here for information  We now have 3 agents taking this course for the first time and one doing a “re-audit”.  Would love to see as many there as possible.

From the Technology Files

Droid X by Motorola debuts this month on the 15^th (Verizon).  EVO is the first 4G phone (Sprint) and the early feedback is this is one awesome phone.  It is available now. Who got a 4G Apple iPhone?  I would love some feedback on it!

From the News to Use Files

Reminder!  The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relevant news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories.

What have you done to be above the crowd this week?

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary – Lou Holtz

This is also the Hump Day Report for the year 2010.  Can you believe it?  Half the year is over, leaving only 6 months to achieve the goals we set forth at the beginning of the year.  You did set goals right?

Big News!
There will be no office meeting this July.  It is a very busy month with conferences (CRS, Mike Ferry, StarPower) and education/designation classes (CDPE).  I sincerely hope you take advantage of the opportunity to invest in yourself and increase your earning power.

From the Opportunity Files
The 2010 RE/MAX Advertising Kit is available for associates within Mainstreet.  Go to Marketing then Ad Kit to get TV, Radio, Print, and Online ads ready to be customized with your contact information.

Are you using your free IDX website provided by RE/MAX through Leadstreet?  Login in to Mainstreet and activate your free lead generating website.

A little icing for your cake?  The last 4 weeks brought 23 walk-ins, 43 floor calls, 84 web leads from remax.com and our own site.

Are you using your free company IDX and lead generating website?  Login to the Extranet and click on web manager.  Follow the very simple step-by-step process to launch your site.

From the Company Files
Harry Hall, our Broker of the Summerlin location, is retiring and moving to Bend Oregon.  Lucky dude to do it in the middle of summer!  We will miss Harry.  He has been the only Broker for Advantage in the Summerlin location.  Harry hopes to wind down and transition out of his position by August 1^st.

Did you know?  RE/MAX International is no longer.  RE/MAX transitioned from an incorporated company to a limited liability company.  While doing so, they decided to be just “RE/MAX”.

!!!!!!!!!!! State Business License Renewals Due TODAY!  Go here https://nvsos.gov/SOSWebAccountManager/Login.aspx

From the Education Files
Thought this class was an interesting topic.  Many of you have asked how the “flippers” are getting these deals.  Here is an opportunity to find out about the process and an angle to drum up some new business.

Don’t forget to get into the local CDPE class.  RE/MAXers get $200 discount!  Click here for information

From the Technology Files
Smartphone? Apple’s 4^th generation iPhone sold 1.7 million units over the 3 day weekend – there is a problem with the antenna in the bezel of the phone – look for a bug fix.  Alternatively, Verizon launches a new Droid based phone called the X by Motorola on July 15 that will also work as a mobile hotspot for wi-fi computing.  Droid based phones are the fastest selling mobile phone platform today.  I’ve ordered one for myself.

Just Announced TODAY!  Verizon to carry the iPhone in January 2011.

Microsoft Office 2010 is now available for download.  Pretty cool upgrades for Outlook alone.

From the News to Use Files
Good news for the local economy?  Read about our taxable sales increase (the first in 19 months) here.

Statistically speaking.  64% of statistics are made up on the spot.  The other 41% do not make sense due to rounding or just bad math.

Reminder! The company blog www.movetotheballoon.com has a neat feature to help you deliver relavent news to your friends on face book or to “retweet” to your followers on twitter.  Click on a story, then share it with your friends.  Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/vegasremax) and retweet timely and informative stories.

Last…Who can answer this one?  The first to get it right wins a free…

HE WHO MAKES IT, SELLS IT HE WHO BUYS IT, DOESNT USE IT HE WHO USES IT, DOESNT KNOW IT  What is “it”

Our office meeting for this month will be on the 16^th of June @ the Enterprise Library.  We will have an update on legislative rumblings, new opportunities in the market, and a panel of experienced short sale agents detailing their qualification processes of sellers and what they do to ensure a commission check is their reward.  By the way, we are looking for suggestions for new meeting places – let us know.

Again, CDPE is coming to Las Vegas in July.  Click here for a short video.  Our panel will be CDPE certified agents.  A few of you have brought up the idea the that word “expert” in the designation is justification for not pursuing the most widely recognized certification for this segment of our distressed market due to liability reasons.  You do not need to refer to yourself as an expert – a “specialist” is how I would promote.  It is a designation not a title – and it is the 2^nd most searched designation in the RE/MAX referral network after CRS.

Speaking of CRS – go here and get your classes lined up with a 6 day blitz of education right in our back yard, ProAct. CRS designees earn more than $40K above the average RE/MAX agent.  Part of that is due to the referral benefits in our network.

New to the MLS required fields!  Lockbox location (door, fence, meter, etc) and status updates (ER status – multiple offers,etc)

May statistics are starting to drip out – inventory is up, pendings are flat, supply will ultimately grow as we come to the second half of the year.  Think differently?  Let me know, I would like to hear your thoughts.

RE/MAX Advantage and RE/MAX International are sponsors of next week’s NAHREP (Hispanic Real Estate Professionals) golf tournament.  $99/golfer – if you’ve got some time, come out and enjoy a round of golf with a great group of real estate people.

International Real Estate Specialist designation?  We have arranged and an idea packed presentation next week at the RE/MAX training center on Durango for insight in dealing with international clientele and co-listing/marketing properties from around the world.  Click here to get a little information. http://remaxsat.edgeboss.net/wmedia/remaxsat/ires/ires_promo_3.asx 

A quote from Yogi Berra…”If you do not know where you are going, you might end up somewhere else”