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This new group, outSmart Your Smartphone, is being hosted by Dick and Shelby Betts, Natioinal Speakers on Technology Management and Mobile Solutions; both are NAR certified e-PRO Trainers. Anybody currenly using a Smartphone, considering purchasing thier first device or even searching for the newest release to upgrade/replace their device are all invited to participate in this ongoing online discussion. Look at this as a resource for learning how to get the most out of your Smartphone and place to find helpful Tips & Tricks. We want everybody's input so all you veterans out there help us out by speaking up on how you use your device to manage your business and pitch in on answering some of the simple questions. Shelby and I will be posting answers and offering technical support. Our mission is to help REALTORS learn about the benefits mobile technology offers and how to apply the Smartphone features to manage their business.

Are you working the booming niche market of pre-foreclosures (short sales)? Come join the discussion with other real estate professionals working this important market now. Share real life solutions, strategies and ideas on all related subjects ranging from working with our clients and marketing the properties, to working with the banks and achieving positive results. Have ideas of marketing, negotiation, lender relations or overall survival tips? We want to hear from you. **Please note, this is an ad free (spam free) zone. Do not advertise (or spam) your services, seminars or short sale programs here.

This is a group for Greg Sparre commemorating the CopperStock I & II reunions. We can also use it to share our collective thoughts and ideas.

Many of us are interested in incorporating state of the art technology in to the professional real estate process. We all have varying skill levels and interests and the thought is that a Technology Group could be an interesting and productive way for all levels of technology skill and interests to come together. New discoveries can be discussed. Questions can be asked (and there are no bad questions). It could be a clearinghouse of sorts where everybody with technology related interests can come together and have an exchange. Easy!

This group is for real estate professionals and real estate service providers to discuss real estate related services or products they like or they provide. This is a place where you can talk about your real estate related services and products, latest news, newest offerings and why your offerings can benefit Real Estate Professionals. Real Estate professionals can also comment on their experience with these services or products.

Discussion about Short Sales and Foreclosures (REO).

The Legal Corner is focused on legal cases and regulations that affect the real estate business.

At this time, there are 25 different Real Estate specific CRM solutions. I have compiled a comparison matrix for most of them to date. This is a place where you can learn more about them, or discuss your likes and dislikes about them.

Tired of working day after day for a client only to find them buying a house through their second cousin who lives outside the area but just happens to have a real estate license? Tired of hearing the same arguments about why you need to discount your commissions in order to “win” the deal? Tired of looking over your shoulder every time someone mentions that they visited this web site or that web site and “they are offering to give me most of the commission back?” Tired of giving away more and more services for free just to remain “competitive?” Do you have that ever-present feeling that our industry has changed in profound ways – only you aren’t certain how these changes will play out n the near future? Then, you might be interested in learning more about what might be the hottest trend in real estate practice: True Real Estate Consulting. Come join us as we discuss what some of us feel will be the most dramatic change to come our way in decades.