Please remember that social media workshops DO NOT offer continuing education credits but offer returns in many other ways!

Feb 3rd Seacoast Board Top Social Media Fatal Mistake

Feb 13th Prudential Verani- Code of Ethics 3 hours of NH CE (this class is full)

Feb 15th Stowe Vermont- Ethics 4 hours of VT CE

Feb 17 Social Media (No CE) Hampstead NH- 10:00 -12:00 Building and Connecting with your Facebook Business Page (registration is open email to register  Monika@MonikaMcGillicuddy.com)

Feb 27 Orientation- NHAR Concord NH

Feb 29 Ethics Greater Claremont Board of REALTORS 3 hours NH CE

March 2nd  CIBOR Social Media

Please contact me at 603-548-7728 or via e-mail to set up a class in your location.

Upcoming real estate training

Social Media Panel for the Seacoast Board  Jan 11

Agency and Buyer Agency Training- Jan 24 at Prudential Verani Londonderry

Ethics – Concord Board of REALTOR  Jan 25 in Concord NH

Ethics- Vermont Association of REALTORS Jan 26 and 27- Vermont

Feb 3rd Social Media at the Seacoast Board

Having a hard time connecting to today’s connected consumers?  Want to Blog but don’t know how?

If you answered Yes to any of these Questions then you Need to sign up for these two classes.

December 1^st 2008- from 9-12:30

Consumer Centric Market (3 NH ce credits)

Do you know how to connect with today’s consumer? Gen X and Y-The Connected Generation and the Baby Boomers.

Web 2.0 and creating relevancy all equal success!

$35.00

Location: Granite State South Board of REALTORS

Windham NH

December 8 th 2008- from 9-1

Blogging 101 (NO ce credits)

Are you ready to create your own blog? This is a hand on work shop and all participants will leave with a live blog!

Class is limited and there is a pre-workshop assignment

Pre-registration & payment required $ 55.00

Class will be held at the Granite State South Board of REALTORS

Windham NH

Contact  Jay and Monika to register @ 603-548-7685

I’m pretty excited as I’ll be able to meet a lot of those REALTOR ” mavericks” …those early adapters of social networking and realty blogging. Many of them I know well but have never met face to face. You see they’ve been living in my computer for 2 years!

This years convention will have many web 2.0 type sessions available. We’ll be attending the Cyber Professionals networking sessions and many traditional real estate seminars as well. It should be a very busy convention and I expect to learn a lot while there.

$35.00 per person includes 3 hour NH CE credit but most importantly this class will show you WHAT you need to do to stay competitive in this changing real estate environment!

Consumer Centric covers not only the Generations but particularly the needs of Gen X and Y who will be our 1^st time home buyer for the next 20 years. Learn how to market to them as well as to the connected Baby Boomers.

We’ll cover Blogging and why you should be doing it, real estate social networking sites and managing your web presence.

This class will give you an overview of what you’ll need to know to participate responsibly in a Web 2.0 Connected environment.

Have you heard of The Real Estate Paradigm shift? Technology has transformed real estate as we have known it. Today both new and experienced agents alike need to understand the dynamics of the online community or become irrelevant in the home buying or selling process.

Class size is limited so please e-mail me or call Jay at 603-548-7685 to reserve your seat. Be sure to let us know which date you’ll be attending!

Class time 9-12:15

Registration 8:30 to 9:00

Location: 213 Stage Road Junction

Unit # 5 (end unit- lower level)

Hampstead NH

Coming soon Blogging 101 and Blogging 102 (no ce credits) space will be limited to 20 students as this is a hands on creating a blog work shop. We’ll travel…just need a location with internet.

It was a 6 hour training session geared to those REALTORS who serve on the Grievance and the Professional Standards committee and board of directors. It is required training so most of the attendees “had” to be there. A forced group of participants is always a challenge. My goal was to make them want to be there and do it quickly. I think I succeed!

The morning included an interactive cycle two Quadrennial Ethics class and the afternoon focused on the enforcement process. The time flew by and the verbal feedback was all excellent. I had people tell me that they didn’t expect to enjoy the class…thought it would the same ole same ole and how surprised they were that it was so good and that they learned so much.

When they take the time to wait in line simply to say thank you at the end of the program…you know you reached them.

It ended up being a great day and to top it off they asked me to come back in February to do it again.

Monika McGillicuddy,REALTOR

Serving Southern New Hampshire and Rockingham County

Monika McGillicuddy Real Estate Training

http://monikamcgillicuddy.com/wordpress/

Prudential Verani Realty

Hampstead NH Real Estate

603-548-7728

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Read my previous post for complete details Designated Agency and facilitation in NH.

Read also a draft copy of the legislation here draft-agency-legislation-9-12-07.pdf

NHAR’s Legal committee chair Mary Beth Rudolph describes what the NH version of Designated Agency would actually look like in the field.

I’ve reprinted it with her permission as it is vitally important that all New Hampshire REALTORS understand that if approved what these changes would mean to them.

Designated agency (aka appointed agency) is a practice where one or more individual agents in a firm is appointed or designated to represent the interests of a client to the exclusion of all other agents affiliated with the same firm. A “designated buyer agent” is able to provide full representation to the buyer client even if the buyer is purchasing an in-house listing as long as that buyer agent is not also the “designated seller agent” for that listing. The reverse is also true for the designated seller agent. The individual agent becomes a dual agent only when he or she is both the designated agent for the buyer and the designated agent for the seller (i.e. the buyer you represent wants to purchase one of your personal listings).

The principal broker is responsible for appointing which agent is designated to represent each client of the firm.

The advantage of designated agency is that the consumer will receive full, more personal representation by their designated agent. It mirrors consumers’ expectations. When consumers hire an agent, they don’t expect that every other salesperson in that company is representing them or has access to all their confidential information.

In the model recommended by the NHAR Agency-Task Force, the principal broker can delegate their appointing powers to a managing broker or other broker in the firm who becomes the appointing agent. In this model, when the appointing agent names both a designated buyer agent and second agent as a designated seller agent to represent the two parties in an in-house sale, the appointing agent becomes a dual agent. In this example, the two designated agents are not considered dual agents.

Without the delegation of appointing powers to an appointing agent, the principal broker retains the power of appointing and also is the dual agent. In either case the principal broker and managing broker still have full responsibility for the activities of all the licensees affiliated with them even if they delegate their appointing powers to a separate appointing agent.

Some key points to note about designated agency:

· Consent of the parties is required – that can be obtained upfront with the listing agreement and buyer agency agreement.

· If the firm is a designated agent for both the buyer and the seller in a transaction, written notice must be given to the client – that can be done on the Purchase & Sales Agreement or before.

· Dual agency is not eliminated – it is just limited.

· Control of confidential information is essential – offices that elect to practice designated agency will have to adopt and enforce policies to control the sharing of confidential information about clients between agents. That can mean separating pending files from listing files, removing confidential client information from listing files available to all agents in the office, restricting access to pending files, the use of locked cabinets and desks, private conference rooms for meetings with clients and instituting a policy of discussing properties and not people at sales meetings, etc.

· Over 50% of states have passed legislation enabling the practice of designated agency over the last fifteen years.

If this legislation is enacted, firms will have a choice about whether they want to practice designated agency or traditional agency. They can do nothing and continue to operate the way they have in the past without any changes. For those firms which elect to practice designated agency, all offices and licensees of that firm must practice designated agency. Obviously, if this legislation passes, REALTORS will need training, sample policies, new forms, etc……Mary Beth Rudolph

Questions or concerns about this feel free to comment here and I’ll do my bet to get answers for you. Remember this is only proposed and even if approved on the 17th we still have a long way to go before it becomes practice.

QuickStart: Last Chance for 2007

The final 2007 session of QuickStart is scheduled for Oct. 23-24 and Nov. 1-2 at the New Hampshire Association of REALTORS® office in Concord. Sign up now to reserve your space, as the program will not be offered again until March 2008.

QuickStart is the dynamic, intense four-day training program geared toward the less-experienced REALTOR®, and provides credit toward students’ Graduate REALTOR® Institute designation. For detailed information on the program and a schedule, click here. To register, click here.

Why should you sign up for QuickStart? Because according to former students, it is a program that should not be missed.

“This is an excellent course. All REALTORS® should take advantage of this educational experience.” -Gerry O’Connell

“This was great! I’ve been a REALTOR® since 2002 and wish I had been encouraged to take this course sooner. This should be a ‘must’ for all agents.” -Christine Schlude

“Every agent should take this semina. Professionally presented with applicable, useful information that can make this agent successful!” -Karen Peri-Goldman

So sign up now. For more information, call NHAR at 225-5549.