National Housing Report Pg. 18
April 10, 2015 BrevardElite.com
Links & Content In This Issue: Page Daily Bread Golf Tournament 4 8 Laundry Hacks 6 Agent Development – Success 8 April Training Calendar 9 Florida Agent Rally 12 Home of the Week 14 Dyer Mortgage Group: New Loan Disclosures Coming Soon 15 Cocoa Beach 2nd Annual Firefighter Golf Tournament 16 - 17 National Housing Report 18 Elite Transaction Management 20 Your Design Center Main Street 22 Pinterest – Gardening 25 YTD Individual 26 YTD Teams 27 Awards Recognition 28 - 29 Top RE/MAX Agents in Brevard 30 Birthdays & Anniversaries 33 Property Management Division 34 Supporting Staff 35 Website Links: Training Center RE/MAX Mainstreet Paperless Pipeline ShowingTime RE/MAX University The ABOVE Magazine
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Daily Bread’s vision is to ensure everyone has access to the food and services necessary to become selfsufficient. Our mission is to improve the dignity and quality of life of the hungry and needy we serve. We do this by offering a daily free meal at our soup kitchen, supplying food to local agencies for redistribution to the needy and providing hygienic and social services in collaboration with partners. For calendar year 2014,we served93,636 meals to 4,725 distinct individuals.
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2014 Awards Luncheon and Celebrating another AWESOME First Quarter - 2015 Tuesday April 14th 12 – 2pm Details to follow
8 Laundry Hacks to Make Life Easier 1. Presort by Color and Material - Why dig through dirty hampers to find like colors when you can just do the work right from the get-go? Buy an extra hamper or two for easy sorting and save those few precious minutes for something more enjoyable. 2. Wash Items Faster – If you’ve ever wondered what the Quick Wash setting on your washer was for, you’re overthinking it. It does exactly what it sounds like. Assuming your clothes aren’t caked in dirt, try the Quick Wash option and you can cut your time by as much as half. 3. Dry Items Faster – Turns out there’s a trick for this one as well. Next time you throw a load in the dryer, add in a nice, dry, fluffy towel and watch it do what a towel does best. 4. Eliminate Lint Balls – Is your sweater suffering from a lint-festation? No worries. Just use a pumice stone to rub them loose, then let a lint roller pick ‘em right up. 5. Work out the Wrinkles – You know what makes a great iron? A dryer. Just throw in a small, wet towel with your dry, wrinkled item and it should be wrinkle-free in no more than a few minutes. 6. Ironing Pleats – Have some nice, pleated slacks that are not-so-nice to iron? Try using bobby pins to hold the pleats in place. Talk about simplicity! 7. Un-shrink Clothes – It may sound like magic, but we assure you this one’s for real. Just fill up a sink of lukewarm water, pour in a capful of baby shampoo and let the garment soak it in for about five minutes. After removing, squeeze out the excess water but do NOT rinse it. Next, lay out the garment on a dry beach towel and roll it up inside to soak up even more. Then, on a new towel, lay the garment out once again, but this time, stretch the loose fibers until they’re officially back to their original size and shape. 8. Comforter Cleaning – Most comforters are WAY too big to fit in your washer or dryer. Fortunately, you can always head to a Laundromat, the dry cleaner, or simply air it out on a clothing line.
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Agent Development Schedule your one-on-one 30 minute consultation with Susan Lewis please call 321-775-8110 Susan will be placing an emphasis on consulting, training and accountability. "Our first consultation focused on developing my action plan for areas I want to improve on for 2015. We covered Farming, FSBO's, Personal Marketing Promotions and effectively using Social Media so I'm not wasting my time. We picked up where we left off in our follow up session and reviewed progress on activities. We also talked scripts/dialogues for "problem" customers. My mindset is in action mode and Susan is helping me stay accountable towards my goals.“ ~ Barb Mihalik "Our meeting with Susan was well worth the time
we spent with her. She opened our eyes to the simple things that we knew we should be doing, but just don't ever seem to find the time to get it done. She gave us some great ideas that we plan on implementing into our 2015 business plan. Thank you Susan for the great one-on-one time!" ~ Lou Ann Janke We promised to never stop looking at ways to improve as a company no matter how successful we become.
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Luxury Homes Mastermind Group We will discuss best business practices to assist you to get out there and get more “ high end deals done. On Thursday, April 16th at the Suntree Training Center 9:00 – 10 am
AS IS Contract Do’s and Don’ts with real estate attorney Michael Dujovne On Tuesday, April 21st at the Suntree Training Center 9:00 – 11 am
Impress your clients with the over 2,000 designs available in YOUR RE/MAX Design Center On Tuesday, April 29th at the Suntree Training Center 12:00 – 1:30 pm RSVP Susan Lewis at: Susan.BrevardElite@gmail.com BrevardElite.com
RELAY FOR LIFE is a fundraising walk made up of teams. Our team is Team RE/MAX Elite. You can walk for 10 minutes or 2 hours. The sign up sheet is located at the front desk of all RE/MAX Elite offices. Date: April 10th Time: 4 PM to 11:30 PM Where: Eau Gallie High School
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New loan disclosures are coming! It’s been widely publicized that there are major changes coming in the real estate and lending market! The changes to the Good Faith Estimate, Truth in Lending Disclosure, and other documents will completely change our businesses. Please keep in mind that we have not received final direction regarding the new rules. It’s widely believed that there will be revisions to the new laws prior to implementation on August 1, 2015. For now we are taking a “plan as much as possible now but be prepared to the government making last minute changes!” The following are partial excerpts for the Consumer Finance government website. If you’d like to know more about the upcoming changes go to www.consumerfinance.gov. •Changes to the Good Faith Estimate (GFE) and the initial Truth-in-Lending disclosure (initial TIL). These two disclosures have been combined into a new form, the Loan Estimate. Similar to those forms, the new Loan Estimate form is designed to provide disclosures that will be helpful to consumers in understanding the key features, costs, and risks of the mortgage loan for which they are applying. This must be provided to consumers no later than the third business day after the customer submits a loan application. The final Loan Estimate must be mailed to the customer at least 7 business days prior to closing. •The HUD-1 and final Truth-in-Lending disclosure have been combined into a new form, the Closing Disclosure. This must be provided to the borrower at least three business days before consummation of the loan. There will no longer be a “rush closing” because the government requires the customer must have the Closing Disclosure 3 business days prior to closing. •Timelines for loan processing, approving, and closing will change, although at this point we do not know what the total effect will be. The final Closing Disclosure (instead of a HUD) must be provided to the customer at least 3 business days prior to the closing. If the form is mailed it has to be 7 days prior to closing. Although most of our closing packages are currently done 2-3 days in advance of the closing date, there are always situations where closing packages are not done until the last minute. Under the new regulations the practice of “rush closing” or buyers moving their closing date up will not be allowed. Until we have better information and a final ruling from the Government we don’t know if we should start preparing for a 45 day closing instead of 30 days, etc. Dyer Mortgage Group will keep you updated as the industry changes and evolves. Please contact us with any questions or if you have a buyer that we can help finance! Bobbie Dyer Division President 321-215-4419 bdyer@dyermtg.com
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February Home Sales and Prices Move Higher Unlike last February, this February experienced increased home sales, but with only a moderate rise in prices. Home sales in February rose 7.1% from January and 2.2% from February 2014. Sales through the fall and winter months held ground, as four of the last six months saw higher sales than the same month in the previous year. The Median Sales Price in February rose 5.5% compared with a year-over-year increase of 11.6% in February 2014. The inventory of homes for sale was 11.9% lower than one year ago. At the current rate of sales, the corresponding Months Supply of inventory fell to 4.7 on a scale where 6.0 indicates a market balanced equally between buyers and sellers.
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Days on Market 80 Months Supply of Inventory 4.7
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We at H.I.P. Construction are dedicated to creating an organizational culture that encourages honesty, integrity, and professionalism by adopting and enforcing the following practices: 1.
Emphasize, through staff training, that the organization expects its employees to be honest, have a sense of integrity, and behave professionally. Convey these same expectations to vendors, consultants, volunteers, and anyone else who performs paid or unpaid work for the organization.
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Congratulations to Our Top 10 Teams Closed Transactions YTD as of March 2015
#1 McCoy-Freeman Group $6,014,850 23 Transactions
#2 Platinum Realty Group $5,613,300 39 Transactions
#4 Brevard Real Estate Team $4,075,900 10 Transactions
#6 Barclay Group $3,663,330 14 Transactions
#8 321 Team $2,629,300 11 Transactions
#3 Romano Team $4,714,780 13 Transactions
#5 Coastal Estate Team $4,040,714 10 Transactions
#7 Kuhns Realty Group $2,668,699 15 Transactions
#9 Central Florida Team $1,361,901 7 Transactions
#10 B & B Elite Group $787,800 6 Transactions BrevardElite.com
Congratulations to Our Top 10 Individuals Closed Transactions YTD as of March 2015
#1 Mary Gowenlock $3,462,500 11 Transactions
#4 Sue Tillman $2,020,900 11 Transactions
#7 Pat Murphey $1,648,500 6 Transactions
#2 Silvia Mozer $2,832,400 13 Transactions
#3 Dee Dee Sheffield $2,150,000 2 Transactions
#5 David Dicioccio $1,708,650 11 Transactions
#8 Karen Osiniak $1,248,802 5 Transactions
#9 Connie Trincali $1,245,850 6 Transactions
#6 Steve Vitani $1,651,990 5 Transactions
#10 Bree Fary $1,041,578 5 Transactions
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