If you have not done so please take a contracts class. I attended one of Howell Haunsen’s at MSAR earlier in the month and it was excellent. The new contracts are improved – especially with regard to the addendum’s for FHA/VA/Conventional. It greatly simplifies the need to use other addendum’s as it now covers the loan and appraisal concerns. Hope to see more of these soon. Please pay attention to timelines. I am still seeing 5 day due diligence timelines as well as 2 week financing contingencies. This in my opinion is still unrealistic. If I am looking at this wrong please let me know (buyer’s agents only)

To assist with the needs to communicate this we are going to now update all parties on appraisal/title order and received dates.

Lastly, just wanted to thank those we worked with last year and let you know what we are doing for you and our clients. Below is a sneak peak of a partial copy of the email that is going out to the clients closed in 2010 – reminding them to file for homestead exemption before April 1. If you were the referral source we now included you in the message – just look below. The message will be sent out on Monday!

This is a great time for you to reach out to others if you hadn’t already done so!