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Industry Update features Legal Update

The Monthly Industry update, chaired this year by President-Elect Barbara Harsch, features great information on a variety of topics. Today, the 30 some SAR Members were treated to a legislative update by SAR Government Affairs Director Caylyn Brown and SAR Legislative Advocate Eric Rasmusson. They touched on a number of issues from local, state and [...]

Mapping, Google’s Local Business Center & Going Mobile

It’s an exciting time in technology innovation, particularly as it relates to our real estate marketing practices. With cell phones getting smarter, netbook computers, and faster broadband access, Americans are going mobile at a frantic pace. The search engines, especially Google, have been important sources of website and blog traffic for quite some time. Now [...]

Are Your Business Cards DRE Approved?

As with any industry, a new year brings new laws. While new laws usually benefit a group of people, they can also bring additional expenses with them. A new law, set to take effect on July 1st, 2009, may require numerous real estate professionals to incur an additional expense; specifically in reguards to business [...]

SAR Broker Tuition Cards

How would you like to attend classes for a year and not have to worry about whether or not you can afford it? Now you don’t have to! With SAR’s new Broker Tuition Card, your broker (or you) pays a one-time fee of $200 for a full year of educational courses.  This covers an estimated [...]

Quick Meals on a Budget – CanTree Cookbook

CanTree Recipe Cookbook

Recipe Submission Deadline – July 1

As a creative way to raise funds for CanTree, the CanTree Committee is publishing a cookbook, with you as our recipe contributor.

If you are interested in submitting a recipe or two, please send your favorite recipes as soon as possible. To submit your recipe, please

Drip Email The Slow Effective Way

Are you doing drip email to buyer and seller prospects? If not, you surely know agents who are. With the free nature of email, it has become a much abused form of communication. And, drip email from many real estate professionals is little more than automated periodic spam. With filters and rules in email systems, [...]

Sales Volume and Median Sales Price Increase, Cash-only Purchases up 158%

The current market offers a variety of low-priced, move-in-ready homes as well as properties that are in need of significant repairs. One thing they have in common is the people they attract: Investors. As home prices dropped over the last year(s), Sacramento has also seen a steady rise in the percentage of cash sales. Statistics [...]

Young Professionals Council – For the Young AND Young at Heart!

When I speak to most REALTORS® and Affiliates about participating in a Young Professionals Council event, most tell me, “Oh, I am too old to attend.” Not true!

While the Young Professionals Council Steering Committee members must be in their 20s and 30s, there really is something for everyone at all of our events – and [...]

Google Latitude – How Might It Work for Real Estate?

Google Latitude is a new Google Map service that is proving to be quite popular with Internet enabled cell phone users. Once installed on your phone, you can import your contacts and friends, and invite them to share locations with you. In other words, you can let your selected contacts [...]

June 2009 Newsletter

Sacramento Association of REALTORS® is proud to announce that the May 2009 edition of the Newsletter is available here.


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