SAR makes real estate education affordable with our Broker Tuition Card. Designed to assist our Broker Members in providing quality training to their agents, this tuition card costs $200 and entitles holders to 12 months of classes (a $1500 value)*.
There are a few ways to use this card. An SAR Broker can purchase the [...]
This past Friday night, SAR let its hair down and partied into the night with the Indus Valley American Chamber of Commerce.
A joint-chamber affair, this dinner/dance attracted nearly 250 local business owners and professionals from all over the region. Front and center at the event was SAR Leadership, including SAR President Barbara Harsch and [...]
SAR had a great turnout for Rebuilding Together at the Spring Work Day, April 24
Rebuilding Together Sacramento (www.rebuildingtogethersacramento.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps homeowners, particularly low-income seniors, live independently in comfort and safety in their own homes. They accomplish their mission through home repairs and modifications on [...]
Ensuring that your company provides equal service standards and encouraging salespeople to keep careful records demonstrating that those standards were implemented equally to all prospects provides a strong defense against charges of fair housing violations.
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan made it official last week: Applicants for FHA insured mortgages in the coming months are going to be hit with higher costs and tougher credit standards.
In congressional testimony, Donovan said some of the changes are likely to include the following:
Will 2010 be a year of recovery or double-dip recession? What’s on the horizon that may change the way you do business next year? Here are the developments and personalities we’ll be watching.
1. FHA Under New Command When the FHA announced in late September that it was hiring a chief risk officer—for the first [...]
A bad economy has not slammed the door on the Sacramento Association of Realtors’ dedication to philanthropy, even as many individual members’ incomes drop.
The association expects to give $58,000 this year to charitable organizations, which doesn’t include volunteer hours or the $44,500 for college scholarships or the $65,000 to the Salvation Army.
October 4th – October 10th is National Fire Prevention Week. Please take this reminder to prepare your home and family for a fire or other natural disasters. In the last couple of months, thousands of firefighters have converged on a series of fire storms that have devastated California. In the “mega fires” of 2003, over [...]