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Barbara Harsch speaks to REALTORS® on the history of flooding in California and water issues at the October 23, 2009 Sacramento Association of REALTORS® monthly Industry Update. This meeting is held on the third Friday of each month from 9:30-10:45am and is open to all Members. the Public Issues Forum invites a local [...] Industry Update had the pleasure of hearing from Carl Simpson, Director of Code Enforcement in Sacramento County on Friday, August 28th. Carl spoke about the County’s perspective on vacant property, as well as a new strategy between SAR and Sacramento County for dealing with foreclosed properties. Carl and other officials in the County intuitively understand the best solution they have to deal with vacant homes, and the problems associated therein are to get these homes occupied. And because of this, they have restrained from instituting any fees associated with vacant properties, other than hard out of pocket costs. After all, with so many foreclosed properties on the market, why would someone put an offer on a home with $20,000 in fees and penalties when there may be one a few blocks down with a clean title? 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 federal levels. The first topic discussed was point of sale. In an effort to reduce the amount of water used by local citizens Continue reading: Industry Update features Legal Update Industry update was lucky to have a wonderful panel of individuals from the Sacramento Bee discussing “State of Online”, as in online marketing. It’s so evident that in today’s world an online presence is an absolute must. According to the panelists, by 2011, 74% of households will be online, but they said this figure [...] |
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