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Volume 27, Issue 5 — may 2020 |
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Realtor News | Education | Events | Government Affairs | MLS | Membership | Appraiser | Commercial |
Top StoriesEmergency Food Boxes for Children in Need Save the Date - Fall Residential Continuing Education in both Green Bay & Appleton! Policies and Rules for Virtual Tours and Virtual Live Stream Open Houses MLS Clear Cooperation Policy - Effective April 1, 2020 Scroll down for additional stories- REALTOR NEWSCOVID-19 Resources for REALTORS
REALTOR® Store Offers Free ToolMembers can download a free copy of Social Media for REALTORS®: Digital Marketing, which is part of the NAR Social Media for REALTORS® series. This easy-to-understand guide shows members how to use the power of social media. They’ll save time, money, and effort while effectively marketing themselves and their business online. Emergency Food Boxes for Children in NeedIn response to the significant increase in demand due to COVID-19, the Wisconsin REALTORS® Foundation (WRF) is helping Feeding Wisconsin and its network of statewide food banks raise money for emergency food boxes to be distributed to those in need. Quick Reference Guide to Recent Health Insurance ChangesThe Guide provides a high-level overview organized by source and type of coverage (Employer, Medicare, ACA for testing, treatment, etc.), including numerous helpful links to federal, state and other official sites for those interested in learning more. It also prominently features the REALTOR Insurance Marketplace, including the new Member Telehealth benefit. EducationSave the Date - Fall Residential Continuing Education in both Green Bay & Appleton!
EventsRANW Timber Rattlers Fundraiser: June 4th - CancelledWith the current pandemic leaving summer events so uncertain and the Timber Rattlers schedule still not announced, RANW with enormous regret has had to cancel the June 4th Timber Rattlers Event for Make-A-Wish Northeast Wisconsin. We hope to be back stronger than ever in 2021 to raise funds for this great cause. Sponsors have been contacted, and anyone who bought a ticket can reach out to your committee member for a refund. Make-A-Wish wants everyone to know they are still granting wishes. Here's their brand new PSA -- Wishes Need Stars Like You . And a link to the Wisconsin Chapter RANW Golf OutingsWith continued concern for the safety and well-being of our members - both golfers and sponsors -- the Green Bay Golf Outing scheduled for July 15th, has been canceled. With so much uncertainty even months ahead as to safe practices, all other RANW golf outings are suspended as well. Government AffairsRANW Government Affairs Weekly ReportWould you like to receive an electronic newsletter each week that included the latest headlines from National, State, and local news as well as updates on the most important real estate related issues? Contact Jennifer Sunstrom - jsunstrom@ranw.org to sign up for this weekly report. Please see GA Report for an example of the latest report. PPP Update and EIDL Funding UpdateOn April 24, President Trump signed a $483B package which is generally referred to as the Phase 3.5 coronavirus package. The bill includes $310B in additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), $60B in funding EIDL small business grant/loan programs, $75B for hospitals, and $25B for testing efforts. Notably, of the $310B PPP funding, $30B is for mid-sized depositories (i.e., $10B to $50B in assets) and $30B is for community financial institutions and smaller depositories (i.e., <$10B in assets). Effectively, the statute creates three separate funding pools and it is unclear at this stage how the SBA will police those volumes. The initial tranche of PPP funding was exhausted in roughly two weeks and it is expect this tranche to be disbursed in a relatively similar time period, which suggests that Congress will be forced to consider a third tranche of PPP funding as part of the forthcoming Phase 4 negotiations. Click here to read the full article. MLSPolicies and Rules for Virtual Tours and Virtual Live Stream Open HousesRANW MLS has previously shared with members information from NAR in which the terms Virtual Tours, Virtual Live Stream Open Houses, and Virtual Showings have been defined. Additionally, RANW MLS has shared the policies regarding the use of Paragon's data fields used to add Live Stream Open Houses to RANW MLS listings: A very important Clarification of RANW MLS policies and rules for the newly available "live streaming" option in Paragon's Open House tool was emailed to all MLS members on Friday, May 1, 2020. The document is also available below: RANW MLS Clarification of Policies and Rules for Virtual Tours, Virtual Live Stream Open Houses, and Virtual Showings, May 1, 2020. Paragon has white-listed the following domains allowing their links for "live" Virtual Open Houses in the Add/Edit Open House tool:• BlueJeans bluejeans.com Homesnap Digital Tools AND a Special Offer for Homesnap Pro+!
New Public Regional Training Calendars
When an agent attends Homesnap virtual training during the month of May, they're entered to win Homesnap prizes, ranging from a $99 dollar Pro Ads credit to a highly coveted Homesnap t-shirt! Cinco de Mayo Celebration To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we're running an interactive training on the All-New Homesnap Pro en Español or in English! FREE Broker Productivity Suite is a collection of features that integrate the brokerage branding, communication, and technology into Homesnap. Agents experience an end-to-end marketing technology solution that looks like it's delivered by your Brokerage partner. The in-app experience, listings, ads and lead pages will feature a brokerage's logo and colors for a stronger, cohesive presence. With a logo, the ads agents run will also be more personalized.
Schedule an intro call now by emailing support@homesnap.com. Homesnap NEW Advanced Filters for Agents and Consumers: Visit Homesnap.com today to see the new filter options! What do people see when they search for you online? Homesnap Pro+ just added a brand-new feature, personalized real estate websites, that are powered by Homesnap Search and MLS data. These branded websites can be set up in minutes, and you can create a new domain or transfer an existing one. You also get access to Google business profile verification and management, so you can improve your digital reputation while more consumers are online with a better search ranking and more Google reviews from satisfied clients. We already provide Homesnap Pro to agents as an included MLS benefit, but Homesnap has recently lowered the price of their Homesnap Pro+ membership upgrade to just $99 for a limited time to help agents focus on their digital presence while so many consumers are online. Check out this special offer now! TrustFunds - New RANW MLS Prgram OfferedDid you miss the Agent Orientation for TrustFunds? See the recorded webinar! Miss out on the Broker Demo/Registration? See the recorded webinar! New Homesnap LiveStream TrainingView and register for Homesnap's upcoming virtual workshops: CLICK HERE Realtor.com Traffic Report & Remember to Update Realtor.com ProfileThe Realtor.com Traffic Report will show comparisons of current month of this year to last year of various listing performances for NE Wisconsin. Please click here for the report. FREE Live Paragon Webinars!Black Knight (Paragon) has brought back a regularly scheduled series of webinars. These FREE, live webinars will help you get much-needed information to continue being productivity in an ever-changing work environment. Click here for the webinar calendar. Please visit or follow on Facebook @ParagonMLS. LIM Users: Please Don't Ignore This LIM Save MessageMembers using LIM to add/edit listings have been clicking through a very important message, and it is causing their listings to return to an Unconfirmed Listing Visibility (among other issues). The message, which may pop up when someone is saving changes to a listing, reads: ATTENTION: Another User is currently editing this record. Please CANCEL your changes by closing the listing in Listing Maintenance, selecting NO when prompted to save the changes and then try again in 30 minutes. FAILURE TO DO SO COULD RESULT IN THE LOSS OF THE OTHER USER'S CHANGES." The other person making changes could be an Office Admin adding photos or documents to a new listing, a Listing Agent updating Remarks before their listing goes live, or - farther down the road - a Price Change or Status Change update being processed. Only the most recent change will be saved; the changes done by the other person within that 30 minute period will be discarded. MLS Clear Cooperation Policy - Effective April 1, 2020
The new RANW MLS submission rules went into effect April 1,2020, with a grace period until July 1st, 2020, for fines. From April 1st -July 1st warning notices will be sent to MLS Participants, based on verified complaints received from members. Thereafter, violations will be subject to a progressive fine schedule.
Also new, the RANW MLS local portion of this NAR Rule includes a new required form to be signed by the Seller for any Delay or Exclusion from MLS. Please click link for new form. For more information, please see also the WRA Legal Update, December, 2019 regarding MLS Clear Cooperation Policy. For the full RANW MLSRules, click here. Lockbox ProgramWelcome to the Lockbox Program
NEW Supra Video, Location Needed on Androids and Audit ReminderThank you to the MLS Lockbox Participant companies who submitted the 2020 Lockbox System Audit! If your company is in the Lockbox and Key Program and has not submitted the 2020 Audit, please contact RANW MLS @920-739-9108. MembershipRANW Membership ChangesTo view all the current membership changes for RANW click here. Sincere CondolencesRANW would like to extend its sincerest condolences to the family, friends, and co-workers of: ~ Shanna Brewer in the recent passing of her son. Shanna is a REALTOR® with Rieckmann Real Estate in Appleton. ~ Rita Heinrich in her recent passing. Rita was a long-time REALTOR® with Thiel Real Estate & Auction in Chilton. BUSINESS RESOURCESWRA Offers "Thursday Takeaways" Free Video Series
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2020 RANW President President Elect Past-President Executive VP Directors 2020 RANW MLS Diane Campshure |
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