zoom calls: Zoom Call 9.26.23 Paddy Deighan Using AI the Right Way
- 09/28/23 08:01 AM
Zoom Call 9.26.23 Paddy Deighan Using AI the Right Way The Zoom Call this week was entertainingly presented by ActiveRain member Paddy Deighan, a real estate lawyer and a highly qualified individual as offered with some of the conversation he presented. Paddy started his presentation as a continuation of the AI Challenge in June. He expressed that AI tends to be greatly misunderstood, as evidenced, from his experiences with other areas in which he is involved. He spoke of a conversation with a person he called the Godfather of AI, Dr Kelly of IBM who manages 15,000 PhD's at IBM. AI has really been a factor (6 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 9.19.23 Dorie Dillard Dominating Your Neighborhood
- 09/21/23 07:52 AM
Zoom Call 9.19.23 Dorie Dillard Dominating Your Neighborhood The Zoom Call this week was presented by Dorie Dillard and was a how to on dominate your neighborhood or market area. Her frequent posts are focused on the Canyon Creek subdivision of Austin TX. This is a pattern that was developed over a period of years and hard work to become recognized. She started by offering up the uniqueness of our business, as we get to choose our partners, or collaborators. She acknowledged other ActiveRain members that dominate their market, and the manner in which they do same. Ours is a business that constantly changes and (20 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 7.18.23 Nick Vandekar Walking the Camino De Santiago
- 07/20/23 08:39 AM
Zoom Call 7.18.23 Nick Vandekar Walking the Camino De Santiago The presentation this week by Nick Vandekar was his personal recount of the pilgrimage he took walking the path of St. James through Portugal and Spain to get to Santiago de Compostela. He was introduced to the Camino through a movie he had seen, titled The Way. It spoke to him as he was at a stage of life where his issues seemed to be reaching crisis point. His then wife set up his travels to Lisbon so that he could start his pilgrimage. It was 2018, and his real estate business was well (26 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 5.09.23 William Piotrowski What Types of Mortgages are Currently Popular
- 05/11/23 07:14 AM
William Piotrowski What Types of Mortgages are Currently Popular The Zoom call this week was presented by William Piotrowski a Branch Manager and loan officer for Diamond Residential Mortgage. As such, with the coverage his company enjoys, he offered up information on the state of loans in the current market. FHA loans are a popular product, at least through the first quarter of the new year enjoying a jump from 8.4% to 11.7%. This represented the largest increase in loans since 2007. While it is still lower than people would like to see it still represents a significant appreciation. Sellers seem to be (11 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 4.18.23 Tammy Lankford Community Facebook Pages
- 04/18/23 10:52 AM
Tammy Lankford Community Facebook Pages The Zoom call this week was presented by Tammy Lankford, long time ActiveRain member and also broker/owner of Lane Realty servicing the Lake Sinclair area of Georgia. Tammy Lankford started her Community page for Lake Sinclair app 10 years ago and as moderator, tries to keep it informational to events of the area as well as free of people looking to self-promote businesses. It is called Lake Sinclair area Community Page. While the Lake Sinclair area is primary, the community page also allows for residents of the 3 counties that bound the lake to join the group. She (14 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 3.28.23 Bob Timm, Stories of a Mobile Notary
- 03/30/23 07:29 AM
Bob Timm, Stories of a Mobile Notary The call this week was on a topic that is essential to all real estate transactions but often not given its importance, the certification of documents by a notary public. In CT, all closings are done by lawyers, who are all certified as notaries as well. In states where title companies handle closings, Notaries are far more common. ActiveRain member, Bob Timm, a retired real estate broker now working as a Notary offered information on the services he provides in the Minot, ND area as we as some of experiences as a mobile Notary. The process he (22 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 3.14.23 Philip Raices Effects of AI on Real Estate
- 03/14/23 10:18 AM
Philip Raices Effects of AI on Real Estate The speaker for the Zoom call this week was Philip Raices. He offered his insights on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and its impact in real estate and also our daily lives. AI has been a factor in our daily activities for years. In it's base form it is the bots (robotics) that search the Internet looking for tidbits of information that have relevance to searches. AI has been used by large manufacturers for years in the form of robotic operators to replace people on dangerous or tedious operations needing simple movements. As technology evolves, AI has (20 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 3.07.23 Brad Andersohn From Prospects To Closings
- 03/10/23 07:26 AM
Brad Andersohn: From Prospects to Closings The Zoom call this week was a second opportunity with Brad Andersohn to offer up his gems and make those that attended a bit sharper. In his words, talking on the Zoom call was a bit like his presentations at RainCamps. From this person's perspective, it was identical as he gave so much, so fast and with much enthusiasm. As was offered, the date was the 3rd anniversary of the first Zoom Call. The call started as a continuation of the previous session, with Brad completing the work sheet he started from his Agent Goal Planner and the session (25 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call with Brad Andersohn: Agent Goal Planner
- 03/01/23 01:03 PM
Zoom Call with Brad Andersohn: Agent Goal Planner The Zoom call this past week carried a lot of memories for those that have been in the system for while. Early RainCamps saw a speaker that would offer technical expertise on a number of topics and with a fast-paced delivery leave those that heard him mesmerized. The Zoom call was very similar with the detail offered by Brad, as well as the detours he took most likely due to being back amongst people that knew him when. No longer part of a brokerage and presumably enjoying his time off, he has offered to bring back (19 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 1.24.23 Thomas J Nelson Recharge to Take Charge
- 01/25/23 09:35 AM
Thomas J Nelson Recharge to Take Charge The Zoom call presented by Thomas J Nelson this week was a tutorial on how to sustain a healthy real estate business and also lifestyle. As a successful real estate agent/broker and investor since 1989 he has come to appreciate the need to relax and step back for vacation in order to clear the mind and also to recharge the body to maintain a healthy family relationship and to also better serve his clients. As a 3rd generation realtor he knows the business well and also recognizes the need to step way at times to not (36 comments)
zoom calls: Zoom Call 1.17.23 William Piotrowski 2023 Mindset Working The Business
- 01/18/23 09:42 AM
William Piotrowski 2023 Mindset Working the Business The presenter for the Zoom call this week was William Piotrowski, an 18-year seasoned loan officer. He offered his take on the market for 2023. He started out his presentation offering information that he had gotten from a call earlier in the morning. The market was going to be undergoing volatility for the next few months, with a target date of May 10 for a major shift in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The optimism is that on that day an event will occur that will drop rates into the mid 5's. At the top of the curve, (20 comments)
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