Past MORe Events

July

Chicago Southland Chamber Meeting

Green Work Boots Tour 7/18/09

June

Year End Committee Reports 6/18/09

Panel At the Pub 6/17/09

Safety Seminar 6/11/09

MORe's Annual Golf Outing 6/10/09

Past Presidents Luncheon 6/9/09

Finally Home Program and FHA Update Seminar 6/4/09

May

Law Day Seminar 5/21/09

CIC Haves and Wants Session 5/14/09

Quality Service Certification (QSC) Info Session 5/14/09

Finally Home Program and FHA Update Seminar 5/8/09

April

Panel At the Pub -REOs, Short Sales, and Foreclosures 4/30/09

Darryl Davis Seminar 4/17/09

Finally Home Program 4/15/09

March

Procuring Cause Session 3/27/09

Certified Negotiation Consultant (CNC) & Advanced CNC 3/24/09

Risk Reduction in International Real Estate Transactions 3/4/09

Broker's Legal Update 3/4/09

February

Real Estate Investing Made Easy 2/26/09

I-Loan Certification 2/25/09

Panel At the Pub - REOs, Short Sales, and Foreclosures 2/17/09

Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate 2/13/09

Social Media Training Camp 2/5/09

Chicago Southland Chamber Meeting

Speaker

Tom Joseph

Government Affairs Director
South & Southwest Suburban Cook and Will Counties

Green Work Boots Tour

June 18th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

A behind the scenes, inside the walls look at Green Certified building practices

Speaker

Bill Schiller

We want to challenge people to learn more about the possibilities available now and in the future that will impact their homes. The Green Work-Boots Tour, held July 17, 2009, provided the opportunity to see inside these show homes before the drywall is installed. Consumers and professionals were guided through homes by informed professionals focusing on the key areas of ANSI-approved, NAHB Green Building Standards. It is our desire to provide solid information to the public to enable them to make quality-based decisions about housing and communities. In addition to the first Green Work-Boots Tour, seminars and guided "green building" tours throughout the Green Homes on Parade offer you an additional opportunity to view groundbreaking products, by industry-leading companies.

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Year End Committee Reports

June 18th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

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Panel At the Pub - Give your buyers more buying power

June 17th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Give your buyers more buying power

• Credit 101
• MCC - Mortgage Credit Certificates
• $8,000 Federal Tax Credit

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Safety Seminar

June 11th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker/Self-Defense Teacher

Joe Rosner

Topics covered:

Stay safe cheap! - Personal security tips on a budget

Personal protection tips for REALTORs - Be safer during appointments, showings, first time meetings, in your marketing, etc.

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MORe's Annual Golf Outing

June 10th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Silver Lake Country Club, Orland Park, IL

18 Holes of Golf

Sponsors

Raffle Winners!

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Past President's Luncheon

June 9th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Emily Routhier, 1986 President of the LaGrange Association

Jan Schwenke, 1984 President of the LaGrange Association

Pat Hubner, Former A.E. of the LaGrange Association

Corinne Beran, 1990 President of the Leyden Association

Judy Viskocil, 1989 President of the Leyden Association

Dick Garcia, 1988, 92, 93, & 94 President of the Leyden Association

Chris Chase, future 2011 President of the Mainstreet Organization

Linda Dore, 2008 President of the Mainstreet Organization

Pat Callan, 2000 President of the REALTOR® Association of the Western Suburbs

Doug Carpenter, 1998 President of the South/Southwest Association and 2002 President of the REALTOR® Association of West/South Suburban Chicagoland

Janet Plecki, 1989 President of the Southwest Association

Ruth Grzyb, 1995 President of the Greater South Suburban Board and 1996 President of the South/Southwest Association

Conrad Sweet, 1993 President of the Greater South Suburban Board

Harold Couture, 1992 President of the Greater South Suburban Board

Bob Eberhardt, 1993 President of the Southwest Association

Thomas O. Myers, Jr.,  1956 & 1974 President of the DuPage Board

Marge Nevin, 1992 President of the DuPage Association  

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Finally Home Program and FHA Financing Update Seminar

April 15th, May 8th and June 4th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

Alan Banks, Illinois State Treasurer's Office

Kitty Watkins, Senior Customer Liaison

Finally Home Program Power Point

FHA Financing Update Power Point

Visit the Finally Home Program page for more information on loan limits, income limits, how to become a participating lender, and much more.

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Law Day Seminar

May 21st , 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Topics covered during this seminar included:

• Recent actions of the Broker Lawyer Committee
• New Expectation of Short Sales
  • Setting reasonable expectations in short sale transactions
  • What you should know
    • Know what is entailed in a short sale
    • Know the property
    • Know the homeowners
    • Know the lender/servicer
    • Know the mortgages and other liens
  • List of what documents comprise a short sale package
• Do's and Don'ts of Advertising on the Internet
• Multi Board Contract 5.0 and its new changes
  • Review and contrast of version 5.0 to 4.0
  • Highlighted areas where the user will have to adapt to a slightly different way of doing business
• Paragraph-by-Paragraph Changes
• List of updated contracts

Quality Service Certification Info Session

May 14th , 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speakers

Attendees

CIC Haves and Wants Session

May 14th , 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speakers

Attendees

Panel At the Pub

April 30th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speakers

Vicki Flemmer - U.S. Bank Home Mortgage

Paul Garver - Hawbecker and Garver, LLC

Terry Majich - Guaranteed Rate

Marty Cann - State Underwriting Council, First American Title Insurance Co.

Networking Session

For information on the topics discussed click this link

More dates to be scheduled, check MORe's Current Flyers section of the homepage for the most up to date information on all of MORe's events.

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Darryl Davis Seminar

April 17th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

Darryl Davis

How to Make 2009 Your Breakthrough Year

More than 900 agents attended the Darryl Davis seminar on Friday, April 17th. The seminar received rave reviews from the attendees.

If you missed the session, above is a 3-minute video of the session. Darryl came back for a three-day event in May. Check it out at http://www.mysureresults.com

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Procuring Cause Session

March 27th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

The Panel

Topics covered this presentation

• 180 days to file for arbitration
• Mediation is key – try  to work out your disputes to avoid arbitration
• Grievance Committee reviews sets of factors to determine if the matter is arbitrable
• Grievance Committee acts like a grand jury
• Respondent to arbitration has 15 days to respond
• Due Process is fundamentally important to arbitration process
• Arbitration is fundamental to your business
• Professional Standards Committee is broken down into odd numbered Hearing Panels
• Hearing Panel acts like a judge and jury to determine who is Procuring Cause
• Arbitration Hearings are similar to a court room setting/hearing
• Witnesses can testify at an Arbitration Hearing
• Panel renders decision in Executive Session – normally won’t split award
• Award of Arbitrators is for all of commission or nothing
• File for Mediation instead!

90 Agents in Attendance!

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Certified Negotiation Consultant (CNC) and Advanced CNC

March 24th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

Roger Turcotte

Gain the competitive edge in your market to:

• Prepare your client and yourself for the negotiation process
• Use your negotiating skills to increase your post-transaction referrals
• Guide a seller and buyer through the process of developing their negotiating strategy
• Assist clients and agents to focus on facts rather than opinions

Interested in becoming CNC certified? Follow this link to view the flyer for the next session.

Some comments from agents who attended-

"I have been to numerous negotiation classes- it was great"

"Roger was the most professional business oriented presenter I have experienced a class with"

"Roger is so good. Everyone should take his classes. His information has allowed me to be more confident in negotiating"

"Wow! For a new agent this is fantastic to learn in the beginning"

"Excellent presentation; highly informative, quick-paced and motivational"

Roger Turcotte

CNC - 59 in Attendance

Advanced CNC - 37 in Attendance

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Risk Reduction in International Real Estate Transactions

March 4th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speakers

Steve Bochenek

Michael Smith

• Perspective
• Types of Transactions
  • Foreign citizen moving here
  • Retiree moving to foreign country
  • Il resident purchasing second home overseas
  • Business moving
• Licensing
  • License laws by state and by country
• Compensation
  • The ICREA
  • Statutory limitation for compensation
  • Dispute resolution
• Advertising/Marketing
  • Internet, Social Networking
  • International rules and regs
• Other Laws
  • Land Regulation Act of 1999
  • Interstate Land Sales Act
  • Patriot Act
  • Visas
  • Other requirements
• Risk Reduction Tools
  • Learn about other jurisdiction and market
  • Find proper professionals
  • Forms

Power Point Presentations:

Perspective, Types of Transactions, Licensing, Compensation, & Advertising/Marketing

Other Laws & Risk Reduction Tools

Attendees

Speaker Steve Bochenek

Speaker Michael Smith

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Broker's Legal Update

March 4th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

Steve Bochenek, Sorling Law Offices

Main topics of this update:

• Escrow, Earnest Money, and Unclaimed Property
  • Report to State Treasurer May1st
• Independent Contractor
  • Independent Contract vs. Statutory Non-Employee
  • Federal vs. State Law
  • Taxes and Commissions
• Non solicitation Agreements
  • B&W vs. Mazzone - appellate court decision in August 2008
• Settlement of Fair Housing Complaint
• Issues of Today's Market
  • Short sales, loan modifications, workouts, least with option to purchase...
• RESPA
• First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
  • Form 5405

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Real Estate Investing Made Easy

February 26th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

Tom Lundstedt

Included in this seminar:

• Analyzing a rental property before you buy - 4 financial benefits of owning a rental property
• Cost Recovery - Depreciation
• How to estimate the first year benefits of a real estate investment
• Passive loss rules - current rules & exceptions
• How to calculate your taxable gain

Over 190 agents in attendance!

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I-Loan Certificate Program

February 25th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

Roger Morsch - IHDA

Topics covered in this presentation:

• MCC Program (Mortgage Credit Certification Program)
  • Federal income tax credit, not a loan
  • Can be used with any type of loan
  • How it works
  • The effect on your interest rate
    • Its benefits compared to the $7500 tax credit

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Panel At The Pub - REOs, Short Sales, and Foreclosures

February 17th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speakers (from left to right)

Vicki Flemmer - U.S. Bank Home Mortgage

Paul Garver - Hawbecker and Garver, LLC

Terry Majich - Guaranteed Rate

Marty Cann - State Underwriting Council, First American Title Insurance Co.

Click here to view the topics covered

Jimmy's Grill - Naperville

Packed house, over 60 agents in attendance

Our Panel

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Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate

February 13th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speaker

George Zoellick

• This is a seminar we offer yearly to explain the key differences between commercial and residential transactions
• Instructor George Zoellick – This program was brought to us by the REALTORS® Commercial Alliance of the National Association of REALTORS®
• The goal of this course is to explain the business and introduce many of the resources needed to pursue a commercial transaction or a career in commercial real estate

Illustrated in this course:

• The different types of commercial transactions
• The different types of commercial real estate
• The key terms in a commercial contract and what they mean
• Provided a list of other resources for commercial information and education

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Social Media Training Camp

February 5th, 2009 by Tracy Polgar

Speakers (from left to right)

Mariana Wagner - Click To Close

Ginger Wilcox - Social Networking

Todd Carpenter - Creating Good Content

Kelley Koehler - Starting a Blog

Topics

• Social media and what it is
  • What is a blog? What is a social network?
  • Do's and dot's of social networks
    
    
• Content for your blog
• Start with the basics, can you write and be comfortable with writing?
• Focus your writing, what do you want to write about? What do you want to be found for?
  • Blog about your business and yourself
• How to make your blog search engine friendly (be "keyword rich")
  • Short tail results versus long tail results
• Is your writing visually appealing?
• Static info first with links to changing info
  
  
• Starting your blog
  • How to pick the best platform for you
    • Wordpress, Typepad, Blogsmtih, etc.
      • Can you brand it, take it with you, make it your own?
  • Pick your domain
    • Copyright, license, or association concerns?
    • Is it catchy? Is it too long? Will it be misspelled?
  • Map your domain name to your blog
  • What to consider for your content strategy
    • Don't put out anything you don't want back
    • Is there any niche market that you target?
    • Who do you want to reach and what style should you use?
  • Pick a look and feel - color, layout, font, graphics, ease of navigation
  • Always include an About Me page and contact info on each page
    
    
• Click to Close
  • What do you need to do to get that person to your site, keep them there, and close the deal?
  • Can they find your site?
    • Are you SEO (search engine friendly)?
    • Are you included in any directories or communities?
    • Offline marketing
  • What are you offering to get people to click?
    • Offers, "read more" lead ins, enticing headlines, relevant keywords
  • What are you doing to get people to stay at your site?
    • Compelling content, links, appearance, ease of navigation, can they contact you easily?
    • IDX (internet date exchange) - Can people search for properties on your site?
    • CMA - Can people see the value of their home, and others, on your site?
  • Are you getting their contact information?
    • Have people fill out their contact info and contact them back
  • Are you staying in the front of peoples' minds?
    • Send them weekly updates that relate to them
      • Deals of the week, interesting new facts or data
    • Give them incentives and tell them why they should work with you
  • How to close the deal?
    • Stay in contact with them and promote yourself as the expert you are

Over 300 Agents in Attendance

Q & A

Networking Session

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