9:30 am
PR Committee Meeting
Government Affairs Meeting
Labor Day - SCAOR and DAR Association Offices Closed
9 am
MLS Committee Meeting
New Member Orientation
Rental Affairs Committee Meeting
Education Committee Meeting
HOP Meeting
9 am
Board of Directors Meeting
MLS Orientation
9 am
Foundation Meeting
8 am - 5 pm
GRI 101: Planning & Developing a Real Estate Business
Designation Class at DAR
Steve Alexander
Judy Dean
Susan Mills
Sandy Greene
Donna Neithardt
Bill Lucks
by 3-digit extension:
Reception, SentriLock, Website
Memberships, Bus Trips
MLS / IDX
Executive Vice President
Education, Ethics & Events
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Keller Williams in Lewes leads the pack, with the most REALTORS® flocking to Jungle Jim's. Keller Williams, RE/MAX Realty Group Rehoboth and Ocean Atlantic are winging into the lead with others on their tail!
Will your office join the race? Click here to jump in.
Don't be the lame duck. Buy your duckies here for our family-friendly
$20 for adult ducks
$10 kid ducks, ages 3 - 17; 2 and under, FREE
(All youth must be accompanied by adult.) Family Quack Pack: $50 = 2 adults + 2 kids
Additional adults $15/duck; Additional kids $10/duck (All must register at the same time.) $100 Office ducks, or earn an office duck through
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The SCAOR office will be closed next Monday, September 7 for Labor Day. The office will close at 2 p.m. next Friday, September 11 for the Jungle Jim duck race. Have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend, and see you at the race!
Real Estate Team Trivia
Next Tuesday, September 8
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
The Rookie Committee presents Team Trivia!
But it's not just for Rookies ~ All are invited.
Meet, Greet and have fun!
Bring your own team of four or we'll create teams at the door! Prizes and fun for everyone!
Complimentary Food, Beer & Wine!
No Charge for this event! Click here or email Gail to RSVP.
| 2010 PROPOSED SLATE OF OFFICERS | ||
| The Board of Directors of the Sussex County Association of REALTORS® has approved the following slate of officers for the year 2010: | ||
| OFFICERS | ||
| President | Judy Dean | Long & Foster, Rehoboth |
| President-Elect | Sandy Greene | ResortQuest, Bethany |
| 1st Vice President | Trina Joyner | Home Team Realty, Seaford |
| 2nd Vice President | Sharon Palmer | Coldwell Banker Resort Realty, Rehoboth |
| DIRECTORS | ||
| One year | Sue Bramhall | Callaway, Farnell & Moore, Seaford |
| Three Year | Nora Martin | Remax Realty, Rehoboth |
| Three Year | Brad Riedle | Remax Realty, Rehoboth |
| NON-BALLOT POSITIONS | ||
| Past President | Steve Alexander | ResortQuest, Bethany |
| Treasurer | Donna Neithardt | Home Team Realty, Seaford |
| Director-two years | Bruce Plummer | Coldwell Banker Resort Realty, Rehoboth |
| Director-two years | Andrew Ratner | Prudential Gallo, Rehoboth |
This is only an approved proposed slate of Officers - not the elected leadership for the upcoming year. Individual ballots will be sent out electronically after September 1.
According to our By-Laws, under Article XI, Section 4, Election of Officers and Directors, it states:
If anyone has any questions, please call the board office at 855-2300.
| SANDY GREENE
Sandy has long been active with SCAOR. She has served on various committees including the MLS Committee, Forms Committee and Professional Standards, and served as Chair when the decision was made to change our previous MLS provider to our current vendor, Innovia. She currently teaches various classes for the Association and serves on the MLS Committee as Chair. Sandy also holds the Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designation along with the e-Pro designation. She is proud and honored to be named a REALTOR® of the Year nominee in both 2004 and 2009. In her spare time, Sandy enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons on the beach soaking up the sunshine, sailing on the numerous bays or boating in the ocean. Sandy is looking forward to assisting her fellow REALTORS® by serving as 2010 President-Elect for SCAOR. |
Please join SCAOR in extending sympathy to past President Rob Harman upon the passing of his mother. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in memory of Mabel L. Harman to the Nanticoke Senior Center, 310 Virginia Avenue, #B Seaford, DE 19973.
Sussex County Association of REALTORS® will hold its annual General Membership meeting on September 24, 2009.
The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. at the SCAOR facility. Carpooling is strongly encouraged. Overflow parking is in back of the SCAOR building on the grass.
Continental breakfast will be served.
Please register to attend at www.scaorstore.com.
Capacity is 140 attendees. Register early to ensure you are able to attend.
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Do YOU Know Any of These? Twitter, Active Rain, Facebook, Plaxo, Blogs, Pod Casts Please Join the Sussex and Delmarva WCR Chapters to Learn!
Followed By HAPPY HOUR & NETWORKING 4 pm til . . . |
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Hmm. I'm not an attorney either, but Interpleader Action is mentioned in the Sales Contract paragraph 10, and is important to how we deal with deposit monies held on account. |
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September - November 2009 CEU Class Savings
We are fast approaching 2010 Delaware license renewals. |
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| Thursday, Sept 17 |
Title Search - SOLD OUT! 3 CE course |
5 - 8 pm |
| Monday, Sept 21 |
Rental Agents I 3 CE course |
9 am - 12 noon |
| Broker's Core 3 CE course, MANDATORY for Brokers |
9 am - 4 pm | |
| Rental Agents II 3 CE course |
1 - 4 pm | |
| Tuesday, Sept 22 |
Short Sales & Foreclosures 3 CE course |
9 am - 12 noon |
| Home Inspection (includes Septic) 3 CE course |
9 am - 12 noon | |
| How to Buy Foreclosed Properties 3 CE course |
1 - 4 pm | |
Over the past year, the Delaware Real Estate Commission (DREC) has been working on re-writing the licensing act. DREC made a full presentation of recommended changes at their July 9 meeting. Many of the recommended changes are based on Sunset Committee recommendations to clean up the statute as well as to clarify provisions and make the act consist with practices today and to best protect the public interest.
Some of the major changes include:
- clarifying what Property Management Services are covered under the statute
- having three licenses: Salesperson, Associate Broker and Broker, clearly identifying Broker to mean the managing Broker
- raising penalties to $5,000 per violation
- requiring a minimum of three years experience to be the designated on-site supervisor for Brokers with multiple offices
- clarifying when a licensee may prepare a Comparative Market Analysis
- eliminating the nonresident license in favor of clarifying reciprocal licenses
- requiring an office permit for the main office as well as additional offices
- providing biennial renewal of all offices and the associated fees
- adding Presumed Statutory Agency and Presumed Dual Agency for 1-4 family residential properties which establishes that Agency relationships would be assumed and not predicated by the signing of a CIS. The CIS would need to be signed prior to entering into a Listing Agreement or Agreement of Sale. The CIS would be signed earlier if a different agency relationship was being established.
Above is just a summary of the highlights. The Delaware Real Estate Commission has completed their intensive review of the law for Delaware real estate, and released their proposed changes at www.dpr.delaware.gov.
A time-line for public comments will be produced and then the final recommendation will be included in legislation expected to be introduced in the next session of the Delaware General Assembly.
To review a current draft of the revised Real Estate license law, click here.
You may send your responses to SCAOR or directly to the Real Estate Commission (gayle.melvin@state.de.us). This is not the usual mid-summer novel, but it is important!
Full Listing of Delaware Planning News & Meetings >>
The Delaware Real Estate Commission will hold their Annual Seminar
Thursday, September 10, 9 a.m. to 12 noon
at the PolyTech Adult Education Conference Center
823 Walnut Shade Road in Woodside, DE 19901.
Cost is $20 ~ Registration deadline September 3
REGISTER THROUGH DREC WITH ATTACHED FLYER >>
For questions, call DREC at (302) 744-4500.
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STATEWIDE FORMS UPDATE
Listing Agreement (MS Word) - Modified Aug. 6, 2009Agreement of Sale for Delaware Residential Property (fillable PDF) - Modified Aug. 6, 2009 Agreement of Sale for Delaware Unimproved Land (fillable PDF) - Modified July 22, 2009 Common Interest Community Resale Certification (fillable PDF) - Modified Aug. 5, 2009 Short Sale Addendum to Listing Agreement (fillable PDF) - Modified Aug. 6, 2009 Short Sale Addendum to Agreement of Sale (fillable PDF) - Modified Aug. 11, 2009 The new Statewide Sales Agreements are available as fillable PDF's. They are conveniently available once logged in to SCAORStore.com Members Only. |
DAR has announced its slate of officers for 2010 that was approved at the July 22nd board meeting.
Voting will be held at the General Membership Meeting during the 2009 Convention in October.
The 2010 slate of officers are:
| President (automatic) |
Kevin Hensley - NCCBOR | Director-at-Large | Joseph Poole - NCCBOR | |
| President-Elect | Bill Lucks - SCAOR | NAR Director (2010-11) |
Dick Brogan - KCAR | |
| Vice President | Todd Stonesifer - KCAR | Past President (automatic) |
Lauren Alberti - SCAOR | |
| Treasurer | Geri Parisi - NCCBOR |
Held at Wild Quail Golf & Country Club
Shotgun Start 10:00 a.m.
Lunch Provided
Watch your inbox for more details
Have you signed up for the 2009 DAR Convention?
RACE TO THE FUTURE comes to Dover Downs October 14 & 15.
$125 Early Bird Rate ends September 15 - Click here to sign up today.
Below is a case interpretation related to Article 5. Please read the complaint and make a judgment on how the Professional Standards Panel should rule.
Case #5-1: Contemplated Interest in Property Appraised
Seller A and Buyer B were negotiating the sale of an apartment building, but couldn't agree on the price. Finally, they agreed that each would engage an appraiser and they would accept the average of the two appraisals as a fair price. Seller A engaged REALTOR® C as his appraiser, and Buyer B engaged REALTOR® D. Both REALTORS® were informed of the agreement of the principals. The two appraisal reports were submitted. The principals averaged the two valuations and made the transaction at the price determined.
Six months later, it came to the attention of Seller A that REALTOR® C was managing the building that he had appraised. Upon making further inquiries he learned that REALTOR® C for several years had managed five other buildings owned by Buyer B, and that he had been Buyer B's property manager at the time he accepted the appraisal assignment from Seller A.
At this point Seller A engaged REALTOR® E to make an appraisal of the building he had sold to Buyer B. REALTOR® E's valuation was approximately 30% higher than that arrived at six months earlier by REALTOR® C.
These facts were set out in a complaint against REALTOR® C made by Seller A to the local Board of REALTORS®. The complaint charged that since REALTOR® C was an agent of Buyer B; since he managed all of Buyer B's properties; since he had become manager of the property he had appraised for Seller A in connection with a sale to Buyer B; and since he had not disclosed his relationship to Buyer B, he had acted unethically, and in the interest of his major client had placed an excessively low valuation on the property he had appraised for Seller A.
At the hearing, Seller A also brought in a witness who stated that he had heard Buyer B say that he had made a good buy in purchasing Seller A's building because Seller A's appraiser was his (Buyer B's) property manager.
Buyer B, appearing as a witness for REALTOR® C, disputed this and protested that he had paid a fair price. He substantiated REALTOR® C's statement that management of the building formerly owned by Seller A was never discussed between them until after it had been purchased by Buyer B.
Based on your understanding of Code of Ethics Article 5, how do you think the Professional Standards Panel ruled?
Find out in next week's At a Glance!
Rick Allamong, a former MLS Committee chairman, will instruct attendees on how to utilize the MLS to its maximum potential. This FREE class will be held on Thursday, November 5 from 10 a.m. to Noon.
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| O C T O B E R | |||
| 1 | PR Committee Meeting | 9:30 - 10:30 am | |
| 2 | Mock Hearing - 3 CE course | 9 am - noon | |
| Stress Management - 3 CE course | 9 am - noon | ||
| Go Green and Earn Green - New 3 CE course | 1 - 4 pm | ||
| 5 | Real Estate Concepts - 3 CE course, MANDATORY for Agents | 9 am - noon | |
| Legislative Update - 3 CE course, MANDATORY for Agents | 1 - 4 pm | ||
| 6 | Running your Real Estate Career as a Business - 3 CE course | 9 am - noon | |
| Basic Flood Insurance Training - New 3 CE course | 9 am - noon | ||
| Legislative Update: DUCIOA (Condo / HOA Law Update) - 3 CE course, MANDATORY for Agents |
1 - 4 pm | ||
| Increase Sales with Government Financing - New 3 CE course | 5 - 8 pm | ||
| 7 | Staging: Helping Sellers Achieve Maximum Sales Price (A Marketing Tool) - 3 CE course |
6 - 9 pm | |
| 8 | Affiliate Meeting | 9 am | |
| 13 | MLS Committee Meeting | 9 - 11 am | |
| Foundation Meeting | 9 - 10 am | ||
| 14 - 15 | Delaware Association of REALTORS® 2009 Convention | ||
| 15 | MLS Orientation | 9 am - noon | |
| Government Affairs Meeting | 3 - 5 pm | ||
| Title Search - 3 CE course | 5 - 8 pm | ||
| 21 | DAR Board of Directors Meeting | 1 - 5 pm | |
| 22 | SCAOR Community Service Foundation Auction and Gala | 5:30 - 10 pm | |
| 27 - 28 | Thought Patterns for High Performance in Dover | 8 am - 5 pm | |
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| 4 | Legislative Update - 3 CE course, MANDATORY for Agents | 9 am - noon | |
| Real Estate Concepts - 3 CE course, MANDATORY for Agents | 1 - 4 pm | ||
| 5 | PR Committee Meeting | 9:30 - 10:30 am | |
| Maximize the MLS! Free training | 10 am - noon | ||
| 6 | Intro to Commercial Real Estate - 3 CE course | 9 am - noon | |
| Intro to Office Leasing - 3 CE course | 1 - 4 pm | ||
| 9 | Septic Training - 3 CE course | 9 am - noon | |
| At Home with Diversity - 3 CE course | 1 - 4 pm | ||
| Staging: Helping Sellers Achieve Maximum Sales Price (A Marketing Tool) - 3 CE course |
6 - 9 pm | ||
| 10 | MLS Committee Meeting | 9 - 11 am | |
| 12 | Title Search - 3 CE course | 5 - 8 pm | |
| MLS Orientation | 9 - 12 noon | ||
| 13 - 16 | 2009 REALTORS® Conference & Expo in San Diego, California | ||
| 17 | New Member Orientation | 9 am - 4 pm | |
| 19 | Board of Directors Meeting | 9 am - 12 noon | |
| 26 - 27 | Thanksgiving Holiday - SCAOR and DAR offices closed | ||
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