Earn 12 C.E. Credits and your CDPE Designation

Would you like to learn how to reduce short sale processing time by 50%? Or learn to close four times as many deals?! Join the over 30,000 Certified Distressed Property Experts® who have discovered the secret to surviving this real estate market!

Fidelity National Title, your partner in success, is making an exclusive offer for a huge savings of $150.00 on the upcoming 2-day CDPE course, November 30th and December 1st, 2011. Registration is November 30th, 8:00am, classes run both days 9:00am to 5:30pm.

Earn 12 C.E. credits and your CDPE designation, which includes:

Ø 320+ page field manual

Ø One year CDPE membership

Ø Complete short sales forms

Ø Short sales submission guidelines

Ø Complete sample short sale package

Ø Foreclosure solutions flowcharts

Ø Monthly coaching calls

Ø Forum and website access

Ø Use of the CDPE logo

Ø Bonus section on HAFA

Ø HUD short sale acceptance ratios

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to save money on this exciting course! And to make it even easier, you can make 3 easy payments of $158.00 or one payment of $449.00.

Course takes place at Fiesta Resort Conference Center, 2100 South Priest Drive, Tempe.

Just 'Glympse Me'

Imagine, you’re at the NAR® convention, among 1000’s of people, and an associate is trying to find you…

Or you’re at a listing, about to show it to potential buyers, but they’re new to the area and lost.

Just Glympse™ them! Huh??!

Glympse™ is a brilliantly conceived mobile application that lets you share your real-time location via SMS, email, Twitter, or Facebook. It's a useful, easy-to-use tool that doesn't require you to sign up, create any profiles, or invite contacts. Your location is only shared for the duration you specify and then stops.

With Glympse, you don’t send the address; you merely send a Glympse of your current location, and with a tap on the recipient’s screen, they navigate their way there. Or if you're not yet at the location, you might send them a Glympse showing it on a map, as well as your real-time location as you make your way there. There are so many possibilities with such a powerful, location-aware application.

The Glympse app is clean and refreshingly simple to use. To get started, launch the app, hit Menu, then Send a Glympse. Next, input a phone number or e-mail, or choose to share a Glympse with Facebook or Twitter. Set the duration (anywhere from 10 minutes to 4 hours), and that's it. For the allotted time frame, your contact(s) will be able to view your real-time location on a map, from a mobile device or desktop browser. If you're on the move, you can also input your destination, so your contact can see where you're headed.

For those who routinely use Glympse to transmit a location (e.g., children with eagle-eyed parents), the app includes a nice Favorite feature, which saves the recipient(s) of your Glympse, duration, and destination, all for easy sending later. The app also comes with an optional home-screen widget, which puts Favorites, Glympse History, and Send Glympse functionality right on your home screen.

Glympse is an incredibly useful app that has the potential to become incorporated into many of our daily routines. Try it out for yourself, and see if you and your friends start saying, "just Glympse me."
It’s available for Android, iPhone, WinPhone7, and Blackberry. http://glympse.com/get_glympse
Sources: CNET, Glympse

2012 Crystal Ball Conference Recap

On Thursday, November 3 Fidelity Phoenix held a Crystal Ball Conference at the Tempe Center for the Arts. Over 500 Realtors were in attendance, and attendees were able to interact with the panel. Below is a brief recap of the event. A video of the event and the Power Point Presentation will be made available soon, if you would like the video and/or presentation please contact your Fidelity Phoenix Representative.

·The Power Point Presentation was created with data from Mike Orr of the Cromford Report

·Data showing that REO market is slowing down and that Short Sales will dominate 2012

·Bank panelists concurred that they want to increase their short sale approvals for 2012 and are hiring more people on their teams

·Banks would rather approve short sales than foreclose

·Possible trend upward trend in prices b/c SS tend to sell for higher prices than REO in AZ

·Only 2 years ago, banks handled delinquent mortgages almost exclusively by foreclosure so a shift to SS is momentus

·AZ Mortgage Delinquency rate is down 32% since 2009 which is a bigger drop than any other state in the nation

·There is no longer a glut of future foreclosures looming over AZ