Update on Rocket Homes: Agent Referral Network Adds Consumer Home Search
Doug Seabolt, CEO of Rocket Homes (formerly In-House Realty), has been a busy guy in 2018. His company acquired ForSaleByOwner.com in the spring, and now In-House Realty has rebranded as 'Rocket Homes' to better connect with sister company Quicken Loans – home of Rocket Mortgage. Both Quicken Loans and Rocket Homes are subsidiaries of the fintech giant Rock Holdings. Rocket Homes operates a nationwide Partner Agent Network, but the company's new home search site is only available in its home state of Michigan today. The company plans to extend its home search site to 10 states by the end of the year.

RPR App Unveils New Buyer Tour Report
RPR's new Buyer Tour Report, found in the RPR app, will make an agent's life a little easier and give buyers a supersized impression of his/her REALTOR'S® skill set. Simple in nature but comprehensive all the same, the new report enables agents to select properties, determine the order with which to tour them, and then to create a colorful, client-friendly report to share with buyers.

[Infographic] 10 Hidden Expenses When Purchasing a Home
Owning a home is the great American dream! When it comes to buying a home, most of your clients naturally begin by combing through thousands of online listings, oohing and aahing as they find homes they. While the process varies from client to client, that first-time home buying feeling only happens once. And when it comes to that group, here are the facts: First-time buyers account for 52 percent of future buying potential Despite being plagued by student loan debt and in a different headspace than previous generations, Millennials are ready to buy with the majority of current first-time home buyers being in this generation Older Millennials (25-34) dominate current home shoppers, making up 33 percent of the market

How to Help Home Buyers Without the Hassle (8/18)
Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 9:00 AM PDT Do you want to stop driving around every weekend showing homes with no offers being made? Want to stop getting frustrated when your customers change their minds and stay on the fence? Would you like to get offers under contract quick and easy so you can collect a commission and move on to the next deal? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're definitely going to want to learn our fast and efficient method for helping home buyers, all while providing a 5-star experience that will prime the referral pump of new business! Here's just some of what you will learn during Thursday's training: Get all-new templates for phone consultations to qualify leads and learn hidden motivations ... the key to getting buyers to act! Get scripts for moving home buyers along the track of closed transactions Reduce the number of showings and home tours by getting to the right fast and without objection Increase the average sales price of your home buyers to get a "raise" for helping home buyers Simple tech hacks you can use to save HOURS on home tours, and ensure your buyers don't forget what they loved about a home Register now!

Meeting Buyers’ Demands with RPR’s Search Tools (5/17)
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 10:00 AM PDT Here's where it all begins: the hunt for knowledge. It's what sets a REALTOR® apart from the unrefined data gathered by consumers via national real estate portals. As an RPR® user with an expert understanding of the local market, you have the power to analyze and manage a platform of unparalleled data to the extent that no other search mechanism offers. In fact, no other real estate data sharing website offers side-by-side, listing vs. public record comparisons like RPR. And it's all at your disposal, as a member benefit. We'll review the array of search options in RPR to help you find just what you and your clients need! This class covers searching for Neighborhoods, Schools, and by recent Market Activity. We'll show you how to use Mapping Tools to hone in on an area and show you how to drill down using RPR's advanced search options. Register now!

Trulia Launches Crime Maps
Very often, agents are asked by potential home buyers about crime statistics in a given neighborhood. As a broker, you need to be able to advise your agents about the best way to respond in this situation. Clearly, it’s not ideal for agents to be responsible for researching and providing this information. Yet, in the past, it was difficult to direct consumers to a resource where they could obtain the information themselves. Trulia has released what they believe is a solution for this difficult issue: Crime Maps. Agents can suggest that consumers use Crime Maps to perform their own research about neighborhood safety. We learned more with this article from Trulia.