Buying a Better Home with Sustainable Features: Consumer Preferences
After buying a home with solar panels and other green goodies, Diego Villar has become the envy of his foursome. “I golf every Sunday. The people I golf with thought I was crazy at first, but now they’re talking about getting solar panels themselves,” Villar said. Villar lives with his wife and twin toddlers in […]
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Leadership Academies Can Open Doors for REALTORS®
Why should you attend a Leadership Academy? Well, as a graduate of the Kansas Association of REALTORS’® Right Track Leadership Academy, I’m an excellent example. When I attended the Academy in 2011, I had already been a 20-year veteran in the real estate industry, but I knew that there was still so much to learn. […]
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KCRAR Offers Form Product Choices for Members
In addition to furnishing dotloop with the KCRAR standard forms and contracts, KCRAR and Heartland MLS provides Members with more options to complete standard contract forms for delivery to customers and clients. The options include: formsRus: An annual subscription to the formsRus online forms product is provided to all KCRAR Members as a member benefit. […]
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KAR-Supported Bill Protecting REALTOR®-Paid Fees Now Kansas Law
According to a report issued by the Kansas Association of REALTORS®, the Kansas State Legislature passed a REALTOR®-backed bill to Governor Sam Brownback during their marathon legislative session, who signed it into law on Tuesday, May 16th. The bill, House Bill 2153, requires that funds paid to state agencies “shall be used for the purposes […]
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KCRAR Member’s Veteran Housing Project Getting Global Attention
You may have seen the headlines announcing Kansas City’s tiny homes village for homeless veterans. But you may not have realized that the visionary behind the headlines was a REALTOR® and KCRAR member. Mark Solomon, an active REALTOR® with Keller Williams in Liberty, started the Veterans Community Project with Chris Stout and Kevin Jamison in […]
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HMLS Debuts Searchable Spreadsheet for Waived Listings
The Kansas City Metro is still in the throes of a historic inventory crunch, resulting in long and hectic days for our busy REALTORS®. As we’ve stated previously, market conditions such as these tend to produce an uptick in “Coming Soon to MLS” signs in yards and waived listings in Heartland MLS, a tool used […]
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KCRAR Proud to Recognize New Inductees into NAR RPAC Hall of Fame
Three members of the Kansas City Regional Association of REALTORS® were honored last week in Washington DC for their achievement in lifetime contributions to the REALTORS® Political Action Committee. Jim Gamble of The Gamble Group, T. David Rogers of RE/MAX Elite REALTORS® and Pat Tholen of RE/MAX Premier Realty were honored on May 18th in […]
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KC Airport Improvement Talks Come to KCRAR
KCRAR was pleased to welcome Tim Cowden, President and CEO of the Kansas City Area Development Council and Joe Reardon, President and CEO of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce to our Leawood office on Friday, May 12 for a lunchtime chat regarding the future of Kansas City’s beloved—if somewhat dated—Kansas City International airport. […]
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Waived Listings and Coming Soon Status: What You Should Know
With the market in an inventory crunch, it’s not become uncommon for eagle-eyed KC residents to notice a sudden bloom of yard signs reading either “Coming Soon,” or “Coming Soon to MLS.” This unique status is generally adopted by REALTORS® as a valuable form of pre-marketing, drumming up hype on a valuable property in the […]
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KCRAR’s Q1 2017 Skinny Video
The latest Skinny video is out, and it paints a great picture for what’s happening in 2017.
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