REALTORS® Care – Salvation Army Golf Tournament

RAHB member Dave Sohal (Bridgecan Realty Corp.) invites RAHB members to participate in the 11th Annual Salvation Army Golf Day.   The event will take place on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at the Beverly Golf and Country Club.   Registration fee is $200 per person, and includes 18 holes of golf with power cart, barbecue lunch, dinner, prizes and awards.

Sponsorships for the event are also available.  Contact Dave Sohal at 905.526.7551 for more information or to register.

RAHB Town Hall Meetings

A Conversation with the RAHB President and CEO

Plan to come out to a RAHB Town Hall meeting!

These informal meetings give you the chance to bring your questions and comments to RAHB President Bruce Moran and CEO Ross Godsoe.

Town Hall meetings have been scheduled as follows:

  • Caledonia – Monday, April 15 – Grace United Church, 174 Caithness St. E.
  • Burlington – Friday, April 19 – East Plains United Church, 375 Plains Rd. E.
  • Dunnville – Monday, April 22 – Grace United Church, 301 Broad St. E.

All meetings:
9 a.m. – registration and continental breakfast
9:30 a.m. – meeting begins

Advance registration to Kathy [kathyr@rahb.ca 905-529-8101 x237]  is appreciated.

Note:  The Burlington Town Hall meeting will be broadcast via Google+ – watch for more details!

RAHB Town Hall Meetings
Be Engaged * Informed * Empowered

RAHB News

New School Locator for Halton Region

The Halton District School Board has replaced the “School Locator” tool on their website with a new “Find a School” tool. (more…)

CREA Updates

What happened at the CREA AGM?

  • Rate Your REALTOR® didn’t rate very highly for CREA members at the CREA AGM – the motion to create a Rate Your REALTOR® site was defeated.
  • An alternative to New Co – the separate MLS® corporation – was approved.  This alternative will, through CREA Bylaw and policy amendments, remove a few layers of bureaucracy currently in the technical development area of CREA; those amendments will speed up and improve decision-making for major technology development.  The Bylaw and policy changes will be prepared and presented at the fall Assembly meeting.

The CREA Technical Peer Group (TPG) met just prior to the CREA AGM.  Two projects are ongoing:  work on a new platform for REALTOR Link® is progressing and improvements to REALTOR.ca are in a beta testing phase, with the expectation it will go live in a few months.

 

New CREA Television Ads

Have you seen the new CREA TV ads yet?  Check them out on REALTOR Link®>CREA>National Ad Campaign>Television Commercials.

MLS® In Brief

The Board of Directors recently approved the following new MLS® Policy

Interboard and Access Listings

4.  When a REALTOR® from another association joins RAHB as a full member, should the new member have any active access/interboard listings on RAHB’s MLS® system at that time, the following process will be followed: the Listing REALTOR® must provide a signed copy of the listing agreement, a signed RAHB PIF (Property Information Form) or verification from the other association’s MLS® System the listing(s) is/are active; no prepaid access or interboard fees will be refunded; all billing codes will be removed in broker load and all non-member information will be removed and replaced with the RAHB member’s detailed personal information from entering the member’s User ID.

MLS® Update – Auto-Notification Emails

If you have a client set up to receive auto-notification emails but  they haven’t received any new listings (or you’re not receiving the carbon copy), it may be as simple as selecting their email address to receive the auto-notifications (see below) or it may be due to your email address being blocked by their email provider. (more…)

Member News – KWAR holding REALTOR® XPO4

The Kitchener-Waterloo Association of REALTORS® (KWAR) will be holding REALTOR® XPO4 on Thursday, May 9.  The theme is “The Future is Now” and the featured keynote speaker is leading authority and visionary on trends, change and technology, Stefan Swanepoel.  This conference and trade show is open to all REALTORS®. (more…)

Fusion Transition Training

Course Outline

Fusion is the new RAHB MLS® interface. Fusion gives you everything MLXchange did and more. If you are familiar with MLXchange and its many features and have occasionally visited Fusion but return to MLXchange because you are not yet comfortable working with the new design, Fusion Transition Training will get you up to speed. Now is the time.  MLXchange will no longer be available to you as of July 2013. This 3-hour, 2-credit hands-on course will give you the chance to explore tools in Fusion that you need for your day-to-day activity.

Course Information

Dates & Times:
Monday, April 8:  9 a.m. – noon
Wednesday, April 10: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Monday, April 15: 9 a.m. – noon
Wednesday, Apr 17: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Location:
REALTORS® Association Hamilton-Burlington
505 York Blvd., Hamilton

Instructors: Pam Begin, Eric Meek and Rosanne Horansky

MCE Credits: 2

Cost: $45.00 + GST = $47.70

Fusion Computer Course Descriptions

All Fusion computer courses are delivered as hands-on training and held in the computer lab at RAHB, which is in the Chambers Room on the Concourse Level. You must have a valid User ID and password.

If you require special instructional support, please notify the facilitator rosanneh@rahb.ca in confidence, at least 3 business days prior to the course date. We will make every effort to accommodate you.

To register please complete this form and return by fax to 905.529.4349 Attention: Angela

Don’t Delay – Space is limited!