Dar Miller, CCIM

Here's a notice I copied from the TREC Homepage. Please be alert & have a great week! dar

Fraud Alert! - TREC has recently learned about a scam in which a person pretending to be an agency employee may call a licensee with a story about a problem with the licensee's license status. The caller then offers to resolve the problem by asking for the licensee's credit card number to make a payment by phone. DO NOT RESPOND to requests from TREC asking you to provide personal information, including credit card numbers, social security numbers, or any other identifying information. TREC does not accept any payments by phone and will never make such a request. Please remember to always carefully guard your personal data. If you receive a suspicious call from someone purporting to be from TREC, we recommend that you ask the caller for his or her name, then hang up, call TREC at the number on the website, and ask to be transferred to that person. If you have received a suspicious call involving TREC and gave out personal information or otherwise feel your security may have been compromised, please first file a report with your local police department and then notify TREC of the situation.

I previously blogged about my experience with Twitter and that I like using the media. Yesterday I attended a "Town Meeting" and Terry Brechtal was the speaker from the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority. The ARMA is a localized body that works to address transportation issues in San Antonio. I LOVED the presentation. Terry updated the group on efforts and projects that are addressing the 281 & 1604 area. That's my backyard and so it was very much of interest.

At the end of the presentation she threw up a slide that let the audience know, they Twitter & Facebook. WOW! I can not only keep up with people & groups on Twitter, but specific projects as well! Very cool.

If you're interested, you can check it out at 4-1-1 on 281.

I hope everyone is having a great week! dar

THIS MEETING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED! Here is a copy of the email I received....

Good afternoon, Everyone~ As of this afternoon, the June 22nd Round Table forum has been rescheduled to be held in August. The exact date will be determined at a later time and we will notify you as soon as possible. We are seeking testimonials to be submitted in advance on funding-related issues so that we can move these concerns forward to our Congressman and avoid a significant credit crisis in coming months/years. Within the residential side of the market, concerns involve appraisal issues, use of higher credit scores, long-term implications for increased numbers of FHA loans, jumbo loans, and other funding concerns. Commercial related concerns include those commercial practitioners who are directly involved with loans being “called” on retail/office buildings, especially when payments have been maintained in a timely manner and determining options to refinance are unavailable. We also need to have input/recap(s) provided by Appraisers, Mortgage Bankers, Mortgage Brokers and those in the lending field. If you or your client(s) have been impacted by any of these issues, please email a short recap of your situation/concerns to communications@sabor.com as soon as possible. Thank you, Janelle Janelle Chapman Administrative Assistant Political & Community Affairs San Antonio Board of REALTORS® 9110 W IH 10 San Antonio, TX 78230-3112

Here's a repost for those interested in attending ~

“Concerns Regarding the Impact of Commercial Loans Maturing with a Lack of Funding Sources for These Loans”

Lack of funding on these commercial loans could have such a negative impact the entire real estate market which may result in a new low for our industry. Thus, the San Antonio Board of Realtors® is trying to take proactive measures to insure that this potential commercial credit crisis is worked through now and SABOR needs the San Antonio commercial real estate industry’s help. While in DC in April, Barbara Tarin and others visited with Congressman Rodriguez about structuring a function at SABOR to hear testimonials regarding credit concerns within our industry. So far, only Congressman Rodriguez has confirmed but all four of our Congressman have been invited and may participate. What is at the forefront of all of this is concerns regarding the impact of commercial loans that will be maturing in coming months and the lack of funding sources for these loans. Mark your calendar to attend this summit with the congressmen to voice your concerns: Date: June 22 Location: SABOR Auditorium Time: 9:30a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Attendance: 100 All interested parties are encouraged to attend this free summit so please pass this information on! All attendees must RSVP for this summit, but all attendees who would like to share testimonials with the congressmen on their transactions being affected are asked to specify that they would like to present information on these transactions so they can be added to the list of presenters. In addition, please be prepared to provide the congressmen with copies of these transactions to take with them when they leave. Please RSVP to Tracy Ballard, CCIM Administrator at tracy@sabor.com by Friday, June 19th.

Tracy Ballard CCIM San Antonio/South Texas Chapter Administrator http://chapters.ccim.com/sanantoniosouthtexas San Antonio Board of REALTORS® 9110 IH 10 W San Antonio, TX 78230 Office: 210-593-1200 x155 Fax: 210-593-1251

If you're working out of your home or just need to get out of the office from time to time, check out C4 Workspace! C4 is a community workspace located at 108 King William, San Antonio TX. If you would like to learn more about it you can check out my blog and podcast on Dar's Blog.

Signing off for this weekend and hope you all have a great one! dar

I have ignored it long enough, I guess. lol A week or so ago I started a Twitter account for the Film Festival that I run as a hobby. I liked it. I seem to be connecting to the right people to share information about the Festival...people that are interested. And that was cool. So of course not leaving well enough along, I started a personal Twitter acount to connect to friends in the real estate community. NOT a lot of real estate twitterers out there that I have found so far. So I thought I might turn you on to the idea. Here were my initial objections and the outcomes:

I don't have that "special phone" that you need to use Twitter: I Tweet from my laptop.

I don't need the registration / maintenance hassle: I registered & posted my 1st tweet within 1 minute, literally.

I don't want the world to know everything I am doing every minute: It doesn't. I tweet when I want to share.

So if your interested in checking it out you can tweet at Twitter if you do, look me up at Dar Miller

It's kind of fun and if you don't like it, there is one easy delete button at the bottom of the page! What do you have to lose? If you follow me, I'll follow you back. 'Looking forward to your first tweet! dar