Ha, its been some time since I have written anything here on ActiveRain, thank you Chrissy for calling me. I do miss all the wonderful things this site has to offer!

But I do have some wonderful news! I passed my Broker's Exam this past summer and have now joined CondoDomain as the Broker of record here in South Florida! So will you be seeing more of me? You bet! This is the beginning of a wonderful relationship again here with you guys.

Thank you for still being here and for still having me! Did you miss me? You guys have grown so much! Look at the amount of members you have here!! It was only around 40,000 when I joined.

So tell me... anything exciting happen, going on? Glad to see you and meet new agents!

Jeannette Neerpat
CondoDomain.com
954-993-4104

If you are like me, I carry my camera everywhere. Pictures for my listings, pictures of the neighborhood, or like what I am also doing, LOTS of BPO's.

Here is the problem I run into several times maybe a week. I take my pictures and have to wait till I get to a computer to upload my pictures. I have run into problems where I forget my card reader for the camera card. Would have to run home to get the card or just wait till I got home. Which would slow me down, and if you are like me are always on the go. So having to stop to go back home to get it is no use to me.

So my husband got me this great Christmas gift to make things just a bit easier for me. Its a wifi camera card called the EyeFi. Basically how it works, if you are near a wireless network and if your camera is on, it will automatically upload your pictures to where you have it assigned to. You can have it upload to your home computer or sites like FLickr. It is the coolest thing. I was at home and the computer was on, I had my son taking pictures around the house and you would see within seconds the picture uploading to the computer.

Now there are several cards to the EyeFi, there is a 2Gb card that only does pictures and there is a 4Gb card that does video and pictures. Now the video will upload as well with the 4Gb card not the 2Gb.

I had to share this with all of you. Just to make things just a bit easier for you as my husband did for me. Leave it up to him to find something like this. When he went to go buy it at Best Buy, they looked at him like he was crazy. But he managed to find it there.

Hope this helps you! Have a Great New Year everyone!

Jeannette Neerpat

OK I know that many of you frown down on BPO's, that they are a waste of time and pay no money. But my frame of mind is otherwise different. You see it has forced me to see my market in a whole different view.

Let's start with the basics. Do you know what type of information you need to give the bank for BPO's whether you are doing an exterior or interior? The pictures you need to give? It's like doing a CMA, only some more information is given.

CMA's are done mainly for listings, and think have of us are not listing, we are working with buyers. In general we won't do a CMA. Yeah, when I am putting in an offer with my customers we go over the compared solds. But that's it.

Here the banks are having us go to the subject property and looking at it from a different perpesctive. Like an investor sort of speak? What the value is compared to what has sold or to what is listed.

Now obviously this has to be done the right way. I have seen some agents come up with some crazy numbers for a BPO making me think what he or she was taking at the time.

When I am going to a subject property, I am not only looking at the home or condo. I look at the surrounding neighborhod, jot down the parks, the schools, shopping plazas, the nearest highways. It has forced me to go out and pull neighbor info.

I have not only learned of some new areas to shop but also the values of homes, what the deprication is and more. And this is beacuse of doing BPO's. Its forced me to learn, to look from another point of view.

Have you done any BPO's? What is your take? What do you think it has done for you?

Jeannette

Time is running out.... I have been getting lots of calls from 1st Time Home buyers. You see now they are realizing that time is running short if they are going to use the $8,000 Tax Credit.

I got a call the other day from someone who found me from a blog post I wrote about the buyers seminar. She had the print out from here ActiveRain and one from Trulia. She told me that she really wants to buy now but didn't know what steps to take.

She thought I was going to do another seminar, but I did something better.. Met her one on one. We covered all the bases. She filled out what she was looking for and she signed the Buyer's Brokerage Agreement.

I gave her the number to the Mortgage broker to get her Qualified and as soon as we know what she qualifies for we will start her search..

So if you are looking to buy your first home, time is running short if you want to get your Tax Credit. You need to close on your home by December 1st.

Jeannette Neerpat
9000 Sheridan Street
Pembroke Pines, Fl 33024
www.BrowardCountyReview.com

Would you like a Free Market Analysis? Visit www.Neerpat.com or call 954-667-7653(SOLD).

If you haven't heard yet, Google came out with Google voice. It has some great features. What features you ask? Well here is a quick over view:

If you haven't already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here's what it offers:

• A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
• All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts sent to your phone and email
• Low-priced international calling to over 200 countries and free SMS
• Other powerful features like the first phone spam filter to protect you from unwanted callers, the ability to ListenIn^TM on your voicemail messages while they are being left, conference calling and more

To learn more about Google Voice before registering, visit: http://www.google.com/voice/about

So today I finally got my invite after waiting for so long....... Is was easy to set up. Did some searches and came up with the number 954-667-7653 that's 954-667-SOLD! What better number then that!!!!

So I have to play around with it some more, but now all my marketing materials, blogs, websites will all have this number. It will then be sent to my cell phone.

I can't wait to play around with it some more.....

So now like my For Sale sign reads>>>>>

So you really can Google Me like the sign says.... Of Course will need to change the number.....

Jeannette Neerpat
9000 Sheridan Street
Pembroke Pines, Fl 33024
www.Neerpat.com

Would you like a Free Market Analysis? Visit www.Neerpat.com or call 954-667-7653(SOLD).

UPDATE****** I did a test run and it was so cool, I got a text message from my husband who was checking it out and it said exactly what he left in the message and on top of that I got an email just as if he typed it himself...

Can't get any better....