Quebec

The first time I heard about escrow is on ActiveRain.

I'm a chartered real estate agent from Quebec, here the «notary» does the part of a lawyer and of an escrow.

Well what is a Notary anyway??? http://www.wordreference.com/definition/notary « someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions » Real Estate Dictionary: Notary Public «An officer who is authorized to take Acknowledgments to certain types of documents, such as Deeds, Contracts and Mortgages and before whom Affidavits may be sworn.» And keep In-Trust account form real estate transactions.

The deposit, balance of cash and mortgage are deposited in a In-trust account in the Notary's name, after all documents will be signed by the vendors and the buyers, bank too if mortgage is applicable, then registered with at the provincial (State) Office, once registered the money is transferred to the vendors.

In Quebec, a lawyer cannot complet`the sale of a property, only the notary can do that.

To find out more on notaries in Quebec go to there web site http://www.cdnq.org/en/papersPlease/

Wanted to talk about Walk-In's, I must say I made a great deal a few week ago with a Walk-In. I didn't take a brake for months, working nights and week-end like most of us. I had this feeling that I was going no were, unable to concentrate, took a day doing my ads!!!

So on a quiet morning, I took some time off, I was early hitting some golf balls since I didn't play golf all summer, then I decided to get a great breakfast evenso I knew I would be late a half an hour for my duty. Usually, no clients goes at our office before 10h-10h30 unless they have an appointment.

Well this was my lucky day, I get a call saying that I have a client waiting for me. I still take the time to swallow my plate and go to the office thinking that bozo is looking for a 50'000$ waterfront property as usual.

I get at the office and there is a Lexus top of the line in the parking, so I meet Mr. X, ask about is need and suggest properties he would like, even one way past over budget but I knew he would love it.

Fortunately for me, his wife loved it, but he would of preferred something lower than a 700k property, I signed the contract with the buyer and the seller. So I have to say that I'm with a big banner and I got a sale because of it.

Did you here about the Prospectsweb software that is now a web based , well I'm using it since a few years, always being up-date getting better and better. The company connect directly to my real estate board so I don't have enter all the info and up-date it.

Interesting enougth it always keeps all documents, faxes and e-mails attached to the client file and the listing. I can print lable directly from the software, but what is most interesting is being able to do a market analysis with comparables. It a great help for follow-ups, area where we aren't always great when busy.

"Match" is used to send properties to prospect buyers, only properties that correspond to the criterias you predetermined that you joined to a buyer's profile. All properties sent to your clients are in the contacts profil, and teh system even lets you know how mant time it was viewed.

Make you sale sheet and keep track of sale.

Lot's more, but you have to put pressure on your real estate board or MLS orginisation to get the system, that the only way of getting the software!

Here is a like toward the site http://www.prospects.com/usa/

MLS Boards, your members will love this system!!!

I'm curious, I would like to know what kind of course an person must take to be an agent in the US. Don't worry I'm not coming over to take all your listing, I'm from Quebec, Canada.

Do you need a college degree or High School is the minimum requirement. Is it different from one State to the other or an agent can move to a different State and continue doing real estate? Here we cannot, you need to pass new exams from one province (state) to an other.

For now we are required to have a High School degree but it's going to be a college degree very soon!

For our contrats we need to use the Government document to sale any residential property, being a condo, a cabin or a bungalow. Land and commercial properties don't apply.

Do you have any form that you need to use?

I would like to know if anyone is u.sing a Apple (Mac) computer for real estate. I'm thinking of going to a Mac for at least a few years, always afraid of doing THE Error!!! But I spent so much time trying to fix things that go wrong that I'm convinced that I have to make the Change.

I'm tired of having an Antivirus slowing downthe computer, heard that Mac is programming is completely deferent and harder to attack???

Could you tell me if there is a good software that I could use to make my web site, it has to be stupid proof since I don't want to spend hours trying to learn how to make sites