A New Best Practice. The Best Practices Committees is hard at work updating CMR’s Best Practices. Five new ones are being added this year. Here’s one of them.

Be careful: You and your buyer may be under surveillance when touring a property.

“Coming soon” can be an effective marketing tool if:

1. A signed listing agreement is in place.
2. The MLS Exemption was filed with the MLS within 24 hours of having the signed listing agreement.
3 The property is not shown to anyone, by anyone until it is exposed to the full buying market for the benefit of the seller.

Through the use of new technologies in the photo industry, REALTORS® can become creative with the way photos and images are displayed on websites.

MARPAC Endorses CMR Appraiser Bob Morrow for House District 60.

Your next Facebook post could be a violation of the MLS and Code of Ethics. Read this tip to steer clear of MLS and Code violations.

For the second year in a row, Central Mississippi REALTORS® (CMR) will be a participant in the Over the Edge with Friends of Children’s Hospital fundraising attraction.

Now makes the perfect time to rebrand ourselves as industry professionals. With that, I challenge each of you to adopt a new commitment to professionalism in every transaction. Rod Crosby, 2018 President.

USDA Rural Development is conducting a review of Pearl and Byram to determine whether or not these areas should be removed the rural housing programs. The deadline to submit comments is February 28, 2018.

The Code of Ethics requires all REALTORS® to cooperate, but there is no obligation under the Code to compensate.

It's time to take professionalism to the next level! I invite you to join me at the next membership gathering titled, "2nd Annual REALTOR® Winter Workshop" on Tuesday, February 20 at Highland Colony Baptist Church.

To maintain a team of staff who are skilled in providing you the highest quality of services possible, a “Staff Development Workday” has been scheduled off-site each quarter.

Wire fraud schemes have accounted for $5 billion in financial losses to consumers since 2013, according to FBI statistics. Other common schemes in real estate include fake referral emails, “overpayment” scams, and fake DocuSign emails.

"In business as in life, you don't get what you deserve you get what you negotiate!" Resolve to improve your negotiation skills this year with Adorna Carroll's RENE Course offered by MRI.

Free parking for REALTOR® Day at the State Capitol will be available at the CMR Building and behind Carter Jewelers off High Street.

Each year MAR sets an RPAC participation percentage goal for all REALTOR® Boards in the state to reach for during the course of the year. The RPAC participation goal set for REALTOR® Boards in 2018 is 54% of members.

Wire fraud is the single biggest issue facing the real estate industry today with $14 million in consumer funds lost in the 1st quarter of 2017.

Did you know that over 65 members have already pledged to invest $1,000 or more to the REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC)?!

Due to all the creative technology available that make photos of properties or images displayed on the internet look awesome, sometimes those awesome photos and images misrepresent the “true picture” of the property.

New Listings in Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties reached 405, up 18.4 percent YTD accounting for $95 million in volume.

"The increase in business Realtors® are experiencing reflects the continued value they bring to their clients and communities across the country,” said NAR President William E. Brown.

CMR welcomes Mandi Stanley, certified speaking professional, as the keynote speaker on Tuesday, February 20 at Highland Colony Baptist Church.

I can definitely say that my time serving as your CMR President for 2017, while full of challenges and ups and downs, has been so fulfilling thanks to the amazing support I had from all of our local Realtors and the community at large.

Central Mississippi REALTORS® and Central Mississippi MLS are proud to have installed the 2018 Officers and Local Association leadership at the first-ever Board of Directors Reunion and Installation held on Wednesday, December 6 at The Lake House in Ridgeland.

With the recent release of the “2017 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers” survey, it’s a great time to look at some of the data and trends in this year’s edition and how they stack up to the last three-and-a-half decades.