Your G.A.O.R. office will be closing early on Friday, April 6th at Noon in observance of Good Friday. We will resume normal business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) on Monday, the 9th.
Have a great weekend.
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Master the most important SHORT SALE program in the nation!! Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA): Real Estate Professional Education and Certification Program. Date: 4/13/2012 To reserve your spot, please call Jennie at 818-241-2184 Please click on the link below for the flyer with important additional information.
***Add/Edit your 5+ Residential Income, Comm., Indust., Biz ops, Land Listings. Date: Friday, March 30th at 10:30am – 12:00pm Click below for a printable flyer: Don’t miss this coming Wednesday’s (March 21st) Caravan meeting at the Elk’s Lodge in Glendale where Raffy Boulgourjian, Esq., from LAW OFFICES OF RAFFY BOULGOURJIAN will be the Guest Speaker. Please click on the link below for the flyer with additional information.
The Association will be sending TWO (2) lucky winners to Sacramento to spend the day and meet with Legislators. For more detailed information, please click on the link below for the flyer. GOOD LUCK!!!
When: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. For tickets please call the Glendale Association of REALTORS(R) at 818-241-2184 AMAZING Raffle prizes PLUS receive 10% off your store purchase!!! Please click on the link below for the flyer with additional details. Thursday, March 15, 2012 Click on the link below for a printable flyer: Due to a renewed effort to enforce the Dues Assessment Policy all NAR, CAR and GAOR dues must be paid at the Association Office no later than March 16, 2012. Beginning Monday, March 19, 2012, all non-paid members will be terminated and inactivated in the NRDS and CAR databases. Any member that pay after March 16th will have to rejoin the Association as a new member. This due date change is a result of the enforced NAR policy coinciding with the implementation of the Variable Dues Formula we have been required to enforce. Therefore, if you HAVE NOT paid your annual NAR, CAR and GAOR dues by March 16, 2012, you will be terminated and your services will be turned off, zipforms, MLS access including Supra Keys and you will no longer be considered a “REALTOR®”. As a way to keep you, and all citizens of Los Angeles, updated on the ongoing issue of broken sidewalks in Los Angeles, SRAR has launched www.LAPublicFrontage.org. Within this site, you will find all information pertaining to the issue of broken sidewalks, including: - Media Reports There is also a section on the site that invites property owners and neighbors to share their story of broken sidewalks with us – whether the sidewalk is directly in front of their property or somewhere in their neighborhood. We want to hear their story and see photos of the sidewalk in need of repair. Please be sure to keep this web address handy and check it often. Tell your clients, friends, family-members, neighbors, and coworkers to stay up-to-date on the issue of broken sidewalks. This is something that can, and probably will, affect all of us in some way at some point. The History of this Issue: Since 1974, the City of Los Angeles has been responsible for the upkeep and repair of broken sidewalks that have been uprooted and/or damaged due to tree roots – trees that were planted by the City along parkways between the sidewalk and the street. However, the City can no longer afford to maintain or repair sidewalks. Over the years, they have settled millions of dollars in lawsuits due to trip-and-fall incidents. They claim that, as of today, it would take over 80 years to repair all the sidewalks that are damaged in the City of Los Angeles due to limited funds and resources. For the past few years, the City Council and the Bureau of Street Services has been trying to transfer this responsibility to the property owner. This would mean that each owner of a property with a damaged sidewalk due to tree roots would be financially responsible for making the necessary repairs. This would include trimming or removing the tree causing the issue, fixing the broken sidewalk and repairing any curbs in front of the property that might be damaged or get damaged in the process. But wait!!! This would also mean that each property owner could become the responsible party to any trip-and-fall incidents that may result from the broken sidewalk in front of their property. How they plan to implement a switch in responsibility: The City first proposed implementing the switch in responsibility through “point-of-sale”, which means that a property with a broken sidewalk could not be sold until the necessary repairs have been completed. For now, this seems to be off the books. Now the City is exploring a few other options: - “Point-of-Service” – meaning when a new tenant or property owner moves into a property with a sidewalk in need of repair, their utilities will not be turned on until the sidewalk has been repaired. - “Point-of-Permit” – meaning when a homeowner with a broken sidewalk applies for a permit to do home updates of $20,000 or more, the permit will be denied until the sidewalk is repaired. - Citywide bond measures, which is where property owners would approve to increase their property taxes to fund sidewalk repairs. - Assessment district(s), which is where property owners within the City can form an assessment district to repair their sidewalks using the procedures in the State Streets and Highways Code. As part of their latest proposal, the Bureau of Street Services (BSS) has been instructed to conduct citywide outreach to ask citizens of Los Angeles for input on how to best tackle the issue of broken sidewalks. As of January 30, 2012, they have 120 days to complete this outreach and report it back to City Council. To date, we are unaware of any city-initiated outreach on this issue. We have two new seminars coming soon to your G.A.O.R. office that you will NOT want to miss! Both seminars are being presented by Phil Atwan. The first seminar, on Tuesday, March 13th, from 10 a.m. to Noon, you will learn about the implications of Short Sales, Bankruptcy and Loss Mitigation. There is a $10.00 fee for this course. Please call Jennie at 818-241-2184 to RSVP and click below for a flyer with more detailed information. The second seminar, on Thursday, March 29th, from 10 a.m. to Noon, you can learn about 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges. There is a $10.00 fee for this course. Once again, please call Jennie at 818-241-2184 to RSVP and click on the link below for additional information. |
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