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 In life there are most often "Easy Ways" of getting to our goal, but there are also "Harder Ways". Now, sometimes we immediately "Know" which is the easy way and will take it, just about every time. The hard way, that is a different story. Most often, when I take the hard way, it is because I am simply unaware there is an easier way to go. Now, at age 77 (yes, I have a baby face; meaning only a new-born baby would think it attractive), but I still tend to do things the way I always have, until someone or something shows me a better way. Yes, I am that someone and today's is the better way day! HARD WAY: Never elect the hard way if there is an easy way to get the job done! EASY WAY: Step 1. Type e-agent.nz in your browser (Chrome; Safari; Firefox; Opera; Edge or other). Hit "Return or Enter" on your keyboard. Step 2. There is no Step 2... you are done! You are at the e-Agent Homepage, easy-pease. So, the next time you want to drop-in on e-Age...

  It is important to consider the relationship between regulatory requirements and successful marketing.  Customers and clients see professional behaviour as a positive sign, when seeking an agent. It is essential for agents to be aware of what they can and cannot do in order to maintain their license.  The New Zealand Real Estate Authority has specific guidelines that must be followed by all licensed real estate agents. These guidelines are there to protect both parties involved in the transaction, which includes customers, and vendors alike.  Agents should keep up-to-date with these regulations so they know exactly what is expected of them at all times. However, the bigger picture and from those of us currently on the "Front Line" or relegated to commenting on the ever changing real estate marketplace is very different from the experience of many Kiwi agents/salespeople. For far too many, the REA rules; regulations and codes of conduct requirements, just feel like...

 New Trend: Smaller Kiwi websites are now being targeted for hacking; disruption & data theft.  First they came for the government, but mine was not a New Zealand government site, so I did not take the threat seriously; then they attacked the banks , but we aren't a bank, so I noticed, but remained reasonably calm; But, suddenly this weekend, they (the overseas hackers) came for e-Agent's website (www.e-agent.nz) and for the next 24 hours I could not focus on anything else. So, what kind of attack was it? No, not your run-of-the-mill Denial of Service Attack, though they have tried that at times. This attack was aimed to scrape the site for code to steal, this triggered several old email scripts to run and send out old emails to clients.  At no time was the database at risk. e-Agent uses one of the best IT/Programming services ( JB Metrics Ltd ) to protect us, while acting as our program developmental partner.. and boy are we glad we made that decision!

  The prevailing wisdom has long been, that Open Homes should be held on Saturday & Sunday. The logic appears to be: Workers are most often available on weekend days. Part-time agents are usually only available to have open homes on weekends. It is easier for property owners to vacate during open homes on weekends. As is the case with most "Long Held" beliefs, there is truth in the above, however, it does not present the whole story. Let's examine each of these: Many retail workers now work half of their work hours on weekends. Part-time agents have been dropping from the agent's work pool in ever larger numbers. Forcing property owners to vacate for weekend opens, implies lots of cleanup & organisation. In addition, there are other market variables that can enhance "off-hours" open homes. Off-hours opens have few if any competitors for the buying public's attention. By not having to support more than one open, per weekend day, you could hold 1 h...

  Clearly, something is out of balance in this photo. The party on our left, seems to have a distinct benefit by weight alone. Equally obviously, for a truly balanced outcome, someone is going to need to bring this to equilibrium. Then again, if you are the fellow in the blue shirt and you are representing the party on the left, this image probably looks about right to you, especially if you have a commission riding on the outcome. This rather transparent reference to the current New Zealand property environment is far from new. It is independent of price, because our point of reference is not buyer versus seller, as you might have expected, but rather the inherent benefit to the seller in the property purchase system. In New Zealand, but in few other English speaking countries, the seller has representation by definition and the purchase either represents themselves or traditionally uses a solicitor to try for balance. Indeed, even in the later case, the selling agent can and most...

  More Big News: Now When You Want To Suggest An e-Agent Improvement, The e-Agent "Wish List" Is Waiting! The team at e-Agent is dedicated to not only providing the best eLearning system available, but to listening to suggestions from our users and making appropriate changes and improvements.  For us to receive such feedback, we needed to create a "Road Map" that provides you with an easy means for providing suggestions; a means for your fellow eLearners to show their agreement and to offer a measure of priority.  With this new road map, that we are calling our e-Agent wish list, you tell us what you would like to see added to our system; we review the suggestions that have support from other users and then make the magic happen.  The screenshot below provides a peak at this system, but the new ideas and recommendations must come from you. In order to reward your use of this system, any and all wish list entries, that end up being implemented, will receive one of...

  Big News: A Face-2-Face Blended Learning Option  Comes To The e-Agent Hercules System!   As my old boss, U.S. Airforce General Frank Dillon used to say "The difficult we do today, the impossible just takes a little longer". Apparently, thirty years later this truism still holds. We have been providing online REA approved CPD for over a decade now and improving our delivery systems all along the way. We have gone from using other people's online learning platforms; taking in tons of suggestions; feedback and requested improvements, all the way to now, finally presenting course materials on our 100% in-house developed Hercules platform. But, we are not done! It is now time, given a hopefully waning Covid pandemic, to focus on letting people have a more interactive blended experience. We are calling it: "Hercules Office Hours." The Hercules Office Hours experience is with no  additional cost and is not a requirement of mandatory course completi...

  Make Sure You Have EVERY Initial Before Commencing Celebrations! -Best Practices Series- The requirement for initials on each page of the Sales & Purchase Agreement, should NOT be treated as optional .      Let's find out why. So, the image above is near and dear to every agent, because it represents an impending commission. This same ASP Agreement is also a minefield and far too many agents have fallen foul to treating it lightly and later wishing they had not done so. Here we will examine one small, but highly explosive bit... the "Initials". For our purposes here we will not need to enlarge these pages, but the orange boxes, at the lower right corner of all but one of the pages is our target. Wait, did I just say all but one page? Yes, but can you guess why page 10 isn't included? That's because there will be signatures and no initial is needed, as long as no additional material changes have been made on that page. So, back to the remaining nine pa...

  The REA & REINZ Who Are They; What Sets Them Apart;  & Why Is It So Important? Up until twelve years ago these questions would have been meaningless, because until the passage of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008, there was only REINZ to contend with and it had been that way for decades. You wanted to obtain a real estate license, you called REINZ. You had a complaint with another real estate agent, you called REINZ. You needed current sales data, yes, you called REINZ. Sounds nice and neat, but there were problems. For one, unlike most other English speaking countries, New Zealand agents historically only served the vendor/seller. This left the buyer dealing with a system that was clearly biased against them and with an influx of new Kiwis from the U.S.; Canada; Australia; and the U.K., questions were raised and soon the politicians heard the commotion. After reviewing the local and international models, the uniquely Kiwi Real Estate Agents Act 2008 passed through par...