V OL UM E 2, IS SUE 23 4 JUNE 2009

The Southern REALTOR Network

The Southern Realtor Network of the
Birmingham MLS meets every
Thursday morning at 9:00 am at Ruby
Tuesday, Highway 31 N, Vestavia. The
meeting includes a light breakfast.
The REALTORS will have a chance to
WAGON
make announcements along with the
MASTERS
Birmingham Association of
REALTORS (BAR).
Bruce Ludwig
RealtySouth Vestavia
You will have a chance to
979-6400
present any old and new
listings, with which you
Ron Alexander
may need assistance. You
RE/MAX Advantage
will also be able to discuss
296-1515 both buyers’ and sellers’
needs.
Networking begins at 8:45am and
COMMITTEE
gives you the chance to meet with
MEMBERS
other REALTORs and affiliates of the
BAR. The charge is $3 per person,
which goes to our charity, FAMILY
CONNECTION. Please visit their
website at http://familyconnection-
inc.org.
We would like to thank Ruby Tuesday
for allowing our caravan to
meet at their location at no
charge.
Please remember to email
Kimberly Boackle of
AmeriCapital Mortgage, no
later than noon on
Wednesdays, to add your
listings for the next
newsletter. Please remember to
include MLS #s.
Thanks!!

Sandra Carr Duties to Realtors

Martha Moody Smith
RELI Inc
Standard of Practice 16-17
999-0207 REALTORS®, acting as subagents or as buyer/tenant representatives
or brokers, shall not attempt to extend a listing broker’s offer of
Gloria Jackson cooperation and/or compensation to other brokers without the consent
First Federal Mortgage of the listing broker.
965-2167 Standard of Practice 16-18
Call to sign up for
REALTORS® shall not use information obtained from listing brokers
Thursday Breakfast
through offers to cooperate made through multiple listing services or
through other offers of cooperation to refer listing brokers’ clients to
other brokers or to create buyer/tenant relationships with listing
brokers’ clients, unless such use is authorized by listing brokers.
Standard of Practice 16-19
Signs giving notice of property for sale, rent, lease, or exchange shall
not be placed on property without consent of the seller/landlord.

Published by AmeriCapital Mortgage

Email: kboackle@americapitalfunding.com
Fax to 205.278.5290
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Calendar of Events
Thu, 4 June Grievance
2pm Committee
Fri, 5 June IMAPP MLS
9am Workshop 370--1296
Ken Giglio - 370
$1500 per month
Mon, 8 June Ethics Hearing Beautiful 3,000 sq ft town house sits right on the 1st fairway
12:30pm Panel of Inverness Golf and Country Club off a private street. Two
master suites, 2 other large bedrooms, fenced back (pets
Mon, 8 June welcome) and all appliances. Just like living at a resort.
Ethics Hearing
1pm
Wed, 10June Membership Carl Davis - 563.2321
11am Committee
301 Hidden Creek Trail, Pelham - $950 per month
Wed, 10 June 3BA/2BR on a fenced corner lot with fireplace in living room
MLS Committee
1:30pm and covered patio
Thu, 11 June BCRC Task 825 Meriweather Dr., Calera - $1,000 per month
8:15am Force 3BA/2BR on fenced lot with fireplace in living room, master
on main level and one-car garage
Thu, 11 June
Orientation
9am
Fri, 12 June
CCIM 222--4335
Gail Hutton - 222
8:30am
2831-K Georgetown Dr, Hoover - $500 per month
Fri, 12 June 1BR/1 BA with all kitchen appliances
MLS Basic
9am 114 Morris Blvd, Homewood - $1,550 per month
Fri, 12 June Introduction to Coming JULY 1st
11am IMAPP 3BD/2BA with hardwood floors, detached 2-car garage and
fenced yard
Fri, 12 June
1:30pm
MLS Advanced 805 Vestavia Villa Crt, Vestavia - $1,100 per month
3BD/2.5BA town home with all kitchen appliances, including
Mon. 15 June Trade Show washer and dryer, full unfinished basement. Overlooks
10am Task Force community pool.
Mon, 15 June Activities
1pm Committee
Tue, 16 June
MLS Directors
1:30pm
Thu, 18 June BCRC Board of
8:30am Directors

Call Mark Boackle for all your mortgage needs:

AmeriCapital Mortgage - 205.253.9182
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“Show business is not hard. It’s all just basic Dale Carnegie stuff,” Jay Leno once said
in a Selling Power magazine interview.

Easy enough for Leno to say. The thing you should know, though, is that Leno’s back-
of-the-napkin statement is supported by decades of smooth, polite and consistent
relationship building. And nine easy-to-follow techniques.

1. Try to make a good impression that lasts. That Leno’s everyday personality is
nearly identical to his nice-guy image on television doesn’t detract from his success.
It adds to it.
2. Get guts. Don’t be afraid to tackle more than you think you are capable of
handling. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you’ll never grow.
3. Take the high road. If during a conversation with a client or prospect someone
insults you, avoid the temptation to retaliate. One up them, in fact, by responding in
praise and affection. “Gee, I’m hurt that that was said about me, especially since I
admire <so and so> so much for his family values, etc….”
4. Ignore failure. Failure will come. That’s a given. What you need to do is bounce
back as quickly as possible and keep truckin’ as if nothing even happened.
5. Love what you do. When you love what you do, everything else just seems to fall
in place. It’s easy to get out of bed, it’s easy to do the hard things.
6. Fake it before you make it. Even if the ink is still wet on your real estate license,
give people the impression that you are the best person at what you do.
7. Treat everyone as a potential customer. This is particularly true for real estate:
everyone buys or sells houses, and your market is probably made up of the people
you run into everyday.
8. Treat your team as if they are stars. Whether it’s your lender, listing coordinator
or buyer’s agent, make the people you work for, and who work for you, feel like your
world would collapse without them.
Network Notations:
Thank you to Woody Woodfin and Gloria Jackson (First Federal Mortgage 969-3334), for
providing this morning’s breakfast and two cookbook door prizes.

Please call Gloria Jackson (First Federal Mortgage), 965.2167, to sign up for a Thursday
breakfast; we are a sad group without our morning victuals. Don’t forget to dine at Ruby
Tuesday’s and let them know that you are a member of the caravan - They are truly
generous in allowing us to use their facility every week for FREE. Your $3 weekly donation
is able to go straight to our charity.

Welcome to first time affiliates Debbie Parrot (RBC Bank) and Melanie Riley (Reli Title)

MLS changes coming through a new Virtual Office Website (VOW) platform. Your “Active
Keys” will all be needing to be replaced

Upcoming Events:
Vestavia Hills “I Love America” Series - Held at Wald Park 6:30pm; free
swimming, food, fun for adults and children and a movie at dusk.
Thursday, 2 July - Shades Mountain Baptist Church - Pops in the Park and
the movie “Hotel for Dogs”

Friday, 14 August - Vestavia Hills High School Band and the movie
“Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa”
 Judy Young - 837.4571 - RE/MAX First Choice
1307 Bristol Manor, 35242 - MLS 420446 - $339,900
4BR/3BA - 4-sided brick home with open kitchen and great room with
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granite, slate, stainless and cherry cabinets, hardwood floors in formal
living room and dining room, master suite with trey ceiling, sitting room
and jetted tub, bonus room and walk-in attic.

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Charles Heaton - 369.7090 - Keller Williams
3528 Fox Hollow Lane, Hoover - MLS 400151 - $249,500 A
3BR/3BA - Modern kitchen, updated bathrooms, hardwoods in living
room, dining room and hallways, 2 decks, finished basement with walk-
out to patio, sprinkler system, security system and central vacuum V
2041 S 21st Avenue, Homewood - MLS 424960 - $274,900 A
5BR/2BA - In-law suite or rental (currently rented for $670) with
separate entrance and patio go along with this charming cottage with
hardwood floors, eat-in kitchen, butlers pantry, formal dining room N
with double French doors leading to covered porch, architectural metal
roof and additional parking in the rear (was rented for $1,580)

2223 Mountain View Road, 35210 - MLS 402863 - $118,000

3BR/3BA - Cul-de-sac lot with private courtyard off master suite as L
well as a gas logs, eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, 4-season porch

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BAR Education
June 5 9:00-10:00 iMapp training - FREE
Instructor Liz Kendrick
June 12 9:00-12:00 MLS Basic Computer Training - FREE
Instructor: Liz Kendrick
June 12 11:00-12:00 Tax System & Reports - FREE
Instructor: Liz Kendrick
June 12 1:30-4:30 Advanced Computer Training - FREE
Instructor: Liz Kendrick
June 19 9:00-11:00 Internet Marketing from the Ground Up - FREE
Instructor: Randy Detmer
June 22 1:30-4:30 Risk Management – $20.00
Instructor: Jim Lawrence 3 Hrs CE Credit
June 25 9:00-12:00 Don’t Just List It –Sell It - $30.00
Instructor Anne Powell 3 Hrs CE credit
June 25 1:30-4:30 Win, Win – The Way to Negotiate - $30.00
Instructor Anne Powell 3 Hrs CE credit

Dick Betts will be returning in July on the 14th and 15th to teach 4
new classes on using your SmartPhone and PDA. If you have one
of these devices or plan to have one soon, do not miss this
opportunity to learn all about them.
For more information and a description of all the upcoming classes,
log on to the BAR website at www.barbham.com and click on the
“Education” icon. If you have any questions, please call Marie at
802.6076 or Susan Looney, School Administrator at 871.1911

Call Mark Boackle for all your mortgage needs:

AmeriCapital Mortgage - 205.253.9182
 WIN UP TO $100,000 IN MAY 2009
Sell Just 1 of 8 properties in Oakmere at Lake Crest
For Details Call
Ron and Shelia Alexander - RE/MAX Advantage - 296-1515
648 Whitestone Way - The only townhome left
613, 617, 621, 633, 661, 665, 681 Trumpet Circle - with elevators!
Visit oakmerelakecrest.com

Kim Lucas - 447.3554 - RealtySouth

BUYER’S NEED
At least 10 acres, preferably in the 119 area but would look at other locations and further
out 280. Should be zoned and suitable for horses and building an arena as well as stables.
Please call Kim FIRST if you have anything coming on-line.

2 Open Houses
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Sunday, 7 June 2pm to 4pm

Manda Luccasen - 283.0380 - RE/MAX Advantage

606 Twin Branch, Vestavia - MLS 424905 - $289,900

4BR/2.5BA - Updated eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances
and wall of windows, new paint throughout, formal dining room with
kitchen pass through and French doors, brick fireplace in den, level
fenced backyard

2213 Garland Drive, Vestavia - MLS 427721 - $329,900

3BR/2BA - Single level living with a fully renovated eat-in kitchen,
hardwoods throughout, new paint, formal living room and dining
room, updated master bath, new furnace, newly finished basement
with additional unfinished space

Call Mark Boackle for all your mortgage needs:

AmeriCapital Mortgage - 205.253.9182