http://www.brendasavage.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:47:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reprinted from REALTOR® Magazine Online December, 2007, with permission of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. Copyright December, 2007. All rights reserved. Rate Freeze Proposal to Offer Borrower Bailout The Bush administration, mortgage service companies, and investors are nearing an agreement on a strategy to help offer relief to borrowers with subprime mortgages, ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=10 Yesterday, I had a call from an agent in California who had received an email flyer for my online classes.  He had gone to the California Department of Real Estate website to confirm that our classes were certified, and he could not find "Brenda Savage Education Systems" listed as a ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=9 Another common question is "how long do the online classes take to complete?".  When you click on the course catalog, each course indicates how many credit hours are provided.  The class should take you approximately the same amount of time as credit hours offered.  In fact, the Department of Real ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=8 "How does the Department of Real Estate know that I've actually completed the class?" is another common question that I hear, and it's a good one!  Each of our online classes includes several "lessons".  Each lesson is followed by a quiz based on the material that was covered in the ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=7 For those of us that have held professional licenses for some time, the thought of the trek to the campus, sitting in uncomfortable chairs, being limited to specific "break times", eating vending machine food and drinking vending machine coffee... well, it's less than appealing!  And believe me, I know, I ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=6 Over the past few months, I have learned how much about building and marketing a viable website which offers value to its visitors. And, I still have much to learn. Thankfully, I have learned that I must employ those with better knowledge than I in areas that are not my ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=5 As a real estate professional for nearly 20 years now, I have seen many, many aspects of the real estate industry, the good, the bad, the ugly, and even ‘the funny’.  It is my hope that this blog and my forums will provide a place for other real estate professionals, ... http://www.brendasavage.com/blog/?p=4