Everett, WA

Are the Board of Realtors sabotaging real estate distance education in Washington?

trainagents — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:38:14 +0000

“Our full Washington membership supports our efforts to limit the number of distance education clock hours agents/brokers can take for license renewal and for Broker License. They want to go back into the classroom!”

That’s a paraphrase of W.A.R.’s spokesman testifying before a closed meeting with the Washington D.O.L. Education Committee last month. I don’t know about you, but he is NOT speaking for me on this issue. I, like you, spent 15 years struggling to squeeze in classroom clock hours juggling my clients, my life and being locked away from both! Internet delivery courses provide the convenience.

Recently we were alerted by a competitor real estate school and others that the Washington Senate was about to vote on changes to the RCW’s and an oblique and suble sentence had been added which stated:

“…the Director shall have the power to limit distance education hours…”!!!???

Train Agents, Inc. promptly sent out an email notice to over 20,000 licensed real estate agents and brokers in Washington State alerting them to this development. In the notice we published the names, email addresses and phone numbers of the sponsoring Senators. The sponsoring Senators received so many emails and phone calls from you that the line item was removed from the language and sent back to the Senator floor for debate. Subsequent to that a special, unannounced and closed meeting of the D.O.L. education committee was convened and only one individual “testified”, the W.A.R. spokesman, claiming that W.A.R.’s 20+ thousand members wanted to have their ability to take their courses via distance education limited!!?? Is that true? Do you want to be thrown back into the dark ages of real estate education? We want to hear from you on this subject. Email me at jane@trainagents.com and let me know your thoughts on this.

If we don’t start speaking up NOW we can lose our ability to take our courses online. Speak up!

Blog Probes Real Estate Models

CityBlogWA — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:05:01 +0000

www.REALonomics.net is a blog that is asking serious questions about where the real estate industry is going. More specifically, REALonomics poses challenges to the broker/owners to adopt models that will allow their organizations to become more transparent.

REALonomics.net advocates that the industry open up the property information portals to consumers and upgrade its approach to how it is interacting with the consumer by implementing more social networking such as www.CityBlogUSA.com, a community blogging network for every city in the USA.

Visit www.REALonomics.net.

Hospitals and Physicians

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:38:39 +0000

When someone relocates they often seek information about physicians, specialists, hospitals and other types of health care, such as extended care. Is there a resource in Everett for health care information?

Community Sports

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:34:51 +0000

Living in Everett, Washington is a lot like living in any home town, with local sports being a big part of the lifestyle. Families look for T-Ball, Little League, soccer and of course, junior high and high school sports. What is sport organizations are in Everett, Washington? Are their sport opportunities for adults? Is there a parks and recreation department in Everett?

City Lifestyles

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:30:30 +0000

What are the lifestyle opportunities in and around Everett, Washington. Are there hiking clubs, biking trails, civic clubs, golf clubs, local arts and theater, lakes, streams, fishing, boating, camping or other types of lifestyle opportunities?

Condos in Town?

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:26:58 +0000

Are there any condo projects in Everett, Washington and are there any that are on golf courses? What is the condo price range? Are there any age restricted condo communities?

Real Estate Companies

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:23:31 +0000

Everett has a lot of real estate companies. Which one is considered the best company according the Everett, Washington residents? Who are the best real estate agents in Everett, Washington? Historically, which company has been there the longest? Do any of the real estate companies also have title and mortgage companies?

Foreclosures in Town?

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:20:03 +0000

Can anyone speak to the issue of foreclosures in Everett, Washington? Foreclosures are up around the country due to the sub-prime lending practices. Is there any foreclosure impact on real estate in Everett?

Help, I need a Doctor

CityBlogWA — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:15:30 +0000

Everett, Washington has a hospital. Everett has many medical professionals operating in a variety of specialties. Fundamental healthcare begins with an individual or family?s access to a general physician, call it a family doctor or for children, a Pediatrician and for women a Gynecologist. Certainly, for people like me, a good therapist; better yet, a Psychiatrist! But why is it that someone in Everett, Washington cannot locate a physician that will take new patients?
CityBlog Everett, was struck by the frustration that was apparent in Susie Pena’s (a Everett, Washington resident) post on May 9, 2007, which read as follows:
I have been here 1 year this June and have yet to find a doctor that will accept new patients. I am very discouraged that there is no avenue for new residents to find out who is available without a lot of labor intensive efforts.
Does Everett have a physician association or, does the hospital know of new physicians coming into Everett that are looking for new patients? It would behoove all communities to have some centralized service that maintains a list of physicians who can accept patients as either â€œnewâ€ or on a rotating basis until the new resident can establish regular healthcare.