Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB SRES, ePRO a 38 year veteran of the real estate industry, has listed and sold houses, managed real estate offices, been the IT Director for a major Northern California real estate company as well as being the Training Director for yet another major Northern California real estate company . Jerry earned his GRI early in his real estate career and then went on to earn his CRS and CRB setting the tone for a career-long focus on the importance of continuing education. Along the way, Jerry has earned three Microsoft certifications, MCP, MCP+I and MCSE, as well as one from Cisco, CCNA. Rounding out his list of technology certifications are two from COMPTIA, an A+ and a Network+, as well as the ePRO from NAR. Jerry is currently a California State Certified Instructor for the SRES and GRI programs, presenting courses on working with seniors, listing techniques, technology and advanced technology applications. Jerry is also a NAR Certified ePRO Trainer, zipForms Certified Trainer and a DocuSign Certified Trainer.

Jerry Kidd

Happy 15th Birthday to RealtyTechBytes!

On January 20, 2008 at 10:05 PM RealtyTechBytes went live with my first post.   There wasn’t much to it, just a simple explanation of my intentions.   If you are interested, you can see it here: https://realtytechbytes.com/what-is-realtytechbytes-all-about/ In the intervening 15 years, I have kept up a weekly posting tempo that somewhere along the…

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Don’t let the market define you: Strategies for success in a changing market

On Tuesday, January 10th, I was privileged to deliver a 15 minute talk to over 100 REALTORS®, lenders, title reps and other real estate related folks. I chose to talk about the qualities that I thought were necessary to have in order to have a successful 2023.   Fortunately, someone in the audience recorded it…

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Artificial Intelligence for the win – real estate agent version!

I’m more than a little fascinated with AI (Artificial Intelligence) and last week’s post explored a tiny bit of the AI technology.  (Read it here in case you missed it: https://realtytechbytes.com/what-is-artificial-intelligence/) One of the leaders in the race to perfect AI is an organization called OpenAI (https://beta.openai.com/).  They recently released a research module called ChatGPT. …