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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Maximize Your Productivity with ChatGPT: The Real Estate Professional’s Secret Weapon

During the holidays I spent a fair amount of time noodling around with ChatGPT.  I’ve talked about this a few times in recent posts and I fear that I am becoming a one trick pony, but I honestly feel like this is something that you or your assistant should be doing. Here are a few…

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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. …

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

You may have become aware of the term Artificial Intelligence or AI for short. And, you may be wondering exactly what AI is and what value it might have for you in your real estate business. If so, read on as I attempt to answer your musings. First of all, AI is essentially computer related. …

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Make 2023 a banner year by doing these simple things!

2022 is nearly over!  I think I am not alone in feeling like this year has been challenging and that I will be glad to have it behind me! However, no one knows what 2023 will bring.  Will it bring more of the same or will it bring new challenges?  Who knows? What I do…

Jerry Kidd

Tis the season to … buy a new computer!

With all of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday ads, it’s definitely the season to buy a new computer! In the past few days I received no less than 4 separate requests for help or information on how to purchase a computer.  I think several of the requestors actually wanted me to go to the…

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Brilliant way to gather email addresses

Ever since the advent of email, there has been a need to gather the email addresses of our clients or potential clients. Over the years we have come up with various methods from flat out asking for them to all sorts of methods using third party (i.e. you have to pay!) tools. So, when I…