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.

Easy way to calculate due dates

One of the issues that comes up when we write contracts is determining what dates things like contingency removals and inspection time frames actually occur on. Fortunately, there is a quick solution.  If you were writing the contract on your computer, just go to https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html to start with the date of the contract and add…

Google My Business is Google’s Way of Giving you Free Exposure

Have you ever done a google search for a business and saw a box on the right side of the search results with a map and information about a business? If someone searches your name, do you have one of those boxes show up for you too? If you’d like to have that for your…

Want to get better at your listing presentation? Read this!

When was the last time you had a listing presentation?  How did you do?  Did you feel a bit rusty or out of practice? If you are like most agents, listing presentations are not a daily activity or even a weekly one, so it is not uncommon to feel a bit out of practice when…

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Struggling to find your next client? This could help!

If you are a real estate agent, then you are constantly on the hunt for your next client.  A fact of life in real estate sales is that if you don’t have someone committed to working with you on a sale of a home or a purchase of a home then you are out of…

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A new way to write that Out of Office Message

OK.  It’s pretty much the middle of summer and we are still taking some vacations. Many of us are afraid to let our clients know that we actually take time off, but come on, do you really want people to believe that you are available 24/7?  To me that broadcasts scarcity and that you don’t…

Another colossal waste of time and money bites the dust!

Last week was Inman Connect in San Francisco.  This is billed as the best real estate technology conference on the planet.  Until you get the Inman Connect Conference in New York City in January.  Then THAT conference is billed as the worlds best real estate technology conference. In my opinion both shows are no where…

Stop the bookmark madness!

I’ll bet that if you go to your favorite browser and look in the Bookmarks folder that you’ll find tons of bookmarks that you created.  You probably created them so that you wouldn’t forget the website . But, then you forgot to look in the book mark folder for it or it got buried in…

What does Google know about you? Read this to find out!

Do you like to use all of Google’s free services? Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Search and many others?  Most of us do, but did you know that every time that you use one of these services, Google captures a bit more information about you? You get to have free access to these services, but there is…

How to hang out, party and get new leads!

Lately I have been working with some agents who want to generate more Seller and Buyer leads. The trouble is, they don’t like any of the traditional methods of lead generation and they don’t have the capital to invest in buying leads. So, unless something else turns up, they are pretty well skunked. Then it…

Do you know what personal data is being stored about you?

Have you ever wondered what kind of data is being stored about you? If not, you might want to consider learning about it! With data breaches occurring with awful regularity, knowing what information is being stored about you by some of your favorite websites could be important if they get breached! Many companies will make…