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The strength of 25,000 REALTORS® all
committed to creating a strong and viable real estate marketplace. |
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A 24/7 communications and public
relation campaign that promotes the Value of Using a REALTOR
to millions of consumers each year. |
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Dynamite REALTOR® education
and events programs that never fail to provide you with the training
you need to be more productive and profitable. |
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A specialized REALTOR® store that
delivers the right products at the right price. |
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A powerful government affairs program
that fights additional taxes that hurt you and your business. |
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A free website on our award winning
website, HAR.com and much, much more. |
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HAR.com Online Promotion
Promote Listings - The HAR web site is drawing an ever-increasing audience of Houston homebuyers. Consumers are generating an average more than 51 million page-views per month on the site to find information about you and your listings. Daily visitor sessions average 43,000 with potential homebuyers spending an average of 23 minutes reviewing your listings and personal REALTOR® web sites.
To promote our site, we have incorporated billboards, ads in the Houston Chronicle, regular press releases and guest columns into our marketing plan. All Realtor listings are also advertised to the public at no cost to members on a growing number of licensee sites, including:
... HAR.COM
... REALTOR.COM
... HOUSTON CHRONICLE.COM
... HOMES.COM
... HOUSTON.ORG
Our efforts to drive consumers to you and your listings translates into increased sales and more take-home pay for you.
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MLS System (Tempo)
This is HAR’s state-of-the-art, Web-based MLS system created specifically to meet your needs. This tool enables to access more than 42,000 properties online, archived information on the thousands of properties sold in the past six years and the current public records information for Harris and surrounding counties.
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Member Web Sites
Create your own HAR Member Web Site free of charge! These sites can attract thousands of potential customers to your own personal web site! Learn More
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Appointment Manager
This innovative tool allows Realtors
to effectively manage their appointments
right from their desktop.
View Current Users
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Schedule Showing
Schedule showing allows you to view, manage, and schedule showings for your listings on HAR.com.
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Listing Traffic Report
Listing Traffic Report allows you to view the web traffic to your listings on HAR.COM. The Listing Traffic Report shows the number of times each of your listings has been viewed on HAR.COM during the term of the listings.
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Account Manager
The HAR Account Manager is the most convenient way to access your membership account, to update your information, and pay your dues online. 15,746 members used the secure online system to pay $2 million in 2006 dues.
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Form Manager
HAR Form Manager gives you the ability to download HAR, TAR, and TREC forms. Learn More
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Strategic Traffic Activity Report
Strategic Traffic Activity Report - a basic overview of Email Leads from HAR.com to you & Internet Traffic to your listings on HAR.com
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Featured Listing Manager
Create a Featured Listing Gallery for your Company Web Site instantly on HAR.COM
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Member Finder
Search for a Realtor®, search among 3,600 multi-lingual members, speaking 85 languages, and search for affiliate members offering various types of services.. Make The Right Choice Work with a Realtor®
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Home Finder
Consumers have access to search for REALTOR® listed properties that are available for sale and lease in HARMLS.
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School Finder
The School Finder allows you to search for information on Houston schools, as well as any school in Texas. You can search for schools based on the county, district, campus and/or zip code.
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Home Value Finder
Houston home value, Houston home prices, and Houston property tax information. Search property tax information from the 6 County Appraisal Districts.
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Neighborhood Information Finder
View subdivision current facts, price trends for the past 8 years, and create comparative subdivision analysis reports online.
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My HomeFinder
My HomeFinder sends you free e-mail notifications when homes that match your criteria are posted to HAR.com or if there are any status or price changes and more information regarding any particular property you “bookmark”.
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Real Estate Dictionary
The Real Estate Dictionary contains a comprehensive list of real estate terms.
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Member Surveys
As a member of HAR, your financial success in real estate is our top priority. Throughout the year we take member surveys to find out your opinion, and to find out how we can better serve our members.
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Online Voting
No more paper ballots. HAR provides its members with an online ballot for the annual Board of Directors election.
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| Helpful Telephone Numbers |
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Tempo Support - (877) 805-7301
HAR Main Branch - (713) 629-1900
HAR Fort Bend Branch - (713) 629-1900 ext. 700
HAR Bay Area Branch - (713) 629-1900 ext. 750
HAR Montgomery County Branch - (713) 629-1900 ext. 760
Computer Help Line - (713) 629-1900 ext. 201
Legal Support Hotline - (800) 873-9155
Supra Tech Support - (877) 699-6787
Supra Payment Center - (800) 545-9601
NAR (800) 874-6500
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Training & Member Profitability |
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Real Estate Course Finder
Real Estate Course Finder is a database available to HAR members to search and register for over 200 courses online from 7 schools. There have been over 17,900 REALTOR registrations for courses in the Education Yellow Pages. |
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Virtual University
You can now sip on your
cocktail, in your bathing suit, by the pool and complete your MCE required
license renewal
courses in the comfort of your own home. Many students prefer this method
of class because of its convenience and it gives you the ability
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Real Estate Dictionary
The Real Estate Dictionary contains a comprehensive list of real estate terms. |
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Mortgage Dictionary
The Mortgage Dictionary contains a comprehensive list of mortgage terms used in the mortgage industry. |
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Affordable Housing Program Finder
Online resource center for affordable housing information. Housing Assistance Program, Homebuyer Gift Program, Economic Development, Down payment Assistance Program, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Veterans Affairs... |
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Senior Living Dictionary
Our Glossary can help you learn about commonly used terms and the different senior housing and care choices available |
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Meetings & Special Events |
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Area Networking Meetings
Networking meetings provide you with the opportunity to network and establish
relationships with Realtors as well as other real estate professionals
in your area. These meetings provide the perfect opportunity for you to
exchange ideas, obtain valuable updates about our ever-changing industry
and learn the latest scoop on who works where. HAR holds networking meetings
in Montgomery County, Great Northwest Area, Deer Park, Bear Creek, Katy,
Westside, Fort Bend, Texas City & Mainland, Waller County, Pearland/Friendswood/Alvin
Area and Near Northwest.
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Schedule
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Homebuyers Seminar
Each year HAR sponsors a homebuyers seminar
designed to teach people how to purchase homes using a Realtor.
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Communications |
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Houston REALTOR®
Do you prefer to receive the latest real
estate information online? Each month HAR publishes an online version
of the Houston Realtor giving you the ability to search from more than
two years worth of information online.
Click Here to View This Month's Issue
Realtor Advertising
Have you seen one of the six billboards
dedicated to promoting Realtors rotating around the city? You also may
find advertisements created to promote using a Realtor in the Houston
Chronicle, Here’s Houston, Greater Houston Home Buyer’s Guide,
Houston Housing Guide, among many others. This year we crafted a campaign
with the slogan: Right Home. Right Realtor. Right Here. HAR.com. This
was specifically created to promote your business and your listings.
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Houston REALTOR® Magazine
Each month you receive the latest information in real estate law, technology
and the Houston resale market on your doorstep in the Houston Realtor magazine.
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5 Minute REALTOR
Staying informed and aware is essential
to your business, and the HAR’s weekly e-mail is the fastest, most
thorough way to stay current on everything you need to know about the
real estate market locally and globally.
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Commercial Gateway |
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Commercial Information Exchange
One of Commercial Gateway’s most prominent features
is the Commercial Information Exchange (CIE) that is available online at
www.commercialgateway.com. This facility makes participating firms more
profitable by providing a shared information infrastructure that eliminates
the wasteful duplication of effort between member firms. The CIE also identifies
and promotes a set of “Best Practices” in the marketing of
properties and has greatly reduced the wasteful and inefficient practice
of broadcast faxes and spam e-mails. The CIE also is an excellent way for
commercial brokers to monitor market conditions. Also, HAR will soon make
a greater investment in research by hiring another research assistant and
plans to include aerial photographic images on CommericalGateway.com soon.
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Training
HAR designs commercial MCE programs that Commercial
Gateway sponsors and promotes, like the South Texas “Super MCE,” or
the CCIM Forecast Competition specifically for commercial brokers. Commercial
Gateway-sponsored education is an important means of teaching ethics
and best business practices to new brokers. For more information logon
to CommericalGateway.com.
Designation Classes
HAR offers more than six prestigious designations.
Whether enhancing your business potential through certification courses
for GRI, CRS, CBR, Mandatory Continuing Education or HARPRO for new agents
and unlicensed assistants, HAR is bringing you excellent professional
development opportunities so that you can expand and grow your business.
Education on Issues
The Governmental Affairs Advisory Group researches
and meets on issues with local politicians to educate them on issues impacting
your business.
Technology Classes
We offer a wide variety of technology courses
from Internet/e-mail to Managing Client Files in Windows. This allows
you to better serve your clients through the use of technology. All technology
courses are approved for MCE credit.
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Networking opportunities
HAR identifies and promotes networking
opportunities throughout the Houston area and in the surrounding suburban
counties. Just visit the calendar of events maintained on Commercial
Gateway to get details on several different networking groups, including:
The Houston Realty Breakfast club, The Gulf Coast CCIM Chapter, SIOR,
CREW and NAIOP, HOLBA and CREN as well as the commercial networking groups
in Fort Bend County, Montgomery County or in the Bay Area. These groups
do an excellent job of serving the many different constituencies that
function within the greater Houston marketplace. Helping to promote these
groups and their functions is an effective way for HAR to serve its diverse
membership.
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Member Services & Support |
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Technical Support
Worried over Word? Failing to Excel? Crashing through Windows?
Before you hire an expensive consultant to solve your computer problems,
try calling HAR's technical support hotline at (713) 629-1900 ext. 201.
This "members only" service will provide instantaneous answers
to your hardware and software headaches. Your calls are answered by fast,
friendly computer whizzes who have experience responding to Realtors®'
specific technical challenges. As always, any questions for TEMPO MLS can
be answered by calling (877) 805-7301.
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Legal Advice
Good
legal advice does not come cheap unless, of course, you are a member
of HAR. If you find yourself needing the counsel of an excellent attorney
who understands real estate, call the TAR Legal Hotline at (512) 370-2273.
Have your member ID number ready, and leave your request in this hotline
voicemail system. A highly regarded attorney will return your call promptly
and provide free answers to your legal questions.
Dispute Resolution
We live in an increasingly
litigious society and HAR does not just teach Realtor ethics, we help enforce
these rules
and regulations. All Realtors agree to abide by a shared Code of Ethics
and to submit disputes to binding arbitration. HAR cooperates with the
state association in the performance of these duties. This is an excellent
service that creates a non-litigation scenario for resolving many of the
typical disputes that can arise between brokers and their clients.
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HAR TV
HAR
provides complete coverage of most of the HAR events in digital video format
both in Windows Media and Real Player. You can access these on HAR.com.
Click Here to View Videos
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Real Estate Store (SuperCenter)
Real Estate Products, Real Estate Books, Real Estate Supplies, Real Estate Closing Gifts, and Real Estate Shopping are available through RealtorStore.HAR.com, the Online Real Estate Store of HAR.
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Governmental Affairs
Every single legislative session, lawmakers propose a tax on your hard-earned
commissions. In other states, such policies have been passed, and real
estate professionals forfeit a significant amount of their income to Uncle
Sam. HAR represents you with a strong, powerful political voice at the
local, state and national level and has consistently defeated such onerous
proposals as a tax on commissions. To see HAR's latest governmental affairs
projects, click here.
Candidate recommendations
Don’t know who to vote for in
the upcoming city council race? HAR’s Political Affairs Committee
does the homework for you by interviewing each candidate and approving
only Realtor-friendly candidates
Representation on and Lobbying of Issues
Every single legislative
session, lawmakers propose a tax on your hard-earned commissions. In other
states, such policies have been passed, and real estate professionals forfeit
a significant amount of their income to Uncle Sam. HAR represents you with
a strong, powerful political voice at the local, state and national level
and has consistently defeated such onerous proposals as a tax on commissions.
Legislative Updates
HAR’s governmental affairs department
keeps you in the know with its legislative updates designed to educate
you on issues impacting the real estate industry.
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