Archive for December, 2011

Holding a Successful Open House in Colorado

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Open House In Colorado

One of the best ways a Colorado real estate broker can successfully sell a home is by holding an open house in Colorado. It gives the realtor a chance to bring in several prospective home buyers and allows those potential home buyers to see the home and personally experience everything it has to offer. There are a few important tricks to holding a successful open house in Colorado, and by using them, a real estate broker can increase the chances of selling the home.

Accentuate What Buyers are Looking for in Colorado Homes

Individuals who are in the market for Colorado homes are typically looking for a few important things. For instance, if the house you’re selling is a beautiful ranch-style home with an open floor plan, make sure there is no clutter and that the potential buyer can easily envision his or her own things within the home. If the home has a large basement area, make sure it’s completely cleaned out and make a point of showing the homeowners the space and talking about the different things that can be done with it. Accentuating the home’s features is a great way to succeed in Colorado real estate.

Deep-Cleaning the Home

While cleaning is a no-brainer, before holding an open house, it should be completely deep-cleaned. This means everything should be gone over with a fine tooth comb to ensure that the house is spotless. Use dusters to clean baseboards and crown molding, make sure all corners are dusted and clean, scrub bathrooms until fixtures look brand new, and make sure any furniture remaining in the home is spotless. One thing that can really help is a fresh coat of paint to brighten walls.

Staging your Open House in Colorado

One of the most useful marketing tactics in selling Colorado real estate is to ensure that the home is staged properly. Great staging helps the prospective buyers see the potential in a home without seeing the connection to the previous owners. All personal items should be removed (pictures, clothing, etc.) and only neutral furnishings and decorations should remain. If walls are painted an eccentric color (magenta, teal, lime green, etc.), they should be repainted to a neutral color. This allows the home to act like a blank canvas that visitors can mentally project their stuff into, making them more likely to really consider the home.

Extra Tips

There are a few great tips Colorado real estate agents use to hold a successful open house in Colorado homes. Simmer a small pot of spices (orange peel, cinnamon, cloves, etc.) on the stove to create a delicious, welcoming scent or bake cookies. Provide flyers with pictures of the house to those who visit and want to think about it. Another great tip is to talk about the home as if the buyers were already seriously considering it. For instance, “This would make a great playroom for the little one on the way.” This will make the potential homeowners look at the house as if it were theirs and envision what they might do with the different rooms and areas.

Using these Colorado real estate agent tips and tricks, as well as advertising the open house as much as possible, can help you hold a more successful open house. That will translate into selling more beautiful Colorado homes.

Looking for an affordable Real Estate Form Solution to write up the contracts you get from your open house in Colorado? Look no further.

Holiday Savings on Colorado Real Estate Contracts

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Holiday Seasons Savings – Promotion Closed!

Wow! The response thus far has been amazing. We were told our timeframe was too short to sign up, so we extended it! You now have an additional 24 hours to signup for these amazing savings!

The promotion is now closed.  What amazing reception! Please be sure to follow us on twitter and Facebook. If you missed out on this promotion be on the lookout for upcoming promotions!

We always feel grateful during this time of the year, but given the exceptional reception we have received in Colorado we are feeling a bit more grateful than usual. As a token of our appreciation, we are offering an annual subscription to BULL Forms Colorado at a discounted price of $79.99. That is a 33% savings for signing up before Monday December 12 5:00 PM Tuesday December 13 5:00 PM. Use the code HOHOHO at checkout. Act quickly! This pricing is only available until Monday.

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“Compared to CTM the learning curve is quick and easy and I’m always learning new features. Signing is a dream and I like that I can decide when I want initials and / or signatures.”

We are making life easier for Colorado Real Estate Professionals, but don’t take our word for it, take a look at some of our recent agent spotlights here.

Happy Holidays from BULL Forms!

DORA Contracts E-signatures Explained Part I

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DORA Contracts E-Signature

We recently launched an updated e-signature function to assist you in e-signing your Colorado Real Estate Commission Forms.  While the functionality is much more robust, to take advantage of all the features it might help to have them explained in detail for you.  This is part I in our series explaining the features of our e-sign feature.

The E-signature Control Panel

The e-signature control panel is where the “magic happens,” from here you can control all aspects of your DORA e-signature transactions.  Pictured below is a screen shot of the first screen you will see when you enter the control panel.

Colorado Real Estate Commission Forms DORA Contracts E-signature Control Panel

There are four tabs near the top of the screen, as highlighed in the screenshot.

1. Pending transactions:  All of the documents that you have sent out for e-signatures will be listed here until all parties in the transaction have signed the document.

2. Completed transactions: all transactions in which all parties have signed will be listed here.

3. Canceled transactions: all transactions that were canceled at any point during the signature process will be listed in this tab.

4. My documents: all of the documents that you have sent out for e-signatures and have chosen to save for use at a later time will be listed in this tab.

Working with transactions

BULL Forms Colorado Real Estate Commission DORA e-signature pending transactions

From within the pending transactions tab you will see all of your DORA Contracts that are currently pending e-signature in the area highlighted above.

If you wanted to check on the status of one of your pending transactions, you can retrieve more information by clicking on the blue triangle to the left of the transaction name.

BULL Forms Colorado DORA Forms e-signatures triangle

Once you click on the triangle the current status of the transaction will be displayed, as illustrated below:

BULL Forms Colorado DORA Forms esignatures expanded

In the expanded view you will see all of the participants in the transaction and if they have signed the document and the time they signed the document.

Available Functions

  • View PDF: Clicking on the view PDF button will open the document for viewing. You will see all of the signatures placed on the document as well as the transaction log, which is appended to the last page of the document.
  • Edit Transaction: Clicking on the edit transaction button will open the advanced e-signature panel, where you can add parties and place signatures.
  • Cancel: This button will cancel the entire transaction.  Only the party that is currently inline for signatures will be notified of the cancellation.
  • Edit Email: Next to the party’s email address there is an edit link, clicking on it will give you the ability to update the party’s name and email address.
  • Resend Email: Clicking on this button will resend the e-signature email to the party, this email includes the link that the party will need to click on to sign the documents.
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