Archive for February, 2012

8 Reasons To Use a Real Estate Professional in Colorado

by BULL Forms in Real Estate with No comments

Real Estate Professional In Colorado

8 Reasons to use a Real Estate Professional in Colorado

Before selling your Colorado home, you should really consider utilizing the services of a real estate professional. While selling your home is something you can certainly do on your own, there are some unique advantages in enlisting the help of a qualified real estate agent.

1. An Agent Can Be the Middle Man
One of the biggest benefits of hiring a real estate agent is that they deal with potential home buyers so you don’t have to. This includes everything from the initial call to accepting offers and closing the deal.

2. Outlining the Benefits
Your real estate professional in Colorado can look at your home with a neutral stance and determine the best benefits, or unique attributes that will appeal to buyers. Those can then be advertised to draw in the largest number of interested individuals.

3. A  Real Estate Professional in Colorado Knows What the Market is Looking for
Whether you’re selling a home in Colorado Springs, Beaver Creek, Glenwood Springs or somewhere else, your real estate professional knows what your target market is looking for. He or she can use that information to better advertise and market your home.

4. Creating a Price
One of the hardest parts of selling a Colorado home is determining the price to sell it for. A qualified real estate agent can help you set a price that is fair to you, and a value to potential homebuyers. They know the market and the trends in the area and can use that knowledge to determine a great asking price.

5. Showing Your Home
Your real estate professional in Colorado can be in charge of showing your home when potential homebuyers want to see it, so you don’t have to take time out of your busy schedule to do it. This is very important if you’re moving out of the area before your home is sold. The agent can also lockbox the home so it’s protected when it’s not being shown.

6. Aesthetics
Another important role of a real estate professional is to help you in preparing the home to be seen. This includes staging the home or removing personal items, advising you on how the home should be cleaned or freshened up, and ensuring that it has great curb appeal.

7. Marketing
Your agent will know how to market the home in the best way for the surrounding Colorado area. This will help ensure that you get offers faster and that the home reaches a wider group of potential homeowners.

8. Negotiating
Finally, your Colorado real estate professional can negotiate with potential buyers to ensure that you get a great price and the buyers are happy with the value they’ve received. This might include accepting or rejecting offers, creating counter offers, reviewing contracts and more.
Having a real estate professional is essential when selling a Colorado home. They can help sell the home faster for a fair price and take a lot of the burden and responsibility off your shoulders.

Colorado Sellers Property Disclosure

by BULL Forms in Features with 3 Comments

Colorado Sellers Property Disclosure

As a Colorado real estate professional you are aware that your seller’s must complete the Colorado sellers property disclosure for their property. The current workflow typically entails emailing your clients the property disclosure and then waiting for them to complete it (many times with multiple revisions), sign and date the form and then send it back to you via fax or email.  In addition to degrading the quality of your document due to multiple transmissions back and forth, you are wasting precious time waiting for your customer to fax or email the property disclosure back to you.

Our goal at BULL Forms has always been to make your jobs easier. Completing the DORA Colorado Sellers Property Disclosure should not require hours of work.  Great news, we just launched a new feature… Share

Sharing a CREC Contract

Once you are ready to share a form, click on the share icon from within your form, outlined in red below:

BULL Forms Colorado DORA Share Icon

Once clicked, a window will open requesting that you enter the information on the parties that you would like to share the document with.

Send Colorado Sellers Property Disclosure For Completion

You can send the email to multiple parties by entering a comma between each of the emails.  Also, you should enter some descriptive comments so that the parties you are sharing your document with are aware of what and why they are completing the form.

Once completed, the parties will receive an email like the one illustrated below:

BULL Forms Colorado DORA Share Email

The link will expire after 7 days.  If the parties you shared the form with are having issues clicking on the email, instruct them to copy and paste the link into their web browser.  Once they have clicked on the link they will be taken to the Division of Real Estate contract you chose to share with them.  It should look familiar to you as it is similar to our classic view.

Once they have completed entering their information in their Colorado sellers property disclosure they will click on the submit button, as pictured below:

Colorado Sellers Property Disclosure Screenshot

Once your clients click on the submit button, you will receive an email informing you that the parties have completed the form you requested.  The email is sent to the account you have registered with BULL Forms Colorado and looks like the image below:

BULL Forms Colorado DORA Sharing Completed

When you log back into your account the form will have all of the information your parties entered into the document.  You can now send this document to them for e-signature.

The sharing feature is available for all of the forms, therefore, you can share a contract with an attorney if they would like to review a contract or with any other interested parties.

Thank you and we hope this speeds up your Colorado sellers property disclosure tasks.

The BULL Forms Team

Auto Insert N/A into Colorado Real Estate Contracts

by BULL Forms in Features with No comments

What to Do With Blank Fields In Your Colorado Real Estate Contracts

Here at BULL Forms we are constantly striving to offer the best real estate contract software to all of our users.  We include e-signatures and unlimited file storage at no additional cost.  We are constantly adding features and improving our product based on feedback provided by our users.  We love feedback!

All too often we write a new blog post and it starts off with, “based on customer requests we have added a new feature”, but here we are again…  Our customers were frequently requesting a way to insert N/A into all of the empty fields in their Colorado real estate contracts.  We have added this functionality and you can activate the feature in under 4 clicks.

How to Enable Auto N/A in your Colorado Real Estate Contracts

First step, click on dashboard near the top right of the screen
to enter your dashboard area.

Colorado Real Estate Contracts Dashboard

Once your dashboard is loaded up.  Click on the personalize tab:
BULL Forms Colorado DORA Preferences Tab
Scroll down to the bottom of the tab.  Under the autofill N/A section click on autofill N/A on and then click on the green update button:
BULL Forms Colorado DORA Click Here
As promised, 4 clicks and you have no enabled auto N/A insertion into all of the empty fields in your Colorado Real Estate Contracts.  Now every time that you generate a form, all of the empty fields will have an N/A inserted by default.  We feel like we know the next question you are going to ask.  “I don’t want N/A in all of the fields, just most, how do I remove the N/A from one field?”
Great question, to have a field show up as blank, simply enter 1 space into the field you do not want anything printed in.  Please ensure you are only entering 1 space, if you enter 2 spaces N/A will print in the field.
Thank you for your continued support and we hope we are making your Colorado Real Estate Contracts solution easier.
BULL Forms