Back by popular demand is Marki Lemons to teach her all-day class on short sales and foreclosures during the IAR Winter Legislative Conference.  Mark your calendar for Monday, January 26th, and watch your inbox for Conference registration information.  Fee is $50.  Successful completion leads to a certification in short sales - the Certified Short Sale Specialist or CSSS - and eight (8) hours of elective continuing education credit.

Short sales are the direct result of real estate foreclosures.  If your question is, "What is a short sale and how do I service clients who have no equity in their homes or money to bring to a closing?" then this class is for you.  Learn how to prepare a short sale package

and understand the timeline necessary to bring a short sale property to closing, all from a dynamic and highly-credentialed REALTOR® who has earned the title "Queen of Foreclosures" in Chicago.

Today's market is inundated with 'cool' stuff, requiring ahead-of-the-curve consumers to develop greater levels of discrimination to help sort through the noise.  Enter Michael Tchong.

Motivational speaking is one thing. But Michael Tchong’s forté is being both a catalyst and pointing audiences in the right direction. His contagious enthusiasm combined with an intuitive insight into emerging market trends, will lift the morale of any audience.

Michael achieves this feat by taking attendees on a breathtaking tour of the consumer landscape, all the while contextualizing a host of trends that a casual observer might miss. By organizing consumer lifestyle waves in major “Ubertrends,” Michael makes his audiences adept at decoding the future.  Don't miss him at the IAR Winter Legislative Conference on Tuesday, January 27th.