August 2015 Issue 8 of 12

Official Publication of the Ozark Gateway Association of REALTORS

Ozark Gateway

Association of Realtors

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3rd: Governing Docs, 2:00 pm

12th: Membership, 10:00 am

Technology, 2:00 pm

13th: Finance, 10:30 am

MLS, 11:00 am

Strategic Planning, 2:00 pm

August Important Dates

OZARK

GATEWAY

ASSOCIATION

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Inside this issue:

Important Dates

2

Agents on the Move

3

Birthdays

4

Did you know? 5

Blood Drive Statistics

6 7

BOD Minutes 8

2015 Leadership 9

16th: Finance, 10:30 am

MLS, 11:00 am

20th: Awards, 10:00 pm 27th: Board of Directors, 9:30 am

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2015 Platinum Affiliate Member

www.firstam.com

2015 Silver Affiliate Member

www.onelinehsa.com

ELECTION

ALL MEMBER

LUNCHEON

ANNUAL

CROCKPOT

COOKOFF

Sept. 17th

11:30-1:00

Agents

on the

Move

New Members:

Sam Morton-Morton Company Realtors

New MLS –Only Members:

Kyle Penn—Kyle Penn App

Transfers:

Mark Gibson– Richard Duley RE

Andrea Jones—Lord & Jones

Donna Thomas –Real Pro

Drops:

Mark Mills-Keller Williams

Deborah Elbert—DE Appraisal Services

Debra Schuster-Clear Creek Appraisals

New Offices:

Lord & Jones

New Office MLS only:

Kyle Penn Appraiser

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Joplin Carthage 417-623-1910 417-358-1975

Joplin’s only locally owned independent title company

ELECTION

SEPTEMBER 17TH

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AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

1st: Gary Greene

Glyndora Oeltjen

2nd: Maria Sanchez

4th: Dave Morton

5th: Bill Thogmartin

6th: Gil Stevens

7th: Connie Bell

Gary McVay

8th: Bonnie Wright

Danny Frazier

9th: Heather Davis

10th: Melissa Annis

Mary Beth Williams

11th: Don Goetz

Chris Schooley

Brad Totman

13th: Myra Carlisle-Frazier

14th: Yvonne Raczkowski

15th: Danny Ross

16th: Janice Dunn

17th: Judy Phillips

Michelle Clemons

18th: Pat Day

19th: Jack Walling

Ketsy Atteberry

21st: Allyn Burt

Daryl Rhodes

22nd: Tami Adams

Karen Nagurne

Rita Glenn

Rachel Moffett

23rd: Lori Layne

24th: Carol Ferguson

Stephanie Willis

Edward Dugan

26th: Mark Adams

Melissa Meister

Jimmy Crane

27th: Gene Keys

28th: Taunya Lesley

29th: Karen Schwartz

30th: Judy Altman

Bill Boyd

Patty Kassab

31st: Janet Myers

Jessica Dearnley

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

1st: Gay Lynne Dawson

Cathy Forson

Gail Bottom

2nd: Kathleen Martz

Wayne Calvert

Jim Hunter

3rd: Jo Kleinsorge

John Britt

4th: Marla England

Lori Salchow

5th: Brian Philliber

6th: Bruce Anderson

8th: Rick Chaplin

Nick Gratton

9th: Spencer Aggus

Jill Hosp

10th: John Hyman

Charles Kitchen

L. Dee Murdock

Walt Wicklund

11th: Kirk Friesen

14th: Heidi Howe-Williams

Julie Wendt

Brent Powers

16th: Bryan Smith

Kyle Allen

17th: Andrea Schemet

18th: Deborah French

Loretta Bailey

Ryan Thompson

Louise Cupp

19th: Kenny Rowe

Angela Vogel

Elizabeth Pyrtle

20th: Ryan Evitts

21st: Fred Landreth

Jenny Hocker

Lex Cook

Candy Hubert

Matt Joyce

22nd: Mark Wolfe

Ramona Lannon

23rd: William Neubert

24th: Amanda Dunkle

Amber Grantham

26th: Carmella Kassner

27th: Melanie Epperson

Janet Aguinaga

Katherine Hoyer

30th: Michael Matney

Diana Smith

Linda Richmond

Lisa Fletcher

Jonathan Lundy

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Did you know?...

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MLS STATISTICS

JUNE RESIDENTIAL SALES TRENDS Figures are taken from a comprehensive report compiled monthly

By the MLS Service of the Ozark Gateway Association of REALTORS®, Inc.

Number of Units SOLD Number of Units Financed

Total Number of Active Listings– 1,684

1-30 Days: 23 31-60 Days: 69 61-90 Days: 62 91-120 Days: 33 120+ days: 102 Total Units Sold: 289 Avg. DOM: 120 Avg. Sold Price: $128,152 Median Sold Price: $113,500

Absorption Rate– 8.28 months

Year Total 1-2 Bed

3 Bed

4+ Bed

Conv. FHA VA Cash Own Lease Purch

RD Other

2011 2714 499 1565 650 860 423 74 1070 26 5 197 49

2012 2238 401 1313 524 709 242 87 757 21 4 377 39

2013 2312 410 1363 539 777 173 78 765 17 3 464 36

2014 2416 460 1389 567 996 197 108 698 23 1 343 50

June

2014 212 39 123 47 93 22 9 55 0 0 24 6

June 2015

289 40 177 72 114 51 14 76 2 12 19 0

Agent Type Count Designated REALTOR 59 Designated Appraiser 29 REALTOR® 309 Associate Appraiser 7 Salesperson 52 Waiver 2 Designated Affiliate 45 Associate Affiliate 54 Total Board/ MLS: 456 (minus affiliates) Total Board w/Affiliates: 554

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Page 8 Ozark Gateway Association of REALTORS® Directors Minutes

9:30 am Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 Present: Dave McGarrah, Spencer Aggus, Seth Dermott, John Yaple, Ron Franklin, Chris Nickle, Jennifer Reaves, Judy Lowe, Brandi Haddock, Danny Ross, and Carol Ferguson. Staff Present: Kim Cox Roll call was taken by sign in. Meeting was called to order by Dave McGarrah, President. Motion was made to approve the minutes from the June BOD meeting. Motion was made to approve Agenda as emailed.

John Yaple, Officer/Treasurer

Received financials for June 2015 as emailed. Motion made and approved to accept financials for June 2015. Motion made to approve spending up to $600 for an upgrade to OGAR’s website, to be mobile responsive. Motion made to approve a $250 donation to Art Feeds Children’s Program and be a recognized sponsor. Discussed auction properties; Motion made to approve a way to “highlight” auction listings within the MLS for agents to see. Motion made to add this verbiage to the MLS Rules and Regs: “If a listing is subject to online auction sites you must select “Yes”, for auction in the MLS”.

Brandi Haddock, Director/MLS Chair. No meeting this month.

Dave McGarrah, President’s Report

Applauded the time spent by the Auction Task Force for their efforts in making this process more fluid within our MLS. Kim Cox, AE’s Report

In receipt of MREC complaint confirmation for non-Missouri licensee with Joplin listing. VOW’s; Kim has second conference call with NAR attorney Ralph Holman on August 4th, and Joe Denkler of MREC.

Spencer Aggus, President-Elect’s Report

Strategic Planning – No meeting this month. Finished for the year. Program & Events –No meeting this month. Governing Documents – Reviewed minutes. All recommendations/motions as listed below were approved and seconded:

a. Recommendation to add this to the Association Executive Duties in Policy Manual. b. Recommendation made to ask Flex to separate the “Withdrawn(s)” into “Withdrawn w/Conditions” and “Withdrawn w/o Conditions” and leave “Cancelled”, also asking them to leave them there indefinitely; removing the 3 year rule of being purged from the system; change any rules in MLS Rules & Regs or Policy re-garding this change of time frame. c. Policy addition: Recommendation to add verbiage from NAR: “LFRO is for REALTORs that have separate referral companies on the side to send in a list of names of their licensees once a year; NAR uses this to monitor that these agents are not acting as REALTORS but just as licensed agents doing referrals; these agents should NOT show up in NAR’s member database as active. d. Sold Signs recommendation to update verbiage to: “sold…shall mean that the title to the real estate has been transferred or that the real estate has come subject to a bona fide sale contract or purchase agreement”. A “note” will be added to this section: As to the question of when a sold sign may be used, the time frame will begin when that arms-length sale contract exists. It does NOT say that the licensee can post the sold sign regardless of what the seller says – common courtesy (and probably fiduciary/statutory duties) would say that a seller can direct when the sold sign gets posted and a licensee should get the consensus of the seller that a sold sign should/can be posted. While it’s not required by anything in MREC Statute or other parts of the license law, it would always be better to have something in writing rather than not. e. Recommendation to update Policy and Bylaws to ask that membership applicants apply in person; at least one photo taken for the listing MUST be taken by the Listing Agent or another licensed agent in that office; all square footages on the agent’s listings MUST be measured by the Listing Agent or another licensed agent in that office. f. Recommendation to change verbiage from “Seller’s Concession” to “Buyer’s closing costs paid by seller” in MLS Rules and Regs. g. Recommendation to delete the entire section about Sold Books, in MLS Rules and Regs, as we no longer have them as an option. h. Recommendation to remove the line “if allowable, to purchase comparable statistical information books quarterly at a cost determined by the BOD” out of the Bylaws as this is no longer an option. i. Recommendation to change Bylaws Section 3: Dues for new members shall be computed from the first day of the month in which a member is notified of elec-tion and shall be prorated for the remainder of the year. j. Recommendation to change Bylaws Section 4: Change the word membership to member services; as they are different things. k. Recommendation to change that the President appoints an election committee of three AFFILIATE Realtors members to conduct the election. l. Recommendation to remove MREF from Bylaws; as this committee no longer exists at MR. m. Recommendation to add verbiage change as written: “The Board of Directors Association shall cause MLS established by it pursuant to this Article to conform its corporate charter, constitution, bylaws, rules, regulations, policies, practices and procedures at all times to the Constitution, Bylaws, Rules and Regs and Policies of the National Association of REALTORS” in Bylaws. n. Recommendation to approve any MLS Rules and Regs data be moved from Bylaws to MLS Rules & Regs to eliminate duplication in all of OGAR’s governing docs. o. Recommendation that the word Association be changed to “Association(s) throughout Bylaws to cover both the singular form and plural forms of the word. p. Recommendation is to change the verbiage on the Key Lease Agreement to: In the event this agreement shall be faithfully kept, the Key Card/Electronic Lock Box deposit shall be refunded to the Broker for any outstanding balances owed. All lockboxes registered to the agent MUST be returned to the MLS within 15 days. q. Recommendation to change “Sentrilock” or “Electronic” verbiages to “Association-Owned” keyboxes in all governing docs.

Auction Task Force – Committee met yesterday. Two motions brought forward for approval: Discussed auction listings; Motion made to approve a way to “highlight” auction listings within the MLS for agents to see. Motion made to add this verbiage to the MLS Rules and Regs: “If a listing is subject to online auction sites you must select “Yes”, for auction in the MLS”.

Membership & Community Services – See attached minutes. A motion was made and seconded to approve the conditional memberships as listed below. New Agents: Jerry Winchester – Three Rivers (MLS Only) Sam Morton – Morton and Company Julie Zerkel – Zerkel Appraisal Kyle Penn – Kyle Penn, Appraiser New Offices: Zerkel Appraisal Kyle Penn, Appraiser

Seth Dermott, Vice President’s Report Awards – No meeting this month. RPAC – No meeting this month. RPAC stats came out though and OGAR met 3 out of the 4 goals. Technology & Teaching – No meeting this month; however, they did hold an RPR class, taught by Forrest Stodghill. Nominating – No meeting this month.

Recurring Business: Accounts past due presented.

New Business:

More discussion was had regarding the sale of sold books to affiliates as a request from several affiliates; After further review, the ruling stays the same: No longer will OGAR make available any sold data for affiliates, you MUST be a Realtor or an Appraiser to obtain sold data from within the MLS; books are no longer an option to anyone.

Carthage Board of Realtors contributed funds to OGAR after their dissolving, the funds are to be spent on education only. All the above motions passed with majority vote. Meeting adjourned.

2015 Leadership

Dave McGarrah– President Spencer Aggus—President Elect

Seth Dermott– Vice President John Yaple—Treasurer

Brandi Haddock– MLS chair

Jennifer Reaves– 1 Year Director Chris Nickle—2 Year Director Ron Franklin—3 Year Director Judy Lowe – 1 Year Director Danny Ross-1 Year Director

Carol Ferguson– Past President

Staff Kim Cox – Association Executive Officer

Bridget Plunkett – Director of Operations Diane Newman—Membership Services Coordinator

Tanya Reider—Member Service Representative

2015 MAR Directors

Dave McGarrah

Donny Allen

Debbie Barlos

Melissa Annis

Steve Owen

Vicki Christensen

Gary Nelson

MREC Commissioners

Doris Carlin Steve Kenny

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