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Tandy on Real Estate
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Cybersecurity: NAR Email Best Practices
As promised, I will be outlining the National Association of REALTORS® Best Practices from their NAR Data Security and Privacy Toolkit. The National Association of REALTORS Legal Affairs Department outline the following Best Practices on Email.
Cybersecurity: Creating strong passwords
Last week I covered two cybersecurity topics Protecting your business and Protecting your cell phone. Today, I wanted to give you a quick tip on how to create strong passwords to help protect your accounts. Strong passwords help to prevent unauthorized users from using your computer, systems and applications.
Cybersecurity: Protecting your cell phone
Where would we be without our smart phones today? You can basically conduct your business via your cell phone. It is amazingly convenient, easy to access and backup, and a powerful efficiency tool. But, it is also not without its security issues.
Cybersecurity: Protecting your business
REALTORS beware – you are the perfect target for cybercrime
Cybersecurity: Protecting your children online
As a technologist, I am fascinated by bringing our businesses online to create efficiencies and with this, our obligation to provide cybersecurity. In my first blog post on cyber security, I talked about cyber breaches. In my second blog post today on cybersecurity, I would like to talk about our jobs as parents to protect our children in a changing social world. In future posts, I will be covering how you can protect both yourself and your business.
The state of Texas’ South Region
Texas is almost like a country in itself with 12 economic regions including: High Plains, West, Northwest, Metroplex, Upper East, Capital, Central, Southeast, Upper Rio Grande, Alamo, Gulf Coast and South.
Today I would like to take a look at what we Texans call “the Valley”, to look at our economy and job growth.
Follow up on CFPB enforcement action
As I noted last week, there are significant ramifications to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) recent enforcement action and fine against a lender, a mortgage servicer and two real estate brokerages. Foley and Lardner LLP published an analysis highlighting key takeaways from the consent order. Their analysis highlights the far-reaching impact of this order, especially for real estate brokers and agents.
CFPB enforcement action hits two real estate brokerages
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action last week against a major mortgage lender, Prospect Mortgage, LLC, for paying illegal kickbacks for mortgage referrals. In addition, two real estate brokers and a mortgage servicer were held responsible for taking the illegal kickbacks.
It’s February – best bargains for homebuyers!
ATTOM Solutions reveals the best bargain months to buy a home.
Slow and steady growth for the Texas economy
I have said before, 2017 is looking very hopeful – reports are predicting a slow and steady growth. We may not increase at a rate that we have in the past, but we are still on the rise. This is confirmed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Austin American Statesman. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released their Regional Economic data for December 2016, and all major metro business cycles indexes increased, except for a small dip for Houston.
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