September 16th, 2011

Hello and Welcome to the ReiFax.com Webinar Training Archive for September 16th, 2011. Here are some of the questions our subscribers asked in today’s training. Please watch the video to see the answer to all these questions and more:

• Q: Looking for short sales,can we find houses with more than 1 note on house ?
• Q: how can I print owner address for non owner occupied
• Q: How to filter for year built and what is good year to search to exclude many HOA’s
• Q: when i use the OCCUPIED  filter what is REIFAX giving me ie is REIFAX telling me the owner name is same as mail to address or how does it now if its owner occupied
• Q: How do I save my searches?
• Q: How do i generate the mailing list from the search?
• Q: How do I generate a list of owners at one condo building so that I can do a mail out to them?
• Q: With the foreclosed prop search, of what value are the PE, AE, and Debt to Equity Value? Do these values matter when dealing with REO props?
• Q: How do I generate a search for foreclosed properties only in an area with market value up to 250k?
• Q: How do you search for a short sale.
• Q: What is the difference between market value and active value.

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August 26th, 2011

Hello and Welcome to the ReiFax.com Webinar Training Archive for August 26th, 2011. Here are some of the questions our subscribers asked in today’s training. Please watch the video to see the answer to all these questions and more:

• Q: Is there a way to use Reifax to find buyers?
• Q: When we got turned onto your platform the trainer he showed us how to search for REO’s lender list but we have not been able to reporduce that list since we signed on. Could you go over how to?
• Q: Why do some foreclosed properties show up as for sale and others don’t?
• Q: In Basic Search what is the difference between  putting “Foreclosures” in the Data field or “For Sale ” in the data field, and putting “foreclosures” inthe foreclosure field?
• Q: the buyers on reifax do they email address or just there mailing address?
• Q: how do we search for probates over a certain date period. I’m not sure which date range section to use

April 22nd, 2011

Hello and Welcome to the ReiFax.com Webinar Training Archive for April 22nd, 2011. Here are some of the questions our subscribers asked in today’s training. Please watch the video to see the answer to all these questions and more:

• Q: i would like to know how to find closed comps on the MLS that an appraiser would use when a buyer gets a mortgage
• Q: Hi Ramon, How can we do a search to find out if a market in a particular area is going up or down? thanks
• Q: where do i find Mortgage info and foreclosure sale date of the property
• Q: How does Reifax comes out with property Value,.. Sold, Active.. tax record
• Q: Can you go thru how to download info in Excel that is over 1000 entries
• Q: [Advanced Searches] does ReiFax stores the map boundaries when searches based on map areas are saved?
• Q: [Advanced Searches] is MktValue = Reifax Value?
• Q: [Contracts] Please clarify how to use this option, we need to (1) download the contract template. (2) fill out our standard answers, (3) upload the file, (4) have ReiFax Fill in the contract “general” information.
• Q: [advanced Searches] is there a way to use the parameters of a previously saved search to define a new advanced search and save it.
• Q: Is there a way to download an address list of pre-foreclosed properties so we can add it to a mail merge. Preferably as a .CSV file
• Q: If you have time, My follow up question on the CSV file is how to I get a list for a specific date to another date. example 1/1/11 to 3/31/11?
• Q: When you scan a signature, should it be a pdf or a jpeg? How big? The whole sheet or normal size?

February 11th, 2011

Hello and Welcome to the ReiFax.com Webinar Training Archive for February 11th, 2011. Here are some of the questions our subscribers asked in today’s training.Please watch the video to see the answer to all these questions and more:

• Q: do you have prior Friday calls recorded for members?
• Q: Can I search for a listing realtors active listings then apply filters
• Q: Can you look up a single property by address? Tax roll info etc?
• Q: why can’t we get value and comps for non residential properties? Is XIMA mainly for residential properties?
• Q: Did the name change to REIN FAX? Or is it still xima? Why can’t I find the advanced search?
• Q: i cant get comps for vacant land instead i get …NOT LOGGED IN OR NOT ALLOWED TO SEE THE INFORMATION….i get this after log in
• Q: I see DOM displayed in results but can I filter the search for DOM?
• Q: Anyone have a recording of the last training?
• Q: can I filter for property owned by a particular bank or owner?
• Q: Is there any way to see the disparity between list price and sold price of cash sales with dom showing?
• Q: Why are comps days on market (dom) = 0 days?
• Q: What is mkmedia?
• Q: I had walked away and so I am not sure if you went over this question again. This is about creating an E signature to insert into the contract template
• Q: Do I have to purchase the Pro version of the software to create and insert the E signature in the pdf viewers that you have recommended for the contract template?
• Q: When looking at foreclosed properties, sometimes the owners name is a person, and at other times its the name of a bank.  If is shows as a person, does that mean that the bank has not foreclosed yet?
• Q: Can we actually print out the home symbols on a separate sheet to use as a handy guide?
• Q: the old system showed a listing below the properties below the map. can you still get this and not just the little houses.
• Q: I went thru the on line tutorial. I was unable to find the correct areas to get into comparables, a  list of properties in excel and not with the little houses
• Q: other than the contract feature, what else does the Platinum version do for you?

One of the questions during today’s training was to generate a printable copy of the map legend from the system. So you can download the printable copy here.

January 28th, 2011

Hello and Welcome to Xima’s Webinar Training Archive for January 28th, 2011. Here are some of the questions our subscribers asked in today’s training. Please watch the video to see the answer to all these questions and more:

• Q: If a property is in probate how can we find the owners? If we find an abandoned property how do we find the owner?
• Q: when trying to find the owners of abandoned properties or those known to be in probate, it our only source through the clerk of courts, or is there a search we can use on xima?
• Q: Advanced search please explain the D Equity calculation example if I want greater than 70 % ltv do I ask for <70%?
• Q: How to search for reverse mortgage prospects ie target zip codes and or long time on deed and  high % equity
• Q: How to search for jumbo mortgage refi prospects where date of prior mortgage is older than 2 years and has high % of equity?
• Q: Can we search for % debt to equity when searching probate?
• Q: can i search for county tax liens and county tax liens that result in a foreclosure if so those with say no more than 60% debt to equity
• Q: Is there a way to search for properties in Pre-foreclosure that have a specific lender (ex. pre-foreclosure properties with bank of america loans)
• Q: does Xima have access to seller’s phone numbers
• Q: How do I get full access again to all the tabs (ex. listing, pictures, comparables) after I saved a property.  Now, when I save a property, I click on the property and it only shows “Overview – Listing” and it does not allow me to see again the other tabs (ex. comparables, listing, pictures, etc.)
• Q: For a property that is of interest to you. What is the best way to get information on the property and/or the owner that has a lien against the property?
• Q: if I’m doing a free and clear search, what do you suggest we enter in the know debt, i was told greater or equal to 10k is that correct?
• Q: Hi Ramon; can you go over how to pull a list of NOD for certain dates, for example between Oct to Nov 2010?
• Q: could you explain the “foreclosed-SOLD” text that appears next to listings?
• Q: Best REO search technique example in your opinion?
• Q: Can you please review how to save a search and retrieve it again? Thanks
• Q: can you determine if the property has city water or a well?
• Q: What is the best search parameters for an investor that want to find listings in which the listing agent will submit a very low ball offer?
• Q: why do some homes show listing next to details and other don’t?
• Q: Not all foreclosed properties show DOM. How do we DOM on foreclosed properties?
• Q: Can you pls find comps for foreclosed properties, not lived in?
• Q: How often the XIMA comps would be the same number as what a professional appraiser would come up to? In other words what is the confidence percent that the comp number given by Xima is accurate? What factors may have XIMA give us an inaccurate comp value? I am supposed to make offers for 55% of market value. Can I blindly make a offer for 55% of what Xima comps provide or there is still a need of manually analyzing the property?
• Q: Good morning Ramon.. In doing a search where a specified an area using the map feature I find it difficult to zoom in and out and pan when I am specifying the area I want to search. Can you go over this feature. Thanks…
• Q: were can i put in the search to show only non listed property
• Q: Could you explain looking for pre-foreclosures using the % of equity
• Q: Can you explain further the issues with properties with negative debt equity. You mentioned before to be careful with those. Why?
• Q: What is the difference in the color of the house icons on the map? Brown, green, blue
• Q: When a listing agent changes the status from Active to on contract: how long it takes for XIMAUSA to update the listing status?
• Q: Recently I notice that on the comparables and active comparables that there is a new feature which says “F SOLD” what does that mean versus “F”?
• Q: Are you going to be covering any other parts of the country besides Florida?