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Ask These 5 Questions When Choosing a RESPA Real Estate Attorney

“What the heck is RESPA?”

Many attorneys try to handle real estate matters in addition to their regular practice. Very few lawyers are aware of the complexities of the Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA) enforced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD.)

RESPA statutes are consumer protection laws that impact virtually all single family to four family homes. RESPA compliance issues and the remedies available to borrowers who have been victimized by unscrupulous mortgage lenders, title companies and other real estate settlement providers are a real challenge. Even for full-time real estate attorneys, RESPA is a very complex statute. You must be careful and ask questions of the attorney you choose in order to make sure you get the proper legal protection that the RESPA statute i is designed to accomplish. Consumers and Businesses alike are protected when RESPA is in compliance.

Question #1

“What RESPA experience do you have?”

No doubt about it. Start with the big one. Real estate laws and regulations are complicated enough without adding RESPA to the equation. Have they prepared marketing agreements that comply? Have they attended RESPA specific training courses and seminars? Have they kept abreast of the most recent HUD guidelines and court cases nationally regarding RESPA? How many RESPA cases and clients have they handled? What types of RESPA cases did they handle? Were the issues similar to yours? What were their results? Don’t be shy!

Question # 2

“What type of reputation does the attorney have?”

This is a tough one to figure out – so do your homework! Is the attorney primarily a transaction attorney or a litigator skilled in courtroom procedures if necessary? Your attorney must have the communication skills necessary to work with the other attorney as well as you. The other attorney, if more knowledgeable on RESPA can run over you and your lawyer. Remember that many cases are won or lost on the attorney’s knowledge and high ethical standards. Check the local Bar association for background. Get references and check them out thoroughly.

Question # 3

“What type of resources does the attorney have?”

No attorney can do everything well. Make sure that your attorney has the resources available to work your case efficiently. Does the attorney have a well established network of experts and fellow attorneys who can network with to add value and expertise to your problem? Some attorneys try to do it all and act as a one man band. Your attorney’s ego should not be larger than your case. A good attorney quickly involves others with higher degrees of expertise in areas where it is needed to represent you properly. The experts they use are a reflection of your new attorney.

Question # 4

“What about communications and follow up?”

The hallmark of a good attorney is the degree of communication he has with his clients. If you have to ask “What’s going on with my case?” then you have a problem. You don’t want to have these types of issues after choosing an attorney. Be blunt and ask how often you will be contacted and updated. How will you be contacted? Will the attorney just send you a form letter or use personal communication and contact? How do you prefer to be contacted? E-mail, phone calls, letters? Ask for it. “Are you too busy to handle me? Are you going to push me to a lower level staffer or junior attorney?” Clear communication and updates can ensure success and results.

Question # 5

“How do they charge?”

Some attorneys charge a flat fee, some charge a contingency based upon results and some charge hourly rates. The type of problem or case generally dictates the type of charge. There is an old saying, “Speed, Efficiency and Price – pick TWO!” The cheapest attorney may not be the best and the most expensive attorney may not be the best either! Make sure that you are not penny wise and dollar foolish. You are choosing an attorney for results. Make sure that your attorney has the financial incentive to work your case efficiently and successfully.

Home Based Business Leads = Critical Steps on How to Generate Them

You need to have a consistent stream of home based business leads, if your going to build a home business on the internet. If not, you will struggle. Fact is, if you don’t have a constant flow whether off or online your business will die. It is important to have quality leads coming in, this means you have people who are interested in your business to talk to about becoming a distributor or a customer daily. I am totally against buying leads, reason being, leads bought from a lead company are not qualified and you will just be wasting time and hard earn money trying to sort though all the tire kickers to get even one that is qualified to become a distributor for your home based business.The best way to go about getting home based business leads is to generate them yourself, and most techniques and strategies out there today are completely free. Paid strategies will get you faster results, this is the direction you want to go if you have the budget and not much time to do free lead generation strategies, which can be very time consuming but well worth it.In order for you to generate home based business leads, you must have the right tools in place to do so, a system with a capture page and opt-in form to collect the visitors to your website contact information, offering them some kind of free valuable information in return for their contact info. Free training, free report anything they would gladly make the exchange for.An auto-responder with a series of follow up messages sending out valuable information to them daily or occasionally so you can keep in contact and build a relationship and trust with them. Having your own database of targeted prospects for your home business is one of the most critical elements, you can grow your list to an unlimited amount of targeted home based business leads. You do this through using various marketing strategies to drive traffic to your capture page with your unique offer.Once a lead has opt in to your form on your capture page, they are placed inside a streamlined sales funnel where your system sorts out the tire kickers from the serious business builders, so you only have to deal with people who are ready to learn and know what it takes to build a thriving home based business.You can generate thousands of home based business leads because the internet provides just that leverage, which may take you years to learn how to do, but I know what these guru’s are doing to get these results. I have a complete attraction marketing system fully loaded with all the step by step training and easy to follow blueprint waiting for you to gain access, so you can stop struggling to generate leads and build a successful business online.

How To Start A Home-Based Business – 4 Tips For Achieving Success

Do you want to start a home-based business but have no idea where to start and how to achieve success? If you said yes, then you are in luck, because you are about to learn four awesome tips that will ensure you have the right tools in your corner so you won’t struggle as badly as going at it alone. Now don’t get me wrong, starting a home-based business will be a lot of work, it will at times feel as if there is no chance of success, and you will feel like you’ve made a mistake in pursuing this dream, but if you have the right tools in your corner, you can achieve success for sure.

With that said, be prepared to work hard for very little income at first. Be prepared to work hard without any signs of success or anything coming your way that indicates it is coming; this is just how starting a business goes. But if you can stand tough and work through all of these initial struggles, you will be well on your way to achieving big success with your home-based business and you will eventually be earning more than a full-time income (if that’s a goal of yours of course).

So let’s stop wasting time and get into the four tips that will help you avoid many mistakes and have you earning more money in less time with your home-based business:

Tip #1 – You have to have your own products to sell

If you want to make the most money possible, you have to sell things with the biggest profit margins. If you want to sell something that takes up zero space in your home, is 100% free to ship to your customers, and required no printing, production, or extra time out of your day, create digital information products.

Tip #2 – Learn how to leverage your time with automation

If you want to build big money without having to do any extra work, you have to automate as many steps of your business as possible. Use autoresponders, product delivery systems, and other methods of automation to leave you as “hands-free” as possible.

Tip #3 – Start building a list of subscribers from day one

If you want to build a list of people who are buyers or want to purchase products from you in the future, then you have to build a list. You can do this with an autoresponder service, which allows you to add subscribers who show up to your website, and allows you to send emails to them automatically to sell them products and provide them with valuable information about your business. This is an essential tool for running a successful home-based business.

Tip #4 – Start writing out “to-do” lists for maximum productivity

If you own a business, you have a ton of things to do, in order to ensure you take care of everything that needs to be done and also get the small stuff done, be sure to write out a “to-do” list at the end of every day. By writing out this list at night for the next day, you can ensure that your mind clears while you sleep without the risk of forgetting about any important details. When you wake up in the morning, start with the ugliest looking task, this way you will get rid of the boring tasks and the rest of the day will go that much smoother. This is also essential if you hope to keep productivity high and build your business as fast as possible.

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