If you haven’t heard about the Five Star Default Servicing Conference, you could be missing a vital opportunity to be in front of nearly all the major asset management companies in the country. Many of them will be there to advertise their services to lenders, but there will be booths to hand resumes to servicers face-to-face. Here’s the current list of the sponsors at the conference:

A2Z Field Services
American Airlines
America’s Infomart
AMS Asset management
ASONS Property Preservation Specialists
Asset Valuation & Marketing
Assurant Property Advantage
Atlantic & Pacific Real Estate
Avatar Property Services
Auction.com
Bankers Asset Management
Bank of America – National Builder Division
Blue Book International
Brighton Real Estate Services
Broker Brain, LLC
BuildFax
Buyer’s Title Inc.
Clear Capital
Corcoran Coaching
CSC
Cyprexx
DataQuick Information Systems
DecisionReady
DuAll Services, Inc
Dumas Realty Inc.
Easy REO
Econohomes
eMortgage Logic
Estate Information Services, LLC
Equator
Fannie Mae
FEI
Field Asset Services, Inc
First American Mortgage Services
First Preston HT
Freddie Mac HomeSteps
Hudson & Marshall
Inland Realty Service/Nat Genis Team
John Galli Jr.
JVI
Keystone Asset Management
LAMCO
Laurito & Laurito, LLC
Legal League 100
Loan Protector Insurance Company
LRES CORP.
Marshall & Swift
McCalla Raymer LLC
M & M Mortgage Services, Inc.
M & M Real Estate Management
Matt Martin Real Estate
MFS Supply
Military Warriors Support Foudnation
My OutDesk
My REO Asset Management
Nation Technologies
National Association of Women REO Brokerages
Nationstar Mortgage
Nationwide REO Brokers, Inc.
New Verity Corp
NRBA
NVMS
Omega Title
PEMCO
PMH Financial
Prespro.com
Pro Step Marketing
ProTeck
Property Masters
Real Property Management
Realis Real Estate Software
Realty Pilot
RealtyTrac
REO Allegiance
REO Network
REOMAC
REO Warrior
RES.NET
Residential Credit Solutions
Short Sale Specialist Network
Safeguard Properties
Source Media
Spectrum Field Services
Sperlonga
Standard and Poor’s
Stewart Lender Services
StreetLinks Lender Solutions
TenantAccess
The Home Depot
The National Firm
Vendor Resource Management
VirtualAssistantStaffing
VPS
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors
Women in Default Servicing
Xactware

Not to mention, George W. Bush will be the keynote speaker.

If you’d like to register, the cost is $995 for DSNews subscribers, or $1,095 for non-subscribers.

September 11-13, 2011 || The Hilton Anatole|| 2201 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, Texas 75207

Register here: http://www.thefivestar.com/fsiregistration/

A great start for farming a neighborhood

We’ve all seen the guys that enjoy a 30% (or better) marketshare by consistently involving themselves in community activities, sending out newsletters and more. Farming a community is costly, and capturing marketshare in a saturated neighbiorhood can be a difficult feat. Recipe postcards aren’t as effective as they used to be (did they ever work?) and I haven’t seen a succesful “Just Listed” campaign in a while.

Just having a nice presentation, useful data and the title “neighborhood specialist” may not be enough to become the go-to-agent in your community. However, organizing an event that creates more opportunities to meet the neighbors may be a huge step in accomplishing this goal. The holidays are approaching and many will be cleaning house to get rid of old clothes, toys and other unwanted items. A community garage sale could be just the event to establish yourself.

What does this entail? In a postcard or newsletter, you advertise the event to homeowners in the neighborhood, with the date and time. Let them know that you will be posting a big ad in the newspaper and your website (pitch the site) to generate buyers for their “treasures”. The homeowners don’t have to worry about signage, as you’ll take care of every outlet in the subdivision. (It may be best to put signs out at the beginning of the week to remind the homwowners”. Finally, on the morning of the event, you can walk the neighborhood and see all the participating families. This is not only your chance to meet the people that read what you are putting out there, but introduce yourself as the Realtor who actually provided something of value. This is something I’ve been a part of, and it actually works!