9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker: Terry Watson
Get ready to blast your customer experience and profits to new heights. It's time to take your business and your projects to the stratosphere with time-tested, fail-proof strategies that will help you stand out from the competition (because let's face it, being ordinary is so last year).
In this presentation, you'll learn how to:
10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
Speaker: Trista Curzydlo
More than half of all Fair Housing Act complaints are filed based on disability; many of these alleging a housing provider failed to provide a reasonable accommodation. This session examines Fair Housing Act protections for individuals with disabilities and how housing providers should navigate a reasonable accommodation request. You'll get guidance on differentiating between service and support animals, determining when an accommodation is necessary and what makes a request unreasonable.
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker: Sean Carpenter
Buckle up and get ready for a firehose of ideas and examples in this session that will share ways to earn more opportunities to turn strangers into friends and friends into customers. Having the proper “Attitude” is where it all starts but after that, you can choose which of these tried and tested ways to capture more business will work for your market and business style.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Speaker: Monica Neubauer
AI is a business tool we'll all be implementing. The future is now. Lean into curiosity. Are we implementing AI in ways that improve our workload, and improve our customer’s experience in the transaction? Use it or not, remember, our humanity is the best quality we bring to a transaction. AI should be used to improve communication, not replace it. Agents need to know when using AI is useful and when it may be creating something wrong, illegal, or unethical. All communication, in every form, is the responsibility of the agent. This session covers the fantastic benefits of using AI while reminding us of the importance of our humanity.
2:15 PM to 3:45 PM
Speaker: Matthew Rathbun
This class is designed for real estate agents who aim to enhance their expertise in securing buyer agency agreements. It offers a deep dive into the strategies, communication skills, and legal considerations necessary for effectively obtaining signed buyer agency agreements. Participants will learn how to build trust and rapport with potential clients, understand and articulate the benefits of a buyer agency agreement, and navigate the legalities and ethics involved in these agreements.
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Speaker: Trista Curzydlo
Real estate litigation has been making headlines lately and those headlines are overwhelming, scary, and sometimes misleading. In this course, Trista examines recent litigation and explains the law behind the lawsuits. The course addresses some frequently asked questions like: “Can I still use floorplans in advertising?” “Can I be held responsible for something a chatbot tells a customer?” “What’s the deal with artificial intelligence?” “What’s antitrust again?” and introduces some new topics that agents need to be paying attention to.
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Ticketed event to be held off-site
Sponsored by:
9:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Keynote Speaker: Jason Roberts
Jason Roberts is an artist, civic activist, and urban designer whose life's work has been dedicated to the creation of healthy, vibrant, and sustainable neighborhoods. In 2006, Jason formed the nonprofit organization, Oak Cliff Transit Authority, to revive the Dallas streetcar system, and later spearheaded the city's effort to garner a $23 million grant from the federal government to help reintroduce a modern streetcar system to Dallas. In 2010, Jason organized a series of Better Block projects, taking blighted blocks with vacant properties in Dallas and converting them into temporary, walkable districts with pop-up businesses, bike lanes, cafe seating, and landscaping. The project has become an open-sourced international movement occurring everywhere from Melbourne, Australia to Tehran, Iran, and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Dwell Magazine. Jason has received a Champions of Change award from the U.S. White House, showcased in the 2012 Venice Biennale, and was listed in Planetizen's Top 100 Most Influential Urbanists.
Jason Roberts | The Better Block
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Speaker: Adorna Carroll
Communicating and demonstrating your value as a buyer agent is essential to getting hired by buyers who are looking to purchase a property. Securing written authorization to represent a buyer’s interest is a comprehensive conversation that is critical to long-term success. This session will help attendees effectively articulate what we can and can’t do by law, what we will and won’t do by office policy, what we must do according to the Code of Ethics and choose to do based on how we do our business.
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Speaker: Kimberly Allard
In this session, we’ll review some important license law reminders, disclosures, behaviors that may be license law violations, and forms that you may not know existed. How are your agents addressing compensation if none is being offered in the MLS? Social media mistakes are happening under your nose, as well as reckless clauses your agents are using that you are responsible for. The session will be wrapped up with field ramifications of the DOJ and the class action lawsuits.
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Speaker: Anne Petit
ETHICS CREDIT
Now serving as a Sales Manager for eXp Realty, former Superintendent of the Ohio Division of Real Estate & Professional Licensing Anne Petit joins us to present this interactive look at the Canon and Code of Ethics, a discussion on what your REALTOR peers believe are ethical issues in the marketplace today, along with a deeper dive into recent Ohio Real Estate Commission cases involving ethical violations. Finally, we’ll think about what we, as licensees, can learn from the ethical code of the American Cowboy. This course satisfies both the Ohio Canon of Ethics and NAR's Code of Ethics requirements.
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Speakers: Lu Chen, CRE Senior Economist and Nick Luettke, CRE Economist
Join Lu Chen and Nick Luettke of Moody’s Analytics for a session designed for Commercial Real Estate professionals. The global markets went through several shocks and surprises in the past year, ranging from strains in the global banking system to cyclical trends in inflation, interest rates and GDP, to ongoing geopolitical conflict. Moody’s analysts will delve into the forecasts for 2025, helping market participants better understand the conditions they can expect in the year ahead.
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Free with Convention Registration
7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
by Invitation Only
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Speaker: Adorna Carroll
In this session, we’ll evaluate the impact of possible outcomes to the MLS/DOJ lawsuits as they relate to field practice. Incorporating the changes to the Code of Ethics and MLS policy, each section of the 4 changes in the MLS/DOJ tentative agreement is evaluated from a license law, Code of Ethics and best to worst case perspective regarding the impact on business done in the field, choices brokers need to consider for their businesses and how they can proactively prepare their agents and their bottom line.
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Speakers: Andrew Huffman and Veronica Cardello
Join Ohio REALTORS Government Affairs Staff as they provide an update on Federal, State, and Local Issues, including an overview of current legislation and a discussion of key real estate policy issues.
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
VIRTUAL ONLY
Speaker: Craig Grant
Apps allow you to truly leverage the power of your mobile devices & the cloud and these days there’s an App for just about everything. In this session, Craig will help you cut through the clutter and show you the best Apps for business, productivity, organization, photos, social media & of course real estate so that you can truly maximize your smartphone &/or tablet experience for Your real estate business.
9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
VIRTUAL ONLY
Speaker: Monica Neubauer
Buyers Agency is more important than ever. Agents need a clear plan for laying out their business model to their clients. Clear expectations lead to better transactions. This program will provide lists and guidance with the LEAP method for Onboarding Clients. This is an easy framework for understanding client motivations, articulating your services, obtaining an agreement, and taking the next steps toward helping that buyer purchase the right home.
9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
VIRTUAL ONLY
Speaker: Craig Grant
AI, Big Data, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, NextGen Homes, iBuyers, and More! The real estate landscape is changing so fast that it can be scary to think about what the industry might look like tomorrow, let alone 10-15 years from now. In this session, technologist Craig Grant will look into his crystal ball and assess some emerging trends that are going to shake up and/or disrupt the real estate industry including 3-D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Big Data and Predictive Analysis, Cryptocurrency, BlockChain, iBuying, the NextGen Home, and more.