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A custom photo "Marketing Brochure" is developed to promote your home. A First Team Office Caravan Tour of your home. Caravans are critical because up to 46% of our sales are in-house.A color photograph and description will be submitted to First Team's marketing department for possible publication in the First Team Orange County Home Buyers Magazine. First Team runs full page color ads every week in "The Orange County Register" and "Los Angeles Times.which attract a steady stream of buyer calls, up to 6,000 per month." Check out our listings at www.firstteam.com

My Marketing Plan
A full size "For Sale" sign placed in your front yard.
A "Brochure Box" installed on the For Sale sign providing brochures to prospective buyers 24/7.
A "Lock Box" key safe is provided for Realtors to show your home when you are not available. Your listing is published with the "Southern California Multiple Listing Service", (SCMLS) which is accessed by all local Realtor Associations and exposes your home to over 12.000 Realtors and their buyers.

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The New Rules of Real Estate
Realize the old rules no longer apply.
First Team has developed the New Rules of Real Estate - a guide to achieving success in today's tougher market.
Each of the New Rules of Real Estate will make a difference in the successful sale of your home. When used together, they create an unbeatable combination.

The Old Rules
  The NEW Rues of Real Estate
Print only advertising
  Aggressive, intergrated online & print advertising powers our proprietary Buyer Pipline System
1 property photo
  Powerful promotion with 10 or more property photos and video
Standard property inventory search
  Practical tools that capture more buyers via Hot Buys & online foreclosure property search on FirstTeam.com, ForclosureDestination.com
Occupied / vacant home
  Professional staging strategies
No real - time market data
  Market insight via Market Trends, a sophisticated home pricing & statistics technology
Slow or no response from agent
  Rapid response to buyer inquires in under 10 minutes unique instant agent technology from Customer Care Center agents
Faxing buyer offers
  Expert negotiation practices & offers presented face-to-face whenever possible
Easy loan approvals
Expert mortgage advice & the right mortgage to fit your particular needs
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Print Marketing
Balanced & Targeted Publications
First Team executes print advertising efforts that expose your home's listing to the maximum number of potential buyers & drives them online for detailed property information & greater buyer capture ability.
• $4 million advertising campaign
• Drives online traffic
•Over 20 daily, weekly & monthly publications
• Over 2.5 million consumer circulation monthly
• Sunday newspapers reach the highest number of consumers
•Over 59,000 buyer print ad inquires every year handled immediately by licensed real estate professionals
•Print advertising & 800# source tracking delivers targeted results & feeds on proprietary Buyer Pipline

Considering Marketing Your Property,
Should’t You Ask, “Who Invests In YOU?

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Up to 6,000 tracked & captured buyer inquiries every month
Every Sunday O.C. Register full page color ads
Every Saturday O.C. Register full page color ads
Every Sunday L.A. Times full page color ads
Every Saturday L.A. Times full page color ads
So. California's #1 Home Buyers Magazine
Every Suncay, Long Beach Press Telegram, full page color ads
Every Thrusday Grunion Gazette, full page color ads
The Wall Street Journal
Every Saturday Daily Pilot, full page color ads
Every Thurday Coastal Living, full page color ads
#1 real estate firm in O.C. according to all O.C. Boards of REALTORS® for the last decade
Free legal & tax consultation
Distinctive, familiar logo & yard signs delivering thousands of billboard impressions throughout So. California
9,000 million customer impressions every 30 days
Reaching 90% of Orange County consumers
Advertising in 25 national and local publications
FREE Home Courtesy coordinator before, during & after your next move
Award winning interactive web site, www.firstteam.com
Prominently located state-of-the-art offices
Free, fast “Information On Demand” provides reports on neighborhoods, retirement, schools, etc.
24 prominently located state of the art office locations
Member of RELO, the nations largest relocation network
Full time corporate relocation / referral services
Approved broker for GM, Avco & many Fortune 500 companies
1,200 sales associates to serve our you

First Team, A Leading Company!
When You hire a company to sell your home, you should actually be deciding on the best advertising agency. First Team expands its marketing commitment to you by providing the buying public with over 135,000 home Buyer Magazines with your property in it. The end result is top dollar for your property.
We've sold more houses than any other broker in 1990 - 2000 and in 1999 closed more transactions than any other broker. Over 9,000 buyers& sellers served in 2000!
24-7 Combined with our INTERACTIVE WEB SITE, consumers have access to real estate information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In Today’s rapidly changing market, it is critical to analyze trends and market conditions. Corporate management specializes in identifying market opportunities, giving you that competitive edge.
35 First Team locations and growing, strategically covering Southern California
First Team's National Ranking
#1 Independent Real Estate Company in Southern California*
#9 In the United States
First Team represents the most buyers
We sell more homes
Founding member of leading real estate companies of the world  


Jo An Hawley Verstraete

REALTOR / Notary
Office: 714 861-2432 • Home: 714 964-1462 • Cell: 714 342-4509
20100 Brookhurst St. Huntington Beach, CA 92646

joanhawley@firstteam.com

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