Congratulations to Marilyn Shotts, a broker with RE/MAX equity group’s Salem Business Center office in Salem, on being named the 2009 Oregon CRS (Certified Residential Specialist) of the Year.

This award recognizes a CRS member who has provided outstanding service to the chapter and the real estate industry. Marilyn has served as the 2006-2009 Oregon CRS Capitol District District Vice President and as the President of Women’s Business Referral Club. Marilyn also holds the CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert) designation.

Congratulations Marilyn for your outstanding contributions! For more information about Marilyn and her services, visit www.marilynshotts.com .

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Realtors in the city of Canby have put together a city-wide open house on Sunday, October 4 from 1-4 pm. With interest rates hovering around 5% and the first-time home buyer’s credit about to expire, there has never been a better time to buy a home. Future home buyers will be able to view tens of open houses for sale in every price range in and around the Canby area.

The tours are self-guided and can begin at any home. For a list of RE/MAX equity group participating listings, click here. For a driving tour of the RE/MAX equity group participating listings, including turn-by-turn directions, click here.

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With the launch today of RE/MAX equity group’s mobile website, www.equitygroup.com, local real estate search is now available to any consumer with a web-enabled mobile device.

The mobile version of RE/MAX equity group’s website is built specifically for cell phone and other mobile browsers. The mobile web site allows consumers to search all real estate listings from the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feeds of the Realtor Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) and the Willamette Valley Multiple Listing Service (WVMLS), in addition to RE/MAX equity group’s Realtors and open houses.

Consumers can view listing details as well as photos directly from their web-enabled cell phone, making it easy to find listings when driving through a neighborhood or find open houses in an area they are searching.

“Consumers are more and more using their cell phones as pocket computers,” says RE/MAX equity group President Jim Homolka. “They expect to be able to access the same information on their web-enabled cell phones as they can on their desktops. Now, they can look up details on a home they are driving by. And it’s simple to use. If you can look up sports scores, you can look at houses now too.”

Because the site is not an application, it is not limited to specific devices nor does it require any downloads. If consumers have access to the web using their mobile device, they can use this site to get the information they need, when they need it.

For consumers without web access on their cell phones, RE/MAX equity group offers the Mobile Audio Home Finder program. Mobile Audio Home Finder enables consumers to call a single phone number from their mobile phones and hear listing details on any property in the IDX feeds of RMLS or WVMLS. In Portland, the Mobile Audio Home Finder number is 503-270-4666 (HOME). In Vancouver, it is 360-258-2355 (CELL), and in Salem it is 503-371-5200. Details are available in both English and Spanish and can be sent to the consumers’ phones as a text message.

“Technology is changing the way consumers want to access and receive information and we are committed to meeting the needs of today’s consumers to have real estate information available on the go in whatever format fits their lifestyles,” said Homolka.

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