Members

GreenBizCheck is a global technology-based environmental certification program for any company with an office. Office buildings and associated activities are responsible for nearly 35 per cent of all carbon emissions. Our program helps companies to quickly implement sustainable environmental practices that save money, conserve energy, water, resources and minimise waste.

REIV Member organisations that would like to receive this environmental certification can do so by obtaining an initial 200+ point online assessment with immediate reporting and action plan.

The assessment incorporates the following sections:

• Energy conservation
• Water consumption reduction
• Waste reduction
• Transportation and travel
• Supply chain sustainability
• General environmental issues
• Voluntary Carbon Compensation Program.

Points are awarded for compliance and implementation of each element of the assessment (questions are variously weighted to reflect their relative importance and impact).

Companies are then given guidance as to the necessary steps to be taken to achieve certification.

All REIV Members who wish to proceed simply go to  www.greenbizcheck.com , choose the certification package and key in your discount code REIV09 in order to receive a 10 per cent discount!

Modern Promotions is one of Australia's premier suppliers of Promotional Products and clothing.

Established back in 1981, Modern Promotions has built a reputation for providing creative Promotional Product solutions. The word 'infinite' probably best describes what we can supply (of course budget, timeframe and quantity can influence options). We encourage our clients to provide a brief, where possible, so that we may offer the best and most appropriate options.

Of course we recognise that some clients just want to browse for themselves, so please feel free to visit our conveniently located showroom, just off the Monash Freeway, at 104 Ferntree Gully Road, Oakleigh East. Alternatively you can find a large range of innovative products on our website.

Each month Modern Promotions will offer REIV Members a special promotion. Download the current exclusive REIV Member offer.

Should you have any queries, please feel free to email our office or call 9562 6055 and ask for Spiro or Michael.

We understand your industry.

Working in conjunction with our clients, Sothertons real estate accountants help to propel your business’ profitability forward. A Sothertons real estate accountant has expertise in the property and real estate sector and provides accounting management services as well as traditional accounting reports.

The property and real estate industry accounting differs from traditional methods, which is why our accountants will distinguish between sales and rentals and ensure information is accounted for correctly.

Sothertons real estate accounting services include:

• Cash flow management
• Rent roll evaluation
• Trust and internal audit
• Industry benchmarking and KPI management
• Budgets and forecasts
• Working capital management
• Internal control systems access
• BAS preparation
• Feasibility studies analysis
• Labour costs control
• Recession and survival strategies
• Financial statement analysis
• Franchisers and franchisees accounting

To learn more about our property & real estate accounting services call Sothertons on (03) 9820 6400, email Vick Fak or visit the website for more information

Sothertons Charter Accountants: supporting your industry and a proud sponsor of the REIV.

The REIV has negotiated an arrangement with Officeworks allowing Members to purchase products online at exceptionally low corporate prices – lower even than Officeworks' sale prices.

Please note: in order to receive the benefits, Members must remember to write REIV Member in bold on the top of the application.

Even if you know what your cash flow, projections and profits are, do you know how these stack up to the best in the industry? Are your numbers above or below average? What aspects could be improved to deliver better results to the bottom line?

Real Business First combines a compilation of data provided by subscribing agents about their business – revenue, staffing costs and administration expenses – with a powerful forecasting tool to model potential impacts to changes to profitability. It's practical and user-friendly, and responsive to today's rapidly changing business environment.

For further information, visit the website, email a sales representative or telephone (02) 9322 7451.  

You may also like to view a summary on YouTube .

Become the most recommended agency in your area! RealSatisfied is for real estate agents. It makes listening to your customers and receiving testimonials simple and straightforward.

REIV has negotiated a discount for Members. REIV Members will receive 25 per cent off the already affordable price to access RealSatisfied for the first six months. Access the offer.

What's more, every new account comes with a FREE 30-day trial.

RealSatisfied automates the collection of feedback from anyone who deals with your agency, whether they be vendors, purchasers, landlords or tenants. RealSatisfied comes complete with over 80 detailed, real time reports designed to give you facts and effective insights into how your business and staff are perceived by the people who matter most, your customers! Test drive any of the surveys on the website.

For more information about RealSatisfied download the flyer or visit www.realsatisfied.com.au

Finally an easy and cost effective way to capture client testimonials and put them to work for you. We take all the hard work out of getting testimonials from your happy clients and put them to work in your business to create more sales.

Now your prospects can simply click on a link and hear or read vendors’ experience in dealing with you. These powerful testimonials from real people in their words will be recommending you and your business 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Access your free eBook 42 Ways to Increase Sales through Customer Testimonials at www.mycustomertestimonials.com.au/freestuff

REIV Members receive a 20% discount on the Deluxe & Premium products.

Simply visit www.mycustomertestimonials.com.au/products to order and enter the Promotion Code REIV20 when requested to receive your special discount.

For all other enquiries enquiry, please call Mark Bloodworth on 0407 852 555.

Do you ever wish you could have a quick conversation with a lawyer to answer a question?

TressCox Lawyers provides REIV members with a 15 minute free initial telephone consultation.
 
If your inquiry requires ongoing advice, we can discuss this with you including the likely costs before you decide to proceed. 
 
TressCox has extensive experience in all areas of law REIV members may need.
 
For Building & Construction, Owners Corporation, Property disputes, call Andrew Whitelaw, Partner, on 03 9602 9702.

For Insurance and Negligence related disputes call Jason Newman, Partner, on 03 9602 9701.

Please mention the TressCox-REIV hotline.

Document Storage & Scanning

Records Management is essential to every business, but it can be a daunting and complicated task. It’s also an ongoing process that needs to be managed efficiently. That’s why at Fort Knox Records Management our philosophy is Store Protect Manage.

Fort Knox Records Management provides customised scanning and imaging services to transfer your physical paper documents, contracts and files to electronic records — ensuring that you can significantly minimise the amount of time and resources spent organising, searching and managing vital information.
Fort Knox Records Management scanning and imaging services include:

• Conversion of documents, contracts, plans and drawings to digital images.
• Transfer of images to accessible media like CD-ROM, DVD, USB or external hard drives.
• Indexing and storage of digital images on hosted servers for secure online access.
• Scan-on-Demand — electronic delivery of paper documents and contracts on an as needed basis, which can be especially useful for access to files stored at a distance.

Offer

Receive free storage and destruction with Fort Knox Records Management. Any REIV member that becomes a Fort Knox customer for Scanning & Storage – will have storage and destruction fees waived – for the documents/boxes we scan. Any boxes stored which are not scanned will have normal charges applied
 
As an example: If an REIV member has 200 boxes for storage and 100 of these boxes have documents or contracts to be scanned - Fort Knox will waive the monthly storage charge for up to 7 years on these 100 boxes.
 
When it comes time for these cartons to be destroyed – Fort Knox will waive destruction fee charges for these cartons.

To find out more about Fort Knox helping your business – contact Scott McKibbin at:

Direct: 03 9360 1508
Mobile: 0414 095 095
Email: scottmckibbin@fortknoxrecords.com.au
WEB: www.fortknoxrecords.com

Do you want to save thousands and reduce your tax liability significantly each year? Let us prepare a depreciation schedule on your investment property. You may even know somebody who owns an investment property or want to offer a point of difference to your current and future landlords. It is extremely beneficial for all Property Investors to have a Tax Depreciation Schedule carried out on each of their Investment properties as this reduces their tax liability and claim back money that would otherwise go to the taxman.

Our services to our clients include:

• Our commitment to you to provide a Tax Depreciation Schedule at a reasonable price and still retain the highest standards of reporting. 
• Our schedules are completely ATO compliant 
• Our schedules analyse the full depreciable life of the property – up to 40Years.
• Our schedules analyse all pre and post purchase renovations / extensions and furniture packages at no additional cost 
• Property Returns is one of the largest independent tax depreciation firms in  Australia

Our cost is normally $495.00 however our benefit to REIV members is a 10% discount for each Tax Depreciation Schedule. For further information please feel free to contact our office at any time or visit us on our website.
Phone: 03 9781 1113
Email: vic1@propertyreturns.com.au
Web: www.propertyreturns.com.au

Our goal is to identify all legitimate deductions that can be claimed on your investment property.
Reduce your tax liability legally with a tax depreciation schedule from Property Returns.

Is it the radio, playing everything from hard rock to your competitors' ads? Is it chimes? Or is it silence, leaving callers wondering if they're still connected?

With telephone on-hold messages from Image On Line, you take control of what your callers listen to on-hold. You can tell them more about your products and services and you present a professional image.

It's likely that your phone system gets more calls a day than hits on your website. So use your phone system to sound professional and communicate with your customers, no matter what the size of your business or organisation.

Telephone on-hold message systems, plus queuing prompts, after hours messages and more. From scripting and voicing to production and installation, Image On Line is your complete telephone voicing provider.

For REIV members we offer our fully inclusive on hold message service for the special low price of $850 plus GST, per annum, with 4 updates per year.

To learn more about Image On Line and the other service we provide, go to our website.

If you use or refer a client to My Move Manager and your client engages My Move Manager, you will receive a $50 Coles Myer Voucher and your client will receive a My Move Manager Moving Hamper.

What a fabulous way for your clients to remember you by – not to mention the advantages to your client if they use My Move Manager.

Some of their services include:

• Looking for a window display that turns heads?
• Looking to move away from boring grid pattern displays using cable mounted systems

Choose a new way with Flexi-View and make your window stand out from the rest.

Flexi-View window display system is designed to give you flexibility to display your posters or fliers any way you want.

Available options:

• Window poles for vertical installation between window sills.
• Mobile stands - to place wherever you wish
• Brochure pockets in A4, A3 or A2 standard sizes. Landscape or portrait view.
• Brochure pockets in any shape you like - maybe you'd like pockets cut in the shape of your logo and printed?
• Edge-lit clip frames

Ideal poster display window for your real estate window.

February 2012 Promotional flyer

Call REIV Member Services on 9205 6666 to arrange for a quote.

One-stop real estate marketing solutions at Ozeprint Online

Ozeprint Online is the smarter way to manage your property marketing campaigns. Our online template system lets you create boards, brochures, drop cards and media in one place, in just minutes.

As real estate specialists, our clients include some of the biggest names in the industry, and now offices of all sizes can benefit from our tailor-made online marketing solutions.

Save time and money: no expensive design fees, no waiting times.
Take control: flexibility to customise your marketing material as needed.
Boost your brand: consistent design protects brand integrity and heightens corporate presence.

Ozeprint Online’s easy-to-use templates have been custom designed to maximise marketing impact for your business while minimising marketing headaches.

Our online process has three easy steps.

1. Drop your text and images into your tailor-made templates.
2. Generate a PDF proof.
3. Approve the final artwork for print.

We provide complete support with full training and a dedicated, in-house technical support team who are always happy to help.

Download a flyer HERE.

Take control of your marketing today. Call us to create your online templates on 9645 1111 or visit our website for more information: www.ozeprint.com.au