The TCMC Journal
Market updates, guest-speaker highlights, meeting recaps, and everything happening across the Tri-Cities Marketing Council — for the whole community to follow along.
Garrick Yan's answer to AI is not a longer prompt. It is building the thing once, then reusing it: an online presence auditor, a listing presentation generator, a role play trainer, all sitting in a project waiting for the next client.
Felix Peña of Home Savvy Inspections opened an attic on a two-year-old home and found the roof structure cut. What he told the room about collar ties, warranty clocks, and the line an inspector must never cross.
Our August 6 guest, senior living advisor Christine Sevier, walked the room through the conversation almost every agent eventually has with a client: how to talk a parent into moving, when waiting starts costing real money, and the number that settles the argument.
At the July 30 meeting we walked through the council's new website together, then opened the floor. The full slide deck lives here for anyone who missed it, as live slides and as a PDF you can keep.
This week's guest, Sal Covarrubias, tackled a problem every agent eventually hits — a buyer or seller who's abroad when it's time to sign — and how Remote Online Notarization keeps the deal moving across time zones.
A new home for market notes, guest-speaker highlights, meeting recaps, and everything happening across the Tri-Cities Marketing Council.
Inventory, days on market, and the mood in the room. A look at the signals our members track across Fremont, Newark, and Union City — and how this space will carry the numbers each month.
Lenders, inspectors, title reps, and local experts regularly join us to share what they're seeing. Here's how our guest-speaker segment works — and why it's worth arriving early for.
New to the council, or thinking about visiting? Here's how a typical Thursday runs, from the 9 AM meeting to the Super Tour across all three cities.