June - December 2008

  1. All interested Realtors must submit an official enrollment form via email, fax or mail to earn an opportunity for a Cover property advertisement. Only one submission will be accepted for the six-month period. Duplicates will be discarded. 

  2. All submissions will be verified before the lottery takes place.

  3. At a designated time, enrollment tickets will be drawn at random.

  4. A single drawing will be held for the balance of 2008 for 13 Front cover selections.

  5. The selected enrollee’s information and sequence of each drawing will be recorded and posted online.

  6. Reservations will be on a first drawn/first assigned basis. Once a ticket/name is drawn, and the selected REALTOR® is assigned an issue date, and will be contacted to reserve his/her position. The REALTOR® will then be asked to sign a Cover Reservation Agreement and submit a non-refundable $50 deposit. The $500 balance payment will not be charged until the ad is actually printed.

  7. In the chance that all issues are not initially filled, enrollees will be given a second chance to reserve another issue. The order will remain the same with first enrollee drawn getting the first assignment in the next round of reservations. Each advertiser can reserve up to two front cover positions over the course of a calendar year only if space is available.

  8. After all 13 front cover positions for the balance of 2008 have been filled, the drawing will continue for the order of the waiting list for the balance of the enrollees. The next enrollee drawn will be the first on the waiting list as an alternate. This method of drawing will continue until all enrollees are assigned a position.

  9. The front cover must be used to feature an active real property listing in State-Wide MLS. No other types of advertisements can be featured on the front cover. The front cover must also include a brief description of the property and contact information of the listing broker and listing licensee.

    A. There will additional space within the publication (pg. 4) for more information and photos.

    B. SELECTION REFUSAL: In the event that a selected REALTOR® chooses not to accept the position, the REALTOR® will be placed at the back of the list, behind the group of alternates. To fill a vacancy left by the winner who doesn’t have a property for the cover, the first next alternate will be contacted for the vacant cover position. If the first next alternate doesn’t have a listing suitable for the cover the next alternate on the list will be contacted. 

    C. RESERVATION CANCELATION POLICY: Although the $50 deposit is non-refundable, those who have submitted a Cover Reservation Agreement & deposit may later transfer their reservation, upon request, to their Broker or another REALTOR® in the same office.

 

     
  Overview
  About the Cover
  How to Reserve a Cover Listing
  Cover Property Design Templates
  Cover Property Lottery Enrollment
  Cover Property Lottery Selections
  Cover Property Lottery Guidelines
     
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