QCD™ Certification Explained

10 Reasons Realtors Need to Get Certified with QCD™

15 million+ single family rentals could use this program. About 300,000 are corporate REIT owned; the rest are held by people who self-manage & own 10 properties each, on average. They’ll want to help ‘good’ tenants when they see the rental income valuation levels for their properties using QCDs™.

  • 1. NEW PROFIT CENTER: Your fee helping Landlords can be in the $3k - $5k range. Assist buyer & seller with valuation, title bring-down & legal issues, property issues, and preside over execution & recording. It’s so easy to do.

  • 2. YEAR-ROUND REVENUE SOURCE: Get Buyers & Sellers started any time of year - without mortgage qualification or closing deadlines. Ideal for revisiting buyer prospects who didn’t qualify for an initial mortgage.

  • 3. FAST TRAINING & CERTIFICATION: Web-based Training (with sample scripts) gets Realtors Certified quickly! INCLUDED: short Modules for Buyers, Landlords/Sellers, & RTOs to explain QCDs™ from their perspective.

  • 4. QCDs™ - GREAT FOR NEW REALTORS with NO client base; simple paperwork, fast closing, and a very inexpensive buyers’ training module to offer will offset a tough market & help millions of first-time buyers now.

  • 5. BUYERS WILL ASK – ARE YOU CERTIFIED TO HANDLE QCDs™? ALL Realtors will want to be ready! Your Certificate on the wall & QCD™ CERTIFIED on your business cards will trigger a “What’s that?” conversation.

  • 6. ‘FARM’ LANDLORDS and THOSE WITH A RENT-TO-OWN for negotiation and upgrading to a Qualified Contract for Deed™. This offers Brokers and Realtors alike a whole new business development approach.

  • 7. TENANTS ARE LESS PRICE CONSCIOUS NOW: They’ll focus on affordability of monthly housing cost for their lifestyle and can comfortably stay within the proper housing percentage of their income when they buy.

  • 8. BUILD ‘CLIENTS FOR LIFE’: Help a buyer purchase their first home! You will be their chosen real estate professional when they are ready to sell, move up or relocate. All those new clients mean referrals for life, too!

  • 9. UTILIZE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE DOLLARS: These programs should apply equally to contract ownership. Consider allowing the buyer to use some of this money for repairs and upgrades to the property, and then adjust the contract value and price to the seller by the increase in value.

  • 10. CREATE POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE: Ownership pride (the ‘American Dream’), wealth building through appreciation and amortization, crime reduction and many other benefits come from a rise in homeownership rates.

QCDs™ are Not QuitClaim Deeds

QCDs™ are a new take on classic two-party Contracts (with legal oversight) used for 700+ years in the US and UK, with modern protections for both buyer & seller.

* DO NOT CONFUSE the obscure ‘quitclaim deed’ process still shown in real estate law with a Qualified Contract for Deed™/QCD™.  It’s almost never used by Realtors because it is fraught with risks to the ‘grantee.’ The owner or ‘grantor’ is often one family member conveying it to another, perhaps with no money involved & when no clear title can be guaranteed.