Embezzling or theft by a manager or employer is a topic most owners never consider. But many owners are losing money right now and don’t know it. It can happen in the best of buildings and in the best of management situations. If a manager wants to take money it can be done. In my […]
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DRE and DFPI Alert on MLO Licensees
The Cost of Some Choices The DRE sent us an alert last week about a serious problem with some MLO Licensees. It seems that they made arrangements with an Education Company to give them completion certificates without doing any work, any tests, anything. An investigation has been brewing for a long time and the two […]
WORDS FROM THE PAST
It has been a sincere pleasure and especially gratifying when students from the past, past, past have come up and told me that they had used some of my advice over the years. A couple of quotes from them: To be successful in a small business, keep your overhead low and your ego low. Being […]
DRE COMPLIANCE GOALS – FOR BROKERS
By Summer Goralik: Former DRE Investigator, Lecturer, Author; Real Estate Compliance Consultant; Ethics Student Fundamentals of Broker Supervision In an effort to stay true to my own goals this year, I am writing a follow-up piece to my recent post on “DRE Compliance Goals”. That post, which you can read by clicking here, https://www.expertdrecompliance.com/blog/dre-compliance-goals […]