Years Ago, As Myths Go, There Was A Group Of About 40 Investors Who Played The Foreclosure Game In Downtown LA They dominated all the Trustee Sales around town: cheating lenders, real estate agents, the trustors in trouble, and others out of money. Example: There Is A Property That Has A True Value Of $200,000 […]
More On Inventory In Today’s Market It is not a big, dark, private secret that the Inventory of Real Estate Listings is very low. This is a constant complaint of Licensees working in home sales. Just not as many sales to split up with the 420K Licensees. One Big Problem That I See Is Student […]
Yes, I Know That Tax Returns Were Due On April 18th. But this post is for those people who got extensions and also for the Corporate people who already had extensions. These scams are throughout the year, and you should be ready again in 2018. Here Is A Recap Of Their “Dirty Dozen Scams” #1- Phishing: […]
Jim Eszlinger taught an outstanding 20-Hour MLO Pre-Licensure Course in San Diego recently. At the end of the course, students must pass an exam to receive Certification ,allowing them to apply to take the famous NMLS MLO Exam. Good news, all of the students passed the Course Exam and can now signup for the Fed […]
When Not to Say “Yes” We all know (or should know by now) that when you get a call with a long pause before you hear a voice, that is an automated robot call. These scam calls are becoming more and more sophisticated. The latest one that I have heard is, “Oh, hi there, I […]
Median prices are splashed all over websites, blogs, texts, and even by some hard copy newspapers. But what do they mean to me. Do I really care what the national median price is or what the median price is in Lake County or even in my own Orange County? What do they mean for the […]
What Happened to the Sanctions/Penalties Section? For many years, the DRE used to send licensees a Quarterly Bulletin concerning important aspects of Real Estate Licensing. For long-time veterans, you know that the first thing that we did when we received our copy in the mail was to check the Sanctions/Penalties, and to see if we […]
(From July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015) #1- The number of Licensees dropped by 2,028 from 412,835 to 410,807 Licensees. #2- However, this number did increase from May of this year to June by a whole 437; it finally might continue upward again. I know present licensees would like the number to drop, but you do […]
Everyone is a movie critic, as I believe I am. Some use thumbs-up, stars, checks, numbers, but I will just say, “Should you watch or not watch a movie”? MCFARLAND; This small farm town just north of Bakersfield made the papers some years ago when a bunch of the students who worked the fields won […]
I strongly recommend that Associates check their Status Sheet regularly. You might find some Agency error, and people checking the files would think that you had been disciplined in the past. One point about the files: For licensees who have had their license a long time, the date of licensing will say, “Unofficial-taken from secondary […]
