Author Archive | Duane Gomer
Anyone With Cabin Fever
Knives Out I have seen many of the 2019 movies and for today I have a recommendation. KNIVES OUT. Rotten Tomatoes, my number one rating service, rates it 97% out of 100%. It earned $265M so some people liked it, and Rian Johnson was nominated for an Oscar for “Best Original Screenplay”. A sample review: […]
Customer Service Is Important; Recent Column In Realty Times Agrees ($6K Dollar Egg)
Realty Times The late Bob Hunt was a San Clemente Broker, Owner, Author, Bon Vivant, Ethicist, Producer, CAR Committee Chair, and friend. Every week he wrote an outstanding column for national distribution by Realty Times. A few years he discussed my friends Debra and Todd Duncan’s book on Customer Service. It was worth a read then […]
Comments From the Field of Sport
Favorites One I really like was by Bum Phillips, one of my favorite NFL coaches. He said about Don Shula, “He can take his’n and beat your’n, and then your’n and beat his’n”. Shula said that it was one of the best compliments he ever received. One coach who said about an outstanding college prospect […]
Designations
Designation vs Broker On our website we have an article entitled “Why I Believe So Strongly You Should Become a Broker!” I believe that even more strongly after reading an article on “Designations” on the DRE Website: Consumer and Industry Warning: False and Misleading Designations Some licensees have been called before Judges and the DRE […]
Test Your Knowledge of Real Estate
Questions Can a person without a real estate license sign on a broker’s trust fund?According to DRE which is a more serious violation in a trust fund? Conversion or Commingling?Many people have paid off their California houses. What percentage do you think have mortgages on their homes now?A person leases a furnished apartment for one […]
Dating In Today’s Marketplace
Dating and Real Estate Terms A student reader asked me to please send a copy of my shtick used in class about dating and real estate terms. Hadn’t done it in a long time, but it came back. Caravanning: Checking sources of possible dates, including online, friends, bars, etc.Open Listing: You are dating someone, but […]
Brokered Convention; Can It Happen Now? Wrote This In 2016. Could It Happen Again?
Delegate Requirements A brokered convention is one where no one has the 1,237 delegates (Republican Party) to get the nomination on the first ballot. The nomination does not go to the person with the most delegates; you must have 50% plus one. There has not been one since the 1952 Democratic Convention. There were 16 men who […]
9 Safety Tips on Social Media
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has tips to safeguard your online activities that were published in a recent Orange County Register article. Never upload pictures that have location info in them, and experts recommend turning off your location service on your phone.Never post your location.Never take pictures that include credit card receipts or bills.Never […]
Reverse Mortgages For People Who Do Not Need One Now: High Importance
The Ben Franklin Close Years ago, sales trainers would tell you to use the Ben Franklin close. You say, “Whenever Ben Franklin had to make a decision, he would take a piece of paper and draw two columns. Then, he would list all the advantages of buying the property on the left side and the […]