Course Renewals Every two years we must renew all our CE courses and pay the DRE $500.00 for the privilege. Over the years we have had many verbal and long written disagreements with the review deputies in Sacramento. The courses would be returned with corrections not just for us, for everybody. We believed that the […]
Interview With DRE Executives Dan Sandri, Acting DRE Commissioner, and Sandra Knau, Assistant Commissioner for Licensing and Administration: It was a sincere pleasure recently to interview these two long-time executives at the California Department of Real Estate. They were gracious with their time and were so informative. There were so many important items that should […]
Time for Change If I were king, that would be a rule. My DRE license number is 257862 and current numbers are around 2.0M. So I have seen many come, and I have seen many go. Some never last, and they never know why. Was Peter Drucker the one who said, “If you want to […]
Pocket Listing Pocket Listing: This is a listing of a broker member of the local Multiple Listing Service that is not placed into the Service. Do all listings have to be submitted to Multiple? No. Exceptions are: Listings for apartment houses, commercial buildings, etc.Listings out of the local area not covered by the Multiple. Listings […]
Class Feedback This comment was posted on Facebook after our July 19th MLO seminar at OCAR. “You and your group really killed it today. I have been attending your MLO seminars for the last ten years and yesterday was the best and the funniest ever. Thank you.” Now that is just nice. Thank you to […]
Why, You Ask? One Major Reason: Test grades: Three years ago, the passing rate for Broker’s exam was 39%Two years ago, the passing rate was 41%Fiscal year to date, the passing rate is 56%For the math majors this is an improvement of 44% DGE Guarantees That You Will Pass Or Your Fees For Our Crash […]
We Are Approved To Give Presentations By: California Department of Real Estate: Real Estate License Renewals, Real Estate Courses to Qualify to take the State Exams for Salespersons and Brokers licenses. California Secretary of State: California 6 Hour and 3 Hour Notary Courses. And Crash Test Prep courses for all licenses. We Present Our Exclusively […]
Our success as a company is based on one important factor: We have outstanding instructors in all different topics. Minnie Lush Today, I want to highlight a special one, Minnie Lush. Minnie has been doing seminars for DGE for many years. The students adore her, the hosts admire her, and our staff loves her. She […]
Sanctions The DRE sanctions hundreds of licensees monthly. Some serious mistakes and some that are not so serious. The information is posted monthly to the DRE website and remains there forever. I miss seeing the rulings in the quarterly bulletins. First thing we all used to read. This is similar to the CAR Wall of […]
The DRE provides many outstanding publications for consumers, licensee, and sub-dividers. There is one very important one for MLO’s. It is #RE7, and was just revised in May 2019. The sub-title is “Assists the real estate broker who engages in mortgage loan activities with assessing compliance with DRE requirements.” English translation: Save a license, it […]
