When a normal person buys a normal home in CA and gets a normal home loan from a normal lender, California Law states that if there is a default in payments, the normal lender can “only look to the home”. They can not get a judgment against normal owner’s other assets even if they do […]
Requirements Complete Our Three Qualifying Courses (Practice, Principles, Legal Aspects) Pass a 150-question exam with a grade of at least 70% You must be at least 18 years of age and be honest and truthful You do not need to live in California or show proof of citizenship We recommend that you […]
Tax Tip Service IRS has an amazing Tax Tip email service. Real estate people should study them and use them as handouts to your clients. This is information from the source. I would register for their tax tip email and then google IRS Tax Tips Archives to check what has been sent out in previous […]
Christie Olson This is the first in a series of articles, MEET OUR Duane Gomer Staff. This is an interview with Christie Olson, General Manager. How long have you worked for DGE? 14 years and counting….How long have you been General Manager? I was promoted to General Manager in November 2015, so I’ve been working […]
DRE Winter Bulletin There were many interesting sections in the DRE Winter Bulletin. A previous post discussed Missing Trust Fund Money. There were some interesting statements about Licensing in the Fiscal Year 19-20. At the end of FY 2019-20, DRE’s licensing population stood at 421,624, which included 291,759 salespersons and 129,865 brokers. This was a […]
Discussion Points of ARMs I would like to include a quote from Joffrey Long who is a hard working MLO and a Speaker of the Year for Duane Gomer Education and finds time to work as an Expert Witness on Foreclosures and other issues. He said, and I quote, “It does bring to mind the […]
Audits The Department of Real Estate performed 533 audits in the Fiscal Year ending on June 30, 2020. There were 166 with shortages or 33% of those investigated.As always, the leaders were the Property Managers. One hundred forty eight out of the 348 audited had a total shortage of $4,720,363. That is an average of […]
Joel Singer has been at the California Association of Realtors since1978 and has been the Chief Executive Officer since 1989. Forty-three years if you are counting, but the era will come to a close at the end of this year. I remember Joel when he started at CAR in 1978 as Chief Economist, and of […]
DFPI It is the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. The name became official on September 29, 2020. Before that date it was known as the Department of Business Oversight. That name was adopted on July 1, 2013 when the Department of Corporations and the Department of Financial Institutions were merged. “A rose by any […]
This information is not from some dubious group, it is from Market Watch and our National Association. So with no further comments here are the top ten. Coeur d’Alene, Austin, Springfield OH, Billings, Spokane, Lafayette IN (Purdue), Reno, Concord and Manchester/Nashua NH, Santa-Watsonville. For more info; MarketWatch.com by Jacob Passy
