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Lee Bevins, U.S. Department of Defense Relocation Expert With over 35 years of service in the federal government working as project and program manager for housing initiatives, Lee Bevins now helps lead the implementation of the U.S. government’s Expanded Housing Assistance Program. Show up to her session to get a clear understanding of the needs, policies, and processes related to working with military/federal government families affected by base realignments, closures, and other job-related relocations.
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Chris Bird has been in the financial business more than 30 years. He started his career with a degree in accounting and spent 16 years as an IRS agent. Today he’s a certified financial planner and an RLI and CRS instructor. Since leaving the IRS, Chris has taught more than 100 seminars a year on accounting, financial planning, wealth building, residential rental property ownership, and tax strategies for the real estate and financial industries nationwide. This year at the REal Show, Chris will combine his years of teaching and finance experience to help you make the most of your dollars as an independent contractor.
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Brian Copeland has built one of the most successful home marketing companies in middle Tennessee. In 2006, he was Tennessee’s top new Realtor® and one of the top 50 new Realtors® in America in 2007. It takes Brian an average of 18 hours from the time he starts looking with a buyer until he has a contract on the perfect home. And his sellers get an average of 98% of their asking price — with a typical listing on the market for 42 days. His secret? Using technology the smart way. Featured on both HGTV and the Learning Channel, Brian’s offers attendees both a fun, pop-culture attitude to teaching and a solid on productivity. If you want to learn from a master — and a master presenter — here’s your chance.
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Dale Carlton Dale’s the type of presenter who fills rooms. His energy, enthusiasm, and professionalism have informed and dazzled more than 50,000 students over the past several years. And he doesn’t just talk the talk: He’s broker/owner of Carlton Realty, and a salesperson with more than $50 million in sales over four years. To find out more about Dale and what he says about the latest real estate laws attend.
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Sean Carpenter is director of agent development for the Ohio NRT Companies — in fact, he helped create the program, as well as the company’s highly regarded B.A.S.I.C. Training class. Sean is a certified facilitator of the National Association of Home Builders’ “Integrity Coaching, Integrity Selling” and Certified New Home Sales Professional (CSP) courses. In 2007, Sean helped create the CBOLT system — Coldwell Banker On-Line Training — the acclaimed distance learning tool that has large brokerages abuzz. At this year’s REal Show, he’ll betraining you on the tools every Realtor® should have.
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Gee Dunston has worked in residential sales, sales management, and as a broker. In 1986 Gee sold his business to become a senior instructor with the Council of Residential Specialists for almost 20 years and served as CRS president in 2001. In addition to teaching CRS classes, Gee is president of Gee Dunsten Seminars, Inc which is known across the country for their hands-on approach to real estate training with leading edge ideas He is co-author of the book Mega-Million Dollar Secrets, Power Pack I and II software programs, and a series, Blow Your Own Horn.
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Chandra Hall, DREI, MBA, ABR, CRS, GRI From her long list of designations, to her entering college at age 16, to starting several successful companies, to serving today as broker/owner of one of Colorado’s most successful firms, it’s clear that Chandra knows how to realize potential. She uses knowledge to teach CRS, GRi, ABR, and other courses nationally, and at this year’s REalShow she’ll be teaching you the facts you need to know about schooling your clients on the right type of financing…
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G. William James has been a leader in smart phone training for retail, medicine, sales, business and real estate since 2001. A sales trainer and presenter since 1986, James has trained professionals in every state of the Union and worked with a host of nationally known organizations including New York University, General Electric and Kaiser Permanente. Coined by Black Enterprise Magazine as the “Master of the PDA,” James brings to the classroom experience with all of today’s smart phone platforms including Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, RIM Blackberry, and the newly released Android devices. If you have a question about a smart phone, James can answer it. If he can’t we’ll treat you to a free lunch. Show up at these sessions and attempt to stump the smart-phone guy:
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Brian Lytle, Esq. is a practicing Virginia attorney with 25 years experience. He is the owner of Lytle Law, P.C., a general practice law firm, and Lytle Title & Escrow, LLC, a Virginia licensed settlement firm. Brian's law practice emphasizes real estate closings, real estate related litigation, and the representation of real estate brokers, agents and firms (Brian also owns an interest in a local real estate brokerage firm), including Code of Ethics, procuring cause, malpractice, VREB and Fair Housing disciplinary actions, and commission collection cases in local courts. He is admitted to practice before all Virginia state courts, including the Virginia Supreme Court, before the United States District Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Brian is a VREB licensed instructor, regularly speaks before local Realtor® associations and brokerage firms and has presented at the NAR meeting. He has been a featured speaker on Real Law Central Radio, a nationally syndicated educational program for agents, and has written over forty Legal Corner articles for the Virginia Peninsula Association of Realtors® periodical Realtor Update. |
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Ralph D. Spencer, CCIM, SIOR Ralph offers a unique blend of talent and experience. While being a successful commercial real estate practitioner, owner and manager, he has developed his skills in training and technology. That blend of experience makes him the perfect presenter for this year’s REalShow. Meet Ralph and find out what every commercial professional should know about financing.
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John Tuccillo, you might recognize the name. He’s a Georgetown and Cornell University graduate, author of two best selling books The Eight New Rules of Real Estate and Click and Close, and columnist for The Real Estate Professional. But, those probably don’t jog your memory. John is most famous in real estate for his expertise as an economist. He served as Chief Economist for NAR from 1987-97, consults on strategic and business planning for association and real estate firms, and worked with some of biggest names in real estate including Fannie Mae, Microsoft, GMAC, Prudential Real Estate and a host of others. This year you can tap this veteran economist’s brain for tips on how you can prepare your business for the next wave in these courses:
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Jeff Turner is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned business executive of more than 20 years. He founded J.J. Grace, which made Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America — and won Cisco’s Growing With Technology Award recognizing innovative companies networked for growth. Today Jeff is president of Zeek Interactive and the founder and creative force behind Real Estate Shows. He is also widely regarded as a leading thinker on how to effectively use Internet tools and a sought after conference speaker on topics related to emerging technologies.
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Ginger Wilcox is a Broker Associate at Alain Pinel Realtors in Marin County, California and a founding partner and Vice President of Business Development for the Social Media Marketing Institute. An accomplished speaker, writer and trainer, Ginger was recognized by Inman News as one of the Top 50 most influential people in online real estate in 2009. As an associate broker and author of www.BlogbytheBay.com, her experience has taught her the ins outs of social media and how to use it the RIGHT way. Show up and pick her brain in these interactive sessions:
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Terry Watson is one of the most sought after self-improvement trainers in North America. With no formal real estate training, Watson was forced to create bizarre strategies — strategies that became so successful he was asked to chair a university real estate department and tweak their courses to better prepare the sales agents of today.
Watson's unique and vibrant presentations are powerful, positive and results based. He teaches audiences how to improve relationships with both clients and consumers, close transactions more efficiently and work smarter, not harder.
Every Watson session is a guaranteed business boost. At this year’s REal Show let Watson show you why you should be your (odd) self.
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Lawrence Yun, NAR Chief Economist
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