Author Profile: Stephen R. England, S.E.C., ALC
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Stephen R. England, S.E.C., ALC lives in Kearney, Nebraska and is past President of the Society of Exchange Counselors (S.E.C.) in 2006 and past President of the REALTORS Land Institute (RLI) in 1994. Steve has taught national real estate courses for both RLI and S.E.C. Steve works in all types of investment real estate with special expertise in agricultural properties. Steve’s primary practice in recent years has been a client focused approach that develops solutions to complicated problems through exchanging or other creative techniques. Steve is an active investor and consultant working in multiple states. Currently Steve is available to present his most recent course, "Marketing that Difficult Investment Property in any Economy."©2009-2010 The S.E.C. Real Estate Observer
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Posted in S.E.C. President's Message, Winter 2006 on 17 Winter 2006
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As I assume the presidency of the Society of Exchange Counselors I am taken by the uniqueness of our organization. Typically the new President of a group is asked immediately something like “What are you going to do to improve our “member benefits”?” The members of the Society, however, already understand their most important “member [...]
Posted in Point - Counter Point, Summer 2004 on 17 Summer 2004
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The High Cost of Farm Preservation
Editor’s Note:
An article entitled “Expensive Nostalgia: The High Cost of Farm Preservation” by Claude Gruen recently appeared in the Gruen Gruen & Associates online newsletter, “Trends.” Claude and Nina Gruen are nationally recognized economists. Their firm provides real estate consulting services nationwide and can be found on the web [...]
Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Spring 2004 on 16 Spring 2004
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The Society of Exchange Counselors throughout its history has been on the cutting edge of innovation in marketing properties. Most often we have been known by our members’ innovations in equity marketing and creating formulas to solve complicated real estate problems. However, two of our members also lead the industry with some practical software for [...]
Posted in Feature Articles, Spring 2003 on 15 Spring 2003
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As entrepreneurs and risk takers we admit that occasionally great projections and optimism fades into reality. This investment isn’t working. It is a bad deal. What should we do? How should we handle this situation? How do we save face? Save our assets? Can we save important relationships?
As many who lived through the real estate [...]
Posted in Feature Articles, Spring 2002 on 10 Spring 2002
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It is hard to believe that I have been attending national marketing sessions for almost 25 years. I have been involved firstly with sessions conducted by the REALTORS Land Institute (RLI), later with both RLI and CCIM groups, and for the past 10 years or so, attending the Society of Exchange Counselor meetings. I have [...]
