S.E.C. Real Estate Observer

I don’t mean this headline in any ominous way. In recent years the national economy has given the opportunity for most in the real estate industry to reap huge financial rewards with little downside risk. The last few years we have seen the following: Huge amounts of cash were searching for real estate. Most attendees [...]

Almost 30 years ago I walked into a big national marketing session at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago. Over 100 brokers were marketing properties, brainstorming complicated solutions, and proposing to exchange equities to solve problems. It was exciting and new to me and at that moment I caught the “bug.” Today marketing sessions are still [...]

The National Marketing events that are the focus of the Society of Exchange Counselors are riding a wave of excellent attendance and productivity. Our most recent meetings in Las Vegas and Denver were again filled with well over 100 members, candidates, and invited guests representing many clients, money, and properties looking to make a successful [...]

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 [...]

This is the last in the series of WHAT’S IN A NAME? More specifically, WHAT IS IN OUR NAME- Society of Exchange Counselors. This article focuses on the last word in our name, COUNSELOR. In the first article, I presented an overview of the topic. In the second article, I focused on the word SOCIETY. [...]

In the previous two articles, I first posed the questions: What is in a Name?, followed by, What is in Our Name? The second article spent time examining the word Society as part of our name. This article will focus on the second word in our name- Exchange. When we think of the word exchange [...]

In the last edition of the Observer, I posed the question: WHAT’S IN A NAME? I wrote my impressions of what a name can mean and what possible implications are in a name. Now, let’s examine what is in OUR name. Therefore, my next questions is: WHAT IS IN OUR NAME, THE SOCIETY OF EXCHANGE [...]

Recently I attended a memorial service celebrating the life of an administrator and long time friend at the university that I attended. He was very instrumental in my gaining entrance into the University of Redlands. The chapel was full with as many as 500 guests. Family members, friends and colleagues; one after another each extolled [...]

When first attending an S.E.C. meeting, guests are often surprised by the warm and sincere welcome they receive. On the first morning, there is a private breakfast, where the guests get together with an S.E.C. member and receive advice on how to make their meeting as effective as possible. They are each assigned an experienced [...]

For more than 40 years, the Society of Exchange Counselors has been spreading the “Good Word” about creative real estate throughout the nation. Our Society has been at the forefront of equity marketing and client counseling and that dedication has created the unique broker-to-broker marketplace that we now enjoy. The underlying philosophy of the Society [...]