Author Profile: C. Charles Chatham, S.E.C.
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C. Charles Chatham, S.E.C. was a member of the Board of Governors and Regional Director of the Society of Exchange Counselors. He taught "Counseling and Client Management" for The Reno Foundation which has become a vibrant and acclaimed seminar.©2009-2023 The S.E.C. Real Estate Observer
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Posted in Summer 2018, The S.E.C. History Files on 24 June 2018
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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the October 1973 issue of the Real Estate News Observer. Most of us agree that if we thoroughly understood a client or prospect—understood his desires, his dreams, his actual needs, and his motivations—closing a real estate transaction would be comparatively simple matter. Yet why is it that we […]
Posted in Spring 2018, The S.E.C. History Files on 1 March 2018
Stats: 1,503 views and Comments Off on Counseling – What Is It?
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the August 1975 issue of the Real Estate News Observer. Most real estate practitioners believe they are counseling now. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The common concept of “real estate counseling” is that of a nose-to-nose confrontation with the prospect or client. Let us examine a […]
Posted in Summer 2016, The S.E.C. History Files on 10 June 2016
Stats: 1,835 views and Comments Off on Counseling – What Is It?
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the August 1975 issue of the Real Estate News Observer. Most real estate practitioners believe they are counseling now. Nothing could be farther from the truth.The common concept of “real estate counseling” is that of a nose-to-nose confrontation with the prospect or client. Let us examine a dictionary […]
Posted in Spring 2015, The S.E.C. History Files on 18 April 2015
Stats: 2,532 views and Comments Off on There They Go
Frank Weaver, Editor of the Real Estate News Observer, included in my February issue a large card on which were printed these words: “There they go! I must hasten after them, for I am their Leader!”
Posted in Fall 2014, The S.E.C. History Files on 27 October 2014
Stats: 1,959 views and Comments Off on Servant or Professional?
It required many years for me to realize that the reason I ran all the errands, carried all the papers, and chauffeured all the families to all the places they wanted to visit or see was that I had no faith in myself as being worthy of earning the amount of commission I was paid when a transaction closed.
Posted in The S.E.C. History Files, Winter 2013 on 16 December 2013
Stats: 3,035 views and Comments Off on Make Haste Slowly
Most of us agree that if we thoroughly understood a client or prospect – understood his desires, his dreams, his actual needs, and his motivations…
Posted in Summer 2011, The S.E.C. History Files on 15 August 2011
Stats: 5,629 views and Comments Off on Counseling – What Is It?
Most real estate practitioners believe they are counseling now. Nothing could be farther from the truth…
Posted in Summer 2009, The S.E.C. History Files on 21 July 2009
Stats: 2,993 views and 1 Comment
After we had spent the better part of two days studying the Art of Exploratory Questioning during a class in “The Art of Real Estate Counseling,” one of the students presented me with a 50 cent plaque he had discovered in a dime store that read: “I KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS — IT’S THE QUESTIONS I DON’T UNDERSTAND!”
Posted in Fall 2008, The S.E.C. History Files on 5 October 2008
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Many brokers recoil in horror when I remark I require my clients to bring in their last three to five years of Income Tax Reports. “What?” they exclaim, “Why, that’s private, privileged information!” […]
Posted in The S.E.C. History Files, Winter 2008 on 17 January 2008
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The real estate industry can never become a professional the true sense as long as we bow our knees in reverence to the all-important in-ven-tor-y! […]
