Author Profile: Bob Steele, S.E.C.

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Bob Steele, S.E.C. (Carmel, California) is a life member of the Society of Exchange Counselors and an accomplished author, educator, exhangor and investor. One of the founders of the Society, his formulas for the acquisition of real property and the solutions to the challenges of real estate ownership are the hallmark of today's Creative Real Estate business. Based in Carmel, California, Bob is one of the founders of the original S.E.C. Real Estate Observer and was the 1969 SEC Counselor of the Year.©2009-2023 The S.E.C. Real Estate Observer

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Counseling & Control
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Summer 2021 on 4 July 2021
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Counseling leads automatically to control or disassociation with the opportunity to associate at some later date.
Counseling is: a) Listening to what is being said and to what is being implied. current market conditions permit you to make happen. c) etc.

Consulting Time
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Winter 2019-2020 on 12 December 2019
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1. Assess your thinking capacity: Little, medium or big. Same with the pople you deal with. Same all things in your life.

We Create from the Inside Out
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Summer 2019 on 3 July 2019
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When you ask a potential exchange client, “What will you take?”, the client will usually go on a mental shopping trip. You basically can’t go shopping with an equity like you can money, so you are letting a client go a-field from reality.

Who or What is the Most Important Thing in an Exchange?
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Summer 2019 on 3 July 2019
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As a broker in transaction here are your choices for answers to the above question: a) your client, b) your client’s property, c) the other client, d) the other client’s property, e) the other broker, f) financing, g) geography

Baseball Strategy
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Spring 2019 on 10 February 2019
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Baseball Formula
You can’t get back a called strike.

Baseball Situation:

When an umpire makes a really bad mistake and calls an obvious ball a strike, it is absolutely futile for the batter to argue. To date, an umpire has never reversed his call but he is a human being and often knows he makes the error, but posture precludes him from correcting it.

Verbal Exchange Offers Don’t Work
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Summer 2018 on 25 June 2018
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You are wasting your time to even try to make verbal offers. Professionals call these, “Would-Ya-Takes.” These are sometime used in counseling, but in the field always, and I literally mean always, write down and sign what you actually would do.

Brainstorming: The Best Ideas Come Last
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Winter 2017 - 2018 on 12 December 2017
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This is true in a brainstorm and at exchange meetings or any other long drawn-out business or personal meeting. The best ideas will come after you are thought out.

The Don’t-Wanter is a Key to Many Transactions
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Posted in Fall 2017, Formulas and Strategies on 27 September 2017
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There is a basic difference between an exchange and a sale.

Information to Obtain Through Counseling
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Spring 2017 on 12 April 2017
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This is a guide list. You will have to develop the specific things you need depending on the
requirements of each individual client case.

Counseling and Control
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Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Winter 2017 on 16 February 2017
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Counseling leads automatically to control or disassociation with the opportunity to associate at some later date.