Jillayne Schlicke is CEO of CE Forward, Inc. and the Executive Director of the National Association of Mortgage Fiduciaries.
I’m teaching a 30 clock hour class on Land Titles this fall through Bellevue College on Thursday evenings. Here are the details. We’re going to cover a lot in 10 weeks including how to read a legal description, clearing title, exceptions, and claims. BCC is also going to add some of CE Forwards’s continuing ed classes to […]
I’m here at Inman Real Estate Connect and am very happy to report that one of my favorite bloggers, CR, from the blog CalculatedRisk will be part of a panel tomorrow afternoon along with another great blogger, Yves Smith from NakedCapitalism. Many of my colleagues are signed up for the blogger sessions in the morning, […]
This week I will be in San Francisco attending Real Estate Connect which is put on by Inman Real Estate News. I attended two other Connect conventions and I have fond memories of both.
I remember sitting in an audience of at least a thousand Realtors listening to our keynote speaker who was none other than Larry […]
At this moment in time, I simply can’t wrap my head around the idea that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be allowed to fail. Instead, it seems more likely that the federal government would jump in and prop up the GSEs with our tax dollars. A moral hazard yet the lesser of two evils?
Congress […]
A “Risk Management” Alert bulletin was distributed to real estate brokers in Washington State this week in anticipation of yet another new state law, SB 6847 that will go into effect on June 12th. Here is the bulletin
June 3, 2008
SUBJECT: RISK MANAGEMENT ALERT To Share at This Week’s Office Meetings
THIS WARNING APPLIES TO ALL BROKERS AND […]
There is a lot of confusion, anger and fear surrounding the new Distressed Property Law. I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon and do a critical analysis of the law here. Instead, jump into the way-back machine and take a trip through these links to 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 when foreclosure rescue scams started to […]
When starting a blog, should you join a group blog or start your own, solo blog? There are advantages and disadvantages on either side. Required reading from Joel, who sums it up nicely here.
In the Short Sale classes I teach for real estate continuing ed, I am constantly reminding the Realtors to always refer their homeowners who are in financial distress to an attorney for legal counsel. Attorneys can do things that real estate agents can’t, like give legal advice. Real estate attorneys know the state laws […]
What’s a person to do with all their social network websites when big changes are forthcoming? New company name, new websites, new phone numbers, email addresses, and so forth. All must be updated. Facebook, myspace, mybloglog, inman space, LinkedIn, BizNik, I think I finally updated all of them. All, with one exception, were […]
It’s been a couple of days now and my html is a little better now, thanks to the w3schools and the wordpress user forums. I have figured out how to move things around within the template stylesheets and now I’m creating pages.
I have been a big Tom Peters fan since his business management guru days of the […]
Continuing education should not be boring. CE should not make you fall asleep, wish you were back at the office, or wish you had spent your time and money doing something else. Continuing ed should be fun, enjoyable, interactive, and relevant. CE Forward will push you to work hard in the classroom. You will experience more than just butt chair time in our CE classes. We are a forward-looking company and we watch for relevant trends, issues and new laws. We help you learn using methods beyond just a lecture. In our classes, workshops, and keynotes you get to do more than just sit there and listen.