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  • Smitty August 9, 2011 at 11:37am
    OMG.  Jeff, Let's you and I get together, and teach a 4 hour advanced, mastermind, professional, expert, training short sale weekend class and we can give it the DUMB designation.  Distressed Under Mounds of Bulls&^!

    Smitty, DUMB - has a nice ring.
  • Beverly Cibulsky July 17, 2011 at 4:32am

    Here's one I just got via e-mail:

    CFS only $279.00 !

    http:// http://www.RETrainingCenter.com/showPADetails.asp?TCID=1004960

  • Jeff Payne July 14, 2011 at 3:45am

    Kimberly, you are so right!  I cringe when I see agents using their designations and portraying themselves as experts.  I do believe in the power of education and I am sure that the CHRE does teach something to agents. Problem is when an agent goes to an appointment and portrays themselves as an expert when in fact they have very little or no experience with short sales. I have closed my fair share of short sales but would NEVER consider myself an expert even if I had some letters by my name that I earned from a webinar or a few hour course.

     

  • Kimberley Kelly July 14, 2011 at 2:12am
    What a scam!  And a laugh-fest!  I know of several Short Sale Negotiation companies that have their List Agents (who then give them the work), attend a seminar about how to gather docs, and BAM..they are now a "certified I can save your life, Short Sale Specialist"  I am embarrassed for the Agents that use these dumb designations in their ads..Get the certifications that are the most extensive, then work the files.  No short cuts and no designations substitue for experience and constant updating and sharing and follow-up. 
  • Beverly Cibulsky July 13, 2011 at 12:56pm
    Here we go again, my favorite contention!!!! Let's find a way to make money out of a bad situation! Lets make up short sale designations! Ya know, I believe real estate agents are the easiest targets for "stuff". NAR was very behind schedule with the SFR training/Desigantion. CDPE was very professionaly aggressive! I Have both designations, but once again, there are agents that have the "letters" and think they can do "anything" I am kinda older in the business and believe in "networking"! I must say after all I have spent on designations! (My GRI is very worth it and valuable to me, so not that one!)  I found the SSSS site, and am proud to be a Free member! Heck, I am a member of SSSS! Thank you for having me!!! Thanks to all the great agents that are SSSS and your never ending "networking" and giving back to our profession!
  • Elizabeth Meyer July 13, 2011 at 11:50am

    I think realtor designations are like holidays...Hallmark invents new ones to sell cards (sister's day, sweetest day, doctors' day.)  Schools invent new designations and try to make us covet them so they can sell more classes.

     

  • Jeff Payne July 13, 2011 at 11:05am
    i don't pay much mind to designations. I think designating expert to someone is scary, especially when they could be an expert who has never done a short sale,

    Craig Bartels said:

    there is so many designations that companies make up and then sell to agents, it's not even funny.  That's why I pay no attention to all the abbreviations after agent names, heck, if I don't know what 75% of them stand for, how is the general public?

     

     

  • Christina Conrad July 13, 2011 at 10:51am
    Jeff. I just sent you an email about it..hope it helps..haven't had time today to read it...

    Jeff Payne said:
    Christina, who is it that recognizes a CHRE? I know the CDPE but never heard of the CHRE?  How long is the class that is taught? 

    Christina Conrad said:
    Jerry Boutcher offers a training course called "The Truth About Short Sales".  If you attend the course you earn a Certified Home Rescue Expert designation.  The also have CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert).  CDPE designation is suppose to help you understand the short sale process.
  • Craig Bartels July 13, 2011 at 10:06am

    there is so many designations that companies make up and then sell to agents, it's not even funny.  That's why I pay no attention to all the abbreviations after agent names, heck, if I don't know what 75% of them stand for, how is the general public?

     

     

  • Jeff Payne July 13, 2011 at 9:50am
    Christina, who is it that recognizes a CHRE? I know the CDPE but never heard of the CHRE?  How long is the class that is taught? 

    Christina Conrad said:
    Jerry Boutcher offers a training course called "The Truth About Short Sales".  If you attend the course you earn a Certified Home Rescue Expert designation.  The also have CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert).  CDPE designation is suppose to help you understand the short sale process.
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