www.realtor.org/creditcrisis.

Everyone will have plenty to say.  This situation is severe, serious and will be written about for a very long time. Our generation- the baby boomers only heard about the depression from our parents. And heard about it for our whole life. To this day I turn off the lights when I leave a room and I clean my plate. The unusual stories in our family were: My grandmother was a seamstress and she kept her family in food when the men could not get work. There was plenty of need for sewing, mending repairing and making do with what they already had. My husbands dad sold typewriters. Not that one really amazes me.  The whole last 2 years they said we may have a recession and many of us felt we were in a recession then. Now the deep prolonged recession might really be the feeling of a depression. Many families are affected. The anger the people express that didn’t buy usually falls out to blame the homebuyers.. I blame the following:

The lenders: I know of 2 people that got a bad loan and didn’t understand it. One got a loan review and got a new good loan and the other had a short sale loss of her home.

I think there were good loans and bad ones and the lenders made a little bit more money off the unsuspecting buyers.

The Lobbying allowed in Washington: The money paid to people to influence our Government leaders is just not right. It pushes the ethics aside and is all about money and greed.

That is oversimplified but I grew up with Abraham Lincoln stories in Kentucky. We all wanted to be Honest Abe

Most people don’t major in real estate or say when I grow up I want to be a realtor. Many of the kids of Realtors say they don’t want to work that hard. Many later and a few sooner join in.  As a profession it was late to attract the attention of University preparation. In 2003 University relationships didn’t seem to be something big on the radar of the NAR. It was growing in local community colleges. I observed it change in Los Angeles about that time.

The explosion was kind of like the 100 monkeys. Its everywhere now. But University and Colleges are way behind the mighty new breed of Real Estate trainers. Here is my tip on where the money is going to be in the new internet breed of trainers. Move over Ferry, Buffini, Stump…..for the INTERNET.

Twins and USC grads Joey and James Bridges brought it to a whole new level. www.OnlineRealEstateSuccess.com/Members.  They have a unique marketing talent and you can get in on the ground floor of their adventure.

I may have not been born into the Wright brothers, but I am blessed to know two differing pioneers, The bridges brothers, of the Global Trust Team. They are currently educating the individual real estate agents.

Years later I met Pat Kitano and Kevin Boer DomusConsulting Group. They are consulting a network of Business and Real Estate professionals. “Pat Kitano and Kevin Boer are the Managing Principals with the Domus Consulting Group. They are developing innovative blog networks with many major brokerages in the Bay Area. They author real estate blogs www.TransparentRealEstate.com and www.3Oceans; both were acclaimed ” Most Innovative Real Estate Blogs of 2007″ by Inman News.

The question of education in real estate is right here on this page. Can you see it?