Sweet and Southern is what Bill Gallagher always says. Bill owns Superior School of Real Estate in Charlotte NC but teaches Real Estate Classes throughout the state of North Carolina. Bill's school teaches preliscening and post licensing including the mandatory update and electives. To stay licensed in NC, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission requires that each licensee take a 4-hour mandatory class as well as a 4-hour elective. Bill is one of the premier instructors for North Carolina real estate. I have known Bill for over 12 years and have laughed and learned a lot from him. I want to share with you some of Bill's more notable stories that go along with the lesson so you too will get an idea of Bill's method of laughing and learning.
I have to tell about the "wild animal." Bill was once the broker-in-charge of the Prudential South park office. He had an agent that went to show a house that had two de-clawed kitties in it. There was a sign on the door that read: Please don't let out the two de-clawed kitties out. The agent was careful not to let the two de-clawed kitties out but inadvertently let the neighborhood tomcat in. When the owners got home from the Hornets basketball game the house was shredded. The people told Bill that they didn't know kitties could fly! Fortunately for everyone involved the insurance covered it by reporting that a "wild animal" got in the house. Bill has several funny animal stories including "the seeing eye pony" and the invisible fencing collar for a Doberman that the people put on their poodle to try to save money and the dog has to see therapist now. You'll have to take Bill's class to hear these and many more.
While Bill was at Prudential he had another agent Vonda Lee. Oh my there are more Vonda Lee stories than I have space to tell about. Vonda Lee game back from a listing appointment once and said, "That house has the worst case of Radon gas I have ever smelled" Bill told her "Vonda Lee you can't smell Radon Gas" "Well something stank," replied Vonda Lee. As it turns out it was the sewage treatment center off Park Rd that Vonda smelled. From then on Bill didn't have his agents bring people down Park when bringing them from the airport to the office. He had them come down Wilkinson Blvd by the Paper Doll Lounge. Wee welcome to Charlotte. Vonda drove a Jaguar and carried a pistol in her purse. Everyone found this out one day when she came walking into the office with a gun hanging out of her purse. A few agents came running to Bill "Bill, Voda's got a gun, Bill Vonda's got a gun" Bill had to talk to her "Vonda, is everything alright? Is everything Ok? You aren't mad at anybody are you?" I used to think Bill was making this woman up but I actually meet her during one of Bill's update classes at Birkdale. She asked me to hold her shoes while she took of running bare foot to roll the windows up on her Jaguar, err uh Lexus now (she told me) as it was beginning to rain.
Now in NC if a broker receives any bonus or incentive from a builder or seller it has to be disclosed to the buyer. Speaking of full disclosure Bill tells the story of a woman in Myers Park Presbyterian Church whose cell phone goes off in church. "She bent over in the pew and talked on it," says Bill. He says after the sermon he told the preacher who it was "Full Disclosure" Tell it, tell it, tell it.
Bill also tells a story about me inspecting the wrong house. The woman came home while I was inspecting it and asked me what I was doing. I told her that I was inspecting her house. She said go right ahead and she got a free home inspection from me. Bill is great. I try to take his classes every year. If you too would like to get you r require credits but at the same time laugh and learn contact Superior School of Real Estate at http://www.ssore.com or me Preston Sandlin at http://www.homeinspectioncarolina.com
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