Interesting reply KT....I never have understood why so many Veteran members on this part of the forum express themselves many times in their postings as confrontational, negative, closed and in fear of disclosing their name, contact info or just plain being discovered.

After doing some more digging, as you suggested I think I found who you are talking about and my suspicions were right. She teaches a 3 day class with CE credit, but the class isn't only centered on BPO's, it covers Short Sales, Loss Mitigation and a few other items. BPO's is my accredited course's only focus.

It looks like she is doing some very good things though and I'm sure that she has helped a lot of people in Ohio learn more about the business.

I'm all for having people get educated on any area of real estate that they want to learn about. After all knowledge truly is power. It's just that sometimes you've got to seek the answers to your own questions on your own because a lot of people in this business will not bend over backwards to help you...especially if they see you as the competition!

Thanks for taking the time to help me learn more about the question I posted.

Respectfully,
Nicole Ocean

I am a certified Help, Help, Helper for the big bird at the Core. If you send me $500 I will tell you how to avoid irritating clarification requests.

Hint: Next time you get a help, help, help.....send it to spam folder and after that these requests will automatically go there.

This is strictly an opinion Nicole. I really think the condescending tone of your posts hurts your cause more that helps it. If you are indeed trying to lure people over to spend their hard earned do-re-mi, these posts are probably not helping you at all. Obviously that is your intention here if one reads your posts...

Just my perception, I doubt I am alone with that.

I didn't catch that reading her posts.

Again, you incorrect. There is a 6 hr, BPO only, CE class that is offered. It has been around for at least a couple of years.

Pardon me for not wishing to be spammed, called, or stalked by some internet crazy troll- which is why my personal info is not posted here. And of course why I will not post another's info without their OK.

I didn't see a confrontational tone. Perhaps defensive, and it's pretty clear she gets a lot of flax. Perhaps one of the reasons for the flax is that everyone and their cousin is trying to reach into our pockets. Many under the guise of pay me and I'll send you a 30 buck BPO or a usless list of asset management companies with closed databases. Perhaps the flax is due to the fact that we don't want anyone training our competitors, or we perhaps wish we'd thought of this first. I do see a huge difference between the classes with false promises and Nicoles offer of education. Her's is voluntary, if we think we can learn something, we attend, if not we stay home. Many of the other courses are using the totally arm twisting method of "pay me for a useless course or I'll punish you". There's a part of me that says I wish I'd thought of this first, but I certainly can't fault Nicole for having the vision to see a need, fill that need, and generate a profit. Many of the posters her obviously have enough experience to teach a similar course but there are probably many more here that could learn quite a lot. Perhaps the next step for Nicole to consider is taking this show on the road. One doesn't have to be certified at anything to hold training seminars. One must only have the knowledge and the willingness to share that knowledge to succeed. AND perhaps not require the attendees to travel to the far corners of the country to partake of that knowledge. I'd be willing to bet that if something like this was offered in any area, there would not only be a ton of attendees, many on this forum would be willing to participate in teaching it.

"Flax", huh? Possibly she gets wool and cotton too! Then she cards them and spins them, and dyes them and weaves them into brightly colored...

God in Heaven, it's FLAK!

Ouch, you got me!!! LOL.

for anyone that is interested, I've got 2 classes starting this coming monday. Here is the information. They are going to be sponsored by a local charity I own that donates 100% of its contributions to charity (to be read: my bills). The charity has a long name but you can abbreviate it as: C.A.S.H.

*super hot course!*
Course #1: (almost sold out)
cost: $250
title: "August 2010: the month you finished with $250 less)

Course #2: (still plenty of openings)
cost: $1000
title: "how to certify others for nothing, and not be very good at it yourself"

Remember, there are plenty of REO servicers out there and I assume at least a few will mistake this for an actual certification!

Call now, and maybe an operator will answer your call. More than likely you will go to voicemail and not get a response though. Take Care!

A new playah! I love it!

I find it interesting that so many old timers post things about BPO instructors.. classes..or whatever.. Have any of you taken their classes.. implemented there ideas.. www.nabpop or N.O or whatever.. Our organiztion has pulled the best out of these and several others to make our organization good at BPOs.. dual monitors, macros, Data entry and field agents working together to hamer out volume. We did all this when our c21 broker didnt know what a REO / BPO was.. then he was beging for their LIST.. The BPO manual.. etc.. Now what!lol

Yeah, well I've been in this a long time and I figured I would contribute what I could.