Real estate licensees who choose to take the NCE Gold Card Course will become eligible for membership in NCE. NCE members in good standing may use the Equity Marketing Specialist (EMS) Designation.
Note: First time Gold Card Class students must complete all portions of the Gold Card Class in order to qualify for NCE membership. So, it is not possible for such students to take any of the Advanced Education offerings at this conference.

Advanced Classes
Note: These courses are parallel to the Gold Card Course and are not available to first time Gold Card Class attendees who are seeking to join NCE.

Jim Brondino - Monday & Tuesday all day
“ Counseling for Action”
SOLD OUT!
This is the top course in client counseling. Seats are extremely limited and are only available to those who will also be attending the marketing session in addition to this course.

This is a 2-Day (16 hour) course on client
counseling from the leading instructor.
Identify how a client understands situations,
the role of the counselor, objectives of counseling, effective use of time, benefits, listening, environment, words and images.
Students Say:
“It will change your whole approach to being a
real estate professional.”
“You need technical and sales skills - but without good counseling skills, your effectiveness is vastly reduced.”
This course has only a handful of available slots. Do not wait to try and sign up. Enrollment is limited to those who are also attending the marketing session.
NCE member net cost only $99 after NCE $76 rebate credit is applied. All others $175

Thom Bohan - Tuesday 1PM - 5PM
“Moderators Make $t Happen” - a workshop.

Good moderating is the key ingredient to successful marketing meetings and transaction
making. It is also a building block for the personal success of moderators themselves.
Learn skills that build a productive marketplace
and generate greater income for yourself, your exchange group and for our National Marketplace.
NCE member cost only $29*. All others $79
*This course is being provided with the support
of an endowment to NCE by Alliance Exchange Corporation in memory of Henry Blanton, EMS.

See Instructor Bios, Below!

Magi Bird, EMS became a real estate licensee in 1978 with extensive real estate dealings before that. She has been the President and Broker of Remcor since 1984. She is the certified National Instructor for the Equity Marketing Specialist designation for NCE and also eaches several continuing education courses in Reno, NV. In addition she holds the CTM, ATM Bronze, Silver & Gold designations with Toastmaster’s International. She brings the best of creative real estate marketing into her large and growing (over 50 agents) brokerage firm through ongoing training of all her agents. Her team makes business happen by creating a comprehensive custom plan of action for each client and by having the skills to implement that plan. In addition to being principal broker of Remcor Real Estate Magi is the principal of Remcor Educational Systems, LLC.

Kandas Myer, EMS, CES is a Real Estate Licensee from Reno, Nevada. She works with Starker Services, Inc., a national qualified 1031 intermediary service. She is a very effective instructor in real estate tax issues. Kandas also holds the CES designation certification from the Federal Exchange Accommodators Association. Kandas has facilitated literally thousands of tax deferrals for clients over the past 7 years.

Ted Blank, SEC, CCIM, EMS is a Real Estate Broker from Colorado. He is Past President of SEC. He worked in banking prior to beginning his real estate career in 1979. He is a member of three national marketing groups SEC, CCIM, and NCE. He teaches the counseling section of our Gold Card Course and a counseling course for the Society of Exchange Counselors Educational Foundation.

Ed "Scotty" Scott, EMS is a 30 year real estate investor and licensee. He is a top-producing Realtor® with Remcor He has taught and counseled hundreds of other Realtors®, clients and special interest groups including Financial Planners, lenders and investment clubs

Jim Brondino Jim is a real world practitioner in all aspects of professional real property problem solving. He has been nationally recognized for his counseling skills and transaction-making ability by both the Society of Exchange Counselors and National Council of Exchangors who have awarded Jim the "Counselor of the Year" and "Exchangor of the Year" Awards, espectively. Jim is also a member of the American Exchangors Hall of Fame as well as the NCE Hall of Fame. He has advised national real estate chains (C-21), Realtors Land Institute (RLI), Commercial-Investment Real Estate Institute (CCIM). In addition to his professional work with exchangors and realtors he has taught at the university level and authored in many real estate publications, including McGraw Hill's Real Estate Handbook

Thom Bohan, EMS Mr. Bohan earned his Bachelor Degree in 1973 and his Master Degree in 1975. He obtained his Real Estate License in California in 1974 and in Nevada in 1992. Since 1974 Mr. Bohan has specialized in marketing investment real estate through the investment and exchange market place. He has helped many clients build their estates, and reduce their tax liability, and many others liquidate their estate with minimal (if any) tax liability. Mr. Bohan works well with attorneys and CPAs in helping their mutual clients achieve their objectives of estate building and tax-free incomes both for retirement and estate building purposes.
Mr. Bohan has been the recipient of many Multi-Million Dollar production awards, The Most Creative Exchange of the Year Award, Etc., because he always puts his clients and their family’s welfare and objectives first. The sales and exchanges he has engineered have involved properties principally in Southern California, however many have involved properties both outside of the State (10 other states),
and even outside of the USA.
Tom has been deeply involved in professional real estate organizations his entire career, including NAR, CAR, and National Council of Exchangors. He is the Immediate Past President of NCE and is the holder of prestigious Gold Card #001. In addition to being qualified to teach moderating courses, Tom is qualified to teach all aspects of the NCE Gold Card Course and many other subjects.