George has over four decades of professional real estate, finance and sales management experience which he brings to his classroom in helping to advance today's REALTORs®' professionalism and knowledge. He began his career as a territory sales manager for national franchise retailer, Western Auto Supply Company of Kansas City. His skills acquired in the evaluation of prospective franchisees, market sites and communities led him to a full time real estate career in 1979. Over the years he has represented buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of residential, commercial, apartment and agricultural properties. He has owned and operated a property management services company and has structured and sold investment property syndication private placement offerings. George entered the lending industry in 1996 and is experienced in both residential and commercial loan origination. He presently owns and operates a commercial real estate mortgage company with a specialty in SBA business and real estate financing.
George has trained and managed salespersons for several organizations, developing and delivering training material through both classroom instruction and in the marketplace. As manager of the U.S. corporate headquarters of an international real estate company with over 1,000 agents in its 8 U.S. offices, he assisted in writing a comprehensive training course curriculum and provided live lecture classes. His management and marketing experience led him to be employed as the vice-president of marketing for a national asset management company serving a variety of needs of banks and other lending institutions for whom he assisted in developing programs essential in monitoring and tracking compliance with regulatory agencies.
George has been a member of the California Association of REALTORS® state faculty since 2000 and serves as a Master Instructor providing live lecture instruction at REALTOR® Associations throughout the state. In addition to developing and writing real estate educational courses he is the author of “The Great Mortgage Market Implosion of 2007” and the real estate college course textbook “California Real Estate Escrow and Title Principles and Practice”, (Kaplan Professional Education). George attended San Bernardino Valley College, Modesto Junior College and California State University at San Bernardino with a political science major. He served his country in the United States Marine Corps and serves his community as a member of Lancaster West Rotary Club.
You may contact George at George.Lawrence@gwlawrence.com and visit him at www.gwlawrence.com.
