What participants are saying | Testimonies:

“I am more confident when talking about fair housing with clients and the community shareholders. Thank you. I wish the class were in person. We would love to have your energy in the room.” —Roseline C., REALTOR®, Fair Housing DECODER© online participant (learnwithdrlee.today).

“EVERYONE raved about Dr. Lee! She rocks! Even our venue/techie said, 'She’s more lively virtually than a lot of our other guests are in person!'" —Lee Cooley, Director of Marketing & Communications at Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS®

Why this training? Or, what are the benefits of working with typically underserved clients and championing fair housing?

To answer these questions, let's start with some of the twenty-one creeds by which Dr. Lee lives:

Motto 3: “But today our very survival depends on our ability… to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this worldwide neighborhood into a worldwide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools… All I'm saying is simply this: that all mankind is tied together; all life is interrelated, and we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of identity. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." --Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Motto 5: “Rising tides lift all ships” –JFK

Since you are likely a real estate, mortgage or appraisal professional, we will spare you the data dump that shows that homeownership improves communities via better familial, medical, educational and financial outcomes because we would simply “be preachin’ to the choir”.

However, we will share one key statistic:

Citigroup found that just since the year 2000, $218 billion were lost in housing market sales from the entire American economy due to Black applicants facing unfair lending.

Wowser! Can you imagine how $218 billion more in sales would have impacted your firms and associations?

Now can you imagine if the data were to go back and account for the days before and after federal fair housing and lending were codified in the twentieth century (since this data only analyzed the twenty-first century)?

What if the data included all of the other federally and locally protected classes like religion, national origin, disability and so forth?

Even this pared-down data makes it crystal clear: the more fair access and opportunity that everyone – no exceptions – has to become homeowners, the better off we all are.

Motto 13: “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.” –Zora Neale Hurston

Ultimately, we deny ourselves when discrimination against others goes unchecked.

“All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us.” ―Roxane Gay

Make no mistake, it takes us – as our neighbors trusted, go-to real estate professionals – to proactively champion fair housing (and lending), making sure access and opportunity stay top-of-mind at every point of the real estate transaction.

Count My Group In! How Do We Request a Live Workshop?

We have been repeatedly told that Dr. Lee's virtual, on-demand courses (featured below -- keep scrolling) rock but we get it, you too may prefer live workshops. Contact us to learn more about live (in-person or webinars) options:

Need a Virtual, On-Demand Option?

If you have been to one of Dr. Lee's workshops, then it is likely no surprise that many (in-person and via webinar) have called this course "the secret to getting comfortable with conversations on race and real estate and all things fair housing".

Did you know Dr. Lee has been fondly dubbed "The Fair Housing Equalizer"? Thanks for that fun moniker Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group!

If you missed the live version (or just want to soak it all in again), here's your chance to watch a condensed, on-demand version and get a certificate, score!

This novel concept of being a Fair Housing DECODER© who skillfully and proactively advocates -- not alienates -- for equitable access and opportunity in real estate for EVERYONE is just what the doctor ordered (pun intended).

More specifically, in this Fair Housing DECODER© Certificate Course:

+ Gain confidence as a professional who understands how to advocate for fair housing (including fair lending)

+ Explore how to "advocate not alienate" in the pursuit of fair housing

+ Uncover key resources to report un-fair housing

+ Review the dos and don'ts of fair housing-focused vocabulary, especially when marketing

+ Consider why I have moved away from the term "implicit bias" and perhaps you should too

+ Discover resources to support historically "redlined" communities

+ Revisit 3 essentials that your clients should focus on to lessen the likelihood of un-fair housing

+ Discover simple questions that many aren't asking but are critical to fair housing being realized

+ Spot the power of the "carrot-cake" approach vs the "stick" method

+ Identify tools to proactively encourage fair housing with your team, office, and community

+ Distinguish what a Fair Housing DECODER© does proactively above and beyond regular real estate pros

+ And so much more all from the comfort of anywhere in the world

If you or those on your team struggle with this tension, then take this certificate course quick, fast, and in a hurry.

Explore the course and get started at:

https://www.learnwithdrlee.today/course/fairhousingdecoder

Sound off - I would love to hear from you! Give me a shout on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Or, get your "training on" with these on-demand classes. Here's to your success! #LearnWithDrLee