Real Estate Career News

After his resignation from Marist College in June 2005, Dennis entered a new career phase congruent with the
intention to continue online teaching and to complete a science fiction novel, entitled:
Encounter with the Trigorian Extraterrestrials.  The novel was completed in late 2006, revised in 2008 and
has been submitted to several agents and publishers but so far without success.

After the most recent experience of buying a home in Westchester County and reflecting on his and Deb's memories
of buying and selling homes in Connecticut, California and Albany, Clinton and Dutchess Counties in NY, Dennis
began to think about becoming a real estate agent.  He found a simulation on the Prudential Rand Realty site. The
simulation offered the chance to make hypothetical decisions as an agent and also featured skills and personality
asssessments.  Dennis then was contacted by a recruiter and decided to begin the process of becoming a licensed
real estate sales person.

The licensing process began with attendance at a salesperson course in White Plains offered by the Westchester
County Board of Realtors. The course consisted of 45 class hours over two week period in late July and early
August of 2006.  After passing the exam, Dennis was eligible to take the NYS Real Estate Salesperson exam which he
took in early September and passed.  As agreed earlier, Dennis' success was communicated to Prudential Rand.
and the firm agreed to sponsor him. In September,, Dennis traveled to the offices of the NYS Department of State
in  NYC, submitted the required paperwork and was licensed! He then accepted an affilation with Prudential Rand's
office in Briarcliff Manor (about three miles from the residence he and Deb share in Ossining).

Dennis' new position began with training offered by both the Prudential Rand firm and the Westchester Board
of Realtors.  He built a web site and began to make contacts and internalize the
inventory of homes, condos and coops available in the area.

The downturn in the real estate market, among other factors, led Dennis to decide to once again go on the
market for a higher education position. He accepted a position at Caldwell College in NY in ;ate Spring 2007
and began service as Dean, Center for Graduate and Continung Studies, on July 1, 2007. His commitment to
this position necessitated the termination of the affilation with Prudential Rand in June 2007. Dennis expects to
resume his real estate career - perhaps in Florida as well as NYS - when he retires in several years.