South Carolina Real Estate School

Hello, my name is Stacey Starnes and I am the owner of the Real Estate School for Success. I am also a practicing and top producing real estate agent! I decided to start this school after getting my real estate license. I realized that there was a gap in real estate licensing in South Carolina and I wanted to fill it. Like with all education it is important where you go to get that education. Some high school students spend months visiting college campuses and reviewing collegiate rankings before choosing their school. As we all know education can make all the difference. After completing my first licensing course, I realized that I needed something more. After buying books and listening to every piece of advice I could get, I slowly started being successful. This is why I named the school The Real Estate School for Success. But it shouldn’t be this hard, Right? Of course not, if you have a curriculum and resources ready for agents it should be easy and it is. At the Real Estate School for Success we provide you with everything you will need to be successful in real estate. We have our own in-house marketing company, Marketing for Agents. I work closely with them to ensure that you get the right marketing and start selling real estate as soon as possible. Show me the money, right? I get asked

a lot, what makes you different?  I always say three things: we care for our students, we want you to succeed and we practice real estate everyday. A lot of our competitors only teach. I bring my experiences, and trust me I learn something everyday, into my curriculum. But you will not just gain from my experiences but from our experienced instructors as well. We have a wide range of experienced instructors that have performed every type of real estate imaginable from commercial to investment to residential and property management. I also developed the success course. The success course is a two day course that is jam packed with great information. During this course you will write a business plan and develop a marketing strategy to get you organized. Then we will cover different tactics of negotiation and prospecting management. This course will get you motivated, excited, and give you the confidence you need to sell. I can’t wait to meet you and I hope to see you in our classroom. Remember that Success Starts Here!

We are an approved education provider of real estate courses in the State of South Carolina.  The  South Carolina Real Estate Commission has reviewed and approved every courses that is taught at the South Carolina Real Estate School for Success.  We take pride in creating an educational environment that is both informative and entertaining.  We place special emphasis on providing students with the skills necessary to pass all related exams and succeed in their South Carolina real estate careers.  We take pride in recruiting only the best real estate professionals to teach our real estate courses.

What Makes Us Different? ("There is nothing like Experience")

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way

-Mark Twain

We take pride is the fact that our teachers are true real estate professional that practice real estate.  Our teachers are experienced in many different areas of real estate including commercial, investment, and residential real estate sales.  As the Saying goes, "There is nothing like Experience" and our teachers will gladly share their experience with you.  This is why our slogan is "Success Starts Here" because we will not only get you prepared to take your real estate exams but we will prepare you for your SUCCESSFUL real estate career.

The Real Estate School for Success is independently owned and operated with a mission to provide superior training for real estate professionals. The Real Estate School for Success does not have exclusive partnerships nor will we endorse or promote any Real Estate Brokerage Companies.

The Real Estate School for Success will provide training for any and all Real Estate Brokerage Companies that share our goals and objectives. The Real Estate School for Success will gladly provide exclusive training for any Real Estate Brokerage Company in need of superior real estate training. Additionally, we also provide specific training for any real estate brokerage companies and their agents. This training can be provided on site or here at the school. In an effort to educate and inform potential real estate agents of licensing/education requirements, this school will host “career nights”. Occasionally, we will invite different Real Estate Brokerage Companies to participate in the career nights. This invitation will be extended for the sole purpose of allowing potential students the opportunity to ask questions of the different brokerage companies but does not serve as any endorsement.

Our Instructors

Frankie Griffin	Jerry Fowler	John Kneece
Penny Benton	David Patterson	Hugh Ryall	David Dubose

South Carolina's only CyberProfessional. A group of 58 of the highest producing Realtors in the Country


Active in real estate for the past 17 years, Jerry specializes in the sale of single-family homes in and around the Columbia, Lexington, Irmo and Blythewood areas of South Carolina. He is currently a resident of Chapin SC. Jerry is a seasoned broker and is the host of the only real estate radio talk show in the Carolinas for the past fourteen years. Jerry has actively sought to continue his real estate education and has attained the prestigious Certified Residential Specialist designation as well as that of Certified Buyers' Representative. Both of these designations take years to acquire, involving many hours of classroom instruction and many successful residential closings.

While with RE/MAX Real Estate Service, Jerry achieved a host of honors. He was a member of the RE/MAX 100% Club each year, beginning with his first full year at RE/MAX 1993. He was a member of the RE/MAX Platinum Club from 1995 through 1998. He made the RE/MAX Hall of Fame in 1997. From 1995 through 1998, he was the top-producing agent for RE/MAX in the entire Columbia SC area in the number of closed transactions, and was ranked tenth out of 1,342 RE/MAX agents in the North and South Carolina region.

In January 1998, Jerry started Jerry Fowler & the Results Team Realtors in an effort to take his level of service even higher. Jerry's operation is completely computerized to ensure that not a single detail is overlooked, whether you are buying or selling. Jerry is one of the only agents in the area that makes his marketing plan an addendum to the listing agreement. This practice ensures that you get top-notch service with Jerry Fowler & the Results Team or you can legally cancel your listing agreement at any time. The Results Team consists of 7 highly specialized team members each of which are highly trained and specialists in their field. When you hire the Results Team you are getting seven for the price of one.

Education
Jerry graduated from high school in 1964. He attended Pembroke State University, majoring in marketing and psychology. Throughout his real estate career he's continued his education, taking many special focus classes on marketing and selling. He also taught a goal-setting course in the Columbia area.

Professional Affiliations
Jerry is one of the founding members of the Business Development Club (BDC) and is the Director of the BDC Nationwide, past member of the Lexington Toastmasters, currently a member of the National Association of REALTORS, State and the local REALTORS associations. Jerry teaches the new Realtor orientation program to motivate new Realtors to be the best they can be. Jerry belongs to the Consolidated Multiple Listing Service and is a member of Greater Columbia Home Builder Association.

He is a past member of the

RE/MAX 100% Club
Platinum Club
International Hall of Fame
International Top Producer Panel

Jerry served on the Top Producer Panel for the South Carolina Association of Realtors.

Jerry was named the Man of the Year for the South Carolina chapter of the Leukemia Society of America. He was selected to sit on the board of trustees for the State Leukemia Society in 1998 and was elected secretary for the State Leukemia Association beginning in the year 2000.

Jerry has been a member of the Super Star Panel for the Columbia Board of Realtors as well as the State Association of Realtors. Jerry sits on the South Carolina Association of Realtors Technology Committee, which is charged with bringing area Realtors into the new age and introducing them to the latest technologies.

Jerry also teaches Realtor Orientation for all the new Realtors that enter the Columbia Association of Realtors.

Jerry sits on the Board of Trustees with the Better Business Bureau and is on a special ad review committee for the BBB.

Jerry was elected in November 2004, by a large majority of voters to represent the taxpayers as a trustee on the Lexington/Richland School District 5school board. School district 5 is the number one school district in South Carolina.

In January of 2005 and will again serve in 2006 as the chairman of the board for the Better Business Bureau for 15 Counties in South Carolina.




Hugh Ryall - DREI, ABR, ABRM, CRB, CRS, GRI, ALHS, ASR, C-CREC, SRES
J. Hugh Ryall brings to his classes the benefit of a wide variety of work experience over his professional life. His expertise and knowledge have come not only in the classroom, but much more from "being out in the trenches", doing the deals, fighting the battles in real life. This first hand experience gives his teaching a much higher degree of relevance and applicability than mere theory. Hugh was honored by the South Carolina Association of Realtors in 1998 by being elected the “Outstanding Educator of the Year,” and was nominated for the National Association of Realtors Educator of the Year. Hugh was honored as one of the first twelve Realtors to be inducted in the Real Estate Buyer Agent Hall of Fame. Hugh holds the Distinguished Real Estate Instructor designation, a position only held by 105 people internationally.
His business acumen was developed over the years in positions as:

Todd Feaster

Specialization
Todd Feaster has been employed in the Real Estate Appraisal field since June of 1991, with extensive experience in both Fee and Mass appraisal work. Todd has written narrative type appraisal reports on residential and commercial properties for presentation at the Lexington County Board of Assessment Appeals, the South Carolina Administrative Law Court, and the South Carolina Circuit Court. He has also offered testimony as an Expert Witness in cases involving many types of Valuation disputes. Todd has been teaching Real Estate Appraisal Courses since October of 1999.

Professional Affiliations

South Carolina Association of Assessing Officials, 1991-Present

South Carolina Professional Appraisers Coalition, Charter Member

International Association of Assessing Officials, 1996-Present

John Kneece

Lifetime Personal Trainer for Success
John works as a real estate broker in the Orangeburg, Bamberg, and Calhoun County markets. Over sixteen years marketing and selling more than 800 homes, John brings a lot of field experience to the table. John decided from the very beginning of his real estate career that to compete in the market and to deliver first class effective service to his clients, he would attend every educational opportunity possible. This meant doing the basics and seeking new methods and systems to integrate into a serious work ethic.
John loves to see new agents learn from the beginning the right way to do things. He believes that if you do your best and take care of your clients that you will never want for anything very long.

Personal
John has earned the following designations.

(GRI) Graduate Realtor Institute

(ABR) Accredited Buyers Representative

(e-Pro) Internet Marketing Professional

John has attended classroom studies under the direction of: Floyd Wickman, Bill Barrett, and numerous nationally recognized instructors certified by NAR and SCAR.

Education
John attended high school in Columbia, SC and is a 1970 graduate of Columbia High School. John has attended classes at USC, Midland’s Technical School, OC Technical School, and BKU in Miami, Florida.

Prior to becoming a career real estate agent, John was in the food-service business. As general manager and owner of three fast-food restaurants for twenty-one years, John acquired skills and knowledge in the areas of marketing, accounting, training, and motivation which have transcended his daily efforts to assist clients of real estate.

John’s goal and reason for being involved in the training of new agents and some not-so-new agents is to contribute to the overall betterment of people who wish to succeed in real estate and by doing so to improve the profession and the public image of individual real estate practitioners.

Professional Affiliations

South Carolina Association of REALTORS

National Association of REALTORS

Southern Midlands Association of Realtors

Real Estate Buyers Agent Council

David Patterson 
 

Specialization  
David is Managing Broker of Patterson Group (a real estate representation collaborative within Russell & Jeffcoat REALTORS®, Inc.). Through constant commitment to his clients’ real estate goals, David’s mission is to become one

of the most trusted, best trained, solutions oriented Real Estate Brokers in South Carolina.  

Personal  
David holds the following designations and honors:

• David has been awarded the Certificate of Professionalism by the Greater Columbia Association of REALTORS®.
• Broker with Russell & Jeffcoat REALTORS®, Inc.
• ASR Accredited Sellers Representative
• CRS-Certified Residential Specialist Specialists
• ABR Accredited Buyers Representative
• Instructor at the Real Estate School for Success
• March 2007 Agent of the Month for the Russell & Jeffcoat Forest Acres Office

 
 
 

Education  
David graduated from Mount View High School and received a BS Degree from Queens University.  Throughout his real estate career, David has continued his education. David had taken many special classes because he is committed to his clients!  
 

Professional Affiliations

• Greater Columbia Association of REALTORS
• South Carolina Association of REALTORS
• National Association of REALTORS
• Consolidated Multiple Listing Service
• Real Estate Buyers Agency Council (www.REBAC.net)
• Accredited Seller Agency Council (www.selleragency.com)

David Dubose 
 

Specialization
David has owned and operated two successful businesses for 36 years with the last 4 ½ years being DuBose Home Inspection, Inc. David started his home inspection business with the commitment to give the highest level of customer service with an emphasis on education (both educating his clients and continuing education for himself). This established David as a leader in the industry, and in his 2nd year in business he was invited as 1 of 8 inspectors around the state by the Residential Builders Commission to work on re-writing the State Exam for Home Inspectors. As part of his education, David has been as active member of the South Carolina Association of Home Inspectors (SCAHI) and the South Carolina Chapter of American Society of Home Inspectors (SCASHI). David is now serving his 2nd year as President of SCAHI and his first year as Treasurer of SCASHI.
Personal
ASHI Certified Inspector
SCAHI Certified Inspector
Professional Affiliations
Pres. SC Association of Home Inspectors --- SCAHI
Treasurer of SC chapter of American Society of Home Inspectors SCASHI