ABOUT US
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS
Armen Makasjian
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Armen is a California native. He received his bachelor’s degree in real estate from California State University in 1987. That same year, he received his California real estate broker license and became actively engaged in real estate sales for his father’s real estate company which was established in 1963. In 1992, Armen received his residential appraisal license specializing in FHA appraisals, divorces, partnership dissolutions, purchase transactions and appraisal field review for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Upon receiving his Certified General appraisal license, his appraisal expertise expanded to various commercial and industrial site, and special use properties which include schools, churches and partial interest valuations. Armen is currently active in real estate sales and appraisals, and he frequently provides consulting for various neighborhood councils and attorneys on new projects involving project entitlements, pro-forma analysis and highest and best use analysis. Armen enjoys spending time with his family. His hobbies include playing the piano, hiking and collecting coins. |
Rhonda McCune
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After earning a BA degree in Business from CSUF, Rhonda worked for a mortgage banker and it was there she learned the art/science of appraisal. Over the years she appraised many income producing properties from shopping centers to office buildings.
Licensing of appraisers began in the 1990's and subsequently she started teaching appraisal classes part-time for Real Estate Trainers. She had a real estate license also and would occasionally teach the Principles class. She has represented many buyers and sellers in real estate transactions, worked as a consultant for developers and takes this experience to the weekend Salesperson State Exam Prep course. Rhonda enjoys spending quality time with her daughters and grandchildren. She is a former city Councilwoman and Mayor and has served on many commissions and committees which, again, gives her insight to helping our students obtain their license and become real estate professionals. |
George Haines
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Dr. Haines was born and raised on the East Coast, the oldest son of 8 children. His degrees include BS from Penn State U, BD and ThM from Princeton, PhD from New York University, 2 post doctorates from UCLA and a JD doctor of juris prudence from Western State University College of Law. He has been teaching 25 different courses in Real Estate Education for 48 years.
As a real estate licensee Dr. Haines has been a real estate broker in both the residential and commercial fields. In the residential side he has sold homes in Orange, LA, Santa Barbara, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties as well as out of state in Nashville, Tennessee. On the commercial side, Dr. Haines has sold an office building, a US Post Office, a ranch for custom housing development, land for residential development, land for development for a business park, a church and a number of multi housing complexes in Houston, Texas, gravel quarry in Maryland with a road construction business and a granite quarry in Pennsylvania. Dr. Haines has been a consultant to a hospital personnel supply corp, churches, ambulance company, construction contractors and businesses for sale of their receivables and he is involved in new ventures in the health field. |
