"Consumers expressed loud and clear, 'We need unbiased information, flexibility and empowerment when it comes to making a variety of real estate decisions and we will gravitate to the most cost-effective, accessible source to get it."

Said Garton-Good, "this became the catalyst in my drive to unbundle the real estate agent into a fee-for-services real estaet consultant and the template for the Consumer-Certified Real Estate Consultant designation."

Garton-Good said she preferred that only winners of the Distinguished Real Estate Education (DREI) designation be allowed to teach the new course. She said she wanted to find 50 DREIs to begin the first round of training. Those 50 ultimately would teach licensees.

"The C-CREC is the first designation to evolve from the consumer, to the real estate educator, and THEN to the professional (not the other way around as usually occurs - one reason that most consumers can't identify the alphabet soup behind the agent's name.)"

The Garton-Good meeting is set for Orlando, Sept. 30 through Oct. 1. The meeting is not only for DREI / potential instructors, it's open to anyone. For more information contact: NAREC at 1-888-469-6892.