| Sweet and Southern is what Bill Gallagher always | | | | Vonda Lee. Oh my there are more Vonda Lee |
| says. Bill owns Superior School of Real Estate in | | | | stories than I have space to tell about. Vonda Lee |
| Charlotte NC but teaches Real Estate Classes | | | | game back from a listing appointment once and said, |
| throughout the state of North Carolina. Bill’s | | | | “That house has the worst case of Radon gas I |
| school teaches preliscening and post licensing including | | | | have ever smelled” Bill told her “Vonda Lee |
| the mandatory update and electives. To stay licensed | | | | you can’t smell Radon Gas” “Well |
| in NC, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission | | | | something stank,” replied Vonda Lee. As it |
| requires that each licensee take a 4-hour mandatory | | | | turns out it was the sewage treatment center off |
| class as well as a 4-hour elective. Bill is one of the | | | | Park Rd that Vonda smelled. From then on Bill |
| premier instructors for North Carolina real estate. I | | | | didn’t have his agents bring people down Park |
| have known Bill for over 12 years and have laughed | | | | when bringing them from the airport to the office. |
| and learned a lot from him. I want to share with | | | | He had them come down Wilkinson Blvd by the |
| you some of Bill’s more notable stories that go | | | | Paper Doll Lounge. Wee welcome to Charlotte. |
| along with the lesson so you too will get an idea of | | | | Vonda drove a Jaguar and carried a pistol in her |
| Bill’s method of laughing and learning. | | | | purse. Everyone found this out one day when she |
| I have to tell about the “wild animal.” Bill | | | | came walking into the office with a gun hanging out |
| was once the broker-in-charge of the Prudential | | | | of her purse. A few agents came running to Bill |
| South park office. He had an agent that went to | | | | “Bill, Voda’s got a gun, Bill Vonda’s got a |
| show a house that had two de-clawed kitties in it. | | | | gun” Bill had to talk to her “Vonda, is |
| There was a sign on the door that read: Please | | | | everything alright? Is everything Ok? You |
| don’t let out the two de-clawed kitties out. | | | | aren’t mad at anybody are you?” I used to |
| The agent was careful not to let the two de-clawed | | | | think Bill was making this woman up but I actually |
| kitties out but inadvertently let the neighborhood | | | | meet her during one of Bill’s update classes at |
| tomcat in. When the owners got home from the | | | | Birkdale. She asked me to hold her shoes while |
| Hornets basketball game the house was shredded. | | | | she took of running bare foot to roll the windows up |
| The people told Bill that they didn’t know kitties | | | | on her Jaguar, err uh Lexus now (she told me) as it |
| could fly! Fortunately for everyone involved the | | | | was beginning to rain. |
| insurance covered it by reporting that a “wild | | | | Now in NC if a broker receives any bonus or |
| animal” got in the house. Bill has several funny | | | | incentive from a builder or seller it has to be disclosed |
| animal stories including “the seeing eye pony” | | | | to the buyer. Speaking of full disclosure Bill tells the |
| and the invisible fencing collar for a Doberman that | | | | story of a woman in Myers Park Presbyterian Church |
| the people put on their poodle to try to save money | | | | whose cell phone goes off in church. “She bent |
| and the dog has to see therapist now. You’ll | | | | over in the pew and talked on it,” says Bill. He |
| have to take Bill’s class to hear these and many | | | | says after the sermon he told the preacher who it |
| more. | | | | was “Full Disclosure” Tell it, tell it, tell it. |
| While Bill was at Prudential he had another agent | | | | |