RE/MAX Olson & Associates is a full-service real estate brokerage with a real estate attorney on staff. Dave Kelly was awarde ... d the Graduate REALTOR® Institute (GRI) designation in 2005. He is a Southland Regional Association (SRAR) member who completed the curriculum required to achieve the highly acclaimed designation. He joins other top producers in the residential real estate industry who hold the designation across the nation. Dave Kelly earned the "Graduate REALTOR® Institute” (GRI) designation by attending a specific, intensive series of a minimum of 90 hours of classroom instruction, covering a variety of subjects including: contract law, professional standards, sales and marketing, finance, and risk reduction. In addition, he has learned the fundamentals of brokerage and other areas of real estate specialization. With this designation and through increased awareness of current topics important to the real estate professional, such as legal issues, he can better serve prospective clients and customers. The REALTOR® Institute is designed to educate practitioners about local, state and national real estate practices that affect them, their clients and customers. The Institute is taught by leading real estate professionals from around the country. The GRI designation sets the individuals who have attained it apart from other practitioners because it indicates to the public that the individual has obtained a professional educational foundation on which to base the services they provide and that they are a member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® . read more