Agent Earns REALTOR e-PRO^® Certification
While Serving His Country in the Middle East

San Diego, CA -- Cody Lindstrom has successfully completed the REALTOR e-PRO^® course to become one of a select few real estate professionals to earn the prestigious certification offered through the National Association of REALTORS^®. Even more impressive is that he accomplished this feat while serving in Iraq with A Company 141st Engineer Combat Battalion.

“We are extremely proud of Cody,” said Broker Candace Christianson of Coldwell Banker Realty Group in Bismarck, ND. “He was home on leave in October and was very proud of his accomplishment. We can’t wait for him to come home for good and start applying what he has learned from the e-PRO course.”

Lindstrom and his wife, Angela, have two children, a son, Chaz, who is 10 and a daughter, CeAnna, who is two. While he was unable to provide any information about his current assignment, Cody did tell Christianson that he likes what he’s doing and is serving proudly.

During one of the e-PRO course exercises Lindstrom wrote: “I am in Iraq right now, I just made this one up quickly. I have a website through Coldwell Banker that is inactive right now. FYI, normally I would have my return address be the same business address that I would send from what would be my domain. This should let you know that I have the concept :-).”

“This is quite an accomplishment,” said Saul Klein, President of InternetCrusade^®. “Occasionally I hear agents complaining about taking the time to complete the course. Then I think of Cody sitting in a tent in the desert thousands of miles from his home and family working on e-PRO. That is the beauty of a web based training program…you can work on it anywhere. As far as we know, Cody is the first agent to complete the e-PRO course while serving in Iraq. It really illustrates the point that the Internet can be used to deliver information to users no matter where they are located.”

Lindstrom has always been Internet savvy, according to Christianson. He even built a website for his unit. Cody wrote: “We recently were able to get Internet access which allows me to continue my real estate education while at war. Amazing isn't it?”

The exclusive REALTOR e-PRO^® certification course is presented entirely online and certifies real estate agents and brokers as Internet professionals. Because of its innovative design, students are able to complete the course at their own pace, when and where they want, via any Internet connection. The course is designed to help REALTORS^® stay at the leading edge of technology and identify, evaluate and implement new Internet business models.

Both the content and the delivery platform were created by San Diego-based technology company InternetCrusade^®. The course instructs participants in the professional use of e-mail, the development of an interactive Web site, and the use of online research tools. Graduates use the skills they've acquired to provide clients information on properties for sale, local communities, and the local real estate market.

For more information, contact Rich Hudson at (619) 283-7302 or e-mail him at Rich@InternetCrusade.com.