My biography

Resume of Joe Goeters’ Real Estate and Teaching Careers

Following 10 years in the computer industry, six years of which were spent as a marketing representative for IBM, Joe entered the field of commercial real estate in Houston, Texas.

He has been a licensed real estate broker in the state of Texas since 1970. His first years were spent brokering investment properties and user properties in Houston, Texas with the firm of Russo/Gustafson and the Gustafson Group. In 1973 he joined Deutser & Weil and acted as their in-house real estate broker. For the next eight years he brokered multimillion dollar shopping centers, apartment projects, office buildings, stand alone retail sites (Dairy Queens, Pizza Inns, etc), and land investments. During his time with Deutser & Weil he developed a 54 acre multi-use project in Conroe, Texas known as Pine Hollow. As part of that activity he was the exclusive leasing agent for a 160,000 sq ft shopping center.

His next venture was in partnership with Walter Cunningham as the real estate manager of a multinational marketing program. Mr. Cunningham’s renowned as the Command module pilot for Apollo 7 brought him in contact with people around the world and Joe would act as investment counselor for real estate venture opportunities in Houston. This began in 1981 and ended in 1983 when Joe joined Easley Investment Corporation to become actively involved with real estate development.

As vice president of finance and marketing for Easley Investment Corporation, Joe provided financing for a 158 unit condominium project in Houston, a 202 unit resort condominium in Keystone, Colorado (approximately $20,000,000), four strip shopping centers in College Station, Texas, a 480,000 sq ft office/warehouse project in Houston and various multimillion dollar land acquisition loans in Houston and Colorado. In addition he was responsible for the sales and leasing of the companies development projects. The 202 unit project in Keystone was sold out prior to completion of construction.

Since 1988, Joe has operated Goeters Properties as a sole proprietor. The firm has done brokerage, appraisal, property management, and commercial and residential sales and leasing. In 1980, Joe began teaching real estate courses for Houston Community College as an adjunct Instructor. In addition, he has taught at Champions School of Real Estate, College of the Mainland, San Jacinto College, University of Houston, and Jones School of Real Estate.

Because of his enthusiasm for teaching he went back to school in 1987 and completed his MBA at The University of Houston in 1990. Subsequent to that he has completed the necessary 60 semester hours for his Doctorate in Education at the University of Houston. He has also completed his dissertation which consisted of developing two multimedia CD ROMs used for teaching real estate courses in the class room and on the internet.

Joe continues his involvement in the real estate community by being active in real estate groups and attending real estate programs on a regular basis. He is a past president of the Texas Real Estate Teachers Association and has the CREI designation. He is the recipient of the Don Roose Award of Excellence. He is also active in the Real Estate Educators Association.

In the last several years, Joe has authored a book entitled “Environmental Issues in Real Estate” published by Prentice Hall and has co-authored Real Estate Investments with Jack Wiedemer and published by Thompson Learning. He is the author of “Instructor’s Manual with Test Item File” for the “Real Estate Principles” book authored by Charles Jacobus. In addition, he is co-author of “Texas Real Estate Sales Exam” published by Learning Express. He has authored and co-authored numerous other real estate publications

He has developed Law of Contracts, Investments, Environmental Issues, Property Management, Finance, Loan Origination, and Appraisal courses on the Internet and teaches these courses on a regular basis. He also authored an on line environmental course for the National Association of Realtors which is being offered on the internet.