Real Estate Broker

George W. K. Rokos, a retired real estate broker, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his home on Mayfield Avenue in Baltimore. He was 80.Mr. Rokos retired about 15 years ago as the owner of the Rokos Co., which specialized in commercial real estate for nearly 20 years.Earlier, he had been a vice president in Chicago of the American Phonograph Corp.Born in Toledo, Ohio, George Washington Klecka Rokos was reared in Baltimore and was a graduate of City College and the University of Baltimore law school.

Herbert A. Davis, a Baltimore real estate broker and decorated World War II veteran, died Monday of progressive supranuclear palsy at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 87. "Herb was always very enthusiastic and just a great guy," said Dorothy F. "Patsy" Ross, who works in real estate sales for Chase Fitzgerald & Co. "He was enthusiastic, positive and was always thinking on the bright side, and he really knew the business," said Mrs. Ross. "He was a great salesman. " Judy L. Bushong, a real estate agent, worked with Mr. Davis for 28 years.

A Mass of Christian burial for Joseph P. Daiger Jr., a real estate broker and semiretired partner in a real estate firm, will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Towson.Mr. Daiger, who was 66 and lived on Dulaney Valley Court in Towson, died Tuesday after a heart attack while driving his car at Dulaney Valley Road and Jarrettsville Pike.He had been semiretired for about a year from the firm of Daiger and Lynch, with which he was associated about 15 years.

Editor: That is exactly what the County Council is doing when they try to change the zoning in the middle of owners who are complying with the law. I do not have an opinion one way or the other in regards to Walmart; however I do not like the fact that private property rights are being trampled on. When a piece of property is zoned for a use and the owner is using the property that it is zoned for, why does the Council feel a need to change it...

Thelma G. Springer, a retired Howard County real estate broker, died Monday of heart failure at Ridgeway Manor Nursing Home in Catonsville. She was 96 and lived in Ellicott City. Born in Spotsylvania County, Va., Thelma G. Stephens attended schools in Savage after moving to Howard County in 1913. She became a real estate broker in 1952 and helped create the Howard County Real Estate Board, serving as its president. She operated her business, Springer and Associates Realtors, in a converted dairy barn on Montgomery Road.

David Walter Ott, a real estate broker and former college wrestler, died Tuesday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital. The Towson resident was 62. Born in Baltimore and raised in Essex, he was a 1959 graduate of Kenwood High School where he was a member of the wrestling team. He was awarded a full wrestling scholarship to the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned two Atlantic Coast Conference wrestling trophies in the 137-pound weight class.

William Otto Schmidbauer, a former real estate broker convicted in April of a federal conspiracy charge, is scheduled to be sentenced this morning in a series of fraudulent property transactions that cost the government $2.5 million. Schmidbauer, a former Perry Hall real estate broker who was one of the prominent property flippers in Baltimore, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to a single count of conspiracy to make false statements. In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Schmidbauer, 64, also agreed to forfeit $690,000 in profits on deals financed by mortgages that he fraudulently obtained from federally insured institutions for his buyers.

I would like to know who to contact if a buyer signed a contract to purchase my home and gave an earnest money deposit of $1,000 to the agent and the buyer failed to close on the property for unknown reasons (I have the documentation that he was approved for the loan). I would like the deposit released to me and I have been in contact with the agent who has sent a certified letter with a Release of Obligation (returned receipt) to the buyer. The buyer has not responded. I sent a letter with all documentation to the Maryland Real Estate Commission but their response was that they have no jurisdiction in this type of complaint.

Julia Mae Hausenfluck, a retired real estate broker who was 80, died Tuesday of cancer at the home of a daughter in West Friendship.Services were being held today at the Donaldson funeral establishment in Laurel.In the late 1960s, Mrs. Hausenfluck became a real estate broker and was one of the founding partners of Kayhouse Realty. She sold her interest in the firm and retired, moving from Middle River to Sugarloaf Key, Fla., about 12 years ago.The former Julia Burton was a native of Glen Arm who was reared in Hampden.

Is it wise to buy a FSBO?FSBO is shorthand for "For Sale By Owner." A FSBO property is one that's offered for sale by sellers who aren't represented by a real estate broker.There are several reasons why sellers might choose to sell their home without a real estate broker. They may have had a horrible experience with the last broker they worked with. More common are FSBO sellers who are selling in order to save themselves the cost of a real estate commission.The number of FSBOs on the market tends to increase during a seller's market.

Frank Simms Dudley Jr., an Eastern Shore real estate broker and property appraiser, died of complications after surgery March 3 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The former Baltimore resident was 93. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Frank S. Dudley, a banker, and Edith Shriner, a homemaker. He lived on Roland Avenue and attended Roland Park Country School before graduating from Gilman School in 1939. His studies at the University of Virginia were interrupted by his service in the Navy during World War II. A lieutenant, he commanded a sub chaser and initially patrolled anti-submarine nets off the New York Harbor and later off San Diego and San Francisco.

Adam D. Cockey Jr., a leader in the Baltimore-area real estate industry who had headed a Roland Park brokerage, died Oct. 30 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of complications from a fall he suffered last month while on vacation in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 71 and had homes in Cockeysviile and St. Michaels. Born in Timonium, he was a member of the family that lent its name to Cockeysville. He attended Lutherville Elementary School. He was a 1959 graduate of Towson High School, where he was class president.

The lawsuit brought by several Baltimore are homeowners against the largest residential real estate team in the state is the direct result of the Maryland Real Estate Commission ignoring the rules governing brokers and the required course work needed to become a broker ("Lawsuit alleges fraud in real estate deals," Dec. 20). Recently, the commission allowed sales people, like Creig Northrop, to form teams without having the required training a broker must have. There is a reason brokers must have training, prior to managing salespeople.

Milton H. "Mickey" Miller, 80, a retired commercial real estate broker and civic leader who ran a successful fundraising campaign for the Peabody Institute, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 12 at Sinai Hospital. The Pikesville resident was 80. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of J. Jefferson Miller, the Hecht department store executive who led downtown Baltimore's urban renewal development in the Charles Center. He was a 1948 Friends School graduate and earned a history degree at the Johns Hopkins University.

Christopher Lee Boozer, a commercial real estate broker active in the Masonic order and its charities, died of a heart attack Dec. 25 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Cockeysville resident was 49. Born in Baltimore and raised in Rodgers Forge, he was a 1979 graduate of Loyola High School at Blakefield, where he remained an active alumnus. He attended the University of Delaware and earned a degree at Salisbury State University. He was a lineman on his schools' football teams. Mr.

Wal-Mart, the Arkansas-based discount retailer, has purchased 20.5 acres in Aberdeen Business Park in Harford County as a site for a new store.The chain plans to begin construction of the 93,000-square-foot store as soon as it receives a grading permit from the town of Aberdeen, said Maury Levin, a real estate broker who negotiated the sale for Wal-Mart.Aberdeen officials have approved Wal-Mart's plan for the store in the business park, across U.S. 40 from the recently completed Frito-Lay manufacturing and distribution center.