Jim Hastings is the current chairman of the FORCE. He is the Broker of Hastings Brokerage, Ltd., a Las Vegas real estate firm that specializes in helping mortgage servicers and residential real estate portfolio managers with their complete REO process since 1984. Hastings holds a bachelor’s degree in real estate from Arizona State University and has closed over $1 billion in residential REO. He holds real estate broker licenses held in Nevada, California, and Arizona, and formerly Ohio. He has had offices in each state and is only operating in Nevada right now. He is also co-founder of Broker Brain, a web-based REO/property management system used throughout the US. Hastings has written many articles for the FORCE newsletters and has spoken many times at the Five Star Conferences. His passion is to make sure that FORCE members get value out of their membership in a concrete way that will better their life.