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Writer Dennis Torres, a licensed California real estate broker, oversees Pepperdine University’s real estate strategies as director of real estate operations. Torres also serves as the university’s adjunct professor of negotiation and dispute resolution. He can be reached at dennis.torres@pepperdine.edu.