Yesterday I joined the agents in my office in celebration of the Christmas Season at a luncheon in Strongsville at the Macaroni Grille. 12 of us shared a table and as with any group that have been together for a long time we started to reminice (sp?). Some of us have been together for 22 years. We have seen changes in our profession as well as changes in our company name. But we as "the team" came together for the "Last Supper" so to speak to share one final meal as the Realty One Team.
We went from Miller-Bishop Realtors, to Miller-Bishop HGM Realtors, to Realty One, and now to Howard Hanna gold, our newest company purchaser. It is strange to say the least. New colors, new forms, new business cards, new team mates, but the same old core of professionals.
Mollie, Bill, Sheila, Marcia and me. That is all that is left of the group that I started with 22 years ago, when I had just gotten my license. We are on our fourth manager and for awhile we sort of floated adrift as our longtime manager Marie was battling a critical illness.
When I joined the firm we were in a former bank building and Bill and his cohort Louis shared their space in the old bank "vault". There were times that the two good old boys could have been locked in....but they weren't. We were a great company of agents, loyal and trustworthy, tried and true, back in the days of the Multiple listing books that we carried like sacred vessels ... to the new computer savy agents that we have become.
We have a great staff and a great manager. They all care for us and about us. The change has been bittersweet as we are all a little older and a little longer in the tooth. But we are giving it our best shot and we will come out fighting in 2009.
Thank you to Jim and Amanda for your sincere and caring help and comfort through all of this.
We shared our last meal as Realty One agents, and shared our first meal as Howard Hanna agents.
Some famous person said "People don't care about you until they know how much you care!"
Thank you all for caring!
We went from Miller-Bishop Realtors, to Miller-Bishop HGM Realtors, to Realty One, and now to Howard Hanna gold, our newest company purchaser. It is strange to say the least. New colors, new forms, new business cards, new team mates, but the same old core of professionals.
Mollie, Bill, Sheila, Marcia and me. That is all that is left of the group that I started with 22 years ago, when I had just gotten my license. We are on our fourth manager and for awhile we sort of floated adrift as our longtime manager Marie was battling a critical illness.
When I joined the firm we were in a former bank building and Bill and his cohort Louis shared their space in the old bank "vault". There were times that the two good old boys could have been locked in....but they weren't. We were a great company of agents, loyal and trustworthy, tried and true, back in the days of the Multiple listing books that we carried like sacred vessels ... to the new computer savy agents that we have become.
We have a great staff and a great manager. They all care for us and about us. The change has been bittersweet as we are all a little older and a little longer in the tooth. But we are giving it our best shot and we will come out fighting in 2009.
Thank you to Jim and Amanda for your sincere and caring help and comfort through all of this.
We shared our last meal as Realty One agents, and shared our first meal as Howard Hanna agents.
Some famous person said "People don't care about you until they know how much you care!"
Thank you all for caring!
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