Christmas Eve at RE/MAX

The phones are quiet today and a few agents are popping in and out of the office as I sit here and update the blog. Yesterday I read a fantastic book, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and I encourage anyone who has not yet read it to go get it TODAY! It's a quick read. I read it in just a few hours and it's life changing! It's a perfect book to sit by the fire and read this holiday because it's easy to get so wrapped up in this somewhat commercialized holiday, that it's easy to forget what is really important in life. Anyway.... read this book if you can find some spare time. It's truly awesome. Coincidentally our agents will be getting to see Mitch Albom speak at an upcoming sales rally on January 9th. Now that I've read this book, I can hardly wait. So, a lot has happened since I last updated the blog. The season took over and there are many things I didn't get to, including my blog. Some of the highlights this month include the RE/MAX Prestige & Unlimited Mortgage Adopt a Family. Our companies adopted 25 local DSS families for the holidays. Andy and I made 6 trips to DSS with car loads of presents for local families. We want to thank our team for helping us with that. We also had an unbelievable holiday party on the 14th. We had over 120 guests and it was held at the Wyndham in Andover. Our ver own, Joanna Dendrolivanos, did an unbelievable rendition of Silent Night to our gracious crowd. As well, we had a visit from the YMCA carolers and a pop-by by good old St. Nick himself. It was a great time. Anyway, Andy and I wish everyone a fantastic holiday. Take advantage of this time and spend it with loved ones and if you're feeling a little overwhelmed by everything, pick up a copy of Tuesdays with Morrie, grab your favorite blanket, go to your bedroom, shut the door and read. Enjoy!

WOW.... WHAT A MONTH!

Ok... it's the last week of the month at Prestige and what a week it is! We were very excited this month to unveil our new recruiting website. There are so many agents that call us every day and they want to learn more about RE/MAX Prestige... well now they can get a glimps of what we are all about by going to www.remaxprestigerecruiting.com. Also, we announced this week that we are, for the seventh year, helping DSS families for the holidays. So far, we have 15 agents who have committed to taking care of the holiday wishes for 15 families... our goal this year is to help 25 families in total for the holiday! We thank our lucky stars every day for all of the blessings we have been afforded. The biggest blessing is our group of agents. It's great to work with such wonderful people!

RE/MAX Prestige Turkey Drive

We are fast approaching Thanksgiving week. Can you believe how time flys? Every year at RE/MAX Prestige we gather Thanksgiving food baskets for DSS. Our agents go out and purchase complete Thanksgiving meals for 30 local DSS families. So.... this week... in addition to showing houses, negotiating contracts, listing homes, and finding new and innovative ways to market every property, our agents are out doing some major turkey day shopping. It's a lot of work, but boy do we have a good time!

WOW... WHAT A WEEK!

I know... it's ONLY MONDAY... but we are having a FANTASTIC week at RE/MAX Prestige. We are starting our November off right with some GREAT new additions at RE/MAX! We are so excited to welcome Tom Courtney and Pat Courtney back to RE/MAX! Both come to us from Keller Williams. Tom will be working as Director of Business Development where he will be working one on one with our agents to grow their careers to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!! Pat is a LEGEND in the real estate business and she's helped thousands of people buy and sell homes. She's good at her job and a fantastic person. We're psyched to have her! Then, in Chelmsford we are very happy to announce the the M&M Team from Coldwell Banker just joined! Matthew and Michelle Keats live in Billerica and sell houses all over the Merrimack Valley! The cherry on top this week is our new family members in Lawrence. Vivian Garcia and Julie Duran, formerly of Coco Early, have joined RE/MAX Prestige. When other offices are shutting their doors in the great city of Lawrence we are still on the grow... so we are so pleased to have Vivian and Julie with us. Jeezzzz what next? It's only Monday.... can't wait to see what's in store for the rest of the week!!!

A Spooktacular Halloween at RE/MAX Prestige

Every year our Chelmsford RE/MAX office gets a visistor. We are not sure who it is, but every year for the past three years, somebody comes to the office late at night on the eve of Halloween and decorates like you can't even imagine. This year, the office was decked throughout with ghosts, goblins, spiders, body parts, skeletons and more. Every square inch of the Chelmsford office was decorated. Who did it? We have our guesses but nobody knows for sure? This year we even had a costume contest in all of the offices. Three of our unbelievable administrators won the contest. Check out some of the great costumes that our agents and staff came up with. Even the loan originators at Unlimited Mortgage and one of the attorneys at All American got into the spirit. Some days I wake up and just think to myself, that I must be the luckiest person alive to have such great people to work with each and every day. Thanks for a great Halloween RE/MAX! Check out some photos by clicking the following link: http://marketing.remaxdesigncenter.com/email/45070/443529/index.ipv

RE/MAX Prestige Named Top 10 by Boston Business Journal

What better way to start the week then to pick up a copy of the Boston Business Journal and to see that RE/MAX Prestige is named as a TOP 10 REAL ESTATE FIRM IN MASSACHUSETTS!!!! Life seriously doesn't get any better then that! So, if you're a potential buyer and you're wondering what TOP 10 status means to you... it means that all of our agents are seasoned professionals so if you're working with a RE/MAX Prestige agent, you're in great hands. When the market's off a little... we keep getting better! If you're a seller, this is also great news for you! Our agents are the creme-de-la-creme. Our agents are on top of the latest technology and trends in real estate. That's why we are doing MORE business this year then any other year! Our sales are up 33% this year over last!

Needless to say we are really excited about this news. We look foward to continued growth and we look forward to moving up the Top 10 Chart next year since 2007 is turning out to be a blockbuster year in real estate at RE/MAX Prestige!

A Trip to DC

Today's the last day of our conference in Washington DC. The retreat featured real estate office owners from all over the United States. We came out to find out if there were new ways that we could improve our offices. The most important piece that we took away from the conference is that we need to work on improving our technology even further! In Merrimack Valley we are so far ahead of the curve with technology because of our in house Members Only site, Leadstreet with automatic drip campaigns, Design Center, and more. However, what we realize now is that we need to broaden our horizons. For one, we need a blog, so we decided why wait! We also learned that many offices are taking advantage of technology offered on U-Tube and Ipod podcasts to grow their offices. The bottom line is, if, as owners of the best real estate office around, we aren't embracing all of the technology available to us, then how can we expect our agents to? As of today, we are committed to finding new ways for our agents to compete in the market using all of the great technology available to us. As well, we will continue to take advantage of all of motivational and inspirational seminars that are out there because you never know when you'll get that next great idea.