The Renton Wa Realtor Blog !: December 2007

Keller Williams Realty wins Stevie® Award for Real Estate Sales Organization of the Year

Keller Williams Realty was recently honored with a Stevie Award in the Best Run Sales Organization category as the Real Estate Sales Organization of the Year at the second annual Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards in Las Vegas, Nev.

The awards were jointly presented by Selling Power magazine, the leading sales management publication with 145,000 subscribers in 67 countries, and The Stevie® Awards, which have been hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” (the New York Post, April 27, 2005).

More than 400 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories this year.

The Gary McNinch Team of Renton WA is proud to be a member of the innovative Keller Williams company. It is great to see our company receive such an honor. If you are interested in a career as a professional real estate business owner please give us a call or click on our website http://www.rentonhomefinder.com/ and look at the careers section. I will be glad to meet with you or talk on the phone about our values and how to build your business.

Find out more about the Stevie Awards by clicking here. This info was published by Keller Williams Realty International.

Good Lord, Now it's on AR Too.  Is it too much?

I am so tired of the politics already.  Sound bites, photos, kissing babies, visiting senior centers, lunch counters, scenes of disasters.  Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.  We need a mechanism to keep all the electioneering away until July of the election year or in this years case Mid Summer 2008.   We are a year ahead of ourselves and the states keep moving the primaries and caucuses up. Soon we will be starting the TV campaigns for the president, the week after the election is over.  Oh sorry, I guess we are already doing that. 

I grew up in a very conservative small town in Eastern Washington, with a farming and logging family.  My folks were very interested in the political process and so there was lots of conversation around the dinner table. After years of work as a State Trooper, I am still conservative.  And after owning a real estate business, I guess I'm a pretty conservative business man too.  I want to see a President who will work to protect our country and our freedoms.  I want to see a President who will protect our economy (the value of our most important assets ... the single family home) and keep it stable so that it remains solid for my grandkids

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Up here in Washington State, we used to be able to vote for folks on either side of the ticket, but the political parties took the voters to court so now we have to register and can only vote for one party. Once again the local guy loses out to the national political machine. 

I am tired of this, which is really sad, because I am the guy that loves PoliSci and the political process. And I am not usually the NEGATIVE person.  Must be too many sound bites.   Too much name calling.  If we start the process a year too early, do they have to start getting money two or three years early?  Maybe that is the answer.  And now Oprah has a favorite too...  It's no wonder my sons both would rather get their news from Stewart and Colbert rather than Rather on the networks.

This post started out as a reply to Bill Burress who wrote a great post at  Election Update: Huckabee leads the Republican Polls For Good Reasons. I like Mike Huckabee,  but as I read it and all the comments I just got more tired...

We live in the greatest country in the world, with Freedom and Opportunity like no where else.  Stay informed and make sure an exercise your right to vote. But do we have to start 3 years early???

List and Sell (and thanks for letting me RANT on and on)    Gary

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