by Susan Doran | Jul 31, 2018 | Profiles
Tracy Niu immigrated to Vancouver from China 18 years ago with “no idea what to expect.” Upon arrival in Canada, Niu got a job as a travel agent and tour guide. She had done that back in her home city of Qingdao (base of the well-known Tsingtao beer brewery), but now...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jul 30, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
“One day I wasn’t doing very well. I was feeling down. Then my mom said to me, ‘you know Richard, you have a choice, you can be happy or unhappy. You’ve just got to grab the brass ring.’” Richard Wallace never forgot the advice his mother, Iris Wallace, gave him when...
by Diane Slawych | Jul 5, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
The boyhood home of Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the highlights of a new self-guided trail launched by Georgia Tourism this spring to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s death. Georgia’s Footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Trail...
by Susan Doran | Jul 3, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
As recipients of the Re/Max organization’s inaugural Founders Award, Frank Polzler and Walter Schneider have reached the Re/Max world’s accolade summit. “We’re breathing very thin air,” says Schneider. Co-founders of Re/Max Integra, the largest master sub-franchisor...
by Yvonne Dick | Jun 25, 2018 | Profiles
Robert Curphey says the best way to start training for downhill skiing is by doing it. Although he has been downhill skiing for most of his life, he felt it was time to embrace a new and fresh challenge, so he took time off work as a sales rep. His goal: to challenge...
by Jeff Stern | Jun 25, 2018 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Profiles
I don’t show homes to just anyone. In fact, I avoid showing to one particular kind of buyer. They are the buyers who have not taken the step of becoming preapproved to buy a home. Any buyer who has not taken the basic step of getting preapproval from a bank is not...
