Real Living's "expansion unit"  was bought by a company called Brookfield Residential Property Services.  Real Living just became five times larger....  "expansion unit" comes from the title of a Columbus Business First article.

We (Real Living HER agents)  got an email (with the press release) last night and a voice mail.

I work for Real Living HER.  That is the company formerly known as HER Realtors.  HER Realtors has been a leader in Central Ohio real estate for decades.  Real Living HER is the number one real estate company in Central Ohio.

Real Living formed in 2002 is based in Columbus.  The "expansion unit" part of Real Living is Real Living Network Services.

Matt Burns of Columbus Business First wrote about changes in  Brookfield buys Real Living expansion unit

"The name of Central Ohio’s largest residential real estate brokerage will appear in nearly every state after its Columbus parent sold the division that powered its national expansion."

Brookfield owns GMAC real estate, has for about 9 months... GMAC real estate franchises across the US are the offices that will now have the Real Living name, logo, technology etc.

The Columbus Business First article says: "All of GMAC’s more than 600 offices will take the Real Living name."

Who's who....

Harley Rouda Jr. is the president of the new merged company...

Real Living

Real Living HER = Columbus

Real Living Realty Services - Dayton, Cinci, Louisville (I get this franchise confused with Real Living Network Services, the "expansion unit" of Real Living. )

There are Real Living franchises currently in 20 states, there will soon be the red and white signs in 46 states from what I am reading and hearing.

Brookfield Residential Property Services is a division of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.

GMAC Real Estate

The Columbus Dispatch article this morning: Real Living joins GMAC realty unit in merger written by Jim Weiker says:

"The deal, consummated this month and announced today, merges Real Living's 2,000 agents in 130 offices with approximately 8,000 GMAC Real Estate agents in 470 U.S. offices. It creates a company with $20 billion in annual real-estate transactions. About 8,000 of GMAC's 13,000 agents in the United States and Canada are expected to become part of Real Living."

What's the effect for buyers and sellers in Central Ohio?  Not much, you've already got the good stuff available.

The image at the top is a Real Living ecard.

Worthington Memorial Day 2009

Poll - When does Summer start in Central Ohio?

The image is a Real Living eCard.  Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

See any good ones?

This is a Real Living eCard.  I'm an agent with Real Living HER

P.S. This is  positively pointless.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

Irish in Columbus

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Let The  Good Times  Roll!

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Happy Valentines Day 

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This eCard brought to you by Real Living, I am a real estate agent with Real Living HER, Central Ohio.  The roses are from me, don't say you didn't get anything for Valentines Day.  Be careful putting them in a vase,  they have thorns.

Happy New Year Columbus   

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This image is a Real Living ecard.

A quiz about constitutional amendments.  I am normally very good at quizes... I usually love quizes. Not this one.  Do you know the amendments to the US Constitution?

It's been awhile.... I did NOT do well on this quiz. Jim Lee left a comment on one of my ActiveRain posts and said something about one of the amendments to the US constitution a few weeks ago and I had to go look it up...  The second amendment?  There was a lot of talk about the first amendment on ActiveRain recently.  Kinda sorta.   Don't give it away....  Take the quiz.

Quiz - 27 Amendments

Thank you. Your responses have been computer graded. Here are your results.

Score: (52%)      14      27


Ouch.  I retook it yesterday and did worse....

Have a safe and happy 4th of July. We went to Red, White & Boom last night and are going to the Doo Dah Parade today.

P.S. The US Constitution was written in 1787 (?)... we are celebrating the day the Declaration of Independence was signed.... The Declaration of Independence was written on July 2, 1776.  We'd have been celebrating Wednesday if they'd signed quicker... again Happy 4th of July.

I personally am just not clever enough to think of April Fool's pranks...  I doubt I have ever done an April Fool's Day gag. 

I had a client stop in and play one on me in the office a number of years ago.  Thanks Kyle! I was summonsed to the front desk...by my manager (our old manager...)  for an irate former client..  Kyle did scowly face real welll and he started telling me a horror story about the home I sold him and then... "April's Fool's!"

Sales meetting this AM my boss Tom Holcombe got some of us... We have a new MLS.. at the Columbus Board of Realtors. it's about a week old.  There are some frustrations, we need to learn how to get around.. we don't want to learn to get around.  We were all so relieved to hear the news...  No wait maybe I can call one of my co-workers who could NOT be at the meeting... 

I've seen a few of the online April Fool's Day pranks... even a couple on ActiveRain. The word on Twitter this AM is all the best gags this year were already done in Australia.

Did you get anyone this year?  Or did you get anyone on past April's Fool Days? Did anybody "get you" this year? Did you believe any that you saw on ActiveRain?   ...one got me.   For anyone who is successful... how do you come up with this stuff?

Happy April Fool's Day!

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