Everyone at Kimberly Howell Properties wish you and your family a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving! We hope you’ll find yourself surrounded by friends, family, and loved ones. Our agents and staff will be relaxing today and enjoying some time off (although your agent may be working, check with them if you need assistance) and our offices will be closed today for Thanksgiving. We will remain closed on Friday, November 25th, but reopen for normal weekend hours on Saturday, November 26th. We hope you have an incredible day and have a chance to reflect on some of the things in your life that you have to be thankful for. We have many here at Kimberly Howell Properties and we are looking forward to another fantastic year with all of you. As we head to the end of 2016, we will look back fondly on a year of growth, new challenges, new faces, and lots of fun times spent with our agents, staff, and you. We have big things in the works for the coming year and we can’t wait to share them with you.
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Agents – Are You Looking for a New Brokerage?
It’s that time of year – Realtor dues are here, you’re looking back through the past year, setting goals, and looking forward to a new year of real estate. If you’re considering a new brokerage, maybe it’s time to make the move to Kimberly Howell Properties. There are plenty of reasons to consider us, but simply put (although we’re quite biased obviously), we are an incredible group of smart, talented, hard working people who put agent growth, training, and our clients above all else. Not to mention, we’re a whole lot of fun. With care and guidance from owner Kimberly Howell, Kimberly Howell Properties is committed to its agents and ensuring their success. We offer a full array of support to our agents including licensed staff who are on call day and night to assist you when needed. Whether you work commercial or residential or prefer apartment locating and rentals – we focus on your needs to grow as an agent and become successful. We won’t bog you down with fees and nickel and dime you until there’s nothing left (you know that feeling!). Our commission structure is fair and simple and you’ll find yourself earning more without all the complicated formulas and unexpected deductions that add up quickly. Training is available on a regular basis and we bring in experts on a regular basis to teach you real estate from the perspective of those we work with often – the title companies, inspectors, appraisers, lenders, underwriters, and many more. Once you see what we do and how we do it, we’re certain you’ll want to join our family.
We know the process of moving to a new brokerage can seem daunting, which is why we encourage you to sit down with us before you make your decisions and discuss the process and what we can do to assist in making it an easy transition.
Call John Alaniva to set up a meeting and discuss your future. John will answer questions, explain our system, take you on a tour of the offices, and introduce you to the staff and other agents. If you prefer to keep your potential move quiet, John can also set up a meeting offsite to preserve your privacy until the time is right (we understand the need to protect your current position until you make a decision). John can help you walk through it all – give him a call at (210) 912-6709 or send him an email at email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Happy Thanksgiving to All of Our Agents and Staff!
It’s not Thanksgiving yet, but today Kimberly Howell Properties celebrates our Annual Office Thanksgiving Potluck with our agents, staff, business partners, and friends. It is always an incredible event at our offices and it’s a great time to stop, give thanks, and celebrate all that we have accomplished thanks to the hard work and dedication of our agents. We’ll be relaxing and enjoying some of the best food imaginable, cooked by our agents and others, and taking a bit of time to kick back and relax. From the bottom of our hearts, we’d like to thank all of those we work with for the successes we have enjoyed throughout the year and we’d like to thank you, the visitors to this website and our friends, colleagues, and clients for all the great times we have enjoyed with you. Now…who wants some turkey?
this picture is from a Thanksgiving trip to Lake Tahoe…and yes, that is legendary food lover Heather Chandler of The IMG Studio mugging it up in the background, waiting to dig in
Military Specialists: Realtors That Understand Military Life
When you’ve spent time in the military or as part of a military family, you know that things don’t work quite the same as they do in the civilian world. This is why many homebuyers and sellers look for Realtors that understand military life – whether they have served themselves, were so-called Army brats, or married to the men and women who have served in the military. The military has a language all its own and for those of us that have never served, the lingo alone can be a bit confusing (try telling a civilian what time it is by the 24 hour clock – that one is always funny to watch as they try and count the hours!). Living in a city like San Antonio, you learn a lot about the military as it is everywhere you look, but not everyone understands the highly specialized needs of the men and women who serve and the stresses that can be associated with the frequent moves to new cities (sometimes even to foreign countries). There’s a lot to learn in order to get acclimated and sometimes the stress and strain can take a lot out of you. While the military itself provides a host of services to veterans to assist them, when it comes to housing, your local real estate agents are always a great resource, especially when they are Realtors that understand military life and the needs of both the veteran and their loved ones.
With that in mind, we have curated a list of our agents with military experience – whether they have served themselves or are closely tied to the military community through their family and their involvement in military life. While most agents in the San Antonio area are familiar with military life, these agents have shown their expertise and dedication to the men and women of the military. If you’re moving in or out of the area, give one of these Realtors that understand military life a call and you’ll be able to relax and rest assured that your housing needs will be met, whether renting, buying, or selling – here or anywhere across the country (we have a vast referral network to help you find an agent on the other end of your move as well!).
image courtesy of The U.S. Army
Sometimes We Just Like to Have a Bit of Fun
We recently kicked off a summer contest at Kimberly Howell Properties and have been having a lot of fun with it. Agents are awarded points for all sorts of tasks and prizes are being given away for all sorts of different things. While we take our business very seriously, we also like to relax and enjoy a bit too, so we’ve been doing some more non-traditional point awards through the first few days, just to keep everyone on their toes and keep things interesting. That’s what this blog post is all about. Don’t worry, the next post will be back to normal and all about real estate, so you can just skip over this one if you’re not one of our agents.
Hello agents, how are you today? I figured I’d pick a different way to communicate an opportunity to earn some points since I know you’re all waiting for my next email. Today, the points are all about blog comments. Commenting on blogs is a great way to get involved and learn more about real estate. You don’t want to spam every website you see, but thoughtful comments can lead to some great communication and get you more involved in your local community. There are a ton of great blogs out there, many focused on the very same things that interest you. But today, we focus on real estate. Here’s how the points work on this one.
- First, go get yourself a gravatar. If you’ve ever written a blog post for our site, you already have one (we set it up when we posted your first article). Read our post about gravatars and how to get one and follow the instructions to set one up for yourself. This is worth 1 point…but only if you do the next step as well.
- Ok, now that you have a gravatar, find a blog post on this site to comment on. Don’t just post “here’s my comment” – make it meaningful. Read the post, think about the post, add something to the conversation…this is about more than points, this is about getting involved. Comments without gravatars will be disqualified as will meaningless comments (give us your thoughts and feelings about the post or add something to the conversation, don’t just comment to get a point). Only one comment per agent will be awarded points (but feel free to make multiple comments!). This step is worth 1 point, but much like the first point, only qualifies if you did the first step as well. (So you get two points if you do it correctly, no points if you skip either step.)
So there you have it, an opportunity to secure two points for yourself. This point offer expires on Saturday, July 23 at 2PM. Comments made after that will be appreciated, but will not earn you points.
PS No need to report your comments to the office, we see all of the comments made here on the website. We’ll know you made a comment and be able to see your gravatar alongside the comment (be sure you use the same email address when writing your comment as the one you signed up for a gravatar with).
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Welcome to All of Our New Real Estate Agents
We’ve welcomed several new real estate agents over the past month or so and we wanted to take a moment to welcome them to the Kimberly Howell Properties family and hope you will too. Agents have many choices of where to call home when they’re looking for a brokerage to work with and having them choose us is an honor. We work hard to provide our agents with the tools they need to grow and be successful and the support that is important to both them and their clients. We’re proud of our agents and the countless hours they pour into their work as Realtors, helping clients all over the San Antonio area and beyond. We hope you’ll get to know them as we do as well – their stories, their experiences, their knowledge, and their work ethic – all of these go into making a real estate agent and driving our company forward so that we can serve you, our clients, in all of your real estate transactions. Take a moment to get to know your real estate agent and you’ll have both a trusted advocate and a friend for years to come. It takes a lot of dedication to be a Realtor and these agents are excellent examples of the passion and drive necessary to assist clients throughout their lives and become much more than just a real estate agent to the people they’ve helped along the way.
Looking for a new brokerage? Give us a call and see what happens when a company stops worrying about sheer volume and starts caring about the people they surround themselves with.
image courtesy of Realtor Action Center