Above, from left, Lisa O’Brien and Carrie Mellon Arizona real estate agents Lisa O’Brien and Carrie Mellon had never met before that fateful time in 2019, when O’Brien had a seller, Mellon had a cash buyer, and they closed the deal in a record six days. “It was amazing from the beginning how much we…
Above, Gretchen Coley Gretchen Coley grew up poor, waiting tables and doing menial chores to pay her way through the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She took her degree in finance to Wall Street, where she interned long enough to realize that neither trading nor the New York vibe suited her taste for gracious…
Above, Cathleen Pritchard, left and her daughter Melanie Pritchard Living in a four-seasons destination area, with a real estate agent aunt who set an example, it was no surprise that Cathleen Pritchard chose real estate as her career. Licensed in 1981, she went to work for a small Century 21 company in Ellicottville, New York,…
Above from left, Nicole Platt, Cameron Platt and Eric Moreno Cameron Platt has been selling real estate for more than 20 years. But he still calls himself a ‘recovering attorney.’ “I got my Juris Doctorate in Oakland, California in 2001,” he said, “and I went to work as a litigator. Negotiation was always my strong…
A native of Tucson, Arizona, Lisa Bayless earned a degree in social work from Boston University, convinced she’d found her calling in counseling. But a blind date who became her steady was a real estate developer in Back Bay, and she was quite surprised to see an overlap in what they did. “We both worked…
Jessica Cohen was 21 in 1999 when she bought her first tiny studio apartment in New York’s upper west side for $93,000. A pre-med student tired of sharing a small walk-up rental with roommates, she scraped together the down payment to purchase the property that would launch both her investment journey and a laudable career…
Above, Lori Penney A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a degree in international marketing, Lori Penney is a born entrepreneur, with more than 10 years of business success to her credit before she set her sights on real estate in 2008. She was also early to see the value in teaming, and in…
With a Wisconsin Merrill Lynch Real Estate office in the family, Jeff Lien grew up in the industry. By the time he was in his teens, he was hanging signs and cleaning pools before open houses. “I went off to college with every intention of studying math and computer science,” he said. “But real estate…
Above, Allen Gammons Allen Gammons owned a small publishing company in Rhode Island when he began to invest in real estate—and became so fascinated by the process and possibilities that in 1992, he became a licensed agent. After testing his skills with a smaller company, he signed on with RE/MAX, where in 1995 he was…
Well over 30 years ago, just out of high school with no career plan in mind, Jeff Quintin took a job as a drive-in teller at a local New Jersey bank. It wasn’t long before a life plan took shape. “I saw the big checks that real estate agents were cashing,” Quintin said. “I figured,…
As opposed to even recently when sellers would let their agent handle most everything, now many want to be more involved. Read more.
