Professionals helping jump start the year

Submitted by Joe DeKroub on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:26

We’ve been through a lot in the past couple years.

As the economy crashed, a lot of baby boomers have themselves having to start over again economically.

The end of the last year was especially difficult. Maybe it was that things are truly darkest before the dawn. Maybe it was a case of economic fatigue. No matter which, how it felt was real; after all, pain is still pain, hurt is still hurt, and loss is still loss.

Things were tough and tensions were high.

I found myself working diligently on keeping peace in my professional neighborhood, trying to keep things steady and help people work through their problems during the past year, which has been terribly tough on emotions.

As a way of helping, I hired some professionals to work with my agents.

Matt De La Cruz, pictured here, is working with us on setting spiritual, family, financial and work goals, and Mike Pallin is teaching us how to work our plans.

It’s appropriate that they’re helping kick off the start to this New Year.

I am convinced that we have scaled the big hill and are now on the other side. That’s important because the worst feels like it is over. We now need to reevaluate where we are, reinvest in our future and go back to basics.

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About RE/MAX Platinum

The RE/MAX Platinum office was created in the fall of 2008 when the Michigan Group Realtors and RE/MAX Platinum merged. The consolidation of the services of the community’s two largest realty companies created a real estate powerhouse that increased the services it could offer its customers and agents. Four RE/MAX Platinum offices located in Livingston, Genesee, Oakland and Washtenaw counties serve all of Southeast Michigan.

At the time of the merger, the Michigan Group, owned by Joe DeKroub, was the largest single-site real estate company in the state. It merged with the RE/MAX Platinum office, owned by Dan Callan and Will Steinmetz, the other major real estate player in the area, with offices in Hartland, Fenton, downtown Brighton and downtown Howell. Consolidating the services of the community’s two largest realty companies created a real estate powerhouse with the ability to increase services to customers at a time when other firms were cutting theirs.

Upon the merger, DeKroub became the Managing Partner and CEO of RE/MAX Platinum. The Michigan Group name was changed and the new RE/MAX Platinum office emerged with more than 150 licensed sales associates and domination of the local market. After the merger, RE/MAX Platinum opened another office in Ann Arbor.