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Realtor Education Services: January Training Schedule

Realtor Education Services: January 2013 Training Calendar!

Our January training schedule starts the new year off with a bang! Start the New Year off on the right foot! 

We are meeting agents educational needs right where they are. Our programs range from basics for newer agents through advanced skills for veterans. The schedule appeals to a variety of experience levels as well as a wide range of topics from computer basic skills & shortcuts to Assistant training, Google products workshops through Personal Brand Marketing workshops.  Open to all agents regardless of brokerage.  No Charge for all our Lunch & Learns in our state of the art facility.  Live Presenters in Brighton, Simulcast to the Ann Arbor and Fenton locations.  Please contact: Kelly.Schemanske@gmail.com for details and RSVP is always appreciated but not necessary.  Bring an agent friend and LEARN MORE TO EARN MORE!

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Fantasy of Lights Parade and Raffle
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Loyal Livingston County families and friends braved the cold in Howell on Friday, November 23rd, for two events despite the changing weather. Temperatures plummeted from 43 degrees to 31 with 20-30 mph winds and rain – which changed to an icy shower and then snow.

RE/MAX Platinum partnered with Express Employment Professionals to host the Pre-Fantasy of Lights Raffle. All proceeds went to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network to help purchase a Stryker crib. The local EEP contacted Express Clydesdales owner Bob Funk of Yukon, Oklahoma, who keeps 25 of the beautiful black horses and travels all around the United States and Canada to appear in parades.

Every Clydesdale horse eats 12 pounds of feed and between 12 and 15 pounds of hay, plus apples and carrots for treats. Each horse also requires 30 gallons of water! They can stand six feet tall at the shoulder (17-18 hands is the traditional measurement standard), weigh between 1,800 and 2,300 pounds apiece, and their hooves are the size of dinner plates! Still, their temperament is very gentle.

Express Employment Professionals held an e-mail and Facebook raffle, with the prize of seats on the coach used in the parade, which is a replica...

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Annual Fall Charity Auction a Fantastic Success
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RE/MAX Platinum’s annual Fall Charity Auction was a fabulous success again! After the weekly sales meeting on Tuesday, November 13th in Brighton, auctioneer Carl Vagnetti worked hard to “sell” donated items, gift certificates, specialty dishes and the like to the highest bidder among Realtors and agents.

The auction raised nearly $1900 with more coming in -- almost double the amount from last year's auction! Great desserts such as Julie Haines’ cheesecakes, a custard cake donated by Ruth Genso and Nan Gregory’s whiskey cranberry cake, brought in lots of bids. Tim and Colleen Sova donated Yooper Pasties which sold for $25-27 each! Carl Vagnetti's Famous Lasagnas each sold for $40 and up! Delicious Reese's Pieces cupcakes also raked in the ‘dough.’ A copy of RE/MAX Platinum staff writer Meg Mims’ Spur Award-winning book, Double Crossing, sold for $25.

Go Blue!! University of Michigan basketball tickets, donated by Neal Nielson, an attorney in Brighton, were also sold along with pottery donated by local potter Ryan Lock, plus a wonderful wall hanging...

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100 Women Event – Another Grand Success!
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What fabulous news -- 100 Women Who Care in Livingston County has officially reached 100 members!

Their latest meeting, which took place on Wednesday November 7th due to the recent election, was sponsored by the RE/MAX 100 Women team, which includes Nancy Hubbell, Mary Novak, Julie Fischer, Team Hinton and other RE/MAX Platinum staff ladies! They made up bright red bags with plenty of real estate information inside to give to the attendees that evening.

Emmy Jiordano-Brown’s presentation on Operation Injured Soldiers was chosen to receive $10,000. The charity based in South Lyon helps wounded heroes return to sports and hobbies they enjoyed before deployment. Monies raised by community events are used to fund hunting, fishing, camping trips and sports events, along with other outdoor recreation that get disabled heroes back on track with physical and emotional rehabilitation.

On Monday, November 19th, 100 Women Who Care will present the check to Operation Injured Soldiers at the American Spirit Center, 10590 Grand River Avenue, in Brighton. We hope to see as many members of the Livingston County chapter as possible there. Come out and support our wounded heroes!

—Meg Mims...

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Another Success for 100 Women!
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On Tuesday, August 7th, 100 Women Who Care met for the second time this year at RE/MAX Platinum’s auditorium in Brighton.

This national group is an amazing concept – instead of working a bake sale, a car wash, a silent auction or craft show, the women agree to gather four times a year to make a huge difference in their community. All it takes is listening to pitches for charities, voting and writing a check for $100. And 100 women multiplied by $100 will definitely make an impact!

Founder Candye Hinton led the meeting and thanked Sandie Cortez, the owner of First Impression Print & Marketing of Howell, for sponsoring the evening and for all the group’s printing needs. Pastor Thomas Tarpley of Mission House in Fowlerville reported to the group how the funds from the May meeting are being used.

After a brief explanation by Sheryl Rogers about the charity verification process, three speakers were chosen by to give their five-minute “talks” on charities. Each speaker is also allowed three...

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