Keller Williams Simi Valley Welcomes New Team Leader Karen Betancourt

Karen Betancourt New Team Leader for Keller Williams Simi Valley

Karen’s career in the real estate industry began in 1984 when she obtained her real estate license and began as a residential sales agent focusing in the Moorpark and Conejo areas for Century 21 Village Oaks. She was asked to become the sales manager of the company 3 years later. Approximately 2 years later, the owners of Century 21 Village Oaks merged with Century 21 Ambassador which was owned by Bob Majorino. At that time, Karen worked closely with Bob Majorino in planning and executing the merger of the two companies and continued to co-manage the merged offices with Bob under Century 21 Village Oaks for approximately 7 years. As general manager, Karen created and implemented the training program for new and experienced agents in addition to handling the overall management of the office including staffing, advertising, finances of the operation, creating and implementing the business plan for the company to name a few. Karen again worked closely with the owners in the acquisition of the Prudential franchise and the transition from Century 21 Village Oaks to Prudential California Realty.

While real estate management was the field she enjoyed most, Karen entered the world of single motherhood at this time and decided to transition to a related field that would offer her the additional benefits and security she needed at this time thus began her escrow career. Beginning at Townsgate Escrow, she soon found herself in the world of title as they were acquired by Chicago Title. A year later, joining all of her colleagues she moved to Fidelity Title and became their top producing resale desk in Ventura County for many years. She attained this through her marketing efforts which she brought from her real estate background and previous employment and continuously operated a successful unit with 4-5 assistants a majority of the time.

With her children now older, Karen decided to leave the escrow field in October and started up a website business with some partners. While deciding what she wanted to pursue next after setting up the website business, a mutual friend connected Robert Harris and Karen which resulted in her joining us here at Keller Williams Simi Valley as Team Leader.

Keller Williams Simi Valley is excited to welcome Karen Betancourt to lead our team.