2009 REALTOR of the Year

This past Friday I received my fifteen minutes of fame and it really felt good, No, it felt G R E A T! I was at the Ulster County Realtors Recognition Lunch and had received a few awards for my work as Chairman of the Education Committee and I was happy with that.

Nothing could have prepared me for what was to come nor did I ever imagine that my heart was going to race at a speed I've never known. Lunch was great and they handed out a few awards before. Now it was time for the big ones to be announced. I was just there to congratulate my fellow Real Estate Agents.

I was seated comfortably when the board President started to read a description of the next person to receive the last award. I think he did mention what it was for but that is all kind of a blur to me. He started to give a detailed description of the background and experience and I started to think that it sounds like me. The further he described this person the more my heart started to race and I said to myself either I'd better get my hearing checked or he is talking about me.

When he announced my name as Realtor of the Year it had to top the best feeling I've ever had. Wow this is really happening to me and that's probably what I said to the audience of about 100 of my peers. Then I said something like I wanted to thank everyone for my Academy Award and how speechless I was and that someone should take a picture because that wasn't going to last very long.

Imagine a real estate agent not having anything to say? It happened and now the words won't stop. This makes up for all those customers who came, went and spent some of my valuable time without any compensation. Life is good!