Christa Caulk

Since my mom, Missy Caulk has been on my case for about 2 years now to start a blog. I thought it would be appropriate to make this first blog about her.

Yesterday we had our annual Ann Arbor Board of Realtors general membership meeting. Appropriate for this time of year it was time for the election of two new Realtor Directors.  There were 7 agents running. Truthfully, this year my mom had decided not to run, as she had been on the Board for 6 years and wanted to give other agents an opportunity to serve. However, with some persuasion from our Team Leader (broker) Chet Hill at Keller Williams and unresolved issues she decided she would give it a go.

Each candidate was asked to speak for "2 minutes" prior to the voting. Mom started out her speech by saying "When I was thinking about what to say I had to decide if I was going to "run on experience.....or if I was going to run on change". Contrary to common belief she does surprise me and has a sense of humor at times. Everyone cracked up.

The biggest issues our board has been working through are if we are going to switch completely back to using old lock boxes or stay with the e-key. We've extended our contract with Supra e-key for one more year which mom made clear she was in favor of due to safety issues that we've had come up in Ann Arbor in recent months. We are also in negotiations regarding merging the MLS to become either regional or a state wide MLS or to have a single point of entry.  

Of the 7 candidates she was the only one that addressed the issues specifically and didn't speak too much on the "fluff". How refreshing! Maybe in her next life she should become a politician.

She said to me,  "I don't think I'm going to get elected this time".

I responded, "You said that last time".  

At the end of the meeting it was announced that both Missy Caulk and Latonya Keith  (our broker at Keller Williams) had won.. (Much to the dismay of the 3 other companies running candidates).  

I had no problem throwing the "I told you so" at her. Was there ever any doubt?

Today at our office we had a champagne celebration.

Congratulations mom you are an incredible woman and you never cease to amaze me! 

(Please excuse my terrible video skills! I'm still working on those too)