Patty Bender

Here's what I've noticed since joining the Real Estate Industry, agents have hearts of GOLD. No pun intended with the fact that I'm with a CENTURY 21 company and we are all about Gold. No, seriously, if you ask for help, they are right there! It's truly impressive!

We all know what the economy is like right now, yet over the past two weeks we have put out requests asking for help for three different things: Our agents and staff are amazing! They give generously!

1) Gleaners Food Bank, Our local food back is really low on food. Our agents pulled together and brought in over 6000 cans of food...a little healthy competition between the offices didn't hurt either.

2) Jillian Center Gift Drive -

Scheetz agents adopted over 50 women and children at the Jillian Center for Abused Women and Children. Making sure they have a very Merry Christmas. An email went out to everyone asking for our agents and staff to adopt a child, and within 1 hour our agents responded by saying YES! There was an overwhelming spirit of giving. This year very special boys and girls will find just what they asked for under their tree thanks to the agents and staff who understand the reason for the season.

3) CENTURY 21 Foundation - CENTURY 21 Scheetz has a non-profit organization designed to give to those clients, and/or community people who are in need. The foundation has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through many efforts. The latest effort was an ugly Christmas Sweater/auction raising over $4000. This money will be used when an agent is working with a needy family.

OK...so this is my first official Active Rain blog post. I've written blogs in several other areas, but for the longest time I've simply had a simple little profile on here without any content, how boring is that?

I keep getting emails everyday from active rain and I must say, many of the blogs are rather informative. I've picked up some handy dandy little tools and tips. My hope for this blog - wait, hold on here, I need to make sure I've got the lingo down right...is this a Blog, or is this a Post, or is this a Blog Post. I've heard several different definitions, just wondering if I'm following the right rules of the road.

So, back to my train of thought...My hope for this blog/post/blog post, is to provide resources for the real estate folks that I have found to be extremely helpful in our business. I'd love to keep writing because I really feel like I'm on a roll now, but I don't want to write too much until I know if I'm even doing this right. So, come back for more, I promise to add much better value than this rambling...