Hello Friends,
I am taking this "blog moment" to look back on 2007. I started off by getting my license in January. I set off with wariness as statements of negativity from jaded, cranky, and failing Realtors rang in my head. I kept my chin up and worked my butt off. (I have since realized that I worked 6-7 days a week, 12-20 hours a day, for most of the year.) I found my stride in March and joined up with my best friend the "marketing-wonder-women". We have since built an amazing real estate company! We added transaction coordinators and a buyers specialist in the last couple of months, as well as a dynamic business coach and financial planner. We switched from Real Investment to Keller Williams in December and have felt right a home.
We did an overwhelming amount of networking and lead generation too. As a result, this year we have grown our client base by 1000 people who know and respect us. We care about the friendships we create. People aren't stupid. They know if they are simply a commission check. As a service provider, my job is to "serve". We have made that concept even deeper by calling ourselves Friendship Based Real Estate TM. We base everything we do on friendship. Everything. I've painted garages, roofed, cleaned, and sold homes for $1. I am thrilled with the accomplishments of our hard work and generous spirits. I am grateful for the opportunities we have had to work with so many amazing individuals. What an honor it is to be in a position to serve and bring blessing!!! I am looking forward to the coming year with anticipation and am excited to step into what 2008 will hold. I wish you all well. Have a wonderful night!
Sincerely,
Sarah
Hello friends,
Is anyone else out there craving the sun!??? I love few things in life more than to tilt my face to the sky with my eyes closed and have that elemental red warmth of the summer sun glow on my skin. (Why the heck am I in love with Eastern Washington anyway?) Now, being freckled and fair, I do have to slather on buckets of sunscreen, but I love warmth and brightness. Showing houses is much better in the Summer too. Right now we are in a record setting winter complete with drifts of snow that make me feel like an Arctic explorer simply getting the mail. Business is great though and my clients are happy that I'm selling there homes! (Maybe it's the free hat and gloves sets being given at open houses) I suppose to be fair though, I do enjoy wood fires, hot cocoa and sledding (kind of hard to have those in Hawaii). Anyway, I wish you all a wonderful evening from the beautifully iced wonderland of Spokane, WA. I think I'm going to curl up in from of my space heater and pretend I'm in Mexico :) LOL
Blessings,
Sarah Reinhart
I am honored to live and work in this amazing city!!! Spokane is wonderful...
Go Red For Women Luncheon, Spokane, WA
02/13/2008
10:30am -- 1:30pm
Location:
The newly remodeled Spokane Convention Center
334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd
Spokane, WA 99201
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Do all of the women in your life know that heart disease is their No. 1 health threat? It kills nearly half a million women each year at the rate of about one per minute.
The Go Red For Women Luncheon is an inspirational event that helps empower and educate women about their risks for heart disease and stroke. Discover the unique power inside every woman to fight back and make a difference not only in their own life but in the in the lives of the family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.
Ticket/Event Registration Information:
Contact the Spokane office of the American Heart Association at 509-536-1500 or karen.evans@heart.org for additional information. Sponsorship opportunities are available!
Attendees are encouraged to wear red!!!
Red Wagon Attraction Closed for Repairs Local Spokane Folks please note: |
In the last few days you may have noticed fencing around Spokane's Red Wagon sculpture in Riverfront Park. The Red Wagon, known officially as "The Childhood Express," is usually open year round, but this year Park Operations staff will work diligently during the months the attraction is least used to re-deck the wagon bed and provide additional structural reinforcement. The attraction is now fenced off and restricted from use for the duration of the repair process which should be completed in about two months, pending weather. Spokane's "Red Wagon" sculpture was created by Ken Spiering in honor of Washington State's 1989 Centennial. It was presented as a gift from the Junior League of Spokane, many local businesses and the Spokane Arts Commission to the children of Spokane. About Riverfront Park
About Spokane Parks and Recreation: |
Saving the World from Ordinary Service™
At Friendship Based Real Estate ® we live outside the "Box"! We excell at professionally caring for your real estate needs while creating cutting edge marketing to give you the advantage as you sell in this tough environment.
The days of hiring an agent to simply hang a sign, wear a nametag, and wait for the phone to ring is over! We will create a fresh, new and memorable advertising plan that showcases the most marketable aspects of your home. Bad advertising costs you money! We promise to treat you with the respect and care you deserve while giving you a reason to smile!
Have you ever had a experience that only took a moment of time, but changed your life forever? I have....
Here is the story: My adopted grandfather, Ray Murphy, passed away last year in Spokane, WA and I was the one who ended up packing up his belongings and cleaning out his condo. My children were aged one and two and I was already tired to the bone. (With children only 19 months apart...I had not had a full nights sleep in several years.) The stress and grief of the situation combined with my chronic sleep deprivation to create a brittle and ugly layer over my mood and attitude.
So, here I am surrounded the natural chaos of small children packing and cleaning the home of a ailing loved one. They are running through the 50 years of accumulation and clutter while howling like two monkeys on steroids. To escape the noise, I closed myself in his bedroom and started cleaning out his dresser. Among the many bits of paper and mismatched buttons, I found a men's wedding band. I stared at it in the light of that autumn afternoon and time stood still....It took me a moment to realize what I was looking at. My grandfather had never married until he fell in love with the love of his life, Dorthea, in his late 30's. Dorthea had passed away in 2000 and I had forgotten that Ray had stopped wearing his wedding band.
As I stared at that ring, my life focused. I saw a flash of the future and envisioned my daughter holding my wedding band in her hand as she was organizing the final details of my life. In a moment, I knew mortality. I knew death with a finality that was stunning. I was forever changed.
I decided in that moment to live. To truly live. To stop focusing on the parts of life that are stressful, mundane, and unproductive, and to live a live of focused purpose. To laugh with my children and chase them around the living-room with their toothbrushes rather than stressing that they are past their bedtime. I decided to be brave and try a career I could love rather than one I worked 7 years going to college for. I made a determination with myself that I would find beauty and joy in the small moments of magic that everyday life creates. That I would sing and dance without being embarrassed, and cry when I wanted to.
Since then, I have always worn Ray's ring on the pointer finger of my right hand. There have been many times that I have been in the middle of the drama and chaos that is residential real estate that I have consciously looked down at my right hand and re-centered myself.
I know now that the moment that I am in now will be lost in the next. I choose to live.
Sarah Reinhart with Friendship Based Real Estate is one of the most energetic, pleasant and delightful REA's I have ever had the pleasure to work with. I have worked with several through the last few years and none has ever been this delightful and with it. She's efficient and quick she has a knack and what seems to be a God given ability and special talent to work with people as well as very smart and extremely creative. It seems even though one would need money to pay the bills she will most assuredly put the interests and special needs of her clients before hers. My husband & I had one of the most creative and difficult needs as far as combining a residence and a special commercial business property. We had to make sure it was presentable, complete and allowed for a reputable business to be ran from. I believe with the help of the almighty and Sarah who was given direction, grace and favor pulled this off. We found a much desired very peculiar piece of property and it had some extra extra special needs and requirements that had to be full filled in order to get a loan and get it acceptable and wow with her expertise we all did. So hats off to Sarah and her team. She would be an excellent Real Estate Agent for anyone needing or wanting any type of property and I believe she will accomplish it for you. Thanks again Sarah you are great!!!!!!!!! Sincerly, Brenda Liggett.
Sarah is outstanding! She has a unique combination of "caring" and "competence" that makes her shine. She sold my house in 3 hours at full price! -G
Sarah put my worries to rest. She talked me through my concerns and then held my hand through the process. We got full price on our home and sold it in less than a week! -CB
Sarah is a wonderful example of Christ in her business. She follows the golden rule and puts others before her self. She truly cares about my well being and goes the extra mile for my sake. Don't settle for just any agent. Choose wisely. Choose Sarah! - Pastor Mark Hamilton
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