ANN MARIE VAUGHAN OFFERS PERSONAL APPROACH AS TOP REAL ESTATE AGENT

Ann Marie Vaughan began 2023 having completed 15 years with RE/MAX, during which she has become one of the company’s top agents in the area she and her family have lived for more than 30 years.

The Riverview resident’s sales volume has ranked her in the RE/MAX Florida Top 20 and as Tampa Bay’s #1 individual agent twice in recent years. Her overall production has won her the RE/MAX Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the RE/MAX Hall of Fame.

Vaughan closes 75 to 100 sales every year without a team of assisting agents. She explains: “Teams work well for some Realtors, and some clients are just fine not working directly with the ‘name’ agent. But I’ve found I really prefer working one-on-one, the ‘hire me, get me’ approach.”

For support with the countless tasks that come with her level of sales, she relies on her husband and business partner, John Vaughan, and their longtime friend turned administrative associate, Regina Buchanan. Those two also handle about two dozen rental homes managed each year for friends and former sales clients.

Vaughan also appreciates the comprehensive backing of her brokerage, RE/MAX Alliance Group, which covers much of West Central Florida and is the largest RE/MAX

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franchise in the U.S. Southeast.

“We have so many more resources to help clients compared to when I started in real estate in my 20s with a little ofce on the coast of Connecticut, where I grew up,” she says. “I worked in a bigger ofce when I moved to Washington, DC, and got married. Then we moved to Florida for my husband’s career, and I left real estate for quite a few years to raise 4 kids. I came back to it in 2002 with Prudential, then moved to RE/MAX in 2008.”

The realty market was in trouble in 2008, but Vaughan points out people’s housing needs persist regardless of economic conditions.

“New jobs, growing families, aging parents, marriages and divorces -- all of these things put people in a position where they need good advice,” she says.

Too often, in her opinion, real estate television shows and motivational speakers emphasize earning money when they should be focused on earning trust. Help clients “move from Point A to Point B,” she likes to say, “and everyone ends up OK.”

For more information, email annmarievaughan@verizon.net or call / text her at 813-748-4536.

The Riverview Woman’s Club (RWC) hosted its first Volunteer Opportunity Fair on March 7 at Riverview High School. This event was made possible due to the hard work and dedication of Ann Grifn, Riverview High School guidance counselor, and Melissa Canfield, board member of Riverview Woman’s Club.

Canfield stated, “The RWC wants to help students connect with local members of our community who are in need of student volunteers. So many times, students have the desire to help, but they just don’t know where to go and who to contact. Volunteer Opportunity Fairs like this one can solve that issue. Also, our goal is to incorporate more nonprofits in the future to give the students a wide variety of options of where they can volunteer.”

In order to provide the most interaction with the students, it was determined that setting up in the cafeteria would be best, as students would have time to eat and still learn about the nonprofits represented. Eight nonprofit organizations were able to attend, which included the Impact Program, Mary & Martha House, Buddy Cruises, Experience Autism Alliance, High 5 Inc., Rotary of FishHawk-Riverview, You Matter to Me - Lithia, FL and Angel Foundation FL. Each student had an opportunity to learn about each organization and how they could help their local community, as well as earn Bright Futures volunteer hours.

Students were given ‘passports’ to complete for each nonprofit to sign after they visited a booth to learn more about an organization. As an incentive, Chick-fil-A of Riverview donated over 250 free Chick-fil-A sandwich cards for those students who completed a visit to each nonprofit in attendance.

Grifn was pleased with the students’ response to the fair, and plans are in the works with the Riverview Woman’s Club to bring in additional nonprofits in the fall.

“This was a great first step in bringing students and nonprofits directly together to learn how they can help each other. This would be wonderful for our seniors to attend in the fall term as well so they had plenty of time to complete their Bright Future Hours prior to graduation. We look forward to working with the Riverview Woman’s Club again,” said Grifn. Riverview High School is located at 11311 Boyette Rd. in Riverview. Visit www.hillsboroughschools.org/riverviewhs for more information on the school. For more information about the Riverview Woman’s Club, visit www.riverviewwomansclub.org.

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