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TAB LE OF
CONTENTS 10 Cover Stories
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Sponsor Spotlight Stacey Harrison
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DifferenceMakers
Commercial Corner
Trend Setters
Agent Features
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cover stories
TROY BLUM “We also can be as much a counselor as we are a REALTOR® – and a friend. I don’t think there’s anything more rewarding than being able to do that.”
LILLIAN
KAY
“I just felt a calling in my heart,” she said. “I got super emotional with these testimonials of children who don’t have a great record of staying off the street, staying out of trouble or keeping their grades up. It struck me that I want to help give back. It wanted to do what I can to make those children have better lives.” Lillian Kay
Troy Blum
Zach Fischer “This was the role that I wanted to take,” he said. “I love real estate. The people I love working with the most are the first-time home buyers because I’m helping them create their dream of homeownership. When they get into their first home, there’s nothing like it.”
Sandi Elwood
Genie Guisinger
“I love meeting people and helping people. It’s an opportunity to stay connected with them, whether it’s becoming a friend or supporter or whatever.”
Sandi
Elwood “I also reflect back on the year and feel that if I did my best, served my clients to the fullest, as well as served my community, I had a great year overall,” she said. “Having repeat clients is the key to longterm success.”
Zach Fischer
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TIM
R I ST AMY
Amy McLeod
Gillott
Laura
“I have a strong desire to champion abundant living in all the touchpoints of life, whether that be my clients or team or my family or the causes that we give to in the community,” Rist said. “This is more than just closing real estate transactions. We have transitioned from being a profit-based business to being a mission-based business. Profitability is simply a byproduct of us fulfilling our mission.”
“I believe you have to be in the trenches and buying real estate. I think REALTORS® need to be there using that, all those tools and information, to be able to grow your own portfolio and your clients’ portfolio.”
MCLEOD
“What I love about my job is solving puzzles, and every client presents a new puzzle,” she said. “They’re never the same. It’s how do we work to get them the solution that they’re looking for in a way that meets their needs in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of stress. Our goal is to make it smooth.”
Tim Rist
Laura Gillott
Chris Aldrich CHRISTINE
FOLZ “I love helping people and that no two days are the same. I don’t think of my job as a ‘job’. I love to do it.”
Christine Folz
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“We have a philosophy that we were not put on this earth to serve everybody,” Aldrich said. “We’re not trying to be Number 1. We’re just trying to be really good at what we do and treat our clients with respect. We want to serve them in a manner that they not merely get their housing needs met, but that they also have a sense of accomplishment and pride. We want them to feel empowered to get involved in this wonderful community and love where they live. We know that, if one is worried about your family’s basic housing needs, it is hard to look beyond that and see the needs of their community,” Aldrich said.
Chris Aldrich
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Karen
Roush CHUN TRUONG
Chun Truong
“I don’t even consider it a job,” he said. “It’s rewarding. There’s a lot of people who need help through the process of buying or selling a home and I assist in obtaining their goals.” Chun works with several investors with their income producing properties, as well.
“I love being a part of something much bigger than myself. I am fortunate that I have the resources to be able to give back make a difference. I’m good at what I do because I am passionate about real estate, I absolutely love what I do. I don’t consider it a job; to me, it’s a lifestyle and an extension of who I am.”
Hector Garcia
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Colleen Benson “Create a team that is not focused on the number of agents, but rather the quality of the relationships, support, and overall experience for each agent. As I’ve said before, being a real estate agent can be a tough business. It’s important to work with people you like, respect, and who believe in you. I want to continue to build and work at something that we can all be proud of,” Colleen says.
Matt
“If they want to last and make a good living at it, they have to show up and work every day, because the busier you are the busier you get,” he said. “The other thing is marketing. You have to spend money to make money. If you aren’t putting your name out there, and if you’re not spending a little bit of money targeted in the right places, it’s going to be very hard for you to build a business. The key, though, is to be humble and be willing to ask for help, good, experienced brokers will help.”
Karen Roush
HECTOR
GARCIA
“I thought as a child growing up we were poor, but I didn’t realize my parents were buying their house,” he said. “We were growing up on an acre and a half. I grew up rich in the sense that I grew up hunting and fishing in the farmers’ ponds and bucking hay. I know what hard work is. Work ethic is everything for me.” Colleen Benson
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Nick Williams believes in the “3 F’s”, Faith, Family, Fitness, and if there’s one thing he loves the most, it’s his family. He chose Real Estate just for that reason!
Joshua
Kay
Working with business owners has been the highlight of Joshua’s career. He claims that “understanding the dynamics of their business and identifying their needs,” as well as “hearing their stories and seeing where I can add value,” have been driving factors in his career.
TINA
WI LTSEY-T R EV I ZO Tina’s advice to REALTORS®: “Get a good foundation and then choose the niche that you enjoy and feel comfortable with. It can be a lot of balls in the air, and you need to be trained on the business side before branching out on your own into any specialty.” Tina Wiltsey-Trevizo
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Chad Harvey
“Efficiency is key for me. When I’m working, I’m working,” Harvey said. “Most of it comes down to being disciplined when it’s time to work. If you can be disciplined and get the things done you need to, it can allow you to have more flexibility. But there are still weeks when I put in 70 hours. I love it, though! Real estate has allowed me to have the type of life I enjoy, while also allowing me to give back.”
“My motivation is to help people reach their goals,” he said. “I like working with people. My job in real estate gives me a diverse look at life. Everyone’s needs are different and it’s in these differences that I find personal satisfaction and happiness. My work is ever-changing. It’s never boring.”
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Nick Williams
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STAC E Y H A R R I SO N 18 • January 2020
sponsor spotlight Written By Jennifer White Photography by Kathryn Davidson, Photos by Orion
A1 SUP ER IOR SCHOOLS , INC. Stacey Harrison, owner and CEO of A1 Superior Schools, Inc, is definitely a very intelligent lady. They are a locally owned, Salem-based professional career school that offers a broad selection of courses where professional licenses are required. They offer pre-license courses for brokers, principal brokers, insurance agents, landscape contractors, and property managers. (Some of you may not know that when it comes to property management, most states don’t require a license; however, Oregon is big on protecting their consumers. Typically, brokers can conduct property management activities under the supervision of a principal broker. However, there are some people who don’t want to conduct brokerage transactions so they’ve created two different courses and licenses. This way, those just wanting to be in property management only have to go through 60 hours vs. the 150.) They also offer continuing education for real estate professionals. Stacey grew up in Kellogg, Idaho, a small town in the northern part of the state. She went to the University of Idaho where she got her bachelor’s
in education. She got her teaching license through Idaho for kindergarten–8th grade. Even though she hasn’t taught those grades, she still keeps her license active. She met her husband, Mark Harrison, in high school. He also attended the University of Idaho where he got a degree in accounting. They have two grown adult children, Bailey and Katy. After college, they wanted to move to Portland Oregon but ended up in Albany. Mark found a job right away, while Stacey was having a tough time finding a job because, at the time, school districts throughout Oregon were laying off teachers. That’s when she ended up working for a credit union. Shortly after starting, she was promoted to Real Estate Loan Coordinator. This is where she learned everything about the real estate world. She held that position for a year and was promoted to a Real Estate Loan
Officer originating first and second mortgages. She was with the credit union from 1994–1997. In 1997, she was recruited by a title and escrow company as an escrow officer. For 11 years, she held this position for three companies until 2008. During that time, she closed approximately 3,700 real property transactions ranging from $10,000 to multi-million dollar commercial transactions. In 2008, she started working for the State of Oregon Real Estate Agency as their Land Development Coordinator. They are a government agency that licenses real estate licensees and escrow agents. After five months, she was promoted to Education Divisions Manager. She was in charge of all education for 24,000 licensees through Oregon. In 2009, a new bill passed the legislature changing the continuing education requirements so her first job duty was to implement and write
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on staff. This posed a challenge because, in order to be a principal broker, you have to have your broker license for a minimum of three years. Thankfully Stacey was able to apply for a petition process through the Oregon Real Estate Board to waive the three-year experience requirement. Thanks to her 20-plus years of experience, she was able to get approved. She holds her license with HomeSmart Realty Group in Salem Oregon under her legal name, Stacey Krys-Harrison. She also has to abide by all the rules like everyone else and take continuing education courses. A new law was passed in July 2019 and she wants to make sure all principal brokers are aware of it. It requires all principal brokers who are renewing their license for the first time to complete a 27 hour principal broker advanced practice course. She had to write and create the course, then get it approved by the state. She then had to take the exam herself. So after spending probably 100 hours creating the course, she still had to take the 27 hours to renew her license.
the administrative rules that give step by step explanations on the new law. She also had to revise the real estate license exam requirements and test administration contracts. She was able to work with test vendors nationwide to help create questions and exam outlines. In Oregon, the Real Estate Agency contracts with the test vendor, PSI. Their competitor, Pearson Vue, asked her to be a part of their national exam review committee where she helped them with their national real estate exam and questions.
So, in October 2015, she decided to take her career in a different direction. She and her husband partnered with A1 Superior Schools, Inc. The original owners retired in January 2017, but they are still part owners in the business. In Oregon, owners of pre-licensing schools have to be approved by the Higher Education Coordination Commission (HECC) and abide by the HECC and OREA rules. She was required to go through the school, take her PSI exam and obtain a broker license.
She worked closely with the different pre-license schools and one of the owners was preparing for retirement.
In 2017, their principal broker decided to retire and, by law, they are required to have a principal broker
Her favorite part of the business is working with the different community colleges throughout Oregon. Superior Training Systems, Inc., which she also owns, is the company all the educational courses are developed under. Superior Training Systems, Inc., partners with 15 of the 17 community colleges in Oregon to offer the pre-license Broker and pre-license Property Manager courses. She is working with a 16th college to bring them on board to offer the Broker course spring term of 2020. She loves working with the students, instructors and college directors and she’s taught several of the classes herself. Several of the colleges hold the course four times a year. They call it the accelerated hybrid course format because it is a fast-paced course that allows students to complete their education requirements within 10 weeks. They can then get their license and start working in as little as 12 weeks. This does require accountability because students attend live classes three hours per week, plus 10-15 hours a week studying a specific online course. The online portion of the course is timed so staff can ensure each student meets the 150-hour education requirement. This program is great for someone looking for a quick career change.
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