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Dick Crook on the entrepreneurship of Metro Brokers
MetroBrokersTV: Hi. I am Scott Shields and I am here with Metro Brokers TV down at the CAR state convention and I am joined with Dick Crook. Dick, thanks for coming and talking with us today.
Dick Crook: Well, it's, I am glad to be here.
MetroBrokersTV: Oh, we are glad to have you here Dick. Tell us about your Metro Brokers experience? How did you get started with Metro Brokers?
Dick Crook: It has been a lot of years, but I have always liked the Metro Broker model. I think that they are for an announcement of this is what you want to do when you grow up and be a real estate broker. So, it is owning your own business that appealed to me a lot and Metro Brokers is a lot of entrepreneurs that resist organization sometimes and they want to do their own thing. They are long term into the business and thats partly how I got involved. I have been with Metro Brokers about 16 years and I have been in real estate about 35 years.
MetroBrokersTV: And you are also an office owner right now. So, can you tell us a little about your office, where it is located and what goes on at your office, what you offer?
Dick Crook: You know, ours is Metro Brokers Centennial office is off Revere Parkway and Centennial and we have a class A, real nice facility, a lot of energy in there. We have got about 26 companies and 68 agents under our roof. Its a good group of people and we just have a lot of energy going on in there.
MetroBrokersTV: That's great. Where do you see the real estate industry going and where do you see Metro Brokers being positioned in the real estate industry?
Dick Crook: Well, this is as good a time as anybody could ever get into owning their own business in real estate like Metro Brokers. It really brings the cost down and gets you a brand exposure. So, statewide, you really get a good value with Metro Brokers. Where I see it going is that I see that more and more people will want to cut their expenses and own their own business and be more Metro Brokers. Where I see the industry going in general is that in the first quarter of 2009, we are going to have probably the most amount of adjustments on adjustable rate mortgages that has happened in history from the option ARMs that were done three to five years ago. So, we are not... we are not done with the foreclosure wave, but we are going to come out of it in '09 and it is going to be a better year; this time next year, if we are down at the convention next year, we would be talking about how well it has recovered. So, I do believe that long term, we have seen a lot of ups and downs, but there have always been an upward plane. They have always helped the market move along.
MetroBrokersTV: Well, you heard it right here, right now, it's a great time to be a Metro Broker. For information, check out the other videos on this site.
Posted on December 01, 2008 17:22:14 by  Mark.Eibner
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