Ron Herdt of Cityscape Real Estate is an expert at property management and home sales.  Call Ron at 303-288-2400 or go online to CityscapeDenver.com.

Interviewer:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV, I'm here with Ron Herdt, with Cityscape Real Estate.  Ron thanks for joining us today. 

Ron Herdt:  Thank you. 

Interviewer:  So, how many years have you been in the real estate business? 

Ron Herdt:  Forty, forty years or so... 

Interviewer:  Forty years great, what would you say is your primary focus on residential property management, so tell us a little bit about that? 

Ron Herdt:  Well we, I've been doing property management now for ten years with my company Cityscape Real Estate, and we do sales, but we also do property management, and I built my company with agents that like to do both sales and property management. 

Interviewer:  Great so your agents are able to do? 

Ron Herdt:  They do both. 

Interviewer:  Either side, wonderful, does an agent have to work for your company, or can they be independent? 

Ron Herdt:   Well, I own the Metro Broker office, so an agent can come on board with my company, Cityscape Real Estate, or come on board with his or her own company and work in that same building. 

Interviewer:  Okay. 

Ron Herdt:  That's what Metro Brokers is famous for, is that different little companies can band together under one roof. 

Interviewer:  And what's the benefit of that? 

Ron Herdt:  The benefit, in Metro Brokers, is you get a bigger than life identity, by being a Metro Broker, my company is a company of eight, but looks big, because we are a Metro Broker Company. 

Interviewer:  Okay, good.  Who would you say is your target market?

Ron Herdt:  Well, we have two kinds of property management accounts; we have dedicated investors who buy their properties for investment purpose. And then we have Ma, and Pa, whose house won't sell, and we get a lot of that, people that can't leave it vacant any longer, sometimes we get owners who leave the country or the state for jobs, but they want to come back to their home later, so we manage it in their interim. 

Interviewer:  So, those that don't know a lot about property management, tell me what is property management all about? 

Ron Herdt:  Well we market properties for the people. We collect the rents and we do the maintenance. We have online payments to the owners and online payments from the tenants. The owners get a notification email and they can go onto the web and see their statements. So we've gone green- we don't print any statements, we don't print any checks, everything is done electronically. 

Interviewer:  Wonderful, and what organizations are you involved in? 

Ron Herdt:  We are members of NARPM, it's the National Association of Residential Property Managers,. It's a very, very good organization I highly recommend it to anyone who does residential property management. 

Interviewer:  Wonderful, how can customers reach you? 

Ron Herdt:  They can reach us by phone, by web, our website is CityscapeDenver.com, and the phone number is 303-288-2400. 

Interviewer:  Great and we will put those up on the screen as well. 

Ron Herdt:  Very good, thank you. 

Interviewer:  Ron, thank you so much for joining us today. 

Ron Herdt:  Thank you. 

Interviewer:  And for more real estate related videos, please join us online at Metro Brokers TV.

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Jerry Boyd of Metroplex Realtors is a pro at negotiations when it comes to real estate!  He will guide you through the home buying or selling process and make the process go more smoothly!

Call Jerry Boyd at 303-520-1124.

Hello my name is Jerry Boyd, I am the Broker-Owner of Metroplex Realtors, Inc. in Aurora, Colorado.

I've been in real estate about 30 years. I was born into a family of 14 kids and I am the 12^th child, so I know how to negotiate and work my way through things.

I work with sellers but I also work with buyers and I specialize in the east side of town, north and south Denver, Aurora, Highlands Ranch, and Commerce City.

What I'm seeing these days is that the real estate market has changed over to a seller's market and a quick response is what is really important today.

You can call me on my cell phone at 303-520-1124, I don't mind- you can just call me there.

What I'd like for you to know is that you need a really good realtor to help you buy a home or sell a home in this market.  And the reason is that with the bank owned properties, short sales, you name it, people need some guidance and I'm here to guide you through that situation.

You can reach me on my cell phone at 303-520-1124. That's 303-520-1124 and my name is Jerry Boyd.

Thank you.

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Metro Broker, Kirsty Daviau of Thompson Daviau Realty works hard to find the right home for you!  Let her help you buy or sell in Boulder County.

Call Kirsty at 303-564-8746 or visit her website at ThompsonDaviauRealty.com.

Hello, my name is Kirsty Daviau, and I'm the managing broker of Thompson Daviau Realty.  I have been working in real estate and licensed for almost six years, and before that, I worked with my partner as her assistant while I was in graduate school. 

My partner is actually my mother, Janet Thompson and we work together in our office in Boulder, with another realtor named Barclay Logan, and our assistant Karen. 

I am a CRS, which is a Certified Residential Specialist, which means I've sold a certain amount of property and taken a lot of classes, we believe very strongly in designations, because we think you can never stop learning.

I work all over Boulder County, Broomfield, parts of Weld and Jefferson Counties.  Our listings are pretty widely spread and we certainly travel based on the miles on my car, and I work with buyers and sellers, of all kinds, often times our sellers become buyers, and buyers become sellers, we have quite a few repeat clients.

They can all reach us, as can you!  My cell phone number is 303-564-8746, and you can see more about the company at ThompsonDaviauRealty.com.

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Metro Broker, Norm Replin of Home Sale Options will tailor a real estate package to your needs. Norm will consult with you and suggest just the right services- nothing more, nothing less- to help you save money on your next real estate transaction!

Call Norm Replin at 303-564 NORM (6676) or visit his website at www.HomeSaleOptions.com.

Interviewer:  Hi I am Kerry White, and thank you for joining us on Metro Brokers TV.  I am here with Norm Replin from Metro Brokers Home Sale Options.  So Norm you're a Denver native, tell me a little bit about what you did before you became a REALTOR®?

Norm Replin:  Well Kerry, first of all, I would like to thank you for having me.  You know having grown up in Denver, I have seen a lot of changes. I've grown up in various Denver neighborhoods, actually the son of a home builder here in town and graduated from Colorado State University.   I went on to attend the University of Tulsa, College of Law, where I ended up getting my law degree and returning to Denver.  

From that point, I practiced law for a time being; actually working for Richmond Homes as their Associate Counsel but the real estate bug was pulling my heartstrings.  I was also working as a land man too in the oil and gas industry, through which I gained some experience in the oil and gas industry, negotiating oil and gas leases.  But ultimately, I gravitated back towards real estate and started selling real estate as a REALTOR® for a new home builder in the Genesee community- Genesee Homes, and gained some great experience in learning about new home construction in representing my clients now with the background that I gained from that experience. 

From that point, I worked as a relocation counselor for a company called Server Relocation and worked as a relocation counselor helping their corporate employees, buy and sell homes and administering their corporate relocation benefits. And of course then I worked as a regular realtor and I have done all of that now for a period of about 20 years.

Interviewer:  Great, well tell us a little bit about your company Home Sale Options?

Norm Replin:  Well, Home Sale Options is a company that is premised on a little different business model and that different business model is based upon two thing: 

First, I work more as a real estate consultant rather than as a boring salesperson.  I don't try to sell people, I try to assess their needs and once I assess their needs, I will then develop options for them in terms of what service is best to meet their needs. 

Secondly, I offer my services on an hourly basis, package basis or on a regular traditional commission basis.  So my clients really appreciate the fact that I can offer them just selected services and I can save them a lot of money.

Interviewer:  Perfect, now is that where the real estate consultant comes into, tell us a little about what that means?

Norm Replin:  Well, real estate consulting is basically like I said it's not selling to, it's consulting with.  So when a person wants to be consulted with they have questions regarding the real estate market, they would like to know whether or not they should move versus they should stay put in their home, I can help them make those decisions.  If they have questions about over paying their property taxes, I can represent them in various matters that a lot of realtors may not have that experience or background to really do.  So, I'll take my legal experience and push that as far as I can when consulting with people.

Interviewer:  Great, well so how can customers reach you?

Norm Replin:  Well the best way to do that is to call me of course I am a little old fashioned in that regard. They can call me or they can text me I guess at 303-564-NORM- which is 303-564-6676.

Interviewer:  Perfect, well thank you so much for joining us with Metro Brokers TV, I was here with Norm Replin today and for more real estate related videos feel free to go online to Metro Brokers TV.

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Metro Broker, Janet Thompson of Thompson Daviau Realty knows the best schools and neighborhoods in Boulder County.  Relocating to the area? Janet is your relocation expert!  Being from England, she understands the needs of families coming to a new area.

Call Janet Thompson at 303-668-9987 or go to her website at www.ThompsonDaviauRealty.com.

Hello, my name is Janet Thompson, and I'm with Thompson Daviau Realty, we are based in Boulder, we cover most of Boulder County and the surrounding areas.

I guess I should explain my accent; I'm not from Texas, I'm actually from England, and I moved here 21 years ago, originally just for three or four years, but loved it so much, found it really hard to leave the mountains.  

I've been in real estate now for about ten years.  I started originally with Coldwell Banker, and I felt like a really great training with Coldwell Banker, and during that time we worked out of the Longmont office, then eventually moved to Boulder, worked with Keller Williams in Boulder, and just in the last couple of years, I've started my own company with my partner Kirsty Daviau.

Most important to us, is to keep in touch with all the latest trends in the marketplace and to do that, we believe very strongly in on-going education.

Very early on in my career I learned that the CRS designation, a Certified Residential Specialist, was the highest designation a realtor could earn, and that's where I set my sights.  So within two or three years of being in the business I earned that designation, I also have an ABR, which is an Accredited Buyer Representation, and these involve a lot of ongoing education and REALTORS® with these designations, I think are held to much a higher standard. We are much more experienced, and have a lot more to offer our clients,

I don't really specialize in any one particular kind of home, I specialize more in the county where I live, and we sell some very less expensive condominiums and also some very high end homes.  Recently we sold a bank owned condo, that was priced under a hundred thousand and currently we have properties priced up to one and a quarter million.  So we have a lot of experience with selling different types of homes, first time buyers people moving up, people moving down, older people wanting to downsize, young people whose families are growing and we feel we have the experience to just about help everyone.

We also have a lot of experience with people relocating in and out of the state, and having moved here 5000 miles away from England, and some are moving just a thousand or two thousand miles, we can really sympathize with them.  And we know what's involved with moving schools, and moving homes and also starting over, we try to keep in touch with our clients locally and by hosting thank you parties for them, and getting together in different areas and hosting happy hours, so people from out of state can meet other people.

Also in a particular neighborhood, when we sell into a particular neighborhood, we will put those new buyers in touch with clients in the neighborhood.

The best way for buyers and sellers to contact me is to call me on my cell phone at 303-668-9987, or send me an email, or maybe first check out our website www.thompsondaviaurealty.com and there you could learn a lot more about us, who we are, where we are and where we came from, and how we can help you. Thanks.

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