METRO BROKERS INC. welcomed Pat Thrasher to the ProTeam Downtown offices in Colorado Springs.

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People on the Move - November 27, 2009

by Staff Writer

Published: November 25,2009

Time posted: 9:47 am

Tags: People on the Move 

Mistalynn Less has been named communications manager of Winter Park Resort. She previously was the resort's marketing coordinator.

Pat Thrasher has joined the ProTeam Downtown offices of Metro Brokers. She previously was an agent for Keller Williams and has more than four years of experience in residential real estate buying and selling.

Shawn M. Cole has joined Vectra Bank Colorado as executive vice president and community bank director. He has more than 15 years of banking and finance experience, and has worked in leadership positions at regional and national banks in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions.

Anthony Tu has received The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the emperor of Japan. The Colorado State University professor helped the Japanese identify and catch suspects in the sarin gas attacks during the 1990s.

Andre D'Amour has received an Employee of the Year award from the Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association. He is assistant director of conference services at Cheyenne Mountain Resort.

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Metro Broker agents that made the move from Re/Max

This video features a number of Metro Broker's agents. The agents who participated are as follows:

Jerry Biesboer with Realty Oasis

Cher Schafer with Cher Schafer Homes of Metro Brokers

Tom Guest with Key Masters Real Estate

Moe Giroux with Realty Brokers of Colorado LLC

Michael Paul with Colorado Horse Property

Jeff Newman with Partners in Real Estate

Kathy Soltero with Metro Brokers

Jim Leto with Real Estate Professionals LLC

Eleanor Yeager with Boulder Mountain Homes

Male speaker: Metro Brokers Real Estate: The Colorado brand that is growing. Here is why!

Male speaker: I was with RE/MAX for about five years and one of the changes that I did make going to Metro Brokers was just to have the independence of Metro Brokers and to be able to own my own company.

Female speaker: Metro Brokers really offers tools to their agents that other companies don't seem to offer.

Male speaker: You know I think I was ready for a change. I was there at ten years. It was a great company nice people. Then they merged a couple of our offices together which I wasn't real fond of that and because it became such a big office than them to deal with so I decided to come to Metro Brokers and certainly have enjoyed it.

Female speaker: The cost to RE/MAX really was not making sense for me as to what it was doing for me as getting basis and what the cost was, so I decided that I could do my own thing and I like the idea of Metro Brokers still having a big name.

Male speaker: There were a couple of things but one of the big one's is that RE/MAX the office owner gets the benefit of all the things that are bought for the office but they're paid for by the agents. They also need to operate at a profit and in most cases in Metro Brokers it is not. We just kind of get together, share expenses share what we are doing and we all get the benefit of a lower cost.

Male speaker: I had seen and heard people talking about Metro Brokers and what we might able to find there and that there were office that had, you know, technologically advanced services and equipment and so forth and could teach us. So, that was great. I want to go there.

Male speaker: I think probably more independent because the company I was with was pretty structured and getting more and more structured as the days went by. So I liked the independent feeling of it.

Male speaker: I started looking at the cost. It seems like it was just doubling. When I interviewed with Metro Brokers it seems like I could keep my cost down. Therefore, I could keep my cost down for the clients.

Female speaker: I just like the idea of being my own boss. I could work from home but yet I still have an office, professional office that I could go to. Everything just made seems to me and I love it and wished I could have done it a long time ago.

Male speaker: Being able to control your own cost and control what you do and make your own decisions. You can do that at Metro Brokers is that, it is there enlarged at RE/MAX but not totally.

Male speaker: I guess I got to the point where it did not made sense anymore. When I was doing it with RE/MAX it was fine but then I got to point where you know just spending this much money just didn't make sense so I just decided that it wasn't so.

Male speaker: Metro Brokers offers a great opportunity plus there is a lot of savings in your expenses. It reduces the expenses your outlay of dollars and it gives you the full ability of having a national brand name and to be able to do your business.

Female speaker: Well I think in the real estate business you developed confidence and self-assurance over time and one of the things that I realize is that I can do this on my own smart enough. I have enough resources. I have a good sphere of influence and I have a good client base so that I can do this without a big emblem behind me although I believe that Metro Brokers is a really respectable company and people... You know, I can go to a listing presentation with a Metro Brokers' logo and get the same respect.

Male speaker: I came from [indiscernible] [00:03:50] and then I went on to RE/MAX and I always looked at Metro Brokers as the [Inaudible] [00:03:56]. Metro Brokers has come a long way since the get-go and there's a lot big companies within the system.

Male speaker: What I found since being with Metro Brokers is we are the only organization that is out there that you could start as a broker associate, you can move up to an independent broker, you can get your employing broker license and develop your own broker team and you can be an office owner. So, it is the only company that is out here that you can actually start and stay with Metro Brokers through your whole career and open you own office and no other companies offers that.

Male speaker: What I like about Metro Brokers is that I feel like I, you know, I am a little bit more at liberty to do what I want. No I don't have quite constraints to work with them that we had in the RE/MAX office not the rules and regulations so much as we are pretty much on our own. I do not get told how to advertise, you know, how to carry on my business and that is the part I like about it.

Male speaker: I always thought Metro Brokers was a brokerage that they did everything and then I realize that it is not that you are basically independent. What you get from Metro Brokers is that is the market, brand and then you know the presence that you know Metro Brokers has.

Male speaker: You know in these times right now, it is hard. It is not so much how much you make any more, it is how much you keep. You can keep your cost down, not change your services, I think that's why they are switching over.

Male speaker: Oh, I would think financially is probably the first big reason and I think also that independent feeling might be a pretty important one too. When I was at the other company I was paying about $1800 a month and now I am about $200 a month. It is pretty easy math.

Female speaker: I think the biggest priority thing is the cost. RE/MAX is a good name and all that but I just don't think for what you have to pay for that it's doesn't make sense especially in the market we have now and the economy we have now.

Male speaker: I think it is the lower cost and getting what you get for your money and I think that is a huge thing for a lot of people especially in a tight market like this you got to be thinking about how much you are spending on or your works, so.

Male speaker: RE/MAX people are experienced they are great agents but they have an organization that is a little costly to them even though they are a 100 %. What Metro Brokers offers them is the ability to step outside that organization to form their own company and be on their own and most of these people know exactly what to do. They have all the ability to do it the don't need a managing broker over or top of them and once that light bulb goes on and they realized that they don't need anybody as a managing broker and they can do it themselves. They will come to Metro Brokers.

Male speaker: Brand recognition is important. No doubt. But we have that at Metro Brokers also and we will show them 98 % of the people in the State of Colorado understand and know who Metro Brokers is. So you're getting that when you join Metro Brokers. So you're not giving up what you think you're getting at RE/MAX in the balloon. Now you're getting us top side.

Male speaker: Learn how easy and fast it is to become a Metro Broker. Simply go to join Metro Brokers.com

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Former ReMax broker Eleanor Yeager and her business with Metro Brokers

Kathy Soltero: Hi I am Kathy Soltero with metrobrokerstv.com and today we are talking with Eleanor Yeager. Hi Eleanor, how are you doing?

Eleanor Yeager: Good how are you?

Kathy Soltero: Good tell me about little about your real estate company, its location and how many people are in it, that sort of thing.

Eleanor Yeager: My Company is called bouldermountainhomes.com. I don't know that there is a lot of dotcom companies out there and make one person company is sort of a new model that Metro Brokers is doing and so I am the broker owner of my own company.

Kathy Soltero: Great then what did you do prior to real estate that got you into that?

Eleanor Yeager: Prior to real estate, I did a lot of varied things. I was a photographer in the army, I was a jailor, I was, I worked for the court systems, the mental health systems and I just found government work was just so limiting and so confining and I wanted to do something that I could do until I died and didn't want to be forced into retirement.

Kathy Soltero: So why real estate?

Eleanor Yeager: Because it offered that, it offered independence, it offered independence, it offered media opportunity to work as long as I wanted to and I always was interested in real estate.

Kathy Soltero: Now being your own company is that tough sometimes I mean do you have to call in some other fellow metro broker agents to help you out in anything?

Eleanor Yeager: No I find that you know I try to limit, I am out there to be #1 agent in the world. I am out there to make a living and give my clients good high quality service.

Kathy Soltero: Do you find that that's a benefit to you I mean just that you limit to how many number of DL's that you do that sort of thing?

Eleanor Yeager: Absolutely.

Kathy Soltero: So you really focus hard on those people that you help?

Eleanor Yeager: Absolutely.

Kathy Soltero: Great so tell me a little bit about what you might specialize in?

Eleanor Yeager: I work out of the Nederland area, and the mountain communities, west of Boulder. So I specialize in mountain properties that are very different from city properties, wells and septics and property lines and there are just all kinds of things that can go wrong in the mountains. I also do work in the Boulder area in the surrounding communities, those deals are so much easier and compared to mountain properties, but so you have to supplement a little bit because mountain properties are always traditionally a lot slower moving than the city properties.

Kathy Soltero: That's right. All right well we have been talking with Eleanor Yeager, thank you so much for coming in today Eleanor.

Eleanor Yeager: Thank you for having me.

Kathy Soltero: You are welcome and thank you so much for watching metrobrokerstv.com. For more real estate related videos, be sure to tune into metrobrokerstv.com.

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Former ReMax broker Jerry Biesboer talks about Metro Brokers

Kathy Soltero: Hi I am Kathy Soltero with metrobrokerstv.com and today we are talking with Jerry Biesboer, thanks for coming in Jerry.

Jerry Biesboer: Thank you, thanks for having me.

Kathy Soltero: Hi tell me a little bit about your real estate company, where it's out, how big is it, that sort of thing.

Jerry Biesboer: I am with Metro Brokers Realty Oasis now I am going by eight year with the program and you know it's, I have been doing this business since 1993.

Kathy Soltero: Wow that's a long time.

Jerry Biesboer: Yeah.

Kathy Soltero: Seen a lot of different market changes?

Jerry Biesboer: Oh sure, sure you know.

Kathy Soltero: Tell me a little bit about maybe do you specialize in any particular areas?

Jerry Biesboer: You know I live in Founders Village in Castle Rock, so kind of work at Castle Rock you know for the easy, but it takes me out through out of those County Parker you know with short sales you know everywhere in the metro area.

Kathy Soltero: And if you don't do the short sale?

Jerry Biesboer: You are out of business.

Kathy Soltero: That's right. Okay so do you have more than just yourself in your company or how many people are in it?

Jerry Biesboer: I know I work with under Mark Eibner in the Realty Oasis system as we have got several offices and you know the good size group of people that we all work together with. So my wife has been licensed in the past now she is now licensed right now and that's one of the things that you know pretty much started me looking around from leaving Re/Max remakes and moving on to try to find a cheaper route that's better than, better as/or better than Re/Max was?

Kathy Soltero: Maybe more cost effective for our business?

Jerry Biesboer: Yes bottom line.

Kathy Soltero: That's right it's always about the bottom line. So what would you say is probably the most exciting thing about real estate right now?

Jerry Biesboer: You know its, right now, the market has been purged lot of agents have left the business. So that's kind of exciting because these will be more for the, ones who survive you know its kind of like [Inaudible] surviving the fire you know that's exciting it's the thrill that kill to me because I do negotiate lot of deals myself and you know we have negotiations training now getting some of the accepted, you know and helping out the, I think helping out the consumer and getting them out of trouble there in.

Kathy Soltero: It is certainly a challenge right now.

Jerry Biesboer: Yes check it out.

Kathy Soltero: Thanks Jerry so much for being with us we have been talking with Jerry Biesboer.

Jerry Biesboer: Thank you for having me.

Kathy Soltero: You are so welcome and for more real estate related videos, be sure to check out metrobrokerstv.com.

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