Interviews with all five 2010 Board Of Director Candidates.  If you are a Shareholder, please request your ballet form Metro Brokers Corporate Office.  There are three seats available and five candidates running.  These are three year terms.  Votes will be tallied up at this years annual Shareholders meeting held January 15,2010. 

Posted in Board Of Directors, Movers and Shakers, Giving Back, Metro Brokers Agents

Cathy:  Hello I am Cathy Saltero with Metro Brokers TV.  Today in the studio we have Jesse Sehlmeyer with the Metro Brokers Platt Park office, thank you very much for coming in Jesse.

Jesse Sehlmeyer:  Thank you.

Cathy:  And he is one of our candidates for Metro Brokers 2010 board of directors, tell us a little bit, how long have you been with Metro Brokers?

Jesse:  I have been with Metro Brokers since 2003, so going into our seventh year.

Cathy:  Great.  And what features and benefits, business tools that sort of thing do you think that Metro Brokers offers?

Jesse:  I think the ability to have the Metro Brokers brand name and also the website Metro Brokers online, are two of the biggest tools that we use with our business currently.

Cathy:  What would you say are your volunteer experiences that you have in real estate or in the community?

Jesse:  Gearing up to be actively involved with Habitat for Humanity actually just filled out the paper work last couple of months and getting ready to gear up with them.  Also I have a passion for a organization called FAME Africa, I have the ability to or, honor to go to Africa a couple of years ago, and just really got excited with what this one group is doing down there as far as bringing medical services out to remote areas of Africa, so I am actually hopefully planning a trip back to Africa in the next year or two, go for a couple of weeks and do some charity work there.

Cathy:  That is awesome, why are you running for our board?

Jesse:  I just, I have been the Metro Brokers now for about seven years, and I feel at this point, our organization is fairly seasoned I think we have a lot of core knowledge of real estate technology tools and at this point I really want to give back to Metro Brokers, because they have really given so much to us since we joined seven years ago.

Cathy:  And what strengths do you think that you have as far as contributing to our board of directors?

Jesse:  I think our biggest strength is really staying up with technology and current technology, because our market is changing so rapidly, and just the ability to you know, also kind of bring that knowledge to the rest of the Metro Brokers organization, and the other thing I would really like to help and assist with is recruitment, getting other quality individuals to Metro Brokers that we work with in our industry.

Cathy:  All right, well board of directors meeting is in January 15th, and Jesse thank you very much for joining us today on Metro Brokers TV.

Jesse:  Thank you. 

Posted in Board Of Directors, Industry Leadership, Giving Back, Announcements, Metro Brokers Agents

Cathy Saltero:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV.  I am Cathy Saltero, today in the studio we have with us Tom Wood.  He is with our Arapahoe and Quebec office, Tom thank you very much for coming in today.

Tom Wood:  Thank you for having me.

Cathy Saltero:  Well, you are also one of our candidates for the board of directors for 2010 Metro Brokers, and thank you very much for doing that, how long have you been with Metro Brokers?

Tom Wood:  15 years.

Cathy Saltero:  15 years that is quite some time, seen a lot.

Tom Wood:  Yes. 

Cathy Saltero:  Okay.  Tell me what features or benefits, business tools do you value most about Metro Brokers?

Tom Wood:  Well, I think the Metro Brokers website is really good and I do like the CTM econtracts you know, I think that is a good feature, and the technical part I am not too techie, one of the disadvantages of being old is, I learned things like the slide rule when I was in school, not the computer. 

Cathy Saltero:  That is okay sometimes it takes a little bit longer to get things done, but then you have got it all in front of you, you don't have to worry about a computer crashing or something right.

Tom Wood:  Correct.

Cathy Saltero:  All right, well describe some volunteer experience that you can bring to Metro Brokers board of directors and in real estate perhaps that you have done over the years?

Tom Wood:  Well, I have been active with a number of home owner associations, each neighborhood I have lived in over the years.  I participated in the home owners association; I was one of the original members in Lone Tree when it first started, and then couple of years later I was asked to run for the Park Meadows Metropolitan District as a commissioner or director I guess is the correct word, and I did that on two elections, so that was eight years I did that, and lately I haven't done a whole lot, and I haven't done too much with Metro Brokers really, and so I felt at this point it would be time for me to do something to help whatever I can. 

Cathy Saltero:  All right that is great.  So, that is probably one of the reasons you say you are running for the board of directors?

Tom Wood:  It's exactly right, you know, it's one of those things whatever it takes, and I don't have any agenda, I am going to do what they say they need to have done, and I know from past experience that some of the things on the board that you do isn't, because it's necessarily what you want to do, but it's because of something you have to do, and right now I think I have to participate with the board.

Cathy Saltero:  Tell me about what are some of the strengths that you have, that you can bring, you can contribute to our board of directors in 2010?

Tom Wood:  Well, first willingness to work.  I have been in the real estate business since September of 66, so I am in my 44th year doing this, and I have been relatively successful over the years, and I have been manager in the number of offices, and quite frankly just really the experience.

Cathy Saltero:  All right well our elections are in January, our board annual board of directors meeting, and we will wish you the best of luck.

Tom Wood:  Well thank you very much, and I will be there, and I will put on a presentation for a couple of minutes.

Cathy Saltero:  Okay, well thank you very much.

Tom Wood:  Thank you. 

Posted in Industry Events, Board Of Directors, Industry Leadership, Giving Back, Metro Brokers Offices

Cathy Saltero:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV, I am Cathy Saltero, today in the studio we have Mike Hixon.  He is with our South East suburban offices in Metro Brokers, welcome Mike.

Mike:  Thank you.

Cathy Saltero:  And he is also one of our candidates for the 2010 Metro Brokers board of directors.  Mike, tell us first of all how long have you been with Metro Brokers?

Mike:  I joined Metro Brokers January 1st of 2003.

Cathy Saltero:  Tell me what features, what sort of benefits do you value most about Metro Brokers, you have been here for a while, so you know a little bit about how things work.

Mike:  Yeah the website is a great tool.  And it, Metro Brokers website is so professional, it's just a great tool for the consumer and also for the Metro Brokers people, the, my website is a great tool.  In fact I just did the webinar last week for the tutorial on the website, and that is amazing.  I mean there are, there are some really cool tools that they are coming out with actually, the media page is something that has got a lot of tools embedded into that, like publisher for fliers and brochures, and just all kinds of really cool stuff that Metro Brokers makes up.

Cathy Saltero:  Tell me about any volunteer activities that you may have had over the years in real estate or, even in just the community.

Mike:  Oh, gosh youth sports forever, basketball, baseball, softball, football, I have done lot of that with my kids and others, and I am currently on the, I am the chairperson for the communication committee now with Metro Brokers Inc. and also I think one of the four or five of us that were chosen by Metro Brokers Corporate for the media representation committee, and oh, gosh let's see a lot of involvement with, there is a toys for the mission program that our office is involved with, we, every Christmas we collect a lot of toys probably principally chaired by Greg Hume, but there is a lot of us in the office that get together, we collect toys and then wrap them up and take them down to the Denver Mission.

Cathy Saltero:  That is awesome.  Tell me why you are running for the board of directors?

Mike:  It's time to give back I think you know, I have taken enough and it's just time to give back a little bit if I can.

Cathy Saltero:  What would you say are your strengths that you can contribute to Metro Brokers board of directors in 2010?

Mike:  My strengths, oh, having worked with a lot of volunteer committees before, I think that helps, you know, you learn to excuse me to listen as opposed to talk too much, and then try to help out in any way you can, and I think if you listen and try to work along with the committee as opposed to just hammer your points home, and it adds a little bit.

Cathy Saltero:  All right.  Well Mike thank you very much for joining us.  Mike Hixon is one of our candidates for the 2010 board of directors and our elections will be on January 15th, thank you very much Mike and good luck to you.

Mike:  Thank you.

Posted in Industry Events, Board Of Directors, Metro Brokers Agents

Kathy Soltero:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV, I am Kathy Soltero.  Today in the studio we have Brad Evans with our Denver Core office, welcome Brad.

Brad Evans:  Hi how are you today?

Kathy Soltero:  Good we are doing great, hey and tell us how long you have been with Metro Brokers?

Brad Evans:  We opened our office last January, so just a year, this year.

Kathy Soltero:  Tell me what sort of things in the past year do you value most about the Metro Brokers community?

Brad Evans:  I think for us Metro Brokers is really kind of, its been a bigger brand, so several agents can be bigger and plug into a network of other agents for experience and help and you know when I have questions I can call another I know I have got a network of agents behind me that I can talk to and then that just helped us out in the marketplace.

Kathy Soltero:  What about some of the business tools and stuff that Metro Brokers offers?

Brad Evans:  You know when we are looking for an agency you know the web stuff that wasn't, we were just really looking for that kind of association with other realtors and that's really, so the tools I don't use CTM contracts it's a great tool for other agents its just not something we do.

Kathy Soltero:  Describe any kind of volunteer services or volunteer experiences that you may have had in real estate or in the community over the past years?

Brad Evans:  I have lot of volunteer stuff on the Denver office for cultural players creative Denver committee, so that's kind of a city wide initiative to help promote creative the creative community, so there is a big interest in real state in that part of our studios for artists and designers around the city.  I am also on the living streets task force for the Mayor's office.  So they are trying to get the city streets to be more user friendly for people and cars and bikes altogether, that's another one and then in my past I was on the ALC board for at Keller Williams, so four years on ALC, so I have kind of leadership volunteer work as well.

Kathy Soltero:  Awesome.  Now I should have mentioned at the beginning you are a candidate for 2010 Metro Brokers Board of Directors.

Brad Evans:  Correct.

Kathy Soltero:  Tell us why you want to be on the board?

Brad Evans:  Well I told you that Market twisted my arm and they are doing it, but no I think you know Metro Brokers is such a great company you know as a group of realtors and I think I can you know bring excitement and interest and you know leadership skills into that board and help hold the rope.

Kathy Soltero:  So tell me what sort of strengths are, that you feel that you have that you bring to our board in 2010?

Brad Evans:  I think just my motivation to serve others is probably my biggest skill that I can bring to the people and that's how can I help serve all the agents in the whole network in Metro Brokers.

Kathy Soltero:  and all your experience in Downtown Denver again?

Brad Evans:  Exactly and be a resource for other agents there.

Kathy Soltero:  All right.  Well Brad thank you very much for joining us today.

Brad Evans:  Thanks.

Kathy Soltero:  Our election is in January, January 15th 2010, our annual board meeting and we wish you the best of luck.

Brad Evans:  Great thanks.

Kathy Soltero:  Thank you so much for watching Metro Brokers TV.

Posted in Board Of Directors, Industry Leadership, Giving Back, Metro Brokers Agents