Habitat for Humanity Superintendent/Project Manager Allison Moe has been with the organization for five years and fills in Metro Broker TV's Mark Eibner about their largest project to date.

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Kathy Soltero:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV, I am Kathy Soltero.  Today in the studio we have Doug Lindstrom from our Loveland office, welcome Doug.

Doug Lindstrom:  Thank you.

Kathy Soltero:  Tell us how long have you been with Metro Brokers.

Doug Lindstrom:  I opened my office December last year 2008, so just one year now.

Kathy Soltero:  Wow and what sort of features and benefits and tools I think have you found in Metro Brokers that you really value?

Doug Lindstrom:  You know so far the best value I have seen is the CTM e-contracts and the website I get a fair amount of traffic I believe from the website, so those are the tools I utilize the most.

Kathy Soltero:  Very much so with the website especially I think.

Doug Lindstrom:  Right.

Kathy Soltero:  Describe any kind of volunteer work that you may have done in the years past whether it be in the community or with real estate?

Doug Lindstrom:  Sure.  Well recently I have, I have three kids, so they are all pretty young right now.  So I don't have a whole lot of time for a whole lot of volunteer work at the moment, but in the past I have done habitat for humanity and pretty involved with my church, real estate on some of the boards and some of the committees that our board has up in Northern Colorado.

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

Doug Lindstrom:  Big question.  My only motivation frankly for being on the board is to get a presence up in Northern Colorado.  I think we are very underserved up there personally and I think that there is a lot of; there is no saturation up there.  So I think we can definitely tap into that market, that's very unknown right now, but there is this three of us really up in Northern Colorado actually four of us up in Northern Colorado right now, so hoping to tap into that market a little bit and grow Metro Brokers.

Kathy Soltero:  That's awesome.  Tell me what sort of strengths do you have that you could bring to our board in 2010?

Doug Lindstrom:  You know I am hoping that kind of just being persistent with what the needs are particularly in Northern Colorado would be a benefit to the whole Metro Brokers community.  I think I have some leadership skills, but I also believe that more than anything else is, I don't, I am pretty persistent I just don't let things go too easily.  So hopefully that will be a benefit to all of us.

Kathy Soltero:  All right well our election is on January 15th, our annual board of directors meeting and we wish you the best of luck, thank you so much for joining us today.

Doug Lindstrom:  Thank you Kathy.

Kathy Soltero:  Thank you for joining Metro Brokers TV.

Posted in Industry Events, Industry Leadership, Giving Back, Metro Brokers Agents

Metro Brokers TV: This is Mark Eibner with Metro Brokers TV and we are here at the first annual Metro Broker Triathlon sponsoring Special Olympics and I am here with Ryan Coleman.  Ryan, what do you think of the event?

Ryan Coleman:  It was excellent Mark.  I can't believe the turnout.  I am more than impressed.

Interviewer:  Yeah, I guess you are a newcomer here.  I kind of picked you out the crowd because you just came over from Keller Williams.

Ryan Coleman:  Correct.  I mean an event like this, I mean I was with Keller for five years and I have never seen anything like this.

Interviewer:  Well, Metro Brokers does a lot of... you know we work with Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics is a big group, Big Brothers, Big Sisters things like that, but this thing turned out pretty successful.

Ryan Coleman:  Most definitely.  I am... it is just amazing.  I am glad everybody came out and I was part of it.

Interviewer:  Yeah, so next year I think it seems that you are young, you are under the 35, right?

Ryan Coleman:  Most of us under the 35, we were just talking about which leg I am going to do.  I don't know about all three, so....

Interviewer:  Well.  Hey!  Good to see you here Ryan.  I appreciate you being on board with Metro Brokers.

Ryan Coleman:  Most definitely, thank you.

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Metro Brokers TV:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV.  We are up here at the Habitat for Humanity project in Arvada, Colorado and today I am with Mary and welcome Mary.

Mary Barela Cordova:  Hi.  I am Mary Barela Cordova.  How are you Mark?

Metro Brokers TV:  I am doing great.  Which office do you work out of?

Mary Barela Cordova:  I am at the Lakewood Southwest office at Hampton and Wadsworth.

Metro Brokers TV:  Great.  Is that your company there?  You are an independent?

Mary Barela Cordova:  I am an independent.  It's Metro Brokers BC Realty LLC.

Metro Brokers TV:  So do you have any associates that work underneath you?

Mary Barela Cordova:  Absolutely.  I am the Managing Broker.  My husband Mike Cordova works with me also and we have four associates that are in our company.

Metro Brokers TV:  So, Mary what projects were you involved in in this house here today?

Mary Barela Cordova:  I was in the interior doing some drilling.  We were setting up brackets for sheetrock and then I was also doing some hammering some brackets.

Metro Brokers TV:  So, have you done this before with Habitat or is this your first time?

Mary Barela Cordova:  This is my first time.  It's something I have always wanted to do and this is a big year for me.  I am turning 50 and I am doing all those things I said I was going to do and I never did.  So, here we go.  I am marking it off my list.

Metro Brokers TV:  So, have you learned any skills or things today that can help you in your role stay current[Phonetic], what do you think?

Mary Barela Cordova:  You know it has been really exciting because these people are great that we are working with.  They are very patient.  We don't know what we are doing.  They are showing us.  They are telling us what to do and then they are explaining why inside the house and these are... when we do an inspection on a home, I know a lot about some general things, but absolutely it's been very interesting.

Metro Brokers TV:  Yeah, so maybe we should get some more of our membership to volunteer on these projects, eh?

Mary Barela Cordova:  I think we should.  I am on the board of Metro Brokers and here I am doing it.  So, we need some more of the other companies and other associates out here swinging a hammer.

Metro Brokers TV:  Well, great Mary.  We appreciate you being out here today.  Thanks.

Mary Barela Cordova:  You are welcome and thank you.

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Metro Brokers TV:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV.  We are here today, we are catching up with Maria Cook, the executive director for Metro Brokers, and Maria, it looks like Metro Brokers are always involved in some kind of community project.

Maria Cook:  You bet Mark.  Today we are here with Habitat for Humanity and we are thrilled.  Great that we can be a part.

Metro Brokers TV:  And you have got how many brokers up here today?

Maria Cook:  We have got approximately 12 and they are working strong.  We are just on lunch break.  So, it's great.

Metro Brokers TV:  Other projects Metro Brokers is involved in as far as community?

Maria Cook:  Yes, this year we are involved with Colorado Association of Realtors Housing Foundation, which is where you sign up your escrow account, so you can contribute towards those with housing needs.

Metro Brokers TV:  CARHOF.

Maria Cook:  CARHOF, you got it and then also our big charity this year will be at our first annual triathlon, which benefits solely Special Olympics of Colorado.

Metro Brokers TV:  Well, it looks like we have always got great membership volunteerism in our organization and it's also good to see our fearless leader up here being involved too.  So, thank you Maria.

Maria Cook:  It's an honor to be involved.

Metro Brokers TV:  So, what have you been doing here today on the house?  What's been your project?

Maria Cook:  I have actually been putting together the ties[Phonetic] so the house doesn't pull apart.  It is like code[Phonetic] and it's something I didn't know about.  It is kind of fun and there must be about 20 nails per tie[Phonetic] when you put them in.

Metro Brokers TV:  Yeah, I noticed your hammering skills are looking pretty damn good.

Maria Cook:  [laughs]  Yeah, it's great and I just thought I can be here and help out.

Metro Brokers TV:  Super.  Well, it's another great thing that Metro does as far as giving back to community.

Maria Cook:  Yeah and thank you guys for being here as well.

Metro Brokers TV:  We'll see you back at the office.

Maria Cook:  All right.

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