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Avery-Hess, Realtors MyLife Monthly Newsletter for the end of 2013.TRANSCRIPT
MyLife
Monthly
DEC 2013 /
JAN 2014
AHR
How did you share the love this holiday
season? Take a peak inside to see how
some AHR members helped support their
communities this year!
Happy Holidays and a Happy
New Year! We wish you all the
best and look forward to a
wonderful 2014!
Have a safe and happy New Years celebration!
Don’t forget to reach out to your sphere to share
with them all the great things happening in their
communities in 2014!
CONTENTS
4 Letter from the President
5 A Note on Avery-Hess & Service
6 January Calendar
8 November Top Performers
10 End of Year Events Review
12 Company Update
Letter from the
President
Happy Holidays! Putting those shopping lists aside for a moment, let us reflect upon what is really most important in our lives: our family, friends and loved ones. I truly hope each of you will have lots of time to spend with people who mean so much to you during this holiday season.
As the leader of Avery-Hess, I can only say just how important you all have been, and are, in my life. I can only hope I continue to share wonderful moments with you as we continue our journey in business together. At the end of the year I have time to reflect upon many shared experiences, successes, and yes, occasionally a difficult transaction or tough time. Smiles on your faces, enjoying your company, listening to your commentary on the business we all love so much makes it all more worthwhile. Sharing life’s journey with others, whether in our personal lives, or our business lives weaves a much stronger fabric for all of us to enjoy.
Every day when I walk into the office and see the Toys for Tots Santa that Al Crider left for us, I miss him and the excitement that lit up his face when he had another marketing idea to share. I miss the many folks like Maury Stack, Ryan Clark, Nancy Knuth and others who enriched our lives and are no longer with us as we continue in business together. We have a tremendously strong company culture of helping each other and working with each other because we care. I am ever so thankful for that and I look forward to the many years of working together still to come.
What we do on a daily basis helping people accomplish their dreams and create memories to share for a lifetime is priceless. Learn to engage in new relationships each week, be there to help and dreams will come true. Decorate your home, celebrate your holidays with loved ones, give thanks for your accomplishments in 2013, plan your successful 2014 and get ready for another year of Growth, Challenge and Opportunity.
May God Bless and Happy Holidays to the entire Avery-Hess family.
Scott Avery President Avery-Hess, Realtors
A NOTE ON AVERY-HESS & SERVICE
Recently we said goodbye to a longstanding Avery-Hess agent
and wonderful man, Albert Crider. Al’s time with us was marked
with truly innovative and unique approaches to marketing his
successful Real Estate business, but perhaps more so by his
consistent and unwavering approach to serving the community.
This past year, Al was recognized with the Avery-Hess Distinguished
Service award, and it couldn’t have been more fitting.
This holiday season, Al’s business partner Judy Radvanyi,
with support from the Tysons office, worked to remember
Albert by continuing in his footsteps and helping children in
our area have a wonderful Christmas morning through a
Marine Toys for Tots drive in our Tyson's Corner office.
With members of the Avery-Hess team like Al and Judy, and
every other AHR associate who is willing to support their
local communities, we’re all made stronger and better.
Please share with us and get your officemates involved in
what you’re doing this holiday season to make a difference
in the areas you serve.
We want to wish a big Happy Holidays and a huge Thank You to all of our agents representing us in the
communities we serve. As just a sampling of what some other members of the AHR team have
contributed this season, we have Dave Hess scooping potatoes at the Big Heart Brigade’s Thanksgiving
Feast, Chris Brown and the Tyson's Office representing AHR at the Vienna Turkey Trot to raise money for
the Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept. and JMHS Marching Band, and our Lake Ridge office’s Chili Cook-off
and canned food drive for their local food bank—THANK YOU ALL!
JANUARY
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
UPCOMING
EVENTS
JANUARY 2014
OFFICES
CLOSED
OFFICES
CLOSED
1 2 3 4
5 6 7
8
Tysons: New
Mortgage
Qualifications
9 10 11
Rville:
15 HR
CE
12 13
14
Scott Visits Front
Royal
15
Springfield:
Photography for
Listings
Scott Visits Fburg
16
17 18
19
20
21 22
Fburg: All About
PRP from FAAR
LR: Estates CE
23 24 25
26 27 28
Scott Visits Dulles
29
Star Session:
Prospecting +
Farming
30 31
For more information on any event
featured on this calendar or if you
would like an upcoming event to be
shown in a future edition of the
newsletter, feel free to email
JAN 8th
Tysons office will have Patricia Gills, Mclean Mort-
gage speaking on new mortgage qualifications
effective Jan. 10th. Event is at noon, lunch pro-
vided, contact [email protected] for info.
JAN 11th
Rockville 15 HR MD CE class via Rempower,
contact [email protected] for more info.
JAN 15th
Springfield’s Susan Metcalf is presenting on Pho-
tography for Listings. 10:30AM—1PM, Lunch &
Learn. RSVP to [email protected].
JAN 22nd
Fredericksburg is having FAAR in to speak on “All
About PRP”. More details coming soon. Contact
[email protected] for more info.
Lake Ridge will have Frank Mroz, Mobility Title, in
to present on Estates. More details coming soon.
Contact [email protected] for more
info.
JAN 29th
AHR Star Session: Prospecting + Farming featur-
ing Amy Cherry Taylor, Sam Mangrio and Alex
Saengar. 10AM-1PM. RSVP to
Event Details
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SCOREBOARD
NOVEMBER
TOP LISTINGS TOP PRODUCERS OVER $750,000
Amy Cherry Taylor, STAFFORD
Frank Freeman, SPRINGFIELD
Seema Rodriguez, ROCKVILLE
Donna Anderson, F.ROYAL
Carlton Hill, TYSONS
Frances Irizarry, DULLES
Nina Chen Landes, TYSONS
Jennifer Layton, STAFFORD
Ayse Ozdemirli, SPRINGFIELD
Seema Rodriguez, ROCKVILLE
Deena Davis, FRONT ROYAL
Frances Irizarry, DULLES
Frances Irizarry
Iris Aponte
Seema Rodriguez
Ayse Ozdemirli
Linda Fleischer
Ingrid Myers
Jennifer Layton
David Smith
Nancy Mizelle
Tracy Wenger
Nina Chen Landes
Carlton Hill
Mary Grace
Mandaro
Judy Radvanyi
Sheila Carney
MOBILITY TITLE HMS WARRANTY PM RELOCATION
Natalie Seliquini (3x)
Amy Cherry Taylor (2x)
BJ Winar
Melissa Weaver
Pattie Mancini
Carolyn Hurley
Carolyn Lindhal
Gloria Culleton
David Smith
Seema Rodriguez (2x)
Mary Misleh (2x)
Pattie Mancini (2x)
Brenda Agnew
David Payne
Sam Mangrio
Iris Aponte
Marilyn King
Nancy Mizelle
Chris Brown
John Griggs
Mary Misleh
Carolyn Hurley
Congratulations to our November Top Performers!
NOVEMBER
FRESH FACES
NEWS
We’ve had several new agents join the AHR Team who will be starting with us in 2014.
Once they’re officially on-board we’ll be introducing them to everyone at the end of January!
Until then, a continued WELCOME and heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our new agents who joined us in 2013 and to everyone
who’s been with us much longer than that.
We are truly a better company for having all of you with us and we look forward to continuing the journey together into 2014 and beyond!
END OF YEAR EVENTS
The Avery-Hess Springfield office had a great attendance for their informative Lunch and Learn
on Appraisals that they held in November. Don’t miss out on future Springfield events—check the
calendar to RSVP to [email protected] for their upcoming January 15th class covering the
importance of photography in your listings, presented by their very own Susan Metcalf.
Fredericksburg agents new to Real Estate lucked
out when their Administrative Manager and
Marketing Assistant, Jamie King, presented a class
on title insurance and a breakdown of just what
all occurs at settlement. Jamie came to us from
working on the title side of the business for a
number of years and is clearly putting that
information to good work in her office. Thanks
Jamie and good luck to all our newer agents!
If you ever need help or have questions don’t
forget the managing Broker, staff and agents in
your office offer a wonderful support structure!
Our Lake Ridge office and guests had a ton of fun
(and full bellies) at their annual Lake Ridge Chilli
Cookoff! Congratulations again to Faiza Alvi,
winner of the $100 prize from Sunshine Contracting
for Most Unique Chili, Loretta Rossomondo, winner
of the $100 prize from Mobility Title for Sweetest
Chili, and Danielle Jones, winner of the $100 prize
from Presidential Mortgage for Spiciest Chili.
Great cooking you all!
Tysons agents had so much fun
decorating the foyer for the Marine
Toys for Tots drive that was a huge
success and a great way to get
together to remember longtime
Avery-Hess agent, Albert Crider.
Thanks to everyone for helping Al’s
business partner, Judy Radvanyi,
make this year another roaring
success!
Tysons agents also made it out on in frigid 23
degree weather on a Sunday for the Vienna
Turkey Trot, they braved the cold, repped their
Avery-Hess Turkey Trot tshirts, and walked off a
little extra Thanksgiving turkey weight to support
the community and raise money for the local
marching band and Volunteer Fire department.
Thanks Chris for sending in the fun pictures!
Brrr!!!
If you ever have a fun event or community
service project you’re invoved in, please send
us your pictures! We love hearing about all the
ways Avery-Hess agents are making a
difference in their communities!
Feel free to share any fun pictures you from your office Holiday
parties! Katja Hom’s truly ugly sweater took the prize for ugliest
overall at the Tyson’s party and we heard some crazy things went
down in Fredericksburg at theirs… Share your stories and pictures
to get featured in the next MyLife Monthly!
We hope you had a very merry holiday season and wonderful
start to the new year!
RELO/REO UPDATE As the market rebounds many customers are elevating real estate needs and it’s time to reach out and remind current and past clients of your ability to assist them anywhere in the world! So if you’ve felt uncomfortable about referrals in the past – now it is the time to expand your services, by staying in touch with all your clients and practice The Art of the Introduction. Click on the video to the right to check it out.
Karen McDonald
Director of Relocation Avery-Hess, Realtors
[email protected] Office: 703.266.5810
13000 Harbor Drive Woodbridge, VA 22192
To place a referral, Contact Karen or Angela in our Relocation Department
[email protected] [email protected]
703.266.5810
Anyone ... Anywhere ... Anytime!
Click on the image above to play the video.
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Thank you all for an
unbelievable 2013!
We want to kick 2014 off with a Bang and are offering a reduced management fee
to all AHR Associates for your personal properties.
Call Katja Hom at 703.448.0485 ext. 113 for details.
Don’t forget—as always your referral fee still stands
at $250 per closed referral.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
For more information about AH Management and to see
resources and services available to your clients and their potential tenants,
please visit the AH Management Website
FINANCIAL DISCUSSION
2013 Year-End Tax Planning
2013 Year-End Tax Planning summarizes many different federal income, gift and estate tax issues affecting clients that commonly arise at year end. Several items of particular interest this year include:
The new tax on certain investment income: the 3.8% Medicare surtax (see page 1)
The return of the “Pease” limitations on itemized deductions
(see pages 3-4)
The new, 20% maximum tax rate applied to long-term capital
gains and “qualified” dividends (see page 5)
Various provisions that have been extended for 2013 (see pages 9-10)
If you have any questions regarding any of the issues discussed in this guide, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely, Matthew Avery
Matt is always available to help you and
your clients!
Matthew Avery
Financial Advisor Merrill Lynch
[email protected] http://fa.ml.com/matthew.avery
Office: 703.734.8145
Fairfax Square Vienna, VA 22182
AGENT
RESOURCES
Avery-Hess has 7 Offices
servicing Virginia,
Maryland, Washington
D.C. and West Virginia.
Helpful Links
Avery-Hess Email
Webmail.AveryHess.com
VAgent Login
VAgent.AveryHess.com
Order business cards
Download Marketing Materials
Find CDRs and other company
specific forms
Update your agent information
Browse additional agent
resources and helpful guides
Personal Agent Website
YOURNAME.AveryHess.com
Agent Account Statements
Webagent.AveryHess.com
Zipforms
www.ZipformsOnline.com
AHR iPad Listing Presentation
www.AveryHess.com/iPad
Agent & Company Roster
Roster.AveryHess.com
Avery-Hess Blog
www.AveryHessBlog.com
Property Management Website
www.AHRManagement.com
Mobility Title Website
www.MobilityTitle.com
Avery-Hess Real Estate Search App
App.AveryHess.com
If you would like to add resource information to
this page, email [email protected]
Centreville
5875 Trinity Pkwy, Suite #120
Centreville, VA 20120
P (703)802.8200
F (703)802-2234
Fredericksburg 774-A Warrenton Rd.
Fredericksburg, VA 22406
P (540)373.9300
F (540)373.0455
Front Royal 517 N Royal Ave
Front Royal, VA 22630
P (540)631.9009
F (540)631.9004
Lake Ridge
13000 Harbor Dr
Woodbridge, VA 22192
P (703)492.6500
F (703)492.4039
Rockville
6001 Montrose Rd, Suite #101
Rockville, MD 20852
P (301) 309.2499
F (301) 309.2507
Springfield
6369 Rolling Mill Place, Suite #103
Springfield, VA 22152
P (703) 451.9797
F (703) 584.0385
Tysons
2301 Gallows Rd, Suite #110
Dunn Loring, VA 22027
P (703) 821.5005
F (703) 821.9150
Additional Contact Information:
Corporate (703) 448.0485
Relocation & REO (703) 266.5810
Property Management (703) 448.0485 ext. 111