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| TOP (l) Employee of the Year, TOP (r) Outstanding Salespersons BOTTOM Top Ten Salespersons |
The event was hosted by Thomas
R. Wilkins, CEO and Christine A. Wilkins, Exec V.P./General Manager. The custom PowerPoint program presented
during the brunch was designed and developed by Thomas R. Wilkins, Jr.
In his opening remarks,
Wilkins thanked everyone for attending as well as complimented those who
attended for making 2014 a good year for all of the Wilkins organization’s
companies in light of the economy. The
Wilkins organization has offices in Stroudsburg, Bushkill, Mt. Pocono and
Milford. The Corporate office is at 404
Park Avenue, Stroudsburg.
Realtors awarded the Certificate of Achievement included
Donna DiBernard (BK office), Julio Bautista (MIL off), Thomas Waslowski (STBG
off).
Rookie of the Year awards were given to Alex Camaerei, (STBG off), Lisa Heaney (MIL off),
and Karen Sherrill (MT POC off).
Christine Wilkins proudly
mentioned the fact that the company had hired over 20 new Agents in 2014 and
expected the sales force to grow to close to 90 Realtors by year-end 2015.
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| L - Alex Camaerei, Realtor - 2014 Rookie of the Year R - 2014 Top Team: Wilkins, CEO; Centini, Farrelly, Sorrentino, Admin Asst to Carl Maurer |
Said Christine A. Wilkins, “The
Top Ten Salespersons for 2014 included a lot of Realtors that may not have been
considered in the past. To me, it was
very rewarding to watch their volume increase for 2014. Appreciate, it’s not only the volume, it was
the individual agent handling those accounts with such professionalism, it
simply turned into sale, and a lot of them!”
The Top Team for the year was presented to The Carl Maurer Team, with
$29.5 million in sales. The Carl Maurer
Team consists of Carl Maurer, Assoc Broker and Team Leader, Dennis Farrelly,
Realtor, Caryn Centini, Buyer’s Agent and Donna Sorrentino, Admin Asst. In 2013, The Carl Maurer Team won numerous
awards both state wide and nationally based on the volume that the Team
produced. Said Wilkins, “Winning awards
such as The Carl Maurer Team has won not only in 2014 but in the past, has not
come without a tremendous amount of dedication, hard work and a basic labor of
love which produces these sorts of numbers.
Obviously, The Carl Maurer Team handles bank owned properties and those
are not the high-end part of the Pocono market.
I applaud each and every one of their efforts.”
Top Salesperson of the Year was given to Jennifer-Lynn Amantea, Assoc Broker of
the Mt. Pocono office. Said Amantea, “I
was very honored to receive Top Salesperson of the Year. I just love this industry and am looking
forward to 2015.” Amantea sells homes
throughout the greater Pocono region and in addition to that, Amantea sells
high-end homes in the Lehigh Valley area as well. Amantea owns JPA Masonry, one of the largest and most respected masonry
businesses in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Employee of the Year, the most prestigious award to be presented, was handed out to Rossana
Spina, Exec Secretary to Thomas R. Wilkins.
Spina, who has been with the company for almost 10 years, works in the
Corporate office and is the primary Secretary to Thomas R. Wilkins, CEO and
Christine A. Wilkins, General Manager.
In her capacity as such, Spina handles a number of key responsibilities
for the entire organization including the Title company, Management company, personal
real estate holdings and partnerships and, of course, her primary
responsibility, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Wilkins & Associates.
Said Thomas R. Wilkins about
Spina, “When the vote came before the Supervisors to present the award to
Rossana, it was unanimous. Rossana’s
interfacing not only with me, but with the company in general simply does not
go unnoticed. We could not have had the
year we had without Rossana’s help.”
The award was presented by Thomas R. Wilkins.
The last category was the Helping Hands award. Recipients of the award included Nicole
Murray (BK off), Blanca Cordero (STBG off), Donna Casserly (MT POC off), and
Samantha Bonnett (STBG off).
The Helping Hands award is one of the most difficult awards to
receive. That award celebrates the
successes of other that benefited through your unselfishness, concern and
genuine assistance to a co-worker.
Recipients of the Helping Hands
award do not ask to be mentioned or acknowledged. Everyone knows who a Helping Hands recipient
is. Those award winners, past and
present, live by the golden rule and know what goes around comes around.
Closing remarks and 2015
predictions were given by Thomas R. Wilkins, CEO. Wilkins thanked everyone for their past
performance in 2014, complimented the award winners that day and told everyone
there that 2015 was going to continue to be a good year as was 2014. Wilkins closed with “Remember in the
beginning of the real estate cycle, we said it was going to be a slow road
back. We said that the market was going
to increase slowly but on a very steady pace.
In 2013 and again in 2014, we saw this happen much the way we
predicted. For that reason, we see 2015
echoing that same pattern.”
In addition to their regular
business, the Wilkins organization in 2015 has launched a new website — www.BHGwilkins.com, expanded Management agreements in the Lehigh Valley
and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area already in effect and the launching of the Distinctive Collection by BHG which
hosts luxury and life-style homes as an actual Division within the
Company. All offices are open 7 days a
week.
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