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Red Rose Realty – Rose Wanchap’s story Red Rose Realty was brought into being to make a difference. Rose believes in making a difference and doing business differently. ‘You won’t find any fancy slogans, my story comes straight without any frills.’ Rose Wanchap operates a unique Real Estate office. What is not obvious is what she does with some of the profits from her business; ‘I always felt I lived a charmed life; born the eldest daughter of a large and loving family in the lucky country, Australia, I have three amazing children and now five equally amazing grandchildren and two great grandchildren.’ Rose had been making a very good living working on commission for real estate agents since the early ‘80s. She circumnavigated the world a few times with her children, living in various countries for differing lengths of time, but when her grandchildren started arriving, she felt the need to do something to give thanks, balance the books
so to speak, give something back. And Red Rose Realty was born. It came out of an idea she had to fund various humanitarian projects from income generated from her business, which in turn created more business. She called it ‘making a difference, doing business differently’. Rose explains, ‘When you pay commission, and let’s face it, the fee you pay to someone to sell your property can be one of the largest costs you will have to meet, how amazing to see some of it fund things like a well in Ethiopia, or provide a single mum with a month’s rent, a homeless person with a food voucher or to start a campaign to alert the public to the dangers of pesticide use’. These are just a few of the projects Rose has been able to fund over the past 20 years. ‘It has been an extraordinary journey, fulfilling my dreams of still making a great living whilst funding projects that I am passionate about’, she says.
Rose Wanchap and her family – daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter, four generations. In a town like Byron Bay, competing with the big franchise agencies was always going to be challenging but Rose has had
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a large piece of the pie ‘It was fascinating to see, no matter how much I gave, I just kept receiving; the business just kept flowing in.’
If you would like to do business with Rose, either to sell or to purchase a home, she would love to hear from you.
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