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CELEBRATING OUR 16TH YEAR!

WE GO WHERE REALTORS® GO™

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SINCE 2003

JANUARY 2019

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TO OUR REALTORS FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR!

VIRIDIAN IS #2 IN DFW AND #26 NATIONWIDE ON RCLCO’S TOP SELLING MASTER-PLANNED COMMUNITIES LIST

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2019

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Groovy Old Pics!

Tiago Title’s Cathy Capps-Warren.

Who would guess this little cootie patootie would turn into one of the best networkers around!

RE/MAX Town & Country’s Christi Crump is one of those girls you avoid at High School reunions, because she just gets better with the years!

GOT OLD PICS? share ‘em! fun@realestateandfriends.com

Ashton Woods’ Shannon Kivlelan in 1995 and today. She’s one of those you love to hate girls! She just gets prettier and prettier!

RE/MAX DFW’s Roger Thedford is thankful for a full head of hair after all these years!

We think he doesn’t look a lot different between pics!

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Happy from We are grateful for the support of our Realtor community.

You helped us sell an amazing amount of homes in 2018.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TOP-SELLERS!

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E D I T O R ’ S

L E T T E R

After 16 years of having the honor and pleasure of creating this magazine every month, and 26 years of self employment, I wanted to express thanks and tell my story.

Success is ALL about relationships. It’s about having friends and BEING a friend! I have been blessed by the most loyal and kind business partners who I now call friends. I have survived self-employment for the past 26 years in this (sometimes) brutal business through determination, hard work, thinking constantly about what’s next, listening to ideas from others, and being able to quickly make changes or additions overnight! The magazine evolves with the market and our readers.

What goes around comes around. I can’t TELL you how many times I have seen people get uncomfortably ‘canned’ from a job only to reappear as your next boss.

Practice the Golden Rule.

2001: Nancy working in home office with her 2 year old son - he’s about to be 20!

I have been asked at events if I was the magazine photographer. Yes I am! I often don’t reveal that I am also the graphic designer, the pre-press department, the writer, the collections department - I wear all the hats that the owner of a small business wears. I am not big on being braggy, but I think I have a great story about how friends

can change the course of your life. A million years ago (well, really 1990-ish) I was in the title business (I know!). A friend at David Weekley Homes knew they were looking for a creative person for the DFW marketing department. That friend referred me. I was tested to see if I was a match - and I was a perfect match! I had NO experience doing any of the work they needed. Now, if you wanted someone to make a flower arrangement or paint a T-shirt design by hand, I was your girl! But graphic design on their level? No experience. I was told they could teach me the skills needed, but being creative was God given. David Weekley Homes took a chance on me. They trained me and they were the BEST! I blissfully worked as a creative member of Weekley’s DFW marketing department for 3 years before they decided to outsource several jobs. I was heartbroken because I KNEW I had finally found my groove! I stayed as long as they needed for a smooth transition, and, at the end, they gave my number out to team members as a contact for creative marketing materials.

My FRIENDS at David Weekley Homes LAUNCHED ME into BUSINESS! As they left Weekley for other home builders, they took me with them, and I got my foot in the door with new customers.

For 10 years, I created marketing materials geared towards Realtors before I decided there had to be a better way to reach them. I was loading their mailboxes with PILES of loose flyers about new communities, bonuses, and available homes. While still creating flyers, I spent a year doing research on the best and most affordable way to

reach DFW Realtors. Then, I started this magazine. When it first started, it was more like a bunch of websites in print - believe it or not, lots of home builders didn’t have websites 16 years ago. The magazine was not about fun photos when it started. It was data driven.

It showed who built where, price and square footage range.

2003 magazines!

2003: OUR FIRST ADVERTISERS! About the photos... I volunteered to be the WCR Dallas newsletter editor. I started taking photos at monthly luncheons. Since I had the photos already, I thought I’d fill blank Drees Homes spots in the magazine with those WCR photos. When the magazine hit the streets, the reacEmerald Homes tions were reminiscent of when yearbooks were distributed in high school and people were Grand Homes filled with excitement that their picture made it in THE yearbook! A Pavlov’s response Highland Homes was created! With that kind of positive feedback, I wanted to put MORE photos in - and Lantana Community there you have it - today’s magazine full of photos of real estate friends was born!

Mercedes Homes Morrison Home There is NO other magazine like it. With no higher ups to report to, no big corporation behind us controlling decisions, or levels of management approval required to make Standard Pacific Homes changes, we can quickly (often times overnight) evolve into what our readers need and want.

TO-DATE: OUR LONGEST RUNNING ADVERTISERS Anderson Hanson Blanton - 2004 K Hovnanian - 2010 RE/MAX of Texas - 2009 Shaddock Homes - 2007 Toll Brothers - 2003 OUR TOUGHEST YEAR 2008 {shocking, I know!}

We care. We want our Realtors, advertisers and valued friends to succeed, so we listen to what you want and need.

Having spent 30 years in marketing, I know the ROI questions, like how can we PROVE people are reading it? When readers started taking the magazine with them on vacations all over the world, having fun with the magazine at happy hours and FUNdraisers, dragging it to the beach, dams, mountains, golf courses, historical sites, under water, weddings, and more - it helped counter that argument about whether or not people read it. Not only are they reading it, they want to participate in it!

SO MUCH of our content is reader submitted, so it’s by definition what they want to see! We can’t possibly fit in ALL the photos submitted. But we do our best to include as many different groups as we can - no matter if they are top producers or just starting out - we make room for everyone. We are proud that we are all inclusive and we are rewarded with a huge following of fans from all members of the ‘village’ that it takes to market, build, sell, insure, celebrate, and fund new construction in DFW.

The magazine celebrates its SWEET 16th this year! We have BIG plans to celebrate! For starters, find a picture of YOU at 16 because we are going to want it for the FuN we have planned all year long! Look for an exciting collaboration with Candy Evans

(CandysDirt Blog) with us hosting events so we, and our loyal advertisers, can mingle with our real estate friends, and we are going to embrace videos and podcasts, so get your lip gloss ready because we are going to hit you up to talk about what you know about real estate!

Nancy at 16!

Rocking that Dorothy Do!

For 16 years, we have focused on getting to know our real estate friends on a personal level - we strive to learn something about them you wouldn’t know from their flashy marketing pieces. Feature stories we’ve done over the years become even more treasured as real estate friends pass away.

With your continued support, we will remain the place real estate professionals go to for the latest DFW news on new construction, new communities, peers changing companies, title and mortgage lender news, trends ‑ and, of course, all of those FuN photos capturing behind-the-scenes moments out and about with your Real Estate Friends! Thank you for your support!

M A G A Z I N E

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Tarrant County Real Estate FuN!

Pam Caywood, Kristen Henderson & Anna Escamilla

Getting their IG Training on!

Alexis Nabors, Kimmie Jones-Ynguanzo, Katie Reames, Shantell Murphy & Bernice Lowry

Tarrant County magazine fans! Thank you Old Republic’s Brittanie Cox & Gina Carter with Kimmie Jones-Ynguanzo - D&G Roof

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United Ladies! Adrianna Shabbot, Christie Taylor, Brenda Cole & Rebecca Schragin - United Real Estate

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FOR HELPING MAKE US #2 IN DFW AND #26 NATIONWIDE!

With your help along with the area’s finest builders, we’ve built the best community in the metroplex.

Our record year in 2018 has placed us on RCLCO’s top selling master-planned communities list as #2 in DFW and #26 Nationwide.

2019 VIRIDIAN MILLION DOLLAR CLUB DETAILS COMING SOON!

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Scattershootin’ while wandering whatever happened to cap pistols, Superman capes and tri-cycles…

Putting down the books and picking up the remote in November and December gave me a nostalgic escape, as I rarely watch TV. Here’s some of my favorites I started to watch…It doesn’t really matter that I dosed off during some of them…that’s part of the escape right?

Pursuit of Happiness Grumpy Old Men Superman White Christmas and Holiday Inn Die Hard The Shop Around the Corner Godfather (I and II only) Patton You’ve Got Mail (don’t judge) The Notebook (same as above) When Harry Met Sally (go ahead judge, you know you like it too) Miracle on 34th Street Grumpier Old Men Shawshank Redemption Gone With The Wind Braveheart About Last Night Saving Private Ryan It’s a Wonderful Life

MetroTex Event: Shawn Stephens, Keta Woods, Jennifer Gerlich, and Jeff Lindigrin

Rogers Healy & Chastin Miles

I hope you had a wonderful Holiday season and are ready to make it happen in 2019!

Love, Jeff

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Gorgeous Ladies!

Realtors, Terri Fox & Lisa Johnson

Capital Title’s Tracey Curtis with her momma, Kaye Monts

Joe Mazza with Realtor, Gary Nordling

Getting their plaid on!

Kelly Hanson, Mary Day

RE/MAX Town & Country’s Bradd Conyne & Michael Coburn

Jackie Granata and Bobbi Bracco at a Britton Homes Realtor event

Realtor, Natalie Conrad with Great Western’s Jennifer Gerlich

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Natural beauties: Micah Clayton & Jennifer Redman - Cannon Team

Keller Williams’ Bobbi Bracco and Michelle Campbell

Diane Davis with United Real Estate’s Brenda Cole

Tiago Title party: Kate McCoy, Sean Clemmensen, & Cathy Capps-Warren

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Take our magazine to work, to play, or on vacation — and you WILL end up in the magazine!

Nancy with North American Title’s Laurie Leenhouts

CCAR installation: Tray Bates, Travis Kessler, Sylvia Seabolt, Leslie Rouda Smith & Shelley Baggett Jones Beth Caldwell with her Daddy, Jim

Becky Connatser, Christian Johnson, Ronda Needham & Lisa Peters First American Home Warranty’s Shelley Bagget-Jones, Marie Frymoyer, Shelley Carson, Brett Wilson, Christina Dominguez, Jami Dickson, Alice Sanchez, Katie Hooks & Tracy Berger Champions School of Real Estate Dallas team were excited to pose with the Champions front cover issue celebrating their 35th anniversary!

Linda Chase, Megan Deaton, Kim Doyle, Angela Clark, Karla Lárraga, Angie Carter-Thomas & Mattia Martin

Take our magazine to work, to play, or on vacation — and you WILL end up in the magazine!

MetroTex Event: Russell Berry, Sharon Harrison, Bill & Deborah Jordan & Nancy Garcia

Jim Fite - Century 21 Judge Fite with Shelley Baggett-Jones

WCR SW Dallas Installation: Kenya Burrell, Nancy Garcia, Jo Ann Stevens & Bette Washington Providence Title’s Amber Palmbos & Michael Kelly

Shelley Baggett-Jones & EXP Realty’s Sherri Elliott

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Denise & Richard Valle at Texas Top Producers VIP Launch Party

Friends who work together! Candy Jackson, Barbara Moore & Tracey Horne

Gorgeous! Shana Acquisto & Christi Stevens at Britton Homes

Nume Keowsawaang, Beth Caldwell & Brian Hazelwood

Congrats Teresa Rutherford on winning MetroTex Assn of Realtors Easterwood Cup Broker of the Year Award

Dallas Builder Association’s hard working volunteers on the Membership Committee Always learning!

Laurie Byers, Julie Nicholson, Charise Alberty Shoe King & Queen!

Realtors, Colleen Frost & James Sharp

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POOF! It’s GONE! Realtor Colleen Frost is adorable!

Supreme Lending’s CORE Team’s Karen, Alejandra and Michelle

Supreme Lending’s Twins Group - Kristy Lohse and Kelly Dula

Kay Wright with David Long - the 2019 CCAR President Elect

Looking glamorous! JP & Lauren Piccinini

Realtor, Kim Schumacher with Graham Hanks

2019 REALTOR REWARDS TRIP Presents

Realtors On the Rhine Enchanting European Escape

TRIP DETAILS: 7-Night luxury Rhine River Cruise on-board the AmaSerena, a 162 passenger vessel. Trip begins in Amsterdam, Netherlands & ends in Basel, Switzerland, with stops in Cologne, Rudesheim, Ludwigshafen & Breisach, Germany as well as Strasbourg, France.

Trip will take place April 20 — 27, 2020 and will include round-trip air travel, luxury cruise in a lavish twin-balcony stateroom, all meals and beverages, entertainment and MUCH more!

QUALIFICATIONS: From November 01, 2018 to December 31, 2019, sell a combined total of $1.2 Million in new homes in any of our three master planned communities & win an all-expenses-paid luxury AmaWaterways Rhine River Cruise for you & one guest! www.amawaterways.com/destination/europe-river-cruises/2020/captivating-rhine

Forney | $200s - $300s

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* Trips may not be sold or traded and there is no financial exchange if unable to attend. All new home sales must close by February 01, 2019 in order to qualify & REALTOR® info must be documented on sales contract at time of execution. All travelers must be at least 21 years of age & hold a current passport..

Visit our website at www.HuffinesCommunities.com for updates.

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Kali Copeland, Josh Liszewski and Lori Clark

Shellie Carnal & Luke Pierson

Adrienne DuBos, Keith Yonick and Claudia Schubert

Allie Beth Allman & Pierce at Allie Beth Allman & Assoc’ holiday party

Coldwell Banker’s Keith Yonick & Linda Callicutt Carol Stradtman, Stephanie Martin, Santa/Luke, Tami Schwarz & MaKensey Wilson

Coldwell Banker’s Shane Womack

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Meredith Neill, Lindsey Carroll, Rebekah Moeller & Amy Rakoczy Vika Good with KW Frisco Star’s Ronda Thurlkill

Meagan Rivisto, Riki Salmeron & Evelyn Gallardo

Blair Meador, Diane Donley

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Bobbi Bracco, Felicia Wesley, Shaun Felty, Georgina Hennen, Barbara Trumbull, Nancy Floyd, Glynda Ruiz, Melonnie Kindt

Courtney Slater & Stephanie Muckleroy

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NEW YEAR, NEW CHANCES, SAME DREAMS, FRESH STARTS. PARTNER WITH THE BEST IN 2019.

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Tracy Neeper, Tina Jacobsen, Tracey Curtis, Bill Shaddock, Angela Cyrus & Miranda Morris at Capital Title’s employee holiday party

Bill Shaddock with Stephanie Allen

Ebby’s Lisa Johnson with Stephanie Allen

Kelly Yount & Jen Murphy

Katy Kerlee, DeAnna Herrin, Vanessa Sturgeon & Tracey Curtis

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Halo’s Kevin Caskey with Jay Truitt & Kathie Truitt photobomber!

Diane Martin & Lori Miller photobombed by Dana Duckworth!

Tiffany Sharkey with her sweet grand dog! aww!

Stewart Title ladies: Julie Jordan, Juli Carradine

Tiago Title’s Party: Mabel Banda, Carlos Huerta & photobomber, Beth Hunt

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Supportive Fans of the magazine!

Thank you Mary Nelson & Shelley Baggett-Jones

Collecting toys for the needy. God bless kind people!

Tristan Sherrill, Beth Hunt & Diane Donley

Tiago Title’s Ryan Clemmensen, with gorgeous, Nathasha Garmendia

Tiago Title’s Cathy Capps-Warren, Nikki Watson & Chelsea Clayson

Realtors, Kathryn Marshall & Diane Ledford at Women in Business event THEE glamour couple!

RE/MAX DFW’s Linh & Victor Vo

KW’s Marissa Benat with Adam Majorie working to support TREPAC

SS Baugh, Jess Wantz, Kevin Caskey, Chelsea Clayton, Britt Morris, Alexis Nabors at YPN

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Carol Stradtman & Realtor, Doris Jacobs

RE/MAX Dallas Suburbs’ Ivy Boland

RE/MAX DFW’s Mark Kukla

Republic TItle’s Janet Allen

Texas Urban Realty Group of Happy People! (thanks Kylah Boyd for the picture!)

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THE Title Co’s Susan Podsednik

Coldwell Banker Frisco’s Tiffany Sharkey

First Western Title’s Shannon Williamson

RE/MAX Trinity’s festive group - Malyn Powers, Crystal Brown, Cassy Batts, Jaci Coan, David Coan, Jonnie Huitt, Tracey Amaya, Cindy Sutton-Thompson, Vickie White, Kelly Christenson, Brooke Hayes & Mandy Hedrick

Fidelity Title FuN!

Ebby’s Keith Redelsberger

RE/MAX Town & Country’s gorgeous Linda Dewan

S ’ L E T A G ME S U N O B 2019 M A R G O PR

EA RN 6% CO MM ISS ION

Megatel Homes understands the end of the year is stressful enough without rushing to meet a bonus deadline. That’s why we’re giving you until the end of 2019 to sell a home in select Megatel Homes communities to earn 6% commission!

Call to learn more 469.758.8869 Must be 18 or older and a licensed realtor to be eligible. Only select inventory homes in select communities apply. Sales contracts must be executed in writing between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 for eligibility. Additional restrictions may apply. No team sales, prior offers, transfers, cancellations or rewrites are eligible. Megatel Homes, LLC., reserves the right to change and/or cancel the program at any time.