Vito Dolci Sr. & Vito Dolci Jr.
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FIVE STAR REAL ESTATE
Name: Vito Dolci Sr. Brokerage: Five Star Real Estate How many years as a REALTOR®?
34 years What awards have you achieved individually? Several top sales awards How many years have you been in business together? 21 years What did you do before you became a REALTOR®? I managed a bakery
from 1972-1987. I was 17 years old still in high school. I increased the sales from$10,000 a year to $350,000 selling 25 cent donuts and 79 cent loaves of bread. In today’s money that would be $825,000 in sales. There were two delivery trucks on the road servicing restaurants and grocery stores. I had 20 employees and a 24-hour operation. In 1987 the bakery was sold. It was time to start a new career, my family always did a lot with commercial real estate, it was not much of an adjustment to go into real estate sales. Did you always know, or hope, that one of your children would go into real estate given your success? I
believe and always knew that one, if not all three, of my children would be involved in some facet of the real estate industry. My son Vito worked with me through high school, through college and when he graduated from Grand Valley he obtained his real
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