Agents join firms, earn honors and complete training
RE/MAX welcomes new associate Stacey Valdez
CAMARILLO — RE/MAX Gold Coast recently welcomed Stacy Valdez to its Camarillo Sales Team.
As a residential real estate professional for more than 13 years and lifetime Somis/Camarillo resident, Valdez has helped many families sell homes, buy homes and investment properties.
Her eye for marketing, coupled with well-honed business skills and experience are tremendous assets for her clients, who come from all over the county. Valdez said she takes pride in realizing her client's vision for a home and establishes trust with her clients that last far beyond the final transaction.
As an additional convenience to her clients, she is a certified ASP Home Stager, which allows her creative ways to prepare her their home for sale.
To contact Valdez, call 312-2681 or email stacey.va@verizon.net.
John Baker receives platinum service award
CAMARILLO — John Baker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Realty in Camarillo has received the Quality Service Certified Platinum award for the second consecutive year.
The designation is the highest level of service achievement in the real estate industry and is in recognition of earning 100 percent client service satisfaction in 2016 as measured by Leading Research Corporation.
After the conclusion of real estate transactions, clients of QSC agents receive a survey, asking them to rate the agent on various aspects of the service process. The surveys are administered and the results are received and compiled by LRC.
Client feedback from the surveys becomes part of the agent’s credentials. An overall satisfaction rating is displayed on the consumer website (www.RatedAgent.com) where buyers and sellers have the ability to select a real estate professional based upon each agent’s validated record of service satisfaction.
Baker can be contacted at johnbakerhomes@gmail.com.
Alex Gandel earns Grand Centurion award
SIMI VALLEY — Alex Gandel, No. 1 agent for the Simi Valley office of CENTURY 21 Troop Real Estate, is ranked No. 9 globally out of 110,000 CENTURY 21 real estate agents worldwide.
The ranking has earned Gandel the prestigious Grand Centurion award for his 2016 production.
Gandel has been with Troop Real Estate for 22 years and holds the distinction of being its top-producing agent in the Simi Valley office from 1996-2016. He is known throughout the community as the founder and chairman of the annual Troop Turkey-a-Thon, feeding thousands of qualified Ventura County residents a Thanksgiving dinner each year.
To reach Gandel, call 522-6788 or email Alex@AlexGandel.com.
Chip Bartley completes luxury home sales training
VENTURA — Chip Bartley with RE/MAX Gold Coast Realtors Ventura recently completed the luxury home sales and marketing training course offered by The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing.
The two-day training, which trains residential real estate professionals on selling and marketing to the affluent, covered topics such as demographics of the affluent, lifestyle segmentation, trends and amenities in today’s luxury home product and creating a marketing plan for the multimillion dollar property.
Bartley has been in real estate since 1993 and specializes in luxury home sales in Ventura County, Malibu and Santa Barbara. He was president of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers in 2004 and worked as a lobbyist helping to protect consumers and developing predatory lending laws.
In addition, he served as a hospital corpsman in the Navy while stationed with the 2nd Marines as a combat medic. Bartley proudly serves active duty military and veterans as the only Certified Veterans Agent in Ventura County.
For insights into the current state of the luxury market, contact Bartley at 844-0058 or Chip@LivingInVentura.com.