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Month: May 2013

Russell Estey with RooterPLUS/Atlanta Cooling Pros, Stuart Perry with Farmers Insurance Group and Tammy Bennett with Bennett Realty & Investments

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Russell Estey, Kate Schermerhorn, Stuart Perry, Tammy Bennett

Russell Estey/RooterPLUS & Atlanta Cooling Pros

RooterPLUS/Atlanta Cooling Pros has been providing plumbing, sewer, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and septic tank service to residential and commercial customers since 1994. Their extensive service area includes Atlanta, Marietta, Alpharetta, Cumming, Gainesville, Roswell, Lawrenceville and the surrounding areas. Their experienced, state licensed, professional staff offers quality service at affordable prices.

Stuart Perry/Farmers Insurance Group

Farmers Insurance Group began  in 1928 when two men who shared a dream of providing a quality insurance product at a reasonable price opened the doors to the Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange in Los Angeles. In the decades that followed, they’ve grown and adapted to meet the changing needs of Americans, but one constant has remained. They have an unwavering commitment to upholding the ideals with which they began by providing industry-leading products and services to the customers they’re privileged to serve.

Today, Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is one of the country’s largest insurers(third) of vehicles, homes and small businesses and provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products. Farmers’ business model revolves around the commitment to serve their clients through local, community based agents who are in touch with the localities where they live and work with their customers.

Farmers is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees.

Tammy Bennett/Bennett Realty & Investments

Tammy Bennett is the owner and broker of Bennett Realty & Investments, LLC. After working in accounting for 10 years, she decided to change her career path and began the journey in Real Estate right before becoming a Mom. Having always had an interest in Real Estate, she opened Bennett Realty & Investments as the next step in being a provider of top notch customer service.

She knows what it takes to make a deal work and she looks forward to your business showing you how easy your life can be! Let her help you in your real estate journey, no matter what you are looking for. She has many years of commercial, residential and investment real estate experience, so no matter your needs, she is here to serve you.

She is a foreclosure specialist, so let her help you understand and conquer this difficult market!

Rob Donahue with Investigative Home Inspection, Joel Elliott with EW Capital Management, John Lindsey with Lindsey Insurance Group and Julie Chokos with Atlanta Peach Movers

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Rob Donahue/Investigative Home Inspection

Certified in home and mold inspections in the metro Atlanta area, Investigative Home Inspection has been in business fulltime since 1997 providing inspections for new construction, resale homes, bank owned properties, foreclosures, condos and townhomes. All inspections cover mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Other items include framing, roofing, drainage, crawl spaces, attics and full interior. All inspections include visual mold inspection due to their certifications with the Indoor Air Quality Association. What they pride most is the education process they provide for their clients. The inspection is just one portion of the job. Showing their clients how things operate and why service is important and watching them become involved is important and gratifying to Investigative Home Inspection.

Joel Elliott/EW Capital Management

EW Capital Management provides full service Atlanta property management, real estate, construction and insurance. They specialize in single family homes, condos, duplexes, as well as apartment buildings of any size. They are staffed by Atlanta property managers, construction supervisors, leasing agents and skilled tradesmen.

John Lindsey/Lindsey Insurance Group

Lindsey Insurance Group is a full-service insurance agency offering insurance coverage for auto and home and specialty lines and offering commercial insurance with a special emphasis on church insurance throughout the state of Georgia. The agency shops for the best deal and fit for a customer through its wide range of carriers. Through their 14 years of sales and service, they have worked with their clients through the numerous changes and turns in the insurance industry. Their main goals are to provide great service and expertise to their clients as it relates to insurance. If the Lindsey Insurance Group does not have a specific answer to your question, they will find the answer and call you back.

Julie Chokos/Atlanta Peach Movers

Atlanta Peach Movers is the official mover of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Women’s Council of Realtors and Zoo Atlanta. Atlanta Peach Movers is a full-service relocation provider. They offer local, interstate, intrastate, international and office and industrial relocation services along with packing and storage solutions to their customers. Atlanta Peach Movers just celebrated its 25th anniversary and was voted Kudzu’s Best Mover for 2012.

Rob Donahue, Joel Elliott, Kate Schermerhorn, John Lindsey, Julie Chokos

Ann Spivey with Flowery Branch Chiropractic, Don Adams with Premier Branded Specialties, Bob Starks with KW Commercial Atlanta Partners, Genifa Finch with Angel Cleaning Company and Jenny Butler with Green Street Studio

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Ann Spivey/Flowery Branch Chiropractic

The mission of Flowery Branch Chiropractic is to provide the highest quality chiropractic care to as many individuals and families of south Hall County as possible through compassionate, experienced, conservative, and affordable healthcare. Doctors Tanya Turner and Chris Turner have over 30 years combined experience. Their office offers spinal and extremity adjusting, massage therapy and nutritional consulting.

Don Adams/Premier Branded Specialties

Premier Branded Specialties is a full line distributor of promotional products. They help businesses advertise with the use of promotional products of all kinds (pens, mugs, cups, bags, they have literally thousands of products). They also offer embroidered shirts and hats, as well as screen printed t-shirts. They cater to about anyone with a need to promote a business, church, social group, family reunion and more.

Bob Starks/KW Atlanta Commercial Atlanta Partners

When Keller Williams Realty was founded in 1983, Gary Keller and Joe Williams envisioned a company that would dominate both the residential and commercial real estate markets. KW Commercial is the commercial real estate arm of Keller Williams Realty, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based real estate franchise company with over 77,000 real estate agents, operating in more than 675 market centers (offices) across the globe. KW Commercial’s commitment to excellence has been proven time and time again by the results that their agents produce for their clients. When you engage KW Commercial, you aren’t simply hiring a broker; you are hiring an entire company and a network of dedicated commercial real estate professionals across the globe. KW Commercial agents and brokers hold each other to the highest standard of business.

Genifa Finch/Angel Cleaning Company

Angel Cleaning Company is a professional cleaning company offering a wide range of cleaning services and rendering the most-awaited solutions to the problems of both commercial and non-commercial sectors. They cover all Gwinnett and Atlanta areas, including Suwanee, Buford, Lawrenceville, Sugar Hill, and Alpharetta, and they pride themselves in providing a high quality domestic cleaning service to individual clients.

Just sit back and relax! With Angel Cleaning staff taking care of your home or office, you can do your prioritized work undisturbed. The Angel Cleaning Team will have everything sorted out within a day while you attend to your business and other professional activities.

Jenny Butler/Green Street Studio

Green Street Studio is a professional interior design company specializing exclusively in commercial interiors. Located in
Gainesville, they service businesses throughout Northeast Georgia. Taking a unique approach to commercial interior design, Green Street Studio offers simplified solutions for any business. They offer a variety of design packages that can benefit your company regardless of size or budget. Their services range from conceptual interior design drawings to full interior construction documents and on-site consultation.

Jenny Butler, Ann Spivey, Kate Schermerhorn, Don Adams, Genifa Finch, Bob Starks

Shawna Anderson with Anderson Physical Therapy Associates, Steve McCullough with Carpet Surplus and Hardwood Liquidators, Carrie Enriquez with Housekeepers and Regina Bryan with Keller Williams Realty

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Shawna Anderson/Anderson Physical Therapy Associates

Anderson Physical Therapy Associates provides one-on-one care every visit. They take the time to explain your condition, how it will be treated and what to expect. They are located in Braselton, GA near the new Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Anderson Physical Therapy goes the extra mile be providing extended hours in the mornings, evenings and weekends based on availability.

Shawna Anderson, MPT, the owner of Anderson Physical Therapy Associates, has a stellar track record working for large, national health companies. She opened her private practice to fill the need for more attentive and personal care in physical therapy treatment.

Steve McCullough/Carpet Surplus and Hardwood Liquidators

With over 300 rolls in stock, Carpet Surplus and Hardwood Liquidators has one of Atlanta’s premier carpet inventories! They carry brand names such as Mohawk, Shaw, Beaulieu and Stainmaster. In addition to carpet, they offer Vinyl, Laminate and Hardwood Flooring at discounted prices. They are a one-stop service provider! Call 404-552-0503.

Carrie Enriquez/Housekeepers

Housekeepers is a family owned and operated, full-service residential and office cleaning company serving Greater Gwinnett
County. Respect for your home, your time, your home’s security, and the fact that you are paying them your hard-earned money, forms the basis of their business. Everything they do is centered around providing you respectful, quality service you can trust.

They offer their exclusive MAIDLOGIC method which is a practical method for keeping your entire home clean on a continuing basis. You are not locked into a service level restricted by a corresponding list. They will clean all areas of your home on a rotating basis to ensure overall cleanliness.

They offer a Quality Assurance Program that protects you in three ways: Quality of their service, quality of training, and quality in their maids. If you have had maid service for years or if you are considering it for the first time, they will work with you to determine your custom cleaning plan with your budget in mind.

Regina Bryan/Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners

Keller Williams Realty, Sugarloaf Market Center, is located at 1970 Satellite Blvd., Suite 2100 in Duluth, GA. It is a full-service
real estate firm with 200 sales associates. Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the largest real estate franchise company in the United States with approximately 700 offices and 80,000 associates around the world.

Keller Williams associates may be taking the day off on Thursday, May 9, 2013, but it will hardly be a day of rest. Associates with the Sugarloaf Market Center have chosen to “Give Where They Live” as part of RED Day, one of the biggest events in the real estate industry.

Short for “Renew, Energize and Donate,” RED Day was created to unite Keller Williams Realty offices and associates in an international day of service.

As part of the RED Day effort, the Sugarloaf Market Center has chosen to spend the afternoon at the Sheltering Arms Early-Education Daycare Center in Lawrenceville, GA. They will sort food and clothing donations for the Sheltering Arms. Then they will have an afternoon play day with the children.

Since the first RED Day in 2009, Keller Williams associates have given almost a half million hours of community service through activities ranging from food and blood drives to cleaning up trash in public parks, revamping gardens at nursing homes and rebuilding homes and schools for community members in need. To this day, it is one of the largest events in the real estate industry.

For more information about RED Day, visit http://www.kw.com/kw/redday.html.

Shawna Anderson, Kate Schermerhorn, Steve McCullough, Carrie Enriquez, Regina Bryan

Paige Powers with Keller Williams Realty, David Post with Future Security and Nate Norton with Yellow Van Handyman

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Paige Powers/Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners

Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners Sugarloaf opened its doors in early 2000 with a handful of agents. Today, the Sugarloaf KW office is home to over 220 real estate sales associates. KW Sugarloaf is #1 in Gwinnett County in Listing Volume, Sales Volume, Listings Sold and Overall Sales Volume. The culture of their office, combined with the training and leadership, make the office very attractive to top producing agents in the area.

Paige Powers is an Atlanta native who has held a Georgia Real Estate License since 1994. After ten years as a sales associate, with the top producing team in her office, at over $300,000 in Gross Commission Income, Paige became a team leader for a KW office in Buford. In 2006, she became the team leader at the Sugarloaf Office, and has guided the office through the recent market correction.

David Post/Future Security

Future Security meets the specific and unique needs of each of their clients by providing the very best security services to business and professional organizations of all types and sizes in metro-Atlanta and surrounding counties in Georgia.

Founded in 1972 by company president David Post, Future Security became well-known for providing outstanding client service and trusted security to businesses ranging from the small company to the Fortune 500. Headquartered in Buford, GA Future Security understands that businesses need a range of defenses to be secure in today’s world.

They have dedicated themselves to recruiting only the very finest and qualified personnel in the area of security, loss prevention and investigations. They take pride in a well-qualified security team and handle each assignment individually and confidentially. Through continual and ongoing training, their staff is able to maintain a high level of proficiency and professionalism.

Their experienced team has expertise with the methods and technology needed to ensure the complete security of your business. They are dedicated to offering superior quality consulting and investigative services. Higher standards mean better security.

Nate Norton/Yellow Van Handyman

Yellow Van Handy Man provides services that give members some of their much needed time back. They help you check off items on your “to do” list so that you can spend time going to your children’s events, going on date nights, or just relaxing and enjoying your time off. Their mission is to understand their member’s needs and provide honest, ethical, and the highest quality services possible so that members expectations are met or exceeded. Let their team help you with your “to do” list.

Paige Powers, Kate Schermerhorn, David Post, Nate Norton