Good Neighbors
Award Winners
by Sheree R. Curry
From The Wall Street Journal Online
January 05, 2007
The five winners of Realtor Magazine's 2006 Good Neighbor Awards put in 7,000-plus hours of volunteer work. The honored real-estate agents and runners-up won as much as $10,000 for their cause. Here are listings by three of the agencies.
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PLACE/PRICE: Pensacola, Fla./$145,000
TAXES*: $1,468
THE PROPERTY: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,485 square feet
DESCRIPTION: This 1999 partial brick split-level has a breakfast bar that faces the living room. It also has a formal dining room and the master bath has double sinks. There is a covered porch and an attached garage.
NOTABLE: In 2002, Williemae Stanberry of Stanberry Realty founded A Will & Way Inc., which counsels women in prison to help them escape poverty, domestic violence and substance abuse. The wife of a jail chaplain, she also runs a transitional home.
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PLACE/PRICE: Las Vegas/$344,900
TAXES*: $1,805
THE PROPERTY: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,606 square feet
DESCRIPTION: This 1989, single-story stucco home in a clubhouse community has a breakfast bar, a gas fireplace in the living room, and a finished garage, including its floor. There is a hot tub and an in-ground swimming pool.
NOTABLE: Las Vegas Realty's Sharon Friend volunteers at The Children's Service Guild, a local nonprofit that helps young crime victims and offenders receive medical and dental care, clothes, toys, bedding and other essentials not covered by government funding.
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PLACE/PRICE: Sun Valley, Idaho/$17 million
TAXES*: $24,673
THE PROPERTY: 6 bedrooms, 8 baths, 14,000 square feet
DESCRIPTION: This 2006 estate was built from three restored barns from the 1750s through the 1850s. There is a work out room, wine cellar, mailroom, elevator, shop, bar and guesthouse. A silo has a circular staircase.
NOTABLE: Cancer survivor Rob Cronin, a Coldwell Banker Conklin & Co. agent, has volunteered nearly 2,000 hours for the American Cancer Society's Camp Rainbow Gold. He has pledged $12,000 and helped raise $1.4 million in two years for the kids' camp.
Sources: realtor.com, realtor.org, coldwellbankersv.com, illiemaestanberry.net
Notes: *Current owner's payment or builder's estimate.
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