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REAL ESTATE
From the RealEstateJournal Archives

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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