Sacramento Real Estate Blog

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Vicki Babcock to Elite Properties. Vicki and I go back a bit — especially in Internet time. (For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, Internet time is kind of like dog years).

When I began my career in real estate at ERA back in 2002, Vicki had already passed the twenty year mark in the business. Of course, I found that out later. I first met her only as this really pleasant, low-key agent in my office. Vicki has this way of putting everyone she meets at ease in about a minute and a half — if you last that long.

Fast forward to 2004, and Vicki and I were becoming friends and had moved on to REMAX Gold to launch the Real Estate Plus Team together, which I felt (and still do) was a great success. Two years later still in early 2006, when I decided that with the stress of the market I needed to go it alone again, Vicki took it in stride and — like any really good friend — was able to look past my imperfections, so we continued to work together to get things done for our clients whenever we could.

So anyway, here we are in 2007, and I am really grateful for the good fortune that has come to me. In fact, the way 2006 unfolded, I really feel a lot like Forrest Gump. I just sort of stumbled around trying to get by in a changing market, and the next thing you know I had this team of exceptional Realtors® working with me. Now with the addition of Vicki we’ve more than doubled our collective real estate experience, and welcomed back a really fine agent and friend.

So who was the luckiest man on earth. Lou Gehrig?

I think it’s me.