The typical real estate purchase involves a pile of paperwork that’s frequently faxed and often shared between parties as faded and hard to read documentation. In almost every case it’s Realtors facilitating this shuffle ‘back and forth’ of contract changes and files between buyers and sellers, lenders, closing agents and others involved in the transaction.

At Crye-Leike, REALTORS – the nation’s 6th largest real estate firm – the days of faxing and sharing the mountains of paper files are fast becoming a thing of the past. The company has spent months ramping up and testing a new online transaction management system called TransactionPoint. Very soon, every person directly involved in a Crye-Leike real estate sale will be offered ‘online access’ to view files, contracts, mortgage documents, inspection reports and more from anywhere at anytime.

“This is a revolutionary step for us,” said Harold Crye, Cofounder & CEO of Crye-Leike, REALTORS. “TransactionPoint gives our sales associates a great leap forward in the service they can provide their clients and empowers our customers and business partners from start to finish on every real estate sale.”

In 2009 Crye-Leike, REALTORS partnered with TransactionPoint from Cyberhomes LLC, a division of Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS) to provide the platform for the real estate firm’s NEW online document retrieval system. The ultimate goal is to introduce the automated transaction management system to Crye-Leike’s entire network of nearly 130 corporate and franchise offices in its nine state southern US region.

“By centralizing documents in a ‘paperless’ environment improves the accuracy and communication between all parties involved in a real estate transaction,” said Gurtej Sodhi, Crye-Leike CIO & Corporate Executive Vice President. “Using this cutting edge transaction management technology platform to collaborate between real estate professionals, clients, the lender and the closing agent as well as appraisers, inspectors and other parties, we can offer greater transparency throughout the process and drastically reduces the paper documents.”

With Crye-Leike’s NEW TransactionPoint, all parties involved in real estate sales can:

- Get the total picture of the real estate transaction any time
- Easily access key settlement documents and notes
- Have peace of mind knowing how the transaction in proceeding

As an added value, final closing documents will be available for up to seven years online to clients who close with Crye-Leike’s partner title company, Realty Title & Escrow.

“The goal is for our sales associates to do less of the busy work of shuffling documents around, and in doing so, free up more quality time for them to spend with their clients and business partners,” said Crye. “Those clients and business partners in turn will gain a peace of mind they never had before with their ability to stay in the loop on all the changes, updates and progress of a real estate sale anytime.”

About Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS)
Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS) is a leading provider of integrated technology and services to the mortgage and real estate industries. LPS offers solutions that span the mortgage continuum, including lead generation, origination, servicing, workflow automation (LPS Desktop®) portfolio retention and default, augmented by the company’s award-winning customer support and professional services.

Approximately 50 percent of all U.S. mortgages by dollar volume are serviced using LPS’ Mortgage Servicing Package (MSP). LPS also offers proprietary mortgage and real estate data and analytics for the mortgage and capital markets industries. For more information about LPS, please visit www.lpsvcs.com.

More About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nation’s 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold. More information is available at http://www.crye-leike.com.

Go To CL Mobile @ http://www.crye-leike.com/mobile/

As more consumers take their web access with them ‘on the go’ using everything from an IPhone to Blackberry to Droid… Crye-Leike, REALTORS is taking notice. The nation’s 6th largest real estate firm has unveiled a mobile version of its award winning Crye-Leike.com website to meet the growing demand for an easy and fast way to access property pictures and information.

“CL Mobile has been developed with the mobile customer in mind who’s driving around and needs access to property information right then and there and of course quickly,” said Gurtej Sodhi, Crye-Leike CIO & Corporate Executive Vice President. “CL Mobile will provide the consumer on the go with all the relevant information quickly on a mobile device.”

The main search features of CL Mobile include:
• Property Listing Details & Photos
• Open Houses
• Agent and Office Locations
• Tag Favorite Properties

CL Mobile has been configured and tuned for the IPhone, Blackberry and Android platforms and automatically determines the screen format when accessed by a mobile phone to deliver the best view.

“It’s a great way to view photos of a home you like while you’re sitting in the driveway,” said Harold Crye, Co-Founder and CEO of Crye-Leike, REALTORS. “The more technology advances the easier it is for shoppers to find exactly what they’re looking for… saving time and money.”

As fast as technology is changing, Crye-Leike is working hard to keep pace. At the start of 2009 the company introduced a 24/7 InfoLine with branded signs and phone numbers on its listings for shoppers to call for audio information. Crye-Leike has managed to integrate its new ‘CL Mobile’ with its established 24-7 InfoLine.

“The InfoLine was set up so a caller sitting in front of a listed property could listen to an audio description and connect directly with a Realtor or mortgage loan officer,” said Sodhi. “Now callers who opt to receive a text message on a property when they’re using the Info Line will receive a link to the property detail page on CL Mobile.”

Not one to be totally satisfied… the Crye-Leike technology team is already moving forward to enhance the CL Mobile user experience even further. The company’s IT specialists are developing ‘location based’ apps that will recognize geo codes/position locators and offer shoppers information that is proximity based.

“Buyers in the current real estate market have many choices and come to expect great pictures and information to help them make the best decision,” said Dick Leike, Co-Founder and President of Crye-Leike, REALTORS. “While we’re really proud of our full service crye-leike.com… we’re excited to offer a slimmed down version with ‘CL Mobile’ that offers our mobile customers just what they need as fast as possible.

Go to CL Mobile @ http://www.crye-leike.com/mobile/

More About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nation’s 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

As the 2nd busiest search engine on the web, YouTube.com offers its users free reign to launch, browse and search through an ever expanding assortment of clips from music videos to news footage to amateur antics. With the audience of users on YouTube and other social media sites growing exponentially, Mid-South real estate giant Crye-Leike seized on what it hopes is a golden opportunity by joining in.

“Our agents recognize over 90% of prospective buyers are looking online for properties and they expect quality photos, virtual tours and videos to enhance their search experience,” said Keith Sullivan, Crye-leike, REALTORS Vice President and Chief Marketing Director. “By partnering with RealBiz360 we’ve accomplished just that by providing a video for all Crye-Leike listings on a newly launched Crye-Leike YouTube Channel.”

Visit Crye-Leike On YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/cryeleike1

RealBiz360 is collaborating with Crye-Leike in both the creation and delivery of its property listings to YouTube and beyond. As it turns out, YouTube will be just one of many places for Crye-Leike and its agents to mass market their listings to every place possible on the web – from an agent’s personal website to social networking site like Facebook and Twitter.

“We are thrilled to be working with such a forward thinking partner like Crye-Leike who is committed to delivering their agents and customers with an enhanced visual experience over multiple online venues including YouTube and Social Networks,” said Steve Marques, President, COO, RealBiz360 Inc. “We look forward to our combined success.”

“In surveying the landscape for a virtual tour provider, we were intrigued by the social media component offered by RealBiz360,” said Sullivan. “With RealBiz360 virtual tours, the agents can advertise their listing’s on their social media sites with just the press of a button.”

The new virtual tours on YouTube are provided at no cost to Crye-Leike agents – and are essentially a seamless mini music video along with a voice-over description of the property details including price. It will be up to agents to pay a small fee to cover the cost of transporting their tours to other social media sites and real estate web portals.

“Agents will have the option of what we consider a very robust virtual tour offering to showcase their listings on the Crye-Leike website, their personal website, the MLS and through listing syndication to dozens of real estate websites,” said Sullivan.” “Best of all its hands free for the agent. They simply enter their property information and pictures into the MLS and the work is done for them by RealBiz360. It’s that simple.”

“As a company, we have worked very hard to deliver what today’s online buyer is asking for; rich media and lots of information,” said Marques. “By automating the delivery, we believe we have created a measurable benefit for Crye-Leike Agents, not only in productivity but in listing exposure.”

Gurtej Sodhi, Chief Information Officer and Corporate Executive Vice President of the Crye-Leike Group of Companies, has been an ‘agent of change’ for the real estate leaders for many years. He has helped move the company from the days when individual pictures of properties for sale first made their way onto the internet – to today when in a blink of an eye big changes can occur seemingly overnight.

“Even though there have been virtual tours available in the past, this program is a big step up to the basic/standard tours of the past,” said Sodhi. “Using new technology, it enables a much more comprehensive view of the property by being able to zoom into details presented via high resolution images.”

To help its sales team keep up, in 2010 Crye-Leike began offering an in-house course to agents interested in learning more about social media. The company awards agents who complete the program a Social Networking Professional (SNP) designation after they complete the course work and establish a significant number of contacts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn as well as other sites.

“The unique and new aspect of our leap to YouTube and beyond is in the value proposition to our agents and customers which is the benefit of extended viewership of the properties,” said Sodhi. “By automatically distributing the tours to a much wider audience through the use of social media sites we anticipate a very positive reaction that we hope translates into increased views and ultimately more sales for our listings.”

All of Crye-Leike’s listed property videos are searchable by price, address and a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) number which will help someone just browsing or ideally a prospective buyer in their home search.

Visit Crye-Leike On YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/cryeleike1

“The new platform is just one more tool for our agents and a service to our customers to market their homes, condos, farms and land online,” said Sullivan. “Additionally we will be monitoring the number of viewings, click-throughs, messages and feedback so we can make adjustments and improvements to what we already think will become a new standard for our industry.”

More About RealBiz360
RealBiz360, Inc.; a subsidiary of iseemedia Inc. is the industry’s leading provider of automated, rich media creation and delivery for real estate companies today. RealBiz360’s VuVista platform provides a complete suite of integrated imaging, marketing and social media tools for the seamless creation of high resolution media tours and videos featuring the exclusive iVuZOOM viewing experience. VuVista delivers maximum exposure for real estate listings with automatic posting to major search engines, YouTube, and Social Media Networks. For more information, please visit: www.realbiz360.com

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nation’s 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

CRYE-LEIKE Realty Services is changing the way folks across Western Kentucky get detailed information on homes and other properties listed for sale. A new service the company is calling its “24-7 Info Line” now allows buyers and shoppers access to the entire local “homes for sale” inventory from any telephone. In June CRYE-LEIKE Realty Services rolled-out its newly branded VoicePad technology “Info Line” to consumers on all its listings.

“Buyers can easily receive instant information about the home they are interested in by calling our system where they have the option to connect directly with the agent and schedule an appointment to see the home,” said Vicki Moore, Owner/Broker Crye-Leike Realty Services. “Home shoppers who call the Crye-Leike 24-7 InfoLine can also receive the estimated mortgage payment and opt to receive a text message with the home’s features sent directly to their cell phone.”

CRYE-LEIKE Realty Services “For Sale Signs” now include a local number 270-761-INFO (4636) for home shoppers to call for immediate and detailed information on any home on the market, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The technology also notifies the Realtor with the listed property – that a VoicePad inquiry has been made.

“We spent a considerable amount of time researching competitive technologies and decided VoicePad best fit our needs as it provides a service to both our listing agents and our buyers agents, said Harold Crye, Cofounder & CEO of Crye-Leike, REALTORS. “Consumers are the real winners with this service as they can receive up to date property information on any area home listing – even our competitors – by using the “street search” feature, thus saving valuable time during the home search process.”

Crye-Leike agents can also register the buyers they’re working with on the new Crye-Leike 24-7 Info Line. It enables a home shopper who’s out on their own looking at homes to instantly alert their agent when they use the InfoLine to get more information on a specific property.

“I’ve been most impressed by the amount of call activity we’re already seeing with the system,” said Moore. “By using the VoicePad technology, consumers are able to call a phone number and receive listing information on their phone within seconds. They are also able to receive a text message or email with complete listing information. For Realtors there’s no need to ever refill a flyer box again while potential clients get everything they need with one simple phone call.”

More About VoicePad – Mobile IDX Audio Search Technology
Standard Voice Networks, LLC (dba VoicePad) is a 6 year old privately held Louisville, Kentucky based technology firm serving the Real Estate industry. VoicePad provides hosted telephony-based audio search services in over 100 U.S. markets to 3 types of customers including real estate brokerages, MLS providers and mortgage companies. VoicePad is on the on the web at www.voicepad.com and by phone toll free at 888-595-7347.

VoicePad has introduced a family of elegantly unique property marketing solutions that both quantify and enhance inquiry rates on current “curb,” print and web advertising. Concept and automation have been intuitively combined in the creation of “Eve,” VoicePad’s automated speech platform. VoicePad has equipped Eve with an impressive vocabulary eloquently designed to describe inventory in both English and Spanish. Automation never sounded so good!

More About Crye-Leike Realty Services
CRYE-LEIKE Realty Services is an independently owned franchise of Crye-Leike, REALTORS. Located on the Murray Courthouse Square the company and its associates serve buyers and sellers in and around Calloway, Marshall, Graves, McCracken and Trigg counties in Kentucky. Now in its fourth year, Crye-Leike Realty Services sales associates offer well over 100 years of combined real estate industry experience – including multi-million sales award winners and two agents being named Murray’s Most Favorite Realtors.

For all your real estate needs and personal referrals contact CRYE-LEIKE Realty Services Owner/Broker Vicki Moore directly by phone at 270-752-0102 or 270-761-5700 or you can email philip.moore@crye-leike.com.

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nation’s 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

Recognized as one of the finest striped bass fisheries in the country, Beaver Lake has been attracting fishing enthusiasts from all over the U.S. for decades. The lure of the Rogers lake resort area has netted another big fish of sorts. Crye-Leike, REALTORS recently purchased a small retail center on Highway 12 East in Rogers as its new Beaver Lake location.

“Moving into our new Beaver Lake Office has been like a breath of fresh air,” said Chuck Gay, Crye-Leike’s newly named Beaver Lake Managing Broker. “The lake community is very special and even through the recession, demand for lake homes and real estate sales have remained fairly stable.”

Chuck Gay and six other associates, all previously affiliated with Harris McHaney Realtors, have come onboard to make up the new Beaver Lake team. They’ve all been specializing in lake property sales for many years. Chuck considers Crye-Leike’s recent expansion and acquisition as a clear indication of a market and region on the upswing.

“We have many out of state buyers looking for second homes around the lake,” said Chuck. “The only problem we are experiencing is a shortage of lake homes to sell. This of course creates a great opportunity for sellers, as most of the lake homes do not remain on the market for a long period of time.”

Beaver Lake now represents Crye-Leike’s 8th company owned sales center in Northwest Arkansas. Cofounder and CEO Harold Crye looks to a bright future for real estate sales in the area based on a strong economic engine he sees primarily fueled by Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt Trucking and the University of Arkansas.

“The real estate market is healthy, sales and new construction are picking up,” said Crye. “We’ve seen phenomenal growth and sales that have exceeded our expectations since opening our first offices in the region just three years ago.”

With its recent Beaver Lake addition – Crye predicts the company is on track to finish 2010 as the largest real estate firm in Northwest Arkansas based on both the number of homes sold and gross sales volume.

“Myself and the sales associates joining me are Beaver Lake Specialists,” said Chuck. “We’ve all worked at the lake for many years and have worked together like a family for a long time. We have Harold Crye and his team to thank for keeping our family together and giving us a new home at Beaver Lake.”

More About Crye-Leike Beaver Lake and Managing Broker Chuck Gay
The Crye-Leike Beaver Lake sales team includes Managing Broker Chuck Gay and his wife Patti, Vice President, Realtor Candice Martin, the husband and wife Realtor team of Broker Jim and Bea Keller and Realtor Peggy Arnold.

Managing Broker Chuck Gay is a licensed Executive Broker in Missouri and Arkansas, Vice President and an Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) active in real estate sales for the past 42 years. He is a member of RELO and is a certified RELO agent for Wal-Mart. Since 1986, Chuck has been active in Rotary International and works as the “The Cabernet Team” with his wife Patti and Candice Martin.

Crye-Leike Beaver Lake is located at 14566 Highway 12 East in Rogers. A formal Grand Opening celebration will be coordinated with the Rogers Chamber of Commerce. For all your real estate needs and personal referrals you can contact Crye-Leike Beaver Lake Managing Broker Chuck Gay directly by phone at 479-544-2712, in the Beaver Lake office at 479-925-1313 and you can email him at chuck.gay@crye-leike.com.

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nation’s 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

Helping people buy and sell homes across Central Arkansas is a true calling for Bill and Janet Tobias. With Crye-Leike, REALTORS in Conway the husband and wife team is dedicated to helping people of all walks with a desire to have their own place to call home.

Six years ago Bill and Janet took their real estate passion and desire to serve others to the Faulkner County Habitat for Humanity organization, which is dedicated to building quality homes for individuals and families. For two years Bill has served as the organization’s President.

“Habitat has been important to me in helping others and giving back to the community,” said Bill Tobias of Crye-Leike Conway. “Although fundraising and administration have been important areas I have worked on, I most enjoy new home groundbreakings and dedications.”

Bill and Janet’s involvement was recently recognized as they were selected as the 2009 recipients of the Golden Hammer Award by Habitat for Humanity of Faulkner County. The Golden Hammer Award is presented each year to a volunteer that has shown exceptional commitment to helping further the mission of Habitat.

“We are very honored by this award and have been very blessed in our lives and are very thankful for all we have,” said Janet Tobias of Crye-Leike Conway. “Giving a hand up to people in need is the least we can do.”

Faulkner County Habitat recently launched a ‘ReStore’ which offers quality used and surplus building materials at a fraction of normal prices, while helping to fund Habitat for Humanity house construction projects. The Faulkner County ReStore, which accepts donations of surplus materials, is located at 1025 Front Street in Conway and you can email them at habitat@conwaycorp.net or phone (501) 513-3244.

“We have so many great people helping at Habitat but I am most proud of our team starting the ReStore,” said Bill. “While Janet and I are honored by this recognition from our colleagues and peers – it’s what we do to help others that is the greatest reward.”

More about Crye-Leike Realtors Bill & Janet Tobias
Crye-Leike Realtors Bill & Janet Tobias of the Tobey Team at Crye-Leike Conway are licensed Realtors in Arkansas assisting buyers and sellers with a focus on residential property sales, relocation, land, investment and first time homebuyers. Bill and Janet work with Kathy Rumbo and Patricia Hoskins as part of the Tobey Team and provide a broad based aggressive marketing program.

As the ‘Tobey Team’ Bill and Janet are members of the National Association of Realtors, Arkansas Association of Realtors and the Faulkner County Association of Realtors in which Bill serves as a Board Member. In 2009, they were both honored by the Faulkner Association as recipients of the 2009 Diamond Level Service Excellence Award. Bill is a member of the Faulkner County Leadership Institute and a Board Member of the Conway Chamber of Commerce.

For all your real estate needs and personal referrals you can contact Crye-Leike Realtors Bill & Janet Tobias by phone at 501-358-0023, email: tobey@tobeyteamrealtor.com and you can find them on the web at http://www.tobeyteamrealtor.com.

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nation’s 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

Many indicators now suggest Nashville’s housing market is on the way up. In a similar fashion many Realtors are charging upward with greater optimism. Some, like Crye-Leike’s Betty Treherne-Harris, have upped their game during the housing downturn with enhanced real estate education and advancement within the industry.

“I made it a goal in 2010 to finally become a Broker in Tennessee with the advanced education and knowledge that you need to have in today’s housing market,” said Betty. “The extra know-how is also something today’s clients expect too.”

Betty enrolled in the Broker program based on both an inner desire to challenge herself and to have the credentials and the knowledge to pursue and achieve other goals in the sometimes volatile housing industry.

“This past year my business was affected by first time homebuyers, flood zones, short sales and fabricated homes that no bank would consider for loans, investors and credit report issues,” said Betty. “Just as important as my having answers – is knowing whose job it is to provide updated and correct information to my clients.”

To maintain her new Broker license, Betty must now commit to many more hours of advanced education each year… many more than was previously required.

“There is so much to know in real estate and the process of learning is ongoing,” said Betty. “This need to know is what keeps my fires burning for this industry.”

Betty offers a special thanks to her mentors – many of them Brokers – who were instrumental in her success and who Betty says stressed the importance of goal setting.

“I believe that this respect for education is what makes my fellow Brokers not only successful but excellent real estate agents and role models,” said Betty. “With tax credits, low home prices and great interest rates all still in play – sales are improving in 2010 and in my opinion the market as a whole is on its way up.”

More About Broker Betty Treherne-Harris
Crye-Leike Broker Betty Treherne-Harris is a licensed Realtor in Tennessee assisting buyers and sellers primarily in Davidson, Sumner and Williamson counties. She specializes in all types of residential real estate sales with a special focus on first time homebuyers.

Betty is an Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR), member of the National Assocoation of Realtors (NAR) and Greater Nashville Association of Realtors (GNAR) in which she is a past recipient of the Educational Achievement Award.

For all your real estate needs and personal referrals contact Crye-Leike, REALTORS Broker Betty Treherne-Harris directly by phone at 615-400-2358 and you can find her on the web at betty.harris@crye-leike.com.

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nations 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

From his work experience with buyers and sellers – investors to builders… Managing Broker Rod Weaver is a real estate advisor to many. While some of his clients are very new to the experience, others ‘like him’ are seasoned veterans.

Weaver is in some respects ‘new again’ as he joins Crye-Leike, REALTORS as the company’s new Madison branch office Managing Broker. And he sees some clear parallels between his new employer, Greater Huntsville and real estate sales.

“As a native of the Huntsville area I have seen many changes to our city and have seen it grow from a cotton town to a high-tech center,” said Weaver. “Most people do not see real estate companies as high tech, but it’s clear a company like Crye-Leike and its use of tools and technology make it a formidable force in the business and as a result well received in Huntsville.”

Weaver brings nearly a decade of real estate sales experience to his new roll with Crye-Leike. His work as a Realtor began in 2002 – coming on the heels of a successful 17-year career in Huntsville’s High-Tech industry where he managed a world-class customer support ‘help desk’ and desktop support team.

After making the switch to real estate sales and coming off his very first year in the business, the former RE/MAX Huntsville Associate Broker was named ‘Rookie of the Year’ for the entire southeastern region as well as the recipient of the RE/MAX Spirit Award.

“I have a passion for selling real estate and work and live by the philosophy – If you love what you do it shows,” said Weaver. “Customer service is important to me and my goal is to provide that to my clients.”

Weaver works closely with several builders and developers in new home construction as well as land acquisitions for new subdivision development. With his partner builders he’s a trusted advisor on floor plans, architectural designs, interiors, exterior colors and current market trends.

About Crye-Leike Managing Broker Rod Weaver
Crye-Leike Managing Broker Rod Weaver is based out of the company’s Madison branch office located at 1591 Hughes Road. He is a licensed Broker in Alabama and as an Affiliate Broker in Tennessee. Weaver assists buyers and sellers primarily in and around Madison, Limestone, Marshall, Morgan, Giles, Jackson and Lincoln counties with a special focus on residential, commercial, investment properties, first-time homebuyers, relocation, new home construction, farm and land, condominiums, town homes and lots for construction.

When he’s not assisting clients, Weaver enjoys adventure, traveling and some of his recent trips have taken him to Costa Rica, Peru, Hungry, Czech Republic and Germany. He’s crewed hot air balloons for more than ten years, continues to play the piano and loves to cook, garden and look after his two Jack Russell Terriers – Milo and Macy.

For all your real estate needs and personal referrals you can contact Crye-Leike Madison Managing Broker Rod Weaver directly by phone at 256-746-0407, email: rod@rodweaver.com and you can find him on the web at http://www.rodweaver.com.

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nations 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

With the experience of running a ‘web based’ business alongside her fiancé for the past several years, Joanna E. Pentland knows the ins & outs of what online customers need. Given that most people now start their home search online – Joanna says it’s a natural progression in her career development to seek out a career in real estate sales.

“Crye-Leike, REALTORS offers so many tools to its Realtors to help with marketing, listing presentations and benefits to clients – so it was the clear choice for me when it came to deciding which real estate company I wanted to be affiliated with,” said Joanna. “It affords me the opportunity to put my web based experience to good use and have a career where I can be my own boss with all the benefits a large company like Crye-Leike offers.”

Joanna – a 2009 Los Angeles, California transplant – has realized alongside her fiancé a level of comfort in dealing with clients online and helping them deal with their problems.

“This experience has helped me understand all aspects of running a business from the ground up,” said Joanna. “It was actually this business that led us to Tennessee. Since our business was entirely online we were able to move pretty much anywhere we wanted and what a great move to make – coming to Hendersonville.”

It was in 2008 Joanna and her fiancé launched Pure Enterprises, Inc. She is the Cofounder and Office Manager for the online company http://www.puresmoker.com that markets tobacco alternative products.

More About Crye-Leike Agent Joanna E. Pentland
Crye-Leike Agent Joanna E. Pentland is a licensed Realtor in Tennessee based in the company’s Hendersonville branch office located at 383 Johnny Cash Parkway. She is a Certified Financing Specialist assisting buyers and sellers in and around Sumner and Davidson counties in all types of residential real estate sales.

Joanna is an active member of the Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville.

For all your real estate needs and personal referrals you can contact Crye-Leike Agent Joanna E. Pentland directly by phone at 615-438-0329, in the office at 615-824-8008 and you can email her at joanna.pentland@crye-leike.com.

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nations 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.

The property management team at Crye-Leike, REALTORS in Brentwood is dedicated to assisting clients in managing their rental homes and properties on a daily basis – but the team recently took some time out of their busy schedules to assist people without a home in Nashville.

Crye-Leike Managing Broker Ben Claybaker took his office to the Nashville Rescue Mission for a ‘team building’ day where they could give back and serve the community.

“I felt this would not only strengthen our team but also serve the homeless of Nashville,” said Claybaker. “It was an incredible experience and truly a life changing day for all of us. I loved watching the office bond in a way we never have before.”

After a great day at Nashville’s Rescue Missions, Claybaker believes volunteering at non-profit organizations makes a great ‘team building’ day for any office and he hopes to inspire other companies to serve the community like his team did.

“So many of our employees had great things to say about the day.” Claybaker adds. “We will definitely be volunteering another day of our time in the near future.”

Crye-Leike’s Tamara Bishop said, “I am truly thankful for being allowed an opportunity to give back. Seeing all those people at the Mission reminded me of how extremely blessed I really am.”

The day at the Nashville Rescue Mission inspired Crye-Leike Associate Romney Hill so much that she decided to be a repeat volunteer.

“It was a great day of working together as a team to help others,” said Hill. “I really enjoyed helping the Nashville Rescue Mission and plan to volunteer with the ladies mission there. I appreciate working for a company and office where some time is set aside to give back to our local community.”

About Crye-Leike, REALTORS
Harold Crye and Dick Leike established Crye-Leike, REALTORS in 1977. Today, Crye-Leike®, the nations 6th largest real estate company, has a network of more than 3,600 licensed sales associates based out of 130 corporate and franchise offices located through-out the nine-state southern region of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company offering buyers and sellers services in: residential and commercial sales, mortgage, title, insurance, business brokerage and investments, property management, development and construction, builder resources, REO bank-owned properties, relocation, auctions, and home services. In 2009, Crye-Leike attained a sales volume in excess of $3.9 billion with 24,983 homes sold.