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Brian Jermainne
BRIAN JERMAINNE
I was born and raised in Chester, Connecticut. Growing up in Chester was a wonderful time in my life. We lived on South Wig Hill which was a perfect place to be. We were able to ice skate on the pond at the top of the hill, play baseball and football in the numerous fields there, skate board down the hill, fish in the streams and explore in the wooded area behind my house. I have fond memories of riding my bike to the center of town after school for a hot fudge sundae at the local ice cream shop. I attended Chester Elementary School and Valley Regional High School.

Next I moved onto the University of New Haven where I earned an associates degree in business. I was torn on whether to finish my bachelors degree or go to work for the family business. I chose the business and going to school at night. Within 2 years I had more than tripled the size of the family business. I continued working there for 5 more years when I received an opportunity to start a mail-order company with a business associate. I weighed the pros and cons and decided to do it. For the next 15 years I built this company from an empty warehouse into a nationwide mail-order house doing business with organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, the New York City Board of Education and the Federal Government. I also had two daughters, Brittany and Abby. During October of 1992 I had the luckiest day of my life. I interviewed and hired a very smart and efficient office administrator. Over the next 4 years Leslie became my best friend, confidant and my wife. We worked side by side at the mail-order house until August of 1999.
 

Leslie Jermainne
LESLIE JERMAINNE
I have also lived my entire life in this area and I love it! Growing up on Grassy Hill in Lyme was wonderful. We had 16 acres, a big old Colonial and a pool! Tons of fun. My father owned and operated the Old Lyme Pharmacy and Gift Shop which was a lot of fun for me, and certainly provided me and my siblings with a great after school and summer jobs. It was fun being known as one of the "Woodstock's" as that was my maiden name.

I attended Lyme Consolidated School until grade 4 when we moved all the way to Old Lyme and I attended Center School and then Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School and High School graduating in 1987.

After a year at Bay Path College in Long Meadow Mass., I finished my Associates degree in Business Administration at Middlesex Community College.  I moved home to Old Saybrook where my parents now also live, and began "work". I always wanted to be in Real Estate since I was a little girl.  I just loved houses and would always look and comment on them all (just ask my Mom if you don't believe me.) I got my license in 1989 and worked (shortly) for Merrill Lynch where I did manage to sell two houses and list another, before needing a part time job to supplement my income. Being 20 and not extremely focused made it difficult to be my own boss. I worked a few odd jobs until finding a spot as an administrative assistant at a local real estate company. I loved it there and felt I was still working towards my goals. I stayed there for a while but needed a bit more money, and in late fall of 1992 went to work as the office manager at Creative Crafts International in Essex, CT. The president was Brian Jermainne. After working for Brian for three years, sparks started to fly. Brian and I were married on New Year's Eve 1996 and on October 24, 1997 our son Brian Ross was born. He was welcomed by his two half sisters- Brittany and Abby. Our family was complete!
 

Brian and Leslie Jermainne
OUR START IN REAL ESTATE

Leslie and I often talked of leaving Creative Crafts when the time was right to pursue our dream of real estate. Late August 1999 was the right time. We left CCI and took our real estate class, passed the state exam the next day and were licensed Realtors early November 1999. Our first sale closed February 29, 2000. Our first year was a very good year. We worked hard and closed on over $5,000,000.00 worth of homes.

We bought our own Realty Executives Franchise in April of 2001, but needed to wait for Brian to complete two years of being an agent before he could sit for his broker's exam. As of December 2001, Brian was a broker! We worked very hard and were able to close on over $8,000,000 worth of Residential Real Estate. We decide to officially open Realty Executives Shoreline, LLC on January 1, 2002. We found our "client center" late December, painted, furnished and supplied it to be ready for our customers, clients and future agents.

We began our third year with everything in place. It was another very good year. We closed on over $11,500,000 worth of business. During this time we worked very hard to keep our technology on the cutting edge. We also continued our high level of education and have taken numerous real estate classes each year to keep up with the ever changing issues in Real Estate and technology.

2003 finished with a hurray and it was as great as we had hoped. We completed over 13.5 million dollars in sales! We did some exciting things this year. Brian earned his CRS (Certified Residential Specialist) designation. Only 4% of all Realtors acheive this prestigous designation. Brian and Leslie both earned their ePro designations from the National Association of Realtors. We also wrapped both our vans so we could increase our exposure. We advertised on cable television and also in the Westbrook movie theater. It was an exciting year in business for us.

2004 really couldn't have been better.  We helped our clients close on just under 15.5 million dollars of real estate!  Early in the year Brian and I took CRS204 class entitled "Creating Wealth through Residential Real Estate Investments".  It was AMAZING!  Changed our lives and hopefully we will be able to help others who wish to invest in real estate.  Brian also earned is SRES designation.  Seniors Real Estate Specialists are REALTORS qualified to meet the special needs and concerns of maturing Americans.  By earning the SRES designation, Brian has demonstrated necessary knowledge and expertise to counsel senior clients through major financial and lifestyle transitions involved in relocating, refinancing, or selling the family home. He received special training, gets regular updates, and is prepared to offer the options and information needed in making life changing decisions.  This year we moved our client center into our home office complete with conference room.  We really always worked out of our home office, so why not finish it the way it should be and meet our clients here.  

             

Brian and Leslie Jermainne's dog Jack


This is our dog Jack.  He is a Schnoodle (1/2 minature poodle, 1/2 miniature Schnauzer).  Pretty cute, huh?  He is a great dog, but he thinks he is a Rotweiller.  Anyway, that was just a sideline.  2005 was another great year.  We helped our customers buy and sell $14,838,250.00 of real estate.  It was a bit more of a challenging year.  Buyers seemed to be slowing down a bit and being a bit more cautious with their decision making.  Seller's did not yet feel that, but we think 2006 will have them feeling a bit more of a pinch.  During 2005 we took two more interesting continuing education classes.  One in Biloxi, MS (in March before devasting Katrina wiped out that area) and one in Fort Collins, CO in October.  Both were based on "The Group, Inc." real estate office in Colorado.  "The Most Productive Company in the Country" as measured by transactions per associate.  Very interesting way of conducting business, adding value and creating relationships.  "Ninja Selling" as they call it is an enhanced focus for us as we enter 2006.  We are anticipating this year to be an interesting and productive year for us and our clients.  Update-As of May 1, 2006 we have merged Realty Executives Shoreline, LLC with another local office in Old Saybrook.   We made this decision after careful consideration of our clients, friends, family and the future real estate market.  We feel this is an exciting opportunity to provide superior service to our clients and to continue to grow with this exciting and expanding company.  

2006 is over - hard to believe.  At the end of 2006 we had closed on 15,728,450.00 worth of real estate with our clients.  Again we are averaging about a sale a week with a total of 51 sides represented.  It was a fun and interesting year.  We took a family trip to Florida in February for some fun in the sun.  We wish we were there now!  We continued to take in many seminars and improve our service and experience.  We are refocused on our website and looking forward to helping the next generation of buyers and their love of technology. 2007 is shaping up to be a great year - as we are already busier than normal.  The warm weather?  Our great service?  Not sure - but we love to help people sell and buy property!


2007 has come and gone - so quickly - what a surprise!  Not really...time just seems to be getting shorter.  What did we accomplish in 2007?  We went to the CRS Convention in Las Vegas in January.  Brian is a Certified Residential Specialist - a designation held by only about 4% of licensed real estate agents and brokers across the United States, impressive huh?  He spent a lot of time in classes to earn the designation, along with showing his level of success in dollar volume of sales.  He continues to take CRS courses above and beyond initial requirements to keep learning and advancing what he can offer our clients.  This was our best year yet in dollar volume of sales $16,557,700.00 however we dropped just a bit in the number of people we were able to help (only 46 this year).  What does that mean...well, prices are still rising in our area - but slightly (very slightly) less transactions are occuring.  We still had a great time meeting many new faces we now get to call friends, and helping "old" friends in their real estate endeavors. 

We continued to pursue our love of technology.  We purchased a new tablet pc for Brian just before Christmas (Merry Christmas honey!) and are excited by all it can do.  Having clients sign paperwork right on the screen is a miracle!  Ok, maybe not a miracle, but really cool anyway!  We renewed our ad at the Westbrook movie theater and a new ad should be up and running by the end of January '08. 

On a personal note, we traveled to Williamsburg, VA for "little" Brian's birthday and a great week of homeschool history.  Yes...we homeschool Brian.  "Big" Brian's daughter Abby has moved in with us on a permanent basis and along with her and Brittany (who has been living back at home while pursuing her hairdressing career) came Joey!  Miniature Italian Greyhound I'm told.  Jack is adjusting...just barely. 

The Jermainne's dog Joey


The house is full, business is great, we're having fun and looking forward to a great 2008!  Hope we get to help you this year fulfill whatever your real estate goals might be.  Ciao.

2008 - We're off to the races already.  You know us...we LOVE a challenge, and excitement and good wine too!  Off the subject already, well here's our big news.  We are TEAMJERMAINNE again.  We moved on from the merger and are in hot pursuit of just being, well...us.  We missed being "just us".  We like "just us".  We're back and feeling pretty happy about it.  We are looking forward to an exciting year in real estate, in our family and in our community.   We have lots of new ideas for our new office - including putting an emphasis on "going Green" (environmentally speaking), and with our company colors too!  We are moving to all recycled, post consumer paper products wherever possible.  We're not sure if anywhere it is impossible, but we're learning.  We are trying very hard to reduce, reuse and recycle.  Less paper is our motto!  Less ink too.  That's why we love technology and the internet.  Less is more they say, we believe them. 

Well, we'll let you know how we're doing.  It's gonna be great, we can feel it!

2009-Well here I am February 24th and as I read above there is not update on 2008.  So how did we do?  Well, in case no one told you it was a tough year.  For EVERYONE!  $11,393,900.00 was the dollar volume of closed sales.  We´re still feeling pretty good about that.  We feel even better that we were able to help 38 clients with their buying and selling needs.  That´s 38 more people we get to call friend.  It was a tougher year, economy wise.  People seemed scared, concerned, anxious.  In about August, we joined them.  What was going to happen?  Who would become President and what would that mean. 

Well we said farewell to 2008 and started 2009 with a family dinner and new hopes for a new year.  We knew who the President would be and watched television (Little Brian and I anyway, big Brian was helping clients) that Inauguration Day to witness history.  Then it was over and we were back to work.  It´s tense, it´s tight.  People are more nervous, more scared, more concerned.  So are we.  But, there are some really, really bright spots, if you´re willing to look for them.  Rates are LOW!  I mean we are talking cheap money here.  Great programs are being implemented.  First time homebuyers (which by government terms means anyone who hasn´t owned a primary residence in the past three years) can get up to $8,500 dollars in tax rebates for purchasing.  So now you have cheap money, tax incentives (beside the normal ones)and inventory is up!  Yes, in case you haven´t been watching as you drive, there are For Sale signs everywhere.  People still need to sell.  What happens when inventory goes up?  Basic economics here...prices go down.  Now, you´ve got cheap money, nice tax incentive, lots of property to choose from and lower prices.  So buy people, buy!  Investors, flippers, first time homebuyers, people wanting to upgrade, people wanting to downsize.  It is time!  Remember a few years ago when everyone was wishing for prices to go down.   

I recently read an interesting quote by Winston Churchill that I think applies here.  "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.  The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."  So, we are optimists.  Always have been, always will be.  Times are tight, but we see this as an opportunity to refocus and redouble our efforts to help people with their real estate needs.  It is an opportunity to reevaluate what we can do to offer the best, most personal and private service to each and every client of ours.  It is an opportunity to remind us what is important, and for us it is our family, friends, our business, our community and each other.  I hope you are all optimists and great opportunities find you this year.  We´ll be in touch.  I hope you will be too!



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