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84 85 dollar ranches, commercial buildings, fine homes and estates, first-time homes, lots and land.We work with builders and we help companies relocate their employees.” “The real estate company is the hub of the wheel for everything,” says third-generation Director of Operations, Eric Fite.“It feeds insurance, it feeds mortgages, it feeds title. If we don’t have the real estate support coming from our professionals, then those other businesses have to go put signs on billboards and park benches. But, by providing great service to our real estate agents and our clients with these other services,we’re able to create interest and excitement around referring buyers and sellers to our other services. But the real estate company feeds it all.” The CENTURY 21 Judge Fite Company is now the 3rd largest real estate company in market share in the Dallas/Ft.Worth Metroplex, the largest CENTU- RY 21 franchise in a nine-state region, and the 4th largest CENTURY 21 company in the world.“We’re a very large company but we have maintained our family roots in terms of our culture and our core values,” says Eric.“I don’t know of any residential real estate company in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area that THE CENTURY 21 JUDGE FITE COMPANY JAN FITE ( LEFT) JIM FITE (RIGHT) (FROM LEFT) ERIC FITE GEORGE FRENCH ASHLEY CONLON is 80 years old.And we’ve seen a lot in that time. We’ve been through many recessions and been able to come through those stronger and better on the other side.” Eric explains how the company was able to weather the recent “Great Recession,”which was particularly hard on the real estate sector: “Part of the reason we were able to get through this last recession was the foresight by our leadership team and specifically Jim Fite, our President and CEO. He came to our team one or two years in advance and said,‘Times are good, but we need to prepare for this next cycle because there’s always going to be a downturn; it’s not always going to be pretty forever.We need to start preparing for it now.’ So, we started analyzing our expenses and creating a more efficient business a couple of years before the recession, and that enabled us to get out of AT A GLANCE THE CENTURY 21 JUDGE FITE COMPANY WHAT: A turn-key real estate company WHERE: Dallas, Texas WEBSITE: www.c21jf.us