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274 275 3rd & 4th Generation Owned and Operated Property Management Service Specialist Brown Unlimited LLC is a 4th generation plumbing company with over 65 years combined experience. For years our team continues to provide superior service and workmanship for some of the largest names in property management. We offer discount high volume pricing saving your owners money while still providing excellent service. Contact us today! Office: 210-383-1852 • Email: service@brownunlimited.net M-10694 Licensed / Insured TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PLUMBING EXAMINERS Po Box 4200, Austin, TX 78765 (800) 845-6584 COLDWELL BANKER D’ANN HARPER REALTORS system as a teacher and administrator, before her mother called her and offered her a position with her real estate company. “When I came here, I was not in executive management,” she recounts. “I was back in property management, learning that division.” San An- tonio, she explains, has a high number of homeowners who are in the military and want to keep their homes while on deployment, but don’t necessarily want to manage them. “We secure tenants and manage that home for the homeowners until they come back and sell it or live in it again.When I started, we had 400 properties; when I left property management, we had 1,200 properties. Right now we manage about 1,300 homes. I was there for six or seven years before I did anything else for the company.” Clearly, Rispoli’s mother, D’Ann, believed that her daughter had to work her way up, and was not, in any way, entitled to an executive position, much less company ownership, without displaying the appropri- ate due diligence. And Rispoli has adopted that same attitude toward her own progeny. “I have two beautiful LEESA HARPER RISPOLI, PRESIDENT daughters,” she states. “Our oldest daughter works in the title industry and our younger daughter is a credit analyst in a bank. I had a career before coming to work for my mom, and it’s my philos- ophy that my children need to have successful careers elsewhere, prior to joining a family busi- ness. Is it my dream that our girls will come in and help run this one day? Sure. But they need to earn it.” Another operating principle of the company is its insistence that its agents focus only on their area of specialization, while leaving the opera- tion of its other divisions to the experts in those areas. “We do not allow our agents to practice property management,” says Rispoli. “We have 24 employees that just work in that division.We want our agents producing via listings and sales; we don’t want them to dabble in property man- agement, dabble in commercial. There are a lot of companies out there that allow their agents to do property management.We pick up those home- owners all the time, because they just don’t know what they’re doing.” In addition to its property management divi- sion, D’Ann Harper Realtors specializes in farm and ranch properties, residential sales, and relo- cation services. Its newest division is called Cold- well Banker Global Luxury. “Coldwell Banker has had for many years, what was called ‘Previews,’” Rispoli explains. “It was a marketing division for the upper luxury homes. About a year ago, they rebranded it and now it is called ‘Global Luxu- ry’ and it is an international franchise. Coldwell Banker is only going to be awarding 33 offices