Windermere agents Denise Anderson (Palm Springs Main office) and Jonathan Wilson (Palm Springs South office) spearheaded efforts to raise thousands of dollars for charity by donating Easter Baskets to the Board of Realtors Easter Basket Auction. Windermere won 2 of the 3 awards given out during the event: Most Creative and Highest Dollar Bid for our Basket. Our 2 Baskets and other items donated by Windermere agents raised $1055. Windermere agents that bid on items raised $1270 for the charities.
Photo top: from left to right: Windermere agents Richard Paoletti (PDSP) and Sherri Forbes (La Quinta); Windermere Brokers Sandy Beakey, Charlie White, Neil Lingle YMCA Campaign Co-chair, Broker Don Rossignol and Rob Ballew, YMCA CEO.
Photo bottom: from left to right: Windermere agents Richard Paoletti (PDSP) and Sherri Forbes (La Quinta); Rob Ballew, YMCA CEO; Windermere Brokers Charlie White, Sandy Beakey and Don Rossignol, and Neil Lingle, YMCA Campaign Co-chair.
The Palm Springs/Palm Desert YMCA recently kicked off their annual fund-raising drive with an awards ceremony to rival the Oscars. Windermere Real Estate Coachella Valley helped get the 2010 Sustaining Campaign off to a great start with a contribution of $5,000 from the Windermere Foundation.
“Every time a Windermere sales associate sells a home, a donation is made to the Windermere Foundation,” explains Windermere Coachella Valley owner Bob Deville. “Windermere’s commitment to serving our communities goes beyond providing the best in real estate services. Windermere reaches out to help address the challenges faced by homeless and low-income families in the communities where we live and work, through grants from the Windermere Foundation,” adds Deville.
Congratulations to Palm Springs resident, Rudy Gizzi (picuted second from left), the winner of our Windermere So Cal February free drawing. Mr. Gizzi entered the drawing by visiting the website of Windermere Palm Springs real estate agents Team AKS. Pictured from left to right: Andy Linsky, Rudy Gizzy, Kelli Ross and Sven Vennen. February’s giveaway was a gift certificate to the Pink Elephant Car Wash in Rancho Mirage. Enter to win the March giveaway by visiting a Windermere agent website between now and midnight, on March 31.
A Children And Community Health And Fitness Expo will be held Sunday January 24th from 10:00am until 6:00pm to benefit the Wellness Foundation Palm Springs. The Expo will take place at ACE Hotel and Swim Club on 701 East Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs and is sponsored by Windermere Real Estate Coachella Valley.
Presenters and exhibitors will include Zoo Yoga, Animal Samaritans, Action All-Star Cheer, Action Gymnastics, Urban Yoga Center, My Gym, Desert Recreation District, Sisters Cupcakes by Design, Helene’s Learn to Swim, Arbonne, Ren Yogamaya, Safe House of the Desert, Desert Recreation District, Datura Art Studio, Action Gymnastics, Gilda’s Club Desert Cities, Enchanted Memories, Desert Arc, Windermere Real Estate and others.
“Windermere really does believe that helping our community is essential. So many agents from our offices have been involved in our community awareness days, special events and fund raising. Our agents and staff really help support others,” says Paduano. “I have always been impressed with the owners, Bob Deville and Bob Bennion. They continue to stress to us how important it is to give back,” adds Paduano.
For more information about this event please contact the Wellness Foundation Palm Springs executive director, Michael Paduano, at 760-831-3761 or e-mail mpaduano@windermere.com. Wellness Foundation Palm Springs is a non-profit 501-c3 Tax ID #2604397952. www.WellnessFoundationPalmSprings.org.
Windermere agent Randy Wiemer has earned the nationally recognized Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification. The National Association of REALTORS® offers the SFR certification to REALTORS® who want to help both buyers and sellers navigate these complicated transactions, as demand for professional expertise with distressed sales grows.
According to a recent NAR survey, nearly one-third of all existing homes sold recently were either short sales or foreclosures. For many real estate professionals, short sales and foreclosures are the new “traditional” transaction. REALTORS® who have earned the SFR certification know how to help sellers maneuver the complexities of short sales as well as help buyers pursue short sale and foreclosure opportunities.
The certification program includes training on how to qualify sellers for short sales, negotiate with lenders, protect buyers, and limit risk, and provides resources to help REALTORS® stay current on national and state-specific information as the market for these distressed properties evolves.
Randy Wiemer was awarded the 2009 Realtor of the Year award from the Palm Springs Regional Association of Realtors on December 16, 2009. Randy was selected from over 1000 realtors for this prestigious award. His selection was based on his personal contributions and dedication to the members of the Palm Springs Regional Association of Realtors (PSRAOR).
Randy has been a licensed California Realtor since 2005. He served as the 2009 Chairman, Local Governmental Relation Committee (LGR). Randy has also earned the e-PRO Certification, EcoBroker Certification and just completed the requirements for the new Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource (SFR) Certification.
Before working in real estate, Randy was on active duty in the US Air Force. He was a Master Navigator with over 2,790 flight hours in numerous aircraft. In June 2004 Randy retired as a Major from the USAF.
Randy is currently on the team of Langham and Wiemer, Windermere Real Estate, Palm Springs, CA. You can reach Randy at www.GreatDesertHomes.com , Randy@RandyWiemer.com or by phone at (760) 333-7747.
Photo: Randy Wiemer (left), being presented with award from Windermere Palm Springs Main office broker David Cantwell.
While being named CDAR Realtor of the Year is an honor, it’s only the latest chapter in a life full of well deserved awards. In 1980, Ini founded IMS (Ini’s Media Services) which, until 1999, produced celebrity interviews with award-winning photography. Hundreds of her articles and photos have been published all over the world.
What began as a hobby, interviewing and photographing family friends and colleagues in the European film industry like Elke Sommer, Maria and Maximilian Schell, Curd Juergens, Romy Schneider, et. al. grew globally into an ever expanding circle of celebrities in different fields …from actresses Janet Leigh, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins, Barbara Eden and actors Telly Savalas, Sean Connery, Leslie Nielsen, George Clooney, Kevin Costner .. to entertainer Julio Iglesias, composer Henry Mancini, director Sydney Pollack, designer Geoffrey Beene, sports stars Michael Jordan, Steffi Graf, Pele & Franz Beckenbauer and authors Harold Robbins and Mario Puzo ..just to name a few.
The late Palm Springs resident Harold Robbins played an important role in Ini’s career more than once. In 1981, after contracting IMS to manage his publicity in Europe, Harold told his publisher in an interview that “Ini’s portraits and publicity photos were the best pictures ever taken of me” and requested that they use her pictures exclusively for his cover jacket portraits Harold’s glowing recommendations to other authors and publishers led to many referrals and in 1984 Ini opened a branch office of Munich based IMS in Beverly Hills.
In 1995, while visiting Harold and Jan Robbins at their home in Palm Springs, that Ini fell in love – at first sight – with the desert and had a great idea. “While selling stories and photos of celebrities in their homes, why not sell celebrity homes?” So later that year Ini moved here and has since become an established realtor… much sought after for her multilingualism and worldwide clientele. Along the way she has marketed the estates of Clark Gable, Elvis Presley, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
RANCHO MIRAGE (Calif.) – December 3, 2009 – Windermere Real Estate is proud to announce the addition of its new real estate professionals to their Coachella Valley offices since November 1.
Robin Black, La Quinta
Iain Brown, La Quinta
John W. Butler, Rancho Mirage
Linda Crouse, Palm Desert San Pablo
Ross Crowe, Palm Desert San Pablo
William Doner, La Quinta
Bonnie Hart, Old Town La Quinta
Joan Hobin, Palm Desert San Pablo
Bob Hughes, Palm Springs
Main Kris Jones, Old Town La Quinta
Joy Kane, Palm Springs South
Art Koupas, La Quinta
David Lang, Old Town La Quinta
Christine Marra, Indian Wells Main
Patricia Mehall, Indian Wells Main
Carol-Lynne Mittelbusher, La Quinta
Carmen Morris, Indian Wells Main
Tony Otten, Palm Springs Main
John Ulf, La Quinta
Lori Webb-Carroll, Palm Desert San Pablo
“As Windermere continues to dominate the Coachella Valley in Sales Dollar Volume and new listings, we are also attracting great realtors, from throughout the valley as well as Southern California. Attention to detail and professionalism is priority with our Windermere agents and it is evident in the trust that our Buyers and Sellers instill us with,” says Windermere owner Bob Deville.
Windermere Real Estate is the leading residential real estate network in the desert area today, with more than 625 local agents.
Windermere Real Estate offices are located in Palm Springs, Palm Springs South, Rancho Mirage, On-Site office at The Club at Morningside in Rancho Mirage, On-Site office at The Springs Country Club in Rancho Mirage, On-Site office at Deep Canyon Tennis Club in Palm Desert, Palm Desert (San Pablo), Palm Desert (Cook & Hovley), Indian Wells Main, Indian Wells Luxury Homes & Estates, La Quinta and Old Town La Quinta, as well as Garner Valley and Lake Arrowhead.
A BIG Thank you from students at Raymond Cree Middle School
Our two Windermere offices of Palm Springs have contributed their time and money to help the students and teachers of Raymond Cree Middle School, as part of our annual company wide Community Service Day. With services and supplies being cut back over the last two years, teachers are forced to spend their paychecks to teach our children.
On Monday, November 16th, agents and staff presented a $1500 Visa Gift card and numerous school supplies such as the traditional paper, markers, rulers, gardening tools, and a podium for their speech class. “It is the non-traditional supply items that are needed that are not afforded in the school budgets,” says Windermere Office Manager, Frances Chafe.
One day each year Windermere Real Estate’s agents, owners and staff volunteer at improvement projects in their local communities. This year’s Community Service Day will be held November 13th.
Windermere Coachella Valley will be donating much needed school supplies to local public schools. Each Windermere office is sponsoring a school serving their community and asked for a “wish list” from them.
“Our agents put their heads together to determine what worthy project we could do this year and the need for school supplies kept popping up at the top of the list,” says Windermere owner Bob Deville. “With services and supplies being cut back over the last two years, some of those suffering the most have been our children. Windermere feels strongly about starting from the bottom and working up. Our children and their education today are clearly our future.”
The schools receiving donated supplies are Rancho Mirage Elementary, Palm Desert Charter Middle School, Carter Elementary in Palm Desert, Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs, Gerald Ford Elementary in Indian Wells and Oasis School of the Desert in Indio.
The photo above was taken at the Oasis School of the Desert in Indio. The La Quinta office is actively involved with the school throughout the year.
Windermere Real Estate is proud to announce the addition of 18 new agents to their Coachella Valley offices.
Neil Curry, Palm Springs South
Mimi David, Palm Desert Cook/Hovley
Lewis Gravante, Palm Springs South
Phyllis Hastings, Palm Desert San Pablo
Jordan Klug, Palm Desert San Pablo
Bob Marshall, Palm Desert Cook/Hovley
Danielle McGuy, La Quinta
Mitchel Mills, Palm Springs Main
Maurice Minno, Palm Springs South
Dan Mobley, Indian Wells Main
Ann Molina, Palm Springs South
Janet Perryman, La Quinta
Alex Rechtorik, La Quinta
Doreen Sabia, Palm Springs Main
Jean Spisak, La Quinta
Debbie Stendell, Palm Desert San Pablo
Jeanette Walzel, La Quinta
Chris Workmon, Indian Wells Main
“As Windermere continues to dominate the Coachella Valley in Sales Dollar Volume and new listings, we are also attracting great realtors, from throughout the valley as well as Southern California. Attention to detail and professionalism is priority with our Windermere agents and it is evident in the trust that our Buyers and Sellers instill us with,” says Windermere owner Bob Deville.
The Desert Sun announced today that Windermere agent Leslie Munger has been appointed to the Planning Commission. Leslie will fill an unexpired term that ends in June 2010. To contact Leslie, visit her website.
Meet top-selling agents, Doug and Lisa Willems. They live in and specialize in the Desert Princess Country Club in Cathedral City. If you’re considering a home or condo in a guard-gated golf course community in Cathedral City, or the surrounding Palm Springs area, you’ll want to contact them today. Cell/Direct: 760-898-1778 Email: lwillems@windermere.com
Windermere agent Randy Wiemer has earned the nationally recognized Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification. The National Association of REALTORS® offers the SFR certification to REALTORS® who want to help both buyers and sellers navigate these complicated transactions, as demand for professional expertise with distressed sales grows.
Palm Desert agent Ini Asman has just been named 2009 CDAR Realtor of the Year for her outstanding service to the community. Ini believes that giving back to the community she serves as an agent should be a priority. Her passions are the 
One day each year Windermere Real Estate’s agents, owners and staff volunteer at improvement projects in their local communities. This year’s Community Service Day will be held November 13th.