Members of the Team
Meet the team of Realtors and
professionals that make up the United Group. Each
member of the group has been selected carefully, from
the thousands of Realtors in the Vegas Valley, because
they possess a certain quality or set of qualities
that separates from other real estate agents.
All of the Realtors are full fledged
sales agents who list homes and locate homes for buyers.
For the United Group, they will help you locate the
home you wish to purchase and help you put that property
into contract. From there your file will be handled
by a Transaction Coordinator, someone specially trained
to ensure your escrow reaches closing as smoothly
as possible. By utilizing Buyer's Agents, you can
view properties according to your schedule,
not ours.
Our organization allows us to have
a full time Listings Manager on staff. The Listings
Manager does weekly readings of the lockbox, ensures
the flyer box is full, meets contractors and inspectors
at the home as needed, and handles any of the other
routine tasks associated with a listing. This very
special feature is a great asset to the Seller, as
they can be assured thier listing is constantly being
tended to.
We also have a cadre of Language Qualified
Realtors who are fluent in languages including Spanish,
French, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. These agents
can sell your home or help you locate a new one. For
non-English speaking clients, it is very important
that they have a Realtor fluent in both languages,
as all forms and contracts are in English. The United
Group is very happy to provide our clientele with
Language Qualified agents who work for such an elite
company as Realty Executives.
The United Group is unique in
that the team is not just Realtors and administrators.
A large number of our clients are investors, many
of them new to real estate investment. Therefore,
we also have a Property Manager, CPA, financial Planner,
and Estate Attorney to help our investors prepare
for the future, minimize the amount they owe the Federal
Government, and maximize the return on their investment.
AGENTS
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Sean Brown
Team Leader / Investor Specialist
Heading up the group is Sean Brown, graduate
of the Ohio State University. A former United
Airlines Captain and Air Force pilot, Sean is
an active real estate investor. Sean is involved
with every investor that comes to the group.
He aggressively seeks out the properties and
helps crunch the numbers to determine the viability
of a project. Not one to mince words, Sean will
not recommend a project that he himself would
not invest in. His philosophy is there are plenty
of investment properties out there, so he would
rather pass on a weak deal to keep his clients
happy. In his first year as a licensed agent,
Sean was Rookie of the Year in a brokerage of
400 agents. He was Top Agent in Closed Transactions
for 2003 for his office and is a member of the
2004 Coldwell Banker President's Club. On the
rare occasion that he has some spare time, Sean
enjoys writing
music and creating
websites.
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Jeff
Klein
Realtor / NARREIA Developer
Jeff is a professional, full-time Realtor and
an active real estate investor. He is also the
lead developer of the national website NARREIA.com,
the National Association of Residential Real
Estate Investment Advisors. For five years before
he became a Realtor, Jeff owned a web design
and marketing company in Las Vegas. He gained
valuable marketing experience during this time
which led him directly into the NARREIA project.
He is a world-traveler (living in India for
9 months) and currently resides in both Las
Vegas and Phoenix. Jeff is originally from Madison,
WI, and graduated college from the University
of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
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Richard
Lasica
Realtor
Richard's strong business presence gives him
an edge during the negotiation phase. His financial
background has encouraged him to focus on the
challenges of creative financing. He has investigated
many different avenues for the financially challenged
which is why many first time buyers seek him
out. If you need some help in coming up with
a way to finance a home, be it a one bed condo
or a single family residence owned by HUD, contact
Richard. Richard is our resident Texas Hold
'Em expert.
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Sandra Kuzik
Realtor
Sandy has taken the local real estate market
by storm. Her second month in the business,
she closed over a million dollars, which is
almost unheard of. She was a member of the 2004
Coldwell Banker President's club, which is the
distinguished group of top producing agents
from the entire country. Teaming up with Sergio
Montegrande, Sandy generated more business in
her first year than most agents do once they
are fully established. She has been a life long
resident of Las Vegas/Henderson and has watched
the city grow, making her very familiar with
the different parts of town. Sandy is a real
hands-on Realtor who is very meticulous and
detailed oriented.
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Scott
Meservey
Realtor
Growing up in a military family, Scott lived
all over the US and attended high school in
Italy. A graduate of New Mexico State University,
he worked eleven years for his father’s
construction company. This gives Scott a very
good insight into the housing industry. He then
spent three and a half years as an online trader,
enduring the ups and downs of that business.
He then started a successful landscaping business,
but gave it up when he followed the footsteps
of many of his family members to pursue his
real estate career full time. Scott has found
that his background of diverse cultures, running
businesses and financial investment has been
very good training for property analysis and
customer relations. Scott is one of the United
Group’s investment property specialists.
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Sergio
Montegrande
Realtor
Talk about language skills! Sergio is fluent
in Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and we think, English.
Originally from Italy, Sergio spent some time
working in Amsterdam where he picked up his
Dutch. Upon coming to America, Sergio married
a US citizen who originally hailed from Mexico,
so he picked up his Spanish. An incredibly charismatic,
dynamic agent, Sergio is well on his way to
becoming a top producing agent. Sergio frequenly
teams up with Sandy Kuzik.
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Tanner
Steinborn
Realtor
Tanner is a very sharp, agressive agent who
is looking nationally for real estate investments.
Contantly trying to figure out how he can improve
the current system, he is a very determined
Realtor. Tanner is teamed up with his wife,
Aleks.
Aleks
Nowak
Realtor
Aleks is one of the newest members of the United
Group. Fluent in Polish, Aleks brings a level
of professionalism to a very underserved market
in Las Vegas. Aleks is extremely concientious
and has adopted an excellent support system
that helps ensure her transactions will be completed.
Aleks is teamed up with her husband, Tanner.
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Jeromith
Sutton
Realtor
Jeromith is an innnovator and a true team player.
His philosophy is to never give up and that
one creates their own destiny. A native of Irvine,
California, Jeromith attended San Diego State
University working on a Psychology and Biology
double major. He then spent year at the University
of Alaska where he studied Cultural Anthropology.
During his schooling he worked in the medical
field in preparation for his planned medical
career as a doctor. He moved out to Las Vegas,
accompanied by his wife Olivia, in order to
be closer to family and friends. Living in Las
Vegas since 1998, Jeromith knows the valley
well. Jeromith is concentrating on the investment
property niche and is teaming up with Alice
Threet of Realty Executives on some commercial
projects. His passion for the job is compelling
and contagious, and his only desire is to help
you find what you are looking for.
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Olivia
Sutton
Realtor
Jeromith and Olivia Sutton are a husband and
wife team. Originally from southern California,
they attended college in Alaska. Having family
in Las Vegas, they have been in Las Vegas for
over five years. With background in the entertainment
and service industry, Olivia has worked primarily
with high end clients. Olivia has concentrated
her efforts on finding the clients, while Jeromith
spends his time in the field locating property
for those clients.
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SUPPORT STAFF
The average agent can handle about five transactions
a month without any help, and that would be a more
than full time job. Agents who do more activity than
that need assistance. The first step is having one
assistant that becomes basically a jack-of-all-trades.
As business increases, even the assistants become
more specialized.
If you're not familiar with the details of how real
estate is bought and sold, you might not understand
the importance of the Transaction Coordinator. Buyers
think the Realtor's job is locating their ideal property,
and while that is a very important task, the most
time consuming part of our job is ensuring the transaction
actually closes. You would be surprised at how many
houses that are put under contract fail to close.
Many times these transactions could have been saved
if the issue was discovered early enough and handled
appropriately.
A Transaction Coordinator's job is to work closely
with the Escrow Officer and the Loan Officer to ensure
all conditions of the contract and financing are fulfilled.
Once the escrow is opened, you and the Transaction
Coordinator will be in frequent contact with the client
obtaining signatures on required documents, getting
information to the lender, and keeping the transaction
on track.
A Listings Manager has two main tasks. Once a listing
agreement is signed, the Listings Manager visits the
property to take photos for the MLS and other marketing
material. He also measures the rooms and details many
of he special features of the property so as to focus
the marketing on the highlights. They also tend to
the weekly maintenance on the listing, ensuring the
flyer box is full, reading the lockbox to learn who
has visited the property, and following up on any
inspections or repairs that need to be made.
Once a team becomes reasonably large, marketing the
properties becomes a 40 hour a week job. This is when
a team employs a Marketing Manager. Tasks for this
person include coordinating the various print, internet,
and television ads, creating the flyers, and sending
out mailers.
Finally, the real estate world is rapidly becoming
high tech, and with the advantages of technology come
the headaches of keeping those tools up and running.
We have a full time IT technician who keeps our systems
humming. This allows us to take full advantage of
all the technological tools while freeing up our agents
to do their job: buy and sell homes.
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Sue Rudden
Senior Transaction Coordinator
If Sean Brown is the quarterback for the team,
Sue Rudden is the coach. She makes sure the
entire operation runs smoothly for everyone.
The majority of her time is spent working with
Escrow Officers and Loan Officers, but she is
also our tiger and keeps our vendors in line.
Very few things slip past Sue, and this is why
she leads our support team. Sue is a former
loan officer herself, and has transaction coordinated
hundreds of transactions. Sue originally hails
from Washington, D.C.
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Cindy
Perl
Transaction Coordinator
Cindy comes from a background in real estate.
An office administrator for a very large brokerage,
we were lucky enough to bring her skills to
our team. Cindy is also our go-to person when
we need research in a pinch. She keeps our condo,
luxury high rise, and new construction databases
current. Cindy starts her day early and Sue
finishes the day late so
we can have extended office hours during the
work week. Cindy is originally from Ohio.
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Jerry
Rudden
Listings Manager
Jerry Rudden is one of the nicest guys you'll
ever meet. A fully licenced real estate agent,
Jerry's marketing and computer science background
has been a big help in coming up with creative
ways to promote our listings. Jerry visits each
property every week to keep on top
of our listings. He reads the lockbox and calls
the agents for feedback. He makes sure the flyer
box is full and takes care of any issues that
might occur. He also attends all the inspections
and repairs that might be needed. Jerry has
lived in Las Vegas for many years, but is a
huge Washington Redskins fan. Jerry is married
to our Senior Transaction Coordinator, Sue Rudden.
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John
Cooper
IT Technician
The United Group is one of the most technically
advanced real estate teams in Las Vegas, and
perhaps in the US. Two of our agents (Sean and
Jeff Klein) are members of the GLVAR Technology
Committee, and both have extensive backgrounds
in technology career fields. Because of this,
the demand we have for technology is very high,
and this puts a great strain on our systems.
John Cooper is a former Network Administrator
for the Department of Defense at Patrick Air
Force Base. John's primary job is to keep our
network and computer hardware up and running,
but he spends the majority of his time trying
to figure out how to accomplish the insanely
complicated tasks we charge him with. Having
John on staff allows us to push the boundaries
of how real estate is done, and this is good
for our Buyers and Sellers.
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AFFILIATED SERVICES
Real estate is a very large and complex industry,
and this is especially true when it comes to investing.
Investments make up about half of our transactions,
so we are very in tune with the nuiances of this niche.
Finding a good investment property can be a trick,
but it's equally important that the investor get the
right loan product and have the most appropriate corporate
structure in place.
While we firmly believe that real estate investing
is a great place to build wealth, we do not think
it is the only place to invest. Diversification of
one's investment portfolio is the best way to build
in a safety factor to your overall investment plan,
and that should include stocks, bonds, annuities,
and other traditional investments. When an investor
is trying to develop the most comprehensive investment
program, we like to bring in a financial planner to.
This is especially true if the investor is looking
to invest in more than two or three properties.
Below are some individuals that we have worked closely
with for some time. To be clear, we are all independent
of each other, and are not financially connected.
We do not compensate each other, and this includes
no referral fees. The reason we promote each other's
services is because it is very hard to find smart,
dependable people in this business, and when you do
you stick with them.
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Jeff Crampton
Republic Mortgage
Picking the right loan product can be as important
as picking the right investment property. As
one of the owners of Republic Mortgage, Jeff's
knowledge of the available loan products and
how to apply them is far and above the typical
loan officer. Jeff is capable of lending on
any residential property, whether it is for
invesment, a vacation home, or a primary residence.
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Judy Cruden
CPA
When selecting a CPA for the
team, we wanted someone who was very familiar
with investment properties. Not only are Judy
and her husband actively investing in real estate,
but Judy is a Realtor herself. This means that
Judy is very in tune with the expenses of doing
business in real estate. This also means she's
very in tune with how maximize your tax savings
with regard to real estate. Judy loves raising
her two children, vacationing at California
beaches, and enjoying fine dining experiences.
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Rick Tidwell
Financial Planner, GEPC
Rick is a Financial Planner
for Linsco/Private Ledger. He utilizes a total
wealth management approach. Each area is important
individually, but managing them all collectively
is one of the most important considerations
in your overall financial success. His approach
can help you invest conservatively, reduce your
exposure to taxes, meet your insurance needs
and provides a plan to successfully transfer
your wealth to your children and grandchildren.
Among his financial offerings are cash flow
analysis, college planning, annual portfolio
review, and of course, direct investments. Rick
plays a lot of soccer in his off time.
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