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Local Realtors pass gavel on to Nunnally as district chair
Ryan Nunnally, a Realtor with Keller Williams Bay Area Estates, was installed last week as 2018 chair of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors Los Gatos-Saratoga District. More than 90 members of the local trade association and their guests attended the district's annual holiday reception and Installation held at La Rinconada Golf & Country Club in Los Gatos. The evening also gave local real estate professionals an opportunity to celebrate the year's achievements and welcome the holiday season.
2017 district chair Mary Kay Groth, a Realtor with Sereno Group, welcomed everyone and before relinquishing the position, mentioned she was very grateful for the opportunity to have served the district's Realtors and glad she had stepped up and got involved in organized real estate. Groth urged members to get involved and heed the Calls for Action from the National Association of Realtors and California Association of Realtors.
"It's good we stay involved as Realtors. Please answer the Calls for Action because it is important to our business and our clients," said Groth.
Noting getting involved in organized real estate, while it has many rewards, is also a time commitment, Groth thanked the members of this year's district council for helping her with the tour meetings and events this year. They include Alan Barbic (Sereno Group), Shawn Carroll (Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate), Pelin Erdal (Sereno Group), Audrey Hutton (Hutton Mortgage Team), Nunnally, David Tonna (Alain Pinel Realtors) and Suzanne Yost (Alain Pinel Realtors).
In keeping with the district's tradition, past district chairs who were present were asked to come forward and pass the gavel on to the incoming district chair. The gavel was passed from Marlene Rodman (Sereno Group) to Jeff Barnett (Alain Pinel Realtors), Dennis Byron (Montalvo Ventures, Inc.), Tonna, Mark Von Kaenel (Keller Williams Bay Area Estates), Karen Trolan, (Alain Pinel Realtors), Barbic, Yost, and on to Groth, who then handed it to Nunnally.
Nunnally, who was born and raised in Los Gatos, said he is proud to be a lifelong resident of Los Gatos and wants to make a difference in organized real estate, in the industry, and in the community. He thanked Groth for her leadership, stating Groth and her predecessors have paved the way for him and that he looks forward to serving the district next year.
Nunnally said his goals for 2018 are to bring good content at the district's Realtor tour meetings and to represent the local trade association's members as a California Association of Realtors Region 9 director at the state Realtor association's business meetings.
Nunnally introduced members of next year's district council, who will help him carry out his agenda, saying, "It does take a village and no one person can do it alone."
Returning next year as members for the 2018 Los Gatos-Saratoga district council are Barbic, Carroll, Groth, Hutton, Tonna and Yost. Joining them is Jose Padilla (Alain Pinel Realtors).
Nunnally also thanked this year's event sponsors: Keller Williams Bay Area Estates and Sereno Group, diamond; Alain Pinel Realtors, platinum; and Meriwest Mortgage, TourFactory and D & L Movers, gold.
The Los Gatos-Saratoga District is the largest of five districts of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, with over 1,900 members.
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