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YESTERDAY AT NYARM
February 25, 2009
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| Yesterday we also dropped by a NY Association of Realty Managers' lunch at Tavern on the Green, keynoted by ArgoCorp.'s Lynn Whiting, who was this year's recipient of NYARM's Director of Management of the Year Award. We could all use inspiration in this market, so she divulged her recipe for success. |
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| Lynn, with NYARM president Greg Carlson of Carlson Realty, says:Take pride in the properties you manage; always conduct yourself with honesty, integrity, and humility; treat others with respect,courtesy, and understanding; always respond to people; and keep a sense of humor. These are important no matter the person you deal with (including a building shareholder who threatened to show up and heckle her, she jokes). |
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| 84th Associates' Ken Hacker (center), with colleague Robert Rose and Mackoul & Associates' Patty Batih, recently returned from a vacation in Barbados. The surfing was good, he reports, but what stood out most was that the majority of the island's buildings had solar panels installed. |
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| What the heck is in the jars Metro Fuel Oil Corp.'s Jerry Ragano and Paul DeSimon e show us? Soybeans and heating oil extracted from soybeans. Paul tells us it's pure bio-diesel, and is 10 cents fewer per gallon than regular heating oil with the NYS tax credit. And nothing is wasted—the bean leftovers are made into feed. They're also working on deriving oil from algae, which provides a larger yield and grows every 15 days. |
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| Pump & Motor's Zaneta Williams, Gumley Haft's Larry Grunfeld, Altus Metal and Marble's Lina Gottesman, and Nu-Way Scientific Boilers' Allan Chezar. Allan tells us that he, Zaneta, and Lina were all there to sell themselves to the rest of the crowd, but mostly to gang up on Larry, who seemed to taking it in stride. Lina's looking for work with public agencies to benefit from the stimulus as a woman-owned business. |
