Wednesday, February 11, 2004

New faces in new places in local real estate

Kathleen Barlow has joined Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate and is working out of the Peachtree City office.

Steve Bayliss is now Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty’s managing broker for the company’s Jonesboro/Clayton County office.

A Realtor for more than 27 years, Bayliss is well established in the South Metro area where he has previously managed an office for Coldwell Banker Bullard in Newnan.

Bayliss is past president of the Metro South Association of Realtors. He has extensive background in residential sales training, and he currently serves as chair for the Metro South Association of Realtors’ education committee.

Bayliss and his wife Liz, who is a sales associate with Coldwell Banker Bullard’s Peachtree City/Fayette County office, are residents of Fayetteville.

Naresh Dhruva has joined Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate and is working out of the Peachtree City office.

Gladys R. Gil is a new agent with the McDonough/Henry County office of Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty.

Gil, who received her training through the MLS Institute, is also a Spanish teacher.

Originally from California, she now lives in Stockbridge, and she volunteers at her children’s school, River’s Edge Elementary School.

Vincent Hicks has joined Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate and is working out of the Peachtree City office.

Merry Holley has rejoined Prudential Georgia Realty at its Peachtree City location.

Originally from Morrow, she is a graduate of Morrow Senior High School and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia. She now resides with her husband and three children in Fayetteville.

Specializing in residential real estate, investment properties, land, and commercial properties, she sells primarily in Fayette, Coweta, and Henry counties. She is a member of the Fayette Board of Realtors (and an active life member of that board’s Million Dollar Club) and the Georgia Association of Realtors. She has also earned her Accredited Buyer’s Representative designation.

Amy Jackson of Hampton now has her real estate license with Custom Community Marketing, which has its offices in the Eagle’s Landing area of Stockbridge.

She has joined Milton Brown on the on-site sales team in The Summit at Eagle’s Landing.

Marianne King has joined the Griffin/Spalding County office of Coldwell Banker Bullard as a sales associate.

King, who received her training through Bullard College Fast Track, attended Gordon College for two years, majoring in music. She also received a diploma in secretarial science and business from South Georgia Technical & Vocational School.

A Lamar County resident, she is a member of Central Baptist Church, where her husband serves as pastor. She is the church secretary, and also teaches Sunday School, plays the piano and organ, and helps with flower arranging for services.

Her hobbies include bicycling and walking.

Laticia Ladson has joined Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate and is working out of the Peachtree City office.

Raquel Arianna Maye has joined Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate and is working out of the Peachtree City office.

Lori McRee has joined the Griffin/Spalding County office of Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty as a sales associate.

She has been in real estate for five years, maintaining membership in the Million Dollar Club. She has completed GRI I and II and is in the process of earning her broker’s license, and she was nominated for Realtor of the Year in 2002.

McRee has been active in the Heart of Georgia Board of Realtors, having served as delegate, secretary, and co-chair of the public relations committee.

A Griffin resident, she is marketing representative in Liberty Estates, a community in Lamar County just over the line from Spalding County, and she continues to serve Spalding, Lamar and Pike counties.

Barbi O’Keefe has joined the Peachtree City/Fayette County office of Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty as a sales associate.

O’Keefe, who has been in real estate for seven months, is a member of the Fayette County Board of Realtors. She holds a B.A. in child psychology from Georgia State University and is POST certified.

A Peachtree City resident, she is married to Joseph O’Keefe and has three children, Christopher, 15, Stephen, 15, and Daniel, 5.

She is a member of Braelinn Baptist Church.

Tammy D. Rayford is a new agent with the Newnan/Coweta County office of Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty.

A Coweta County resident, she received her training through the Gaddy School of Real Estate. She has been in healthcare for 10 years, including five years with Georgia Baptist Home Care, and she is also a monitor technician, monitoring cardiac patients at Newnan Hospital.

Rayford has four children, Tameika, Trina, Tineshalle and Thomas Overton. She is engaged to Kenneth Smith.

She attends Guiding Light Holiness Church in Grantville and Mount Prospect Church in Moreland. Her hobbies including playing tennis and sewing.

Chris Sheffield has joined Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate and is working out of the Peachtree City office.

Roberta Jo Smith has joined Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty’s Newnan/Coweta County office as a sales associate.

Smith, who received her training through the Gaddy School of Real Estate, began her business career in the transportation industry as a travel agent. She then became a flight attendant, most recently spending over four years with Delta Airlines.

A resident of Coweta County, she is married to Scott Smith, who is a

pilot for a major airline based in Chicago. She enjoys working out, cooking and raising the family’s Welsh Corgi puppy.

Amy Smoak is now among the Realtors at The Home Source Realtors General Brokerage office in Peachtree City. She is a native of Brooks and a graduate of Georgia State University with a degree in accounting. She specializes in residential properties in Peachtree City, Fayette and Coweta. She and her husband Jason are residents of Newnan.


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