Last week at the Seventh Annual LuxuryRealEstate.com "Spring Retreat" in Las Vegas, I had the pleasure of participating in a lecture/panel discussion with Michael Edlund, LRE's Director of Technoloy.  Our presentation was entitled "The Luxury Lounge: All You Will Ever Need To Know About Using Luxury Real Estate's Online Gated Community".

Our panel was part of the four-day conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, which took place April 26-29.  Attendees were offered a series of presentations at the Spring Retreat, including:

"The Power of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn" (moderated by Victor Lund of The WAV Group)

"Dream Big, Risk Big, Taking Over the World One Stroke at a Time" (with featured speaker 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Mary Whipple)

"Turning Unsold Listings Into Revenue" (presented by William May)

"Short Sales: Don't be the Ostrich with your Head in the Sand" (led by Colleen Olson and Janos Farkas)

"Memorabilia: An Opportunity to Meet Some of the Greatest Minds in the Industry" (led by Ann Chiasson)

"Integrating Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate and LuxuryRealEstate,com Into Your Business" (led by Meghan Barry)

"The Fearless Broker" (led by Penny Evans Carruth), and 

"Heart-Centered Real Estate" (with featured speaker Peter Tongue).

Michael Edlund and Eric Kodner prepare to deliver a presentation on the LuxuryRealEstate.com "Luxury Lounge" at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas.

Michael and I took turns speaking to attendees about the features and benefits of the Luxury Lounge.  LRE's Luxury Lounge community has grown hugely, particularly during the past six months. 

One of the most memorable events of the conference was a Black Tie dinner and presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Broker Shari Chase.  Shari is one of only three LuxuryRealEstate.com members to have been named to LRE's "Billionaire's Club".

We had quite a stellar list of attendees at this year's Spring Retreat, including my friend Jim Walberg (Caribbean Islands Realty), Jon Larrance (Perry & Company, Denver), Bruce Hiatt (Luxury Realty Group LLC, Las Vegas), Colleen Olson (Arizona Best Real Estate), Robert Kenney (Turnquist Partners, Austin, Texas), fellow Rainer Dave Abernathy (Ocean 30 Group, Jupiter, Florida), Ralph Gray (Honolulu, Hawaii), Larry Lawrence (Olympic Valley, California), Elise Kalles (Toronto), John & Gail Krolick (Incline Village, Nevada), Elad Bushari & Mara Tamaroff (Boston), Tricia Fox (Gold Coast Residences, Chicago), Janice McNeal (Luxury Homes Tacoma, Washington), Morgan Carey (British Columbia), Lianne Read (Salt Spring Island, British Columbia), Ann Chiasson (Sea to Sky Properties, Whistler, British Columbia), Amber Jones (Sea to Sky, Whistler, BC), Carol Ihli (Denver), Julie Jones (Premier Estate Properties, Fort Lauderdale), Jeff Bretherton (Hamilton, Montana), Stuart Wright (Boulder, Colorado), Victor Lund (Arroyo Grande, California), Andreas Dimitriou (Athens, Greece), Diana Bull (Santa Barbara, California), Darryl Baskin (Tulsa, Oklahoma), William May (Seattle), Shari Chase (Chase International, Lake Tahoe), Patricia & Cedric Choi (Choi International, Honolulu), Ohan Antebian (Irvine, California), Ilya Moshenskiy (Redmond, WA) and Chiara Gajar (Olympic Valley, CA) among many others.

My apologies if I have omitted anyone! 

This year's "Spring Retreat" was a fabulous event and I particularly enjoyed participating as a panelist and speaker.