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My Meeting With the Queen of Flooring - Debbie Gartner

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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956

My Meeting With the Queen of Flooring - Debbie Gartner

I spent the better part of this morning and part of the afternoon visiting with Debbie Gartner, one of my favorite people on Activerain. 

Debbie GartnerI recently read a blog of Dagny Eason's saying that she would be meeting Debbie in Stamford later that day.  Of coarse by the time I read the blog,  I missed the window of opportunity to join them but when I realized how close to me in proximity they were, I decided to create my own opportunity.

I gave Debbie a call and we blocked a window of time that worked well for both of us and arranged a meetup at Starbucks in Briarcliff Manor, a location convenient for both of us and yesterday was the day.

Debbie Gartner is even better in person than on-line.  She's so warm, friendly and chock full of knowledge that she's more than willing to share.  We just had so much to talk about, AR, our favorite bloggers and who we subscribe to, business - real estate and flooring, social networking, SEO, the Google universe, and the list goes on.

Debbie spent quite a bit of time sharing her SEO knowledge with me and trying to help me clear the fog around that topic.  I learned that even though she has an extensive business background, she's only been in the floor covering business a little over 3 years.  That amazed me, along with her marketing tactics and the thorough  knowledge of her product.

We ran out of time before we ran out of topics and left fast friends with a promise to do this again sometime soon but to try and include some of our other New York buddy bloggers.

The best part of all these in-person offline meetings with our on-line friends is that you'd never know we were meeting face to face for the first time. You feel like it's old home week and that you've been fast friends forever.  Instead of greeting each other with a casual handshake, it's a warm hug.

There are so many great people here in the rain that I'd love to know better.  Debiie and I are hoping our next meetup will be at a NY raincamp, but barring that, then REBarcamp.  There's one scheduled in January that we're hoping to go to.  Anyone else care to join us?  Let's make it an AR party!

 

 

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Lora "Leah" Stern - Your Rockland County, NY REALTOR of Choice - (914) 772-4528

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Lora "Leah" Stern
Real Estate Salesperson
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
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If I can assist you in any way with your real estate needs in Suffern, NY Rockland County or the surrounding areas, please feel free to contact me by phone at (914) 772-4528, email me at Leah.Stern@cbmoves.com or visit my website .

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Comments (10)

Tish Lloyd
BlueCoast Realty Corporation - Wilmington, NC
Broker - Wilmington NC and Surrounding Beaches

I am so jealous!  Good for you, Leah, for taking the bull by the horns and making a face-to-face meeting happen!  I think both you and Debbie are wonderful and I look forward to meeting both of you, in person, one day!

Dec 23, 2010 01:24 PM
Dagny Eason
Dagny's Real Estate - Wilton, CT
Fairfield County CT, CDPE Homes For Sale and Condo

Good for you, Leah!  I guess I called and interrupted the two of you during your great meeting.  Debbie said it was a great get together!   Wish I could have been there ..

Dec 23, 2010 01:31 PM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Tish, we've got to make it happen. and hope its sooner than later.

Dagny - Would have loved to have you join.  It was great - but you know that already.  Next time we'll make it at least a threesome.

Dec 23, 2010 01:50 PM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

OMG, Leah, I'm so honored and touched. It was so fabulous meeting you.  It is great meeting people face to face after knowing them on line.  I felt like we were already great friends. And, we clearly have a lot of AR friends in common.

The time just flew. Sorry I had to run off to Mohegan Lake.  I felt like I could have spent the whole day w/ you.  It was fun and we both learned a lot.

OH, and I hope they have raincamp here again.  and, yes, we should do this again - several of us.

Dec 23, 2010 03:57 PM
Debbie Walsh
SHAHAR Management - Middletown, NY
Hudson Valley NY Real Estate 845.283-3036

So again someone beats me to the punch.  LOL I am so happy you two had a get together.  Don't leave me out next time!!

Jan 05, 2011 02:12 AM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Debra -  Enjoy your get together and wouldn't think of leaving you out next go round, especially after the fun time we had today!

Jan 05, 2011 12:34 PM
Craig Daniels
Tech Training for You! - Staten Island, NY
Technology Instructor/Project Consultant

Leah - precisely the kind of posts I want to have people place into the group -

FEATURED in Gold Stars Group 

thanks for adding it into our new group :)

Mar 18, 2011 04:58 AM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Craig, glad to oblige and thanks for the feature.

Mar 18, 2011 10:24 AM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@Properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Lora, I love Debbie's posts!  I've learned so much from her about the many flooring options that are out there now.  I'll bet she was great fun to meet in person.

Mar 20, 2011 03:23 PM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Pat- She's super informative and it's always fun to meet our online friends offline and in person.

Mar 21, 2011 03:50 AM