- Name
- Tucson Real Estate Jim & Ann Henry, ABR, CIPS, GRI
- Company
- Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
- E-mail
- Contact Tucson Real Estate Jim & Ann Henry, ABR, CIPS, GRI (Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage)
- Website
- http://RealHenrys.com
- Office Phone
- (520) 577-7433
- Cell Phone
- (520) 906-0117
- Alt. Phone
- (520) 906-0569
- Fax
- (866) 806-1931
- Address
- 2890 E Skyline Dr , Suite 250, Tucson, AZ, 85718
- Description
- La dolce vita! Your home provides refuge, relaxation, and recreation. How you view these will help determine the perfect home for you. Let’s get to know each other. We like houses; we love people.
WE CONFESS...
-- WE HAVE NOT LIVED OUR ENTIRE LIVES IN TUCSON:
We have lived in north Mississippi, south Florida, Washington state, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, the Washington, D.C. area, and the British West Indies. Though both native Mississippians, Jim grew up in Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, north Africa, and western Europe while Ann grew up in Elvis Presley's hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi and spent a year in North Carolina.
Now in our eighth year in Tucson, we are loving it. We have resided in central Tucson near Davis Monthan Air Force Base, on the west side in the golf community of Starr Pass, and on the north side in the Catalina Foothills. There are interesting places to live in all parts of the city and outlying areas, and the people are friendly everywhere. We thought the climate in the Caribbean could not be beat, but we were wrong. Tucson's climate is even better with low humidity, hardly any bugs, warm winters and very few wet, dreary days. What a great place to ride!
-- WE HAVE NOT SPENT ALL OF THE PAST 35 YEARS PRACTICING REAL ESTATE:
Over the past 35 years we have, in the U.S. and abroad, bought and sold several businesses; worked in advertising, marketing and public relations; been newspaper reporters, photographers, and editors; taught secondary and vocational education; sailed over a hundred thousand miles; written short stories and novels; filmed underwater documentaries; surveyed yachts; produced TV in paradise; and produced promotional videos in five languages.
Oh, yes, we've also reared a son and a daughter and taken care of lots of dogs.
--REAL ESTATE IS NOT OUR LIFE:
The practice of real estate has, for the past five or six years, provided us with the means to earn a living, exciting mental challenges, continuing personal growth and education, and wonderful new friends from all over the world. What a great profession! BUT...
We like to get out and explore our world on occasion - such as one September when we decided to jump on the Harley and go visit Jim's sister in North Carolina. And we like to spend time with our daughter Julia, who lives here in Tucson, and our golden retriever Amber, who lives with us, and our son Robert, who lives in the Caribbean, whenever he can come visit.
Jim enjoys playing golf, gardening, and playing the guitar and singing. Ann enjoys reading, writing, and studying languages and linguistics. Both have been involved in amateur plays, and Ann still has a love of ballet after studying it throughout her childhood and during her college years.
And yes, we also enjoy spending time with current and former clients. That's what makes real estate so much fun!
WHO CARES?
REAL ESTATE-RELATED CERTIFICATIONS
BOTH JIM & ANN:
Arizona Real Estate Broker's License (Arizona Department of Real Estate)
ABR - Accredited Buyer's Representative (National Association of REALTORS)
CIPS - Certified International Property Specialist (National Association of REALTORS)
GRI - Graduate REALTOR Institute (National Association of REALTORS)
MRE - Master of Real Estate (Arizona Association of REALTORS)
CNHSA - Certified New Homes Sales Associate (The Southern Arizona Home Builders Association)
At Home with Diversity (National Association of REALTORS)
JIM ONLY:
CRS - Certified Residential Specialist (National Association of REALTORS)
e-PRO (Internet Professional) (National Association of REALTORS)
Technology Committee Chairman (Tucson Association of REALTORS)
OTHER AWARDS, HONORS & CERTIFICATIONS:
ANN
BA in Journalism from the University of Mississippi
JIM
U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Captain; sailed over 150,000 miles blue water
Addy Award Judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Photos selected for Juried Art Show in Hartford, Connecticut (Jurors: Harry Callahan and Emmet Gowan)
Research Vessel Captain and Underwater Cameraman for the television series The Last Frontier, shown on the Discovery Channel and in 35 countries, including the episode "Return to Shark Reef," which won awards in Paris, France and Houston, Texas
Member of the Turks & Caicos Islands National Golf Team sent to the Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships for two years, representing the country in Jamaica and Grand Cayman
BOTH JIM & ANN
Won three awards over two years in the New York Festivals (international advertising awards):
-- Beautiful by Nature (promotional video of the Turks & Caicos Islands commissioned by the Turks & Caicos Islands Tourist Board)
-- Grace Bay Club (promotional video of the Grace Bay Club, a five-star Swiss-owned resort in the Turks & Caicos Islands, commissioned by the owner of the Grace Bay Club)
-- Salt Cay: A Lover's Island That Time Forgot (promotional video of Salt Cay, an island in the Turks & Caicos Islands, commissioned by two Salt Cay hoteliers)
Other notable productions we directed, shot, edited and produced include:
Islands in Question: The Columbus Landfall Mystery (documentary in conjunction with Josiah Marvel, Quincentenary Historian of the Turks & Caicos Islands)
Cable & Wireless: 100 Years in the Turks & Caicos Islands (commissioned by Cable & Wireless)
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
Don't you just love that Kevin Bacon effect - you know, where you're only several introductions away from anyone in the world?
I used to find this hard to believe, but not anymore. Over the years we have come into contact with people from all over the world, and they, of course, with many more. We have British friends who are friends with the Queen of England; we docked our boat in Key Largo next to Dimitri Rebikoff, a designer of underwater cameras and camera housings who worked with Jacques Cousteau; our son's playmate one day turned out to be the child of David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and while in high school my brother, a Senate page in Washington, D.C. at the time, double-dated with Lucy Baines Johnson, daughter of then U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. And yes, when a mere child I, Ann Henry, did shake hands and talk briefly with Elvis Presley, but I was so smitten by his eyes that I never thought to ask for his autograph!
I'm sure we all have many such stories, but what I'd like to focus on here is that underneath all the bull riding and burritos Tucson is really a very cosmopolitan place where you can meet interesting folks from around the world only to discover that they have had very similar experiences to your own. Here are just a few examples from our own time in Tucson:
A young engineer from China asked us to help him find a house in Tucson. We did, and during the process discovered that he had earned his engineering degree from Mississippi State University, which is only an hour's drive from where I grew up and which I attended briefly.
Jim was having a cold drink after work one day at our neighborhood watering hole and got to talking to the fellow next to him. Turned out they both had attended the same school in Malta when they were boys.
We have become good friends here in the desert with a fellow who, like Jim, used to sail. They soon discovered that they had visited many of the same harbors and knew many of the same people all up and down the East Coast of the U.S. and in the Caribbean.
I was showing homes to a couple from Hamburg, Germany - he is American and she is Welsh - and thought about a friend of ours in the West Indies who is also from Hamburg but, realizing that Hamburg is, after all, a good-sized city, decided it would be ridiculous to ask them if they knew him. But as we talked and they discovered that we used to live in the Turks & Caicos Islands, they commented that they knew someone who had an art gallery there. Then I knew it was our young friend who, I soon learned, had been a student of our client in Hamburg.
One of our friends here referred one of his friends to us, and that friend became our client. How did our friend and our client come to know each other? Their wives work together. But the odd thing here is that when our friend and our client were introduced to each other, they discovered that they both came from the same small town in Pennsylvania.
So now you understand why we are so interested in meeting you. Chances are that we have something in common - like sailing, golfing, ballet, photography, writing fiction - that we can enjoy watching, doing, or discussing together. We have wonderful new friends (former clients) from Illinois who vacationed for years in the Turks & Caicos Islands where we used to live. You can imagine the mileage we've gotten out of that!
If you need information on housing in Tucson or would just like to chat about some of your favorite things, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would love to hear from you!
