Metro Brokers TV: Hi. I am Amy Chase and welcome to Metro Brokers TV. I am here today with Mike Hixon of Hixon and Associates. Mike is out of the southeast suburban Metro Brokers office. Mike welcome.
Mike Hixon: Thank you.
Metro Brokers TV: Thanks for coming today.
Mike Hixon: You are welcome.
Metro Brokers TV: And I would like to hear a little bit about you, how long have you been in the business and how long have you been with Metro Brokers.
Mike Hixon: I got my real estate license in 1985 and I joined Metro Brokers in January of 2003.
Metro Brokers TV: Okay. So, you have been around to see some of these trends and some of these changes within our market.
Mike Hixon: A couple.
Metro Brokers TV: A couple, just a few, eh?
Mike Hixon: Just a couple.
Metro Brokers TV: All right and I know that you are active within Metro Brokers. You are currently serving on our membership and communications committees. Okay. Well, one of the things that I think is unique about Metro Brokers is that our membership is growing despite a down-turned[Phonetic] market. Can you tell us a little bit about what you are seeing and what your experience with that is on membership?
Mike Hixon: Yeah, it is growing. Last year we had several offices open up that in a downturn[Phonetic] market is pretty impressive. I mean there is a lot of folks are going the other way. We are actually opening up several offices or did open up several offices and in our last two membership orientation there were well over 30% of RE/MAX brokers, former RE/MAX brokers that were in attendance.
Metro Brokers TV: And we are also pulling from other firms as well. Where are you seeing other people come from?
Mike Hixon: Keller Williams is a significant number of folks who came in the last orientation.
Metro Brokers TV: What are you hearing from those folks? What do you think the reason is why they are leaving RE/MAX and Keller and coming to Metro instead?
Mike Hixon: I think without a doubt it's our business model. When you look at Metro Brokers business model versus some of the other large franchise firms we are just a real true independent thinking office or organization that you can actually go out, open up your own office and not have to worry about you know large fees and big office issues that we don't have to deal with. We are truly independent.
Metro Brokers TV: Yeah, that is unique with Metro. For somebody who is considering looking at Metro Brokers as a place to hang your sign, what would you like to say to them, what do you think is important for potential members to know?
Mike Hixon: What are you waiting on? I think you should get on over here. When you look at what we have in our business model along with the support for Metro Brokers and all the training models[Phonetic] and... we are very... we are a lot more... we are thinking a lot more out of the box and a lot of folks[Phonetic]. We have a great media campaign going on, a lot of synergy, the offices are working together better than most offices you will find don't have that type of synergy what we do.
Metro Brokers TV: And we are all over the city.
Mike Hixon: All over. In the mountains and....
Metro Brokers TV: In essence.
Mike Hixon: Yeah.
Metro Brokers TV: An office for everyone.
Mike Hixon: There is, there truly is. There is you know like if you don't like a certain setup you can find an office just about anywhere that you fit.
Metro Brokers TV: Terrific. Mike, thanks so much for coming today.
Mike Hixon: You are welcome. Thank you.
Metro Brokers TV: All right. You bet.
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