Awards continue to pile up for Metro Brokers

LAS VEGAS --- The Metro Brokers contingent at the GMAC Real Estate national business conference is beginning to wear a path in the carpet to the awards stage here at the Paris Las Vegas hotel.

After accepting awards for top GMAC Real Estate franchise and fastest growing franchise in the country during the morning session, Metro Brokers President and CEO Kevin Levent returned to the stage again Monday night to accept a fourth place award for most units sold by an office (Gwinnett).

Toni Turner and Sandra Watkins of the Metro Brokers' Woodstock office also became very familiar with the route to the awards stage as they were recognized as the sixth highest producing team in the country by units sold and the tenth highest producing team in the country by gross commission income.

Another 17 Metro Brokers sales associates were recognized on the Top Producers display in the Exhibit Hall, including the following associates who made the trip to Las Vegas: John Baker (Douglasville), Joe and Lucia Brooks (Gwinnett), Teri Dobbs (Conyers), Charlotte Mercer (Conyers), and Satwant Singh (Perimeter).

Levent, who made his trip to the stage with wine glass in hand, familiarized the crowd of more than 2,500 with the Metro Brokers cheer by shouting “Metro!!” to which the group of more than 70 Metro Brokers employees and sales associates on hand responded, “Brokers!” Later, the chant was initiated again by GMAC Home Services President and CEO John Bearden as Turner and Watkins exited the stage.

After the evening awards ceremony, Earth, Wind and Fire took the stage and were later joined by scores of convention attendees all dancing and singing to R&B hits like “September” and “That’s the Way of the World."

Hotel demolition

The nearby Bourbon Street hotel, which was built in 1980 and has been closed since October, was imploded at 2:30 a.m. PST, causing several tremendous booms that awoke more than a few unsuspecting convention-goers.

According to media reports, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. intends for the eight-acre Bourbon Street site to be part of a mega project to be unveiled early this summer that will link Harrah’s properties on some 300 acres around the Las Vegas Strip.

The event is indicative of the continued boom in real estate and construction here that began in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. In fact, construction cranes loom in the sky in almost every direction from the Paris hotel.

The weather here

The weather here was sunny and 70 degrees on Monday and is expected to be sunny and 73 degrees on Tuesday.

The weather in Las Vegas stands in sharp contest to the temperatures back home in Atlanta where the barometer topped out at 43 degrees on Monday.

Don’t you wish you were here?