HISTORY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2009 Accomplishments

Thank you Yamhill County! In less than three years since we first opened our doors, you have helped us enjoy success in service. In 2009 Bella Casa Realtors® helped more buyers purchase properties than any other brokerage. We also enjoyed the second highest total sales volume in the county. We welcome 2010 with optimism!

Bella Casa's Roots

It was early spring of 2007. There were tremors in the housing markets of California, but no one here worried much about it. Joni and I lived through the February 9, 1971 San Fernando earthquake in Southern California but we never expected anything like that when we moved to Oregon. California is home to earthquakes, even in their housing industry. Their prices routinely grow sky-high, and then get shaken back down to the ground.  We’ve learned to ignore it as an inevitable event. Little did we know, within 4 months of our inception the mother of all quakes would shake the nation’s housing industry.

So much for foresight and good judgment! But if we lacked understanding about the size of the sub-prime quake, we did not lack vision and direction for what we knew would be the brokerage of the future. The colonial era of brokerages was past, and the new era was to be built upon a new model, one we called a Professional Cooperative.

We began on the Ides of March, 2007, with Mary Jo, Tanya, Joni, Amy, Randy, and Mary. Soon Rena, Olya, and Grace made the move. By March 15, 2008, our first anniversary, Robin joined us as our 30th Realtor® making us the largest brokerage in McMinnville, and among the top three for size in the County.  But while size may be a commentary on the attractiveness of our model, alone it may only mean we put on a better party!

More importantly, in three stressful, testing, and painful years of housing depression, we have never had a broker leave for dissatisfaction and go to another brokerage. No one has ever claimed that we did not deliver what we promised. What we set out to accomplish, we have, and we all did it together. Today Bella Casa Realtors® enjoy rich professional relationships with many of the finest brokers in our area.

Our goal has always been to be the brand of choice for our area, the greater Yamhill County area, one of the most beautiful places on the earth! We are accomplishing this with a sterling reputation, which we value more than gold and the highest level of competent service available for our clients.

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