English Team Members

Sally English
Sally brings a wealth of experience to the English Team: Real estate salesperson in Atlanta since 1984, a broker/owner from 1992 to 1997, a former residential Homebuilder and an experienced real estate marketing and sales professional.

Qualifications

  • CDPE – A Certified Distressed Property Expert® is a real estate professional with specific understanding of the complex issues confronting the real estate industry, and the foreclosure avoidance options available to homeowners. Through comprehensive training and experience, CDPEs are able to provide solutions for homeowners facing hardships in today’s market, specifically short sales.
  • SRES – Senior Real Estate Specialists hold the national SRES designation earned through the Senior Advantage Real Estate Council. These agents have the requisite knowledge and expertise to counsel mature buyers and sellers through financial and lifestyle transitions involved in relocating, refinancing, selling the family home, or purchasing a home.
  • CRS – Certified Residential Specialist designation (held by only 4 percent of all Realtors Nationwide). Awarded by the Residential Sales Council of the Realtors National Marketing Institute (an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors).
  • GRI – Graduate Realtors Institute designation.
  • REALTOR – Member of the National Association of REALTORS
  • Associate Broker – State of Georgia licensed Broker. Requires 3 years minimum as a Sales Associate and successful completion of Brokers Course.
  • BS – Bachelor of Science Degree – Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Double Major: Mathematics, Engineering Science.

More about Sally

Sally attended Henderson Mill Elementary and Henderson High School (now Henderson Middle School). After obtaining a degree from Vanderbilt University, Sally joined Westinghouse Electric in the Industrial Sales Division. Sally worked in the Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, Boston, Mass. and New York City offices of Westinghouse. Her responsibilities were sales of industrial electric equipment to manufacturers and distributors.

Sally moved back home to Atlanta, Georgia in 1982 and joined her family’s residential real estate business in DeKalb County. During the following years Sally worked in real estate sales and built over 100 custom luxury homes in DeKalb County. After many years as a Broker/Owner Sally joined RE/MAX Executives and focused solely on real estate sales. Sally’s business is based on referrals from satisfied former clients. Sally lives in DeKalb County and is active in her community.

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Joan Kaplan
Joan KaplanThe English Team at RE/MAX Exectuives Home Buyer Specialist

Qualifications:

  • Salesperson – Licensed by the State of Georgia as a Sales Associate in 2004. Requires successful completion of the salesperson’s course and examination.
  • Home Renovator: - Purchased, renovated and sold numerous homes in Oak Grove and Leafmore neighborhoods over the years.
  • DeKalb Board of Realtors Member
  • National Association Of Realtors Member

Resourceful, adventurous and creative, Joan loves to travel, renovate homes and talk (a lot).  She was raised in St. Louis MO and attended Bradley University in Peoria IL.

After college Ford Motor Company hired Joan as a ‘Field Manager’ in Louisville, Kentucky where she honed her skills as a negotiator and learned to analyze financial statements to help the dealers become more profitable. Responsible for $ 60,000,000 in sales each year, Joan learned the analytical side of the business at the young age of 23.  Traveling to a zone of dealers each week was wearisome and Joan logged more than 30,000 highway miles each year for almost 5 years when Ford transferred her to Atlanta.

 

“After arriving in Atlanta I quickly felt at home and knew that at Ford, my next promotion would land me in Detroit, quite an oxymoron “Wahoo,  a promotion to Detroit?!”  At that time during the early 1980’s, there were very few women in upper management, and those who made it there were single, without kids-not my vision of the life I wanted.  So I indulged my entrepreneurial spirit by co-founding a tennis catalog where I learned the fine art of guerrilla marketing (creating publicity and awareness of a company by using unique, inexpensive promotions).  We successfully grew the business to almost $ 1,000,000 in sales and I sold my share of the business to my partner five years after starting it.”

Deciding to take some time off before starting my next venture, Joan worked at Delta Airlines so she and husband Brian could pursue their love of travel and adventure which included Brian’s monumental 3,769 mile bicycle ride across America for charity. Joan manned the 29-foot RV that served as a support vehicle.  A six month ‘sabbatical’ stretched to almost 10 years as we became addicted to benefit of free flights at Delta

“In 1995, after selling a mail order catalog business I co-founded, I worked at Delta Airlines where my husband and I traveled extensively. On one memorable flight, my seatmate described his success as the owner of dozens of residential rental homes, inspiring us to purchase our first investment property. For six years, I dabbled in real estate by buying, selling, rehabbing and renting homes. When friends, acquaintances and friends-of-friends started asking for my opinions and ideas, I knew it was time to become licensed so others could benefit from my knowledge and insights.”

Following her passion for real estate, Joan was licensed in 2005 and quickly moved her license to The Chuck and Marshall Group (RE/MAX Metro Atlanta) where it remained until May 2009.  In 2009 Joan moved to Keller Williams Metro Atlanta.  Joan joined The English Team at REMAX Executives in May 2010.

“Whether I’m in the locker room at the health club, scouring an estate sale, in an aisle at the grocery store or at my daughter’s ballet class, I’m hearing, connecting and contacting potential buyers, sellers and renters. I’m always talking and looking, hunting and scoping out that ideal buyer or that next great home.”

Joan is married to Brian who is employed by the Centers for Disease Control geographic information system mapping for the Environmental Health Tracking Branch). They have a daughter, Sarah who is a student at Oak Grove Elementary School.  Joan and Brian live in the Leafmore community of DeKalb County and can often be found dining with friends at the Oak Grove Meat Market and restaurant.  Say hello the next time you see her.  That is all it takes to get a conversation started.

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