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10 TOTOTALS
4 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ALS
21,300 21,300 471,300 538,800 548,925 550,444 550,672 2,766,640
548,925
550,444
471,300
21,300
21,300
538,800
2,766,640
550,672
79,000
79,000
790,000
79,000
79,000
79,000 79,000 79,000 79,000 79,000 79,000 79,000 790,000
79,000
79,000
79,000
3,300
33,000
3,300
3,300
3,300
3,300
3,300
3,300 3,300 3,300 3,300 3,300 3,300 3,300 33,000
3,300
0 0 2,116,500 1,176,475 1,222,971 1,261,446 1,303,442 7,080,834
1,261,446
1,222,971
1,176,475
1,303,442
7,080,834
2,1
16,500
1,125,000
225,000
262,500
300,000
150,000
187,500
0 0 150,000 187,500 225,000 262,500 300,000 1,125,000
0 0
1,985,075
2,079,196
2,820,100
2,156,689
103,600 103,600 2,820,100 1,985,075 2,079,196 2,156,689 2,236,413 11,795,474
1,795,474
103,600
2,236,413
103,600
(1,386,037)
(103,490) (1 (110,605) (1 (118,765) (128,125) (138,866) (151,190) (165,335) (1,386,037)
(103,490)
18,765)
(165,335)
10,605)
(138,866)
(151,190)
(128,125)
19,150)
(135,413)
(82,016) (92,710) (105,007) (1 (119,150) (135,413) (154,1 17) (175,625) (1,058,987)
(82,016)
(154,117)
(1,058,987)
(175,625)
(92,710)
(105,007)
(43,580)
(29,456)
(35,538)
(355,862)
(32,285)
(24,858) (26,997) (29,456) (32,285) (35,538) (39,278) (43,580) (355,862)
(39,278)
(24,858)
(26,997)
(1,563,000)
(57,000) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1,563,000)
(57,000)
(75,000)
(90,000)
0 0 (75,000) (78,750) (82,500) (86,250) (90,000) (412,500)
(86,250)
(82,500)
(78,750)
(412,500)
(328,228)
(474,541)
1)
(430,835)
(230,31
(392,317)
(267,365)
(4,776,386)
(358,310)
(267,365) (230,311) (328,228) (358,310) (392,317) (430,835) (474,541) (4,776,386)
(163,765) (126,711) 2,491,872 1,626,765 1,686,880 1,725,854 1,761,873
(163,765)
1,761,873
(126,71
1,686,880
1,626,765
2,491,872
1)
1,725,854
0.564
0.424
0.683 0.621 0.564 0.513 0.467 0.424 0.386 0
0.683
0.467
0.513
0.386
0.621
786,942
679,278
1,853)
834,788
(1 (111,853) (78,678) 1,406,597 834,788 786,942 731,931 679,278 0
1,406,597
(78,678)
731,931
But when the tsunami hit South Asia in 2004, we in this country were exposed to
pictures of widespread natural devastation and untold numbers of people who sud-
denly found themselves without homes, without families. Those images spoke to me
in a way that is hard to describe. I was struck then by how fortunate we are in this
country, and how we need to make the most of what we have bountifully been pro-
vided. And so, in our mid-fifties, my wife and I decided to adopt a three-year-old girl
from China, whom we named Caroline. Many of my friends and colleagues in the real
estate world said we were crazy to start a family again, just when our two sons were
headed off to college. My colleagues at work, however, seemed to understand and
proved deeply supportive.
It’s probably a cliché, but Caroline has been a gift to us, not the reverse. She is a
constant, daily reminder that providing for others resonates with a sense of meaning
and purpose that is beyond measure. It is probably no accident that our brokerage divi-
sion began to embrace sustainability in earnest about the time my wife and I adopted
Caroline. Here we were, inventing a new life at home, our own game as it were,
despite the nay-sayers and skeptics around us.
So, too, our brokerage division has begun a journey that is largely of our own inven-
tion. It’s not always easy. The other real estate professionals in our community were