Agent, spouse are big hit with Hall of Famer
Maya Fasthoff of Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty is a familiar face from her days as a television personality on Salsa TV. When the agent isn’t working with buyers and sellers these days she’s out and about gathering material for her popular food and restaurant blog. She and her husband, Hank — an attorney who is co-owner of the downtown restaurant Batanga — are regulars on the Houston charity circuit.
But last week it was sandlot and backhoes as the pair attended the ground-breaking for “Pete Rose’s Hit King Academy” in Katy.
“The night before this event we also attended the official launching of Hit King Beer at Batanga, the first restaurant to carry the beer,” Fasthoff said.
Retired major leaguer Tony Perez, who sits on the Hit King board of directors, spoke on behalf of Hit King and visited with the couple. Perez is the only Cuban-born member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fasthoff said it was an honor to meet him.
••• The Gleannloch Farms community celebrated National Night Out this week at an event organized Gleannloch residents Susan Matson and Diane Moss, agents with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene Champions Office.
“We have so much fun when we get together as a community that we just had to celebrate National Night Out with our neighbors” Moss said. “National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie and that makes our neighborhood a safer place to be,” said Matson.
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There is a bumper fall crop of new real estate agents and companies wanting to talk to them. The Champions School of Real Estate had more than 80 companies represented last Friday as they met with more than 400 new potential agents at the Fall Champions School of Real Estate Career Fair — one of the largest such events the school has hosted.
Champions CEO Rita Santamaria recently attended a special Dallas Cowboys stadium open house. She lunched there with Logan Stout, a motivational speaker and retired professional baseball player who will be a speaker with keynote Barbara Corcoran at a Champions event in Austin in March.
“I was amazed at the new ‘billionaire row’ of buildings including the new Cowboy practice stadium, admin offices, and Omni Hotel in Frisco,” said Santamaria, who is known to be a gracious hostess herself. She said she was particularly impressed that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stayed and mixed with his guests until the last one left.
••• John Daugherty, Realtors agent Bryan Beene, a Crime Stoppers board member, recently hosted an informational coffee at the Junior League. The event, emceed by radio personality Dana Tyson, was organized to introduce new people to the organization. More than 200 guests attended to hear a pair of speakers talk about how Crime Stoppers had benefitted — and even saved — their lives. Beene said it was an energetic and emotionally moving morning.
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Judi Griggs is a writer who lives in Houston in the winter and Buffalo in the summer — because the reverse would be ridiculous. Contact her at realnewshouston@gmail.com or through judigriggs.com.