REAL ESTATE NOTES
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene announced several new agents. Dayna Wilson has joined the Lake Houston sales office; Deanna Etter has joined the Champions sales office; Myriam Apollon Vixamar has joined the Memorial sales office; and Joe Gonzales, Barbi Cooper and Martha Britton have joined the Magnolia sales office.
Wilson spent more than 20 years in the sporting goods industry in a position that entailed management, purchasing, negotiation, businesses development and marketing. Additionally, she worked as an insurance agent for two years.
Etter spent 17 years working in accounting. She began her accounting career in public accounting, as an auditor at Ernst and Young. She then transitioned into the private sector, doing general accounting mostly in the oil and gas industry. In this field, she acquired valuable management and administration skills.
Vixamar has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music. Before joining Gary Greene, she taught music professionally and through her background in teaching, gained exposure to working with a diverse group of people from different types of backgrounds.
Gonzales, who holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational management, served four years in the military and then worked in the oil refining business for 35 years.
After retiring from LyondellBasell in 2010, he went on to work for Sinclair in Wyoming and then as a terminal operations manager in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is fluent in Spanish.
Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Texas State University. She then went on to teach middle school for 11 years and then taught as a substitute teacher. In addition, she has taught Jazzercise for the past 17 years and spent the past year working in customer service for a large pharmacy retailer.
Britton worked in the petroleum industry for seven years, primarily in the geochemistry sector. She then went to work for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), where she remained for more than 20 years. During her tenure with TCEQ, Britton won several honors including Employee of the Year from both the TCEQ and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Houston Association of Realtors has been appointed to Belize as Ambassador Association by the National Association of Realtors. This strategic appointment gives HAR members across the greater Houston area a unique opportunity to meet and conduct business with counterparts in Belize.
The Ambassador Association program, newly revamped by NAR in 2018, provides an organizationto-organization contact for associations to share best practices, ideas and solutions to common real estate industry challenges. Based loosely on the International Sister-City program, this initiative provides a direct link between real estate professionals in each country.
“By participating in the Ambassador Association program, HAR is cultivating new business opportunities for real estate professionals and residents of greater Houston both locally and in Belize,” said Susan Annoura, chair of HAR’s International Advisory Group. “Sharing economic updates, upcoming projects and new developments between our nations provides another chance to showcase Houston to the world, which helps foster new business relationships.”