The boys are joined by John's Dad, Chris McGregor, Legend amongst the ranks of real estate here in Hobart, Tasmania- his list of accolades are too long to write here, so we will let John read them out in the show... Listen in as Chris recounts just a few of his interactions in the Tasmanian Real Estate Market.

Transcript of Tales of a Real Estate Veteran
(with Chris McGregor)

Episode: | E79
Show Title: | Tales of a Real Estate Veteran
Cast: | Aaron Horne, Patrick Berry & John McGregor
Guest: | Chris McGregor
Show Length: | 31 minutes 49 seconds

Chris: I got the opportunity to get into real estate, I didn't--I didn't get through the first interview, a school teacher beat me, [Aaron: okay] and after the school teacher was in that position for three weeks, but there's not enough money in this, they got out and they rang me back up because again, subject to have a second chance, and i said: "give me a chance, I'll prove I can do it" and [um] I broke the office record for the first month.

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Aaron:   All right, guys! Welcome back to The Property Pod, your weekly engagement into real estate here in the Hobart marketplace. I'm your host, Aaron Horne, and I'm joined, as always, by real estate agents Patrick Berry and John McGregor.

Patrick: Hey, how's it going? 

John: Hey, gentlemen and Happy Birthday for yesterday of the day this recording, Mr. Horne!

Aaron: Much appreciated! Yeah, I had a... had a wonderful day yesterday--spoiled by my loved ones especially Sarah and Jack, yeah, made me feel very special, so... 

John: Did you say, you went on a bike ride? That was quite--

Aaron: We did...we did. It was quite challenging, I [um] before Sarah's birthday, I got her a bike and it was just kind of a marketplace, we'll just get a bike, we'll see if we--if Jack likes it personally and then we'll go from there [um] but then, for my birthday, she got me a bike seat... for Jack to sit on, because we couldn't use them, because we were like "oh we need to get a babysitter; that's way too much organization, we'll just jump straight into [um] like, getting a babysitter". He loved it--he had the best time, so yeah, he raced along the [uh] the bike track to smiling and giggling and we got to Valhalla Ice Cream and treated ourselves there.

John: Right, all the way to Valhalla, in the back of a mighty steed, is it…

Aaron: I said something like that, [John laughs] we're writing about the Valhalla.

Patrick: We [um] used to have one of those bike trailers, and I remember once I was tying queen up the hill near the cenotaph there, and the bike track like came unclipped from the back of it, and then I rolled down the hill of the highway there, all the cars [laughter]

Aaron: Oh wow, yeah. Okay, no, we saw a bike trying--[Patrick: to see it's good, yeah so it's connected to the bike all the time (laughter)] it's very good

Aaron: Yeah, nice. So we had a wonderful day there, we went to the Tassie, and after that, and had some dinner with the family so yeah, I got very very spoiled on my birthday so shout out, for I appreciate the the love from everybody [somebody: that's awesome] before, well speaking of love, that's actually a really good segue, yeah [um] I would love for you to introduce today's guest because [uh] I think you'd be probably the most equipped at [uh] at the show, John, to introduce today's guest on The Property Pod.

John: Yeah, what's funny with this bike seat, I remember one of my earliest happiest memories was on the back of the bike seat actually, as a kid, so it's very very relevant, but I suppose there was... when I was thinking it through [um] it was actually worth mapping out [um] sort of the--I suppose, who this person is you could say [Aaron: yep!] just to give context of why it's relevant to The Property Pod, specifically, [um] so it's something we put together a long time ago, so I'm going to read it, but I'll do my best to-- [Aaron: yeah, go for it] but yeah, so it just says: so, when it comes to the concept of giving back, there aren't too many agents around Australia that have dedicated their career to not only being a competent operator, but have taken the time to do more than just build a successful business. For over 35 years, he has shared his knowledge to mentor countless new agents and volunteered his time to numerous boards and charity organizations in order to lift the credibility of the industry and its positive involvement with the community. He joined the real estate industry in 1986 and as a salesperson, he was the number one salesperson in the state for multiple years. In 1994, he became the Managing Director of first national real estate--admit the name--of which he and his wife ran for 26 years. While being part of the first national real estate network, he served on the National Board of Directors for four years as well as being the Tasmanian president. He is the longest-serving member of the board--on the board of the Real Estate Institute of Tasmania (REIT). The REIT, starting in 1989, and was elected State President from 1998 to 2000. He also served on the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) board from 2004 to 2010 as the Deputy President of the REIA in 2009 to 2010. [um] To this day, he remains an REIT trainer, helping teach the new members coming into the industry. He was also a past National Australian President for FIABCI which is the French acronym for the international real estate federation based in Paris. He is a fellow of the Real Estate Institute of Australia, fellow of the Australian Institute of [uh] sorry, fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute and CPM, fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has been a member of the National Association of Realtors of Global Business and Alliances Group - USA and an honorary member of the SBAOR Global Real Estate Committee - California, USA. He served as an REIA National Awards Judge for Excellence since 2006, and is also a FIABCI pre-de Excellence International Awards judge from 2012. In 2009, he was the recipient of the prestigious John Gregg trophy for services to the real estate industry and at the September 2013, REIT awards night, held in West Point, he was awarded the life membership of the Real Estate Institute of Tasmania (REIT) which is the highest honor that the REIT can bestow. Welcome to my father, Chris McGregor!

Chris: Thank you, John. 

Patrick: Welcome, Chris!

Aaron: Wowsers trousers! What an intro! I don't know if we've ever had anything like that on the show, but [uh] yeah, welcome to the show, Chris and um yeah…

Patrick: Thanks for coming. Unfortunately, we've run out of time forward to actually [laughter] interviewing you, because John's intro was so long, but it was good [laughter]

Aaron: Yeah, what an interesting, ki...