{"id":2618,"date":"2021-11-26T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/26\/re-max-results-brokers-path-to-sobriety\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:39:30","slug":"re-max-results-brokers-path-to-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/26\/re-max-results-brokers-path-to-sobriety\/","title":{"rendered":"RE\/MAX Results broker’s path to sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Collopy is the co-founder, broker, and owner of RE\/MAX Results<\/strong>, a RE\/MAX franchise with nearly 250 employees and 1,300 sales executives. However, back in 1975, no one would have predicted such a trajectory. That year, Collopy<\/a>, then 23, was arrested after driving intoxicated without a license and fighting with a police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the next morning, after his friends had bailed him out of jail, that Collopy decided to get sober. He served 60 days behind bars and a month at a drug and alcohol treatment center, then began to rebuild his life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After working at a nonprofit community action agency, Collopy purchased an uninhabitable home in Northeast Minneapolis for a few thousand dollars and rehabbed it himself. Realizing that he\u2019d need to sell it to repeat the process, Collopy earned his real estate license. Soon afterwards, he became a real estate agent at Coldwell Banker<\/strong> and eventually moved his way up to management. Then, in 1986, he co-founded RE\/MAX Results with a former colleague at Coldwell Banker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guiding principle behind his company was to view the sales executive as the customer. To serve its real estate agents, RE\/MAX Results established top-quality office locations; hired ample administrative, front desk, and accounting staff; produced marketing materials; and provided training and business planning. Thanks in part to these strategies, the average salesperson at RE\/MAX Results currently sells 24 homes each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his new audiobook, The Reward of Knowing<\/em>, Collopy tells his life story, including how he transitioned from semi-homeless to self-made success. Here are a few of the lessons he learned, which can hopefully inspire others in their professional and personal lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day, says Collopy, to be a successful real estate agent, \u201cyou don\u2019t have to be a Rhodes scholar or go to Harvard. All you have to do is have a little heart and integrity and be willing to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n