Name Changes

Hello All - As many of you are already aware, Prudential Carolina Real Estate will now be known as Carolina One Real Estate. The main reason for the change was that with the national franchise affiliation, a significant amount of dollars were sent outside the Charleston market just for the franchise name and the franchise requirements made a little difficult to act quickly as our market continues to change. Now as Carolina One Real Estate, our company has the freedom to control all of our dollars and keep them local. We can react quickly and do what is best for our buyers and sellers.

Carolina One Real Estate will be affiliated nationally with the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, http://www.leaadingre.com, this will give us national and international exposure that we never received as a franchise. Major companies such as Allen Tate in Charlotte and Long & Foster in the northern Virginia area are in the same affiliation. This move is a huge positive for the company and all of the agents as our market continues to change and adapt to the current real estate market.

Additionally, our team is changing its name. Formerly Cheryl Hardy Associates, we will now be known as Charleston Pier Properties. Our team - Matt Poole, myself and our office manager Susan Morosko, is very excited to make this change and begin branding our new team name and company name. Last year, we were ranked #9 our of all 1000 plus Prudential agents and plan to meet or exceed that level for 2008.

My phone numbers are all the same and my new email address is rsandin@carolinaone.com. The old address will still get to me without a problem.

I will be sending out more info in the very near future with our new website and logo. Please call me at 209-9667 or email with any comments or questions.