Market Max America Realty is a success story that defies the odds and shows what ordinary people can do when they’re willing to sacrifice and work hard for their dreams.
We opened our doors in the summer of 1992, with big dreams, a handful of Agents and a shoestring budget. Our challenges included: (1) not being well-known or well-financed, (2) difficulty recruiting sales help to a new office, (3) an economic recession, and (4) fierce competition from large, established brokers.
Most people would have given up, but the founders, George and Maria Zivan, were not strangers to hard times. As children of first-generation blue-collar Romanian immigrants, we saw our parents struggle and sacrifice much more than us. We weren’t going to let our families down, so failure was not an option!
It took years, but our hard work and long hours paid off. Our way of doing business surprised many people because we didn’t put the emphasis on “selling” but on listening and offering guidance. We treated customers and clients the way we would want to be treated, and many folks found this refreshing. In time, more people saw that we were not just hard-working, we were honest and knew our business. We go the extra mile to give people a level of service they would tell their friends about.
That is how we earned the trust of thousands of people since 1992, and how we still do it today! Our real estate firm is still family-owned and operated. We chose not to join any franchise, because we worked too hard to become just another “cookie-cutter firm”. That may be okay for others, but people have come to trust us to give them a higher level of personal service.
Today, Buyers and Sellers who work with us quickly realize that we offer the same market exposure as the largest Brokers, or even better. There’s no reason to go where you’re treated like a “number”. Your business means more to us, and we treat you that way!
Being independent, we have more flexibility to make our own rules. We skip the fancy sales pitch many real estate Brokers are taught. Instead, our approach is to put ourselves in the shoes of our Customers and Clients, and ask: “How would we want to be treated when buying or selling one of life’s biggest investments?” We built our business model on the “Golden Rule”, and we strive to live by it every day. There is no better foundation for any business.
