SAAA May/June 2016 Residence Magazine | Page 6

P R E S I D E N T #SAAAStrong Cheree Allee | SAAA 2016 President | Greystar Real Estate Partners San Antonio is the place to be in Spring! A huge THANK YOU to all that have joined in the fun this spectacular spring at SAAA! So many things to share with you all that will excite you and get you to want to join in on all the fun! The Membership Drive again exceeded their goals this year by adding 75 new members in 2016. OUTSTANDING work by our committee, led by Selina Lazarin! Holding his title for 1st place Individual Recruiter bringing in 11 new members for his team was Dominic Alongi! And new this year was the TOP Recruiting Team - GREYSTAR who brought in a total of 21 new members! Congratulations to all the committee members who worked so hard and exceeded the goals given to them. We couldn’t grow our association membership without YOU! PAC Business Exchange opened up sales on March 22, 2016 and was sold out in less than 3 minutes! EXCITING! NextGEN Taskforce is off the ground and running! As some of you know, we are now recruiting members for our 35 and under taskforce led by Marc O’Cleirigh. This group is anxious to get started and recruit new members that can contribute to this initiative. If you are interested in becoming involved contact SAAA now to get more information on NextGEN. Maybe you could be part of our next LIVE video?! And how can we not forget…Maintenance Mania and Cook Off? Both events were another great success at SAAA! What an amazing group of Maintenance Mania participants this year! I will tell you, I have always been a huge advocate of the Maintenance Mania part of the day and have always come out to cheer these individuals on. They work so hard and I can only imagine the amount of time that goes into practicing and building their RACE CARS to try and be the TOP WINNER! The cars were all so unique and fun! I even had my own race car which really 6 May/June 2016 | www.saaaonline.org made it fun for me! Being able to start the race was a huge honor as I raced my car and then proceeded to watch the time for each participant to see if I had beat them. Really? What was I thinking…this was my very first time racing a car…did I really think I was going to beat the professionals? Congratulations to Jennifer Saunders of Capstone Real Estate who was our Overall Winner! She did a phenomenal job and was incredibly FAST! Amazing job Jennifer! Our Cook off was fantastic and our theme of “Celebrate San Antonio” brought out the inner “Fiesta” in everyone at our event! Over 1300 people came out to enjoy the day which turned out to be perfect for our event! Incredibly creative booths and food selections were everywhere! I loved it all! Kid’s Corner was well attended and the petting zoo was a big hit! The bunnies were the cutest! Thank you again to all for your hard work in putting together another successful Cook Off at the Helotes Fairgrounds! Cook off is always our favorite family fun event! Well, after all that you wonder what is NEXT? More fun that’s what! We have more lined up for you in the next few months. Join us for ONSITE APPRECIATION NIGHT on June 23, 2016 at Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch! (Same location as last year.) And following soon after that is our annual Bowling Tournament July 14th! OMG! Can you believe I am talking July already??? Don’t miss out…Register today! Looking forward to seeing each and every one of you soon! #SAAAstrong. Best Regards, Cheree