Linda Carrabba, Real Estate Agent

Linda Carrabba brings with her a deep sense of commitment to everything she does. She is committed to building community and environmental causes. Not many people know that she is the founder of two of the most popular local sites, Freecycle Hopkinton/Holliston and the Metrowest, MA Café both can be found on Yahoo Groups. Linda is a Massachusetts native who spent her childhood in Central Massachusetts, attended school in Western Mass and Greater Boston, and now resides in MetroWest. She has degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Bentley College. Linda lives with her husband, Pete, her two teenage daughters, and their pets. She loves working in real estate because she deeply believes in the deep-rooted dream of owing your own home, especially for people who think it’s not a possibility.

Linda has been asked and accepted the prestigious position of being on the Technology Committee of the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS.

Damon Chaplin, Real Estate Agent

Native to the Greater Boston Area, Damon Brings a diverse package of skills, talent and expertise to the realty profession and clientel. Through his experience as an municipal home inspector, envrironmental engineer and community activist Damon has developed a keen sense of quality, character and commitment in relation the housing market and the clients with which he serves.

Over the years, Damon has established, stewardship, leadership, and intergrity as his core values of service. He has worked with numerous State and local agencies such as MA DEP, The Public Health Commission and Alternatives for Community and Environment in efforts to resolve both commercial and residential issues ranging from sick building syndrome to asbestos and lead related hazards.

Through his experience, Damon offers both the residential and commercial client a solid history of service, professionalism and results.

Damon is the realty professional and sales consultant for house investments and needs. Damon is also a proud new papa!

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Sylvia Eng, Real Estate Agent

Sylvia started investing in real estate back in college.  She studied accounting and management at BabsonCollege and used her skills to buy and sell several properties. But Sylvia wasn’t content to use her expertise just to enrich herself, she wanted to help others realize their American Dream. Sylvia joined the Asian Community Development Corporation and helped dozens of families buy their first homes. She specialized in helping her clients sort through the maze of affordable home buying programs to find one that worked for them.

Sylvia also used her knowledge of the market to develop a seminar for home buyers that graduated 500 people in three short years. She moved on to manage an 85-million dollar housing development before finally settling back into her first love helping people buy and sell homes.

Sylvia is fluent in Cantonese. She currently lives in Newton, with her Husband and beloved dogs.

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Susan K. Murie, Real Estate Agent

Susan K. Murie lives and works in Arlington, MA.  High on her list of professional goals, is the desire to help women and artists achieve property ownership, in order to build equity for the future and establish roots in solid ground.

Susan has lived in Arlington for 12 years, serves on the Arlington Cultural Council and is an Arlington Schools parent.

She also maintains an artist web site directory on her real estate web site. Contact her if you would like to link your art web site from hers:
http://www.artistsbuyhomes.com

She also created and maintains the ever popular:
http://www.arlingtonbites.com

Fun Fact: For eight years, Susan was known as the Traveling Gardener.

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Evie Santana-Nola, Real Estate Agent

From the North Shore to the Western Suburbs to her current home of East Boston, Evelyn, or “Evie” as she is known to her friends, has lived all over this state. She doesn’t just know about the areas she covers, chances are she’s lived in them.

Years ago, when Evie bought her first home she didn’t have enough information to make an informed decision. Even though everything turned out all right in the end, she didn’t like feeling that everyone else knew more than she did about buying a house. That’s why Evie specializes in guiding first time home buyers through the process. That’s also why Evie believes in open communication - not hidden agendas.

She gives all of her clients the information they need to buy the right house for the right reasons.

Evelyn Santana currently lives in East Boston with her two wonderful children.

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Douglas Schmidt, Real Estate Agent

Doug Schmidt is a Long Island boy through and through. Yes, he is a loyal life-long Yankees and (no matter how much they lose) Jets fan! He worked in the apparel industry for close to 20 years after attending Wagner College. He worked for Reebok and traveled around the World to places such as China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Mexico, and India.

Besides real estate, he and his wife, Brick House Realty's founder, Maria Salomão-Schmidt, Doug owns a successful chain of dry cleaning stores in Massachusetts that he started in 1999. He believes he is the luckiest man in the world because he married "the woman of my dreams" and loves working with her getting people the home of their dreams!

Doug is a beloved father of five children who keep him on his toes. In 2006, his youngest daughter at the time Sophia, who had Down syndrome died suddenly. In her memory, Doug and Maria support many wonderful organizations that help people living with special needs. He believes they have much to teach all of us! Inspired by Sophia's death, he and Maria went down to New Orleans with Sherborn's Unitarian Church to help rebuild after Katrina hit and our government abandoned the people there. They are planning to go back because there is still a lot of work there that needs to be done.

For many years he has coached local youth teams in soccer, baseball, lacrosse and football. Last year, his football team, the Panthers were Super Bowl champs.

Doug and real estate are a great mix! He loves negotiating the best deal for his clients, even if they are Red Sox fans!

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Eric Tam, Real Estate Agent

Eric is a sales specialist. He has studied the art of negotiating and majored in sales and marketing in college. Eric worked as a sales professional before turning his attention to the real estate market. He started out managing his family’s residential and commercial properties and his career took off from there. His sales background and negotiating skills have helped Eric become a strong advocate for his clients and close countless real estate deals. 

Eric has two goals. He is intent on building lasting relationships with his clients and using his sales skills to help his clients get the best value for their home – whether they’re buying or selling. Eric believes all home owners should have the opportunity to build wealth through real estate – whether they’re savvy investors or first time home buyers.

Eric is a graduate of Babson College. He speaks Taisanese and Cantonese and his family’s roots in the local Asian community run deep.

Eric was born, raised in Newton and he can’t seem to leave because he still lives there.

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Ben McNally, Real Estate Agent

Ben first heard about Brick House Realty when its founder, Maria Salomão-Schmidt, sold him a multi-family home as an investment at the ripe old age of twenty-four! It worked out so well for him that he wants to work with others to help them realize their dreams too!

Besides selling real estate Ben is also a manager at Trader Joe’s where he’s worked for five years. Before that he worked at other retailers. He is a graduate of the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst.

Ben has a passion for Jeep Wranglers because they help him do all the outdoor activities he loves, especially skiing, snowboarding and hiking. He currently lives in Berlin with his beloved, rescued dog, Sargent. Ben mostly covers the Worcester area but because he has lived in Massachusetts nearly all his life, he is incredibly familiar with other areas too.

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