Putting Positivity into the Real Estate Office

CHASE INTERNATIONAL EMBRACES
HEART-CENTERED REAL ESTATE PRACTICES

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. (Oct. 9, 2009)  — After 23 years in the real estate business, Shari Chase is accustomed to adapting Chase International’s business culture to meet the ebb and flow of the modern housing market. However, when the Lake Tahoe-based luxury real estate company felt the rumblings of a down market, this president and CEO realized a major shift in consciousness was required.

Enter internationally recognized spiritual leader Peter Tongue.

“Everyone was becoming stressed out,” explains Shari Chase, president and CEO of Chase International. “We had to reinvent ourselves because the market was really changing. Last fall, my cousin insisted I meet with a gentleman who had changed her life, Peter Tongue.  When Peter arrived at the office, I just felt he was the ingredient that was needed.”

Four years ago, British Columbia-based Tongue, a former high school principal, rugby player and chemistry teacher turned his attention full time to a metaphysical life. Using his experience and understanding of alchemy, meditation, teaching and healing, Tongue helped Chase International find a creative solution to a stormy financial horizon in the real estate industry.

“During this challenging and unstable time, it is important for us to look beyond the immediate chaos and know there is a greater plan afoot,” Tongue says. “Each of us has the choice to step into fear or take the high road to calm, centered peaceful cooperation and collaboration.”

Shari Chase says Tongue’s guidance — during a series of workshops, one-on-one counseling sessions and meditative walks — helped create a shift in the company and allowed the entire team to look at the big picture and move forward with confidence.

“With Peter’s help, the Chase employees are seeing that there is a way to enjoy a happy and successful future in this chaotic time,” Chase says. “We are looking at this as an opportunity to grow instead of a fear based disaster.”

Tongue says Chase International has wholeheartedly embraced this new business paradigm.

“Globally, this shift comes from a place of power, greed and control to a place of integrity, ethics and serving clients fully and totally from the heart,” Tongue explains.

Chase says the impact on the company has been “unbelievable.”

“It’s been more powerful than I ever expected,” admits Chase. “During these workshops and sessions Peter works with individuals removing beliefs that were limiting them from working at their full potential.  He uses his wisdom and counseling to assist families with problems that were not understood.   I received so many calls and emails thanking me for bringing Peter into our lives.  Their business relationships and personal relationships have completely changed.”

According to Chase, this “heart-centered real estate” business philosophy has produced a positive ripple effect within the company, creating some incredibly positive results.

“While other (real estate) companies are basically imploding we have been exploding,” she says.

So exactly how does this new heart-centered ideology affect Chase International’s bottom line? Plenty, says Chase.

“What we can quantify is the increased transactions and increased productivity,” she explains. “Most importantly it has increased our bottom line and increased cash flow, which is very important in our business environment today. The challenge is, as prices decrease we need more transactions to balance the bottom line and we’ve been able to do that.”

This heart-centered approach has been especially successful in Chase International’s new specialty that focuses on issues related to foreclosure, short sale and loan modification.

“Our Chase agents now know how to help people work through a process that was not previously understood fully,” Chase says. “And, this is all done with a heart-centered approach. Agents and employees open their arms to assist these people.”

According to Tongue, Lake Tahoe is a sacred place.

“Upon arriving at Lake Tahoe it was quickly evident to me that it was a very sacred place,” Tongue recalls. “I knew this would be a place where rapid healing could take place.”

Chase says people – both new recruits and new clients – are drawn to the company and its heart-centered approach.

“We’ve always had a strong foundation and always been company that embraced collaboration not competition,” Chase explains. “We now have an expanded understanding, respect and loyalty that links us all together in the purest form and people sense that. It’s about working and playing in a trusting and safe environment while the world is trying to figure out how to do the right thing.”

Chase says this shift is “required and absolutely necessary” for survival and a fully content life.

She believes her company’s successful new business model, which embraces messages of abundance, awareness and positive energy, can – and should be — duplicated by others.

“We are expanding our program to assist other businesses who want to outperform in this new environment - one that we’ve never experienced before in history,’ Chase says. “It’s a new way to do business and it has a viral effect – and,  it’s a beautiful way to do business.”

Chase International’s heart-centered real estate practice is causing Chase agents to bring forth positive outcomes for themselves and their clients, bringing them fulfillment and success.  Homeowners wishing to align themselves with Chase and its heart-centered real estate practices should contact a Chase International real estate agent at any one of the eight offices in the region (Zephyr Cove, Glenbrook, Incline Village, Tahoe City, Squaw Valley, Truckee, South Lake Tahoe and Reno).

Headquartered in Lake Tahoe, Nevada since 1986, Chase International also has one office in London, England, Chase International and its exclusive affiliations handle a large share of the country’s property. A recognized leader in the world of real estate, Chase International launched www.ChaseNation.com, the first interactive social networking website created by a real estate brokerage as a vehicle for direct interaction with consumers online.

With more than 185 professional Realtors® boasting an array of industry certifications and the highest volume per sales agent in the area, Chase International successfully represents homes at all price levels.  For more information about Chase International visit www.chaseinternational.com