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Peter has been a licensed realtor since 2010 (full-service since 2014) and a committed agent with Century 21 AllPoints since 2016. He credits his mentor and first broker Christopher Grant with being instrumental in launching his career, as grantc patiently taught "an adult learner" how to be an ethical, hard-working, do-whatever-it-takes agent.
A retired educator (coach, teacher, administrator) and a recently returned track and field coach at Tolland High School, where he spent most of his 32 years in education, Peter is also committed to volunteer service in his home community and for Tri-County Alliance of Realtors. Serving on Membership and Community Engagement Committee since 2016, Peter instituted a partnership with MACC (Manchester Area Conference of Churches) and in 2018, Fill The Freezer, Tri-County's largest and most visible community engagement event, was founded. Fill The Freezer now enters its 7th year, typically raising almost $5,000 a year for MACC. Peter also volunteered to join the Board of Directors in 2023 and in 2024 stepped into the role of secretary.
In his community of Willimantic (a part of Windham), Peter has served in a variety of roles, from youth sports coach to soccer club president to soccer referee, but most significantly to improve the parks in the city he began calling home in 1980. He co-chaired a town-wide parks improvement committee in 2004 - 2007 and led an ad-hoc committee to turn a town-owned farm field into a passive recreation park in 2022 - 2024. He currently serves (since 2023) as president of Willimantic Whitewater Partnership, an organization developing a cycling, kayaking, and economic development hub and outdoor space in the core downtown area of Willimantic. A relentless promoter of his town, he has led public art walks and organized Rails To Trails events, all to call positive attention to "Thread City."
In real estate, Peter has few boundaries. Full service but not always full-time, Peter has often appeared in the top 20% state-wide of Century 21 agents. He has worked as far east as the Rhode Island border, as far west as Bristol, north to the Massachusetts border in Stafford, and south to New Haven, wherever his clients, friends, and former students ask him to go. He has engaged in single family, multi-family, land, and manufactured home sales, mostly and proudly as a buyer's agent. While he recognizes the value of listings, he evolved into a buyer's agent through his prior career as a teacher, since it is advising, counseling, and teaching that is how he works best.
Recently Peter met with a former student (and self-described trouble maker -- she sure was!) who recently earned her real estate license. Conscious of the development of the profession, Peter shared with her his views on real estate sales and his method of doing business. At the same time, he gave ideas about how other agents, more driven and more successful -- Peter's words -- go about their business. As a mentor and advisor, Peter felt that sharing of information is key to building the roster of good agents in our state and especially in his local communities of eastern Connecticut.
"Not coming from a sales background, I found real estate work to be an interesting business," Peter said. "No day and no transaction is the same. ThIs job can be chaotic, but working through chaos is one of the things I love and do best. Your clients can become life-long friends, your old friends become clients, you help people achieve their goals, and you assist people in homeownership, one of the building blocks of financial and stable future success. As a listing agent, you help people move on to their next phase of their lives. And most oddly, your 'competitors,' other agents, have to be people you can work with, and the more pleasant and fun you can make that aspect of business, the more rewarding every sale can be."
Peter is the proud father of three adult children, two of whom passed through the Windham Public School system and went on to higher education. He is an avid cyclist and hiker, never lacking for athletic goals. He recently completed a multi-year, 1000+ mile bike ride to Willimantic and back -- that would be Willimantic, Maine -- and next on his agenda is to get back to hiking the final 27 of the 48 4,000 footers in New Hampshire's White Mountains. He is also an amateur birder and unapologetic tree hugger who recently discovered a rare North American chestnut at an undisclosed location.
"When business is slow, hike more, ride more, serve more!" he says. "And when business is good, do those things the best you can. Never stop doing what you love."
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