Keith Koerner

Let me start by saying very few people set out to be a Realtor from the start. It is more a winding path you walk and as time goes by all your experiences kind of lead into this path. If you took a poll it as to why it would be as diverse as the days in a year. It is something you grow into, the best ones I have meet have always been from very diverse back grounds. I have seen no real pattern just motivated people with the love to help people and some what driven by attention to detail.

I grew up on Long Island (Seaford) and knew by age 16 I knew that I would be enlisting in the Navy. My time growing up on Long Island and listing to all the stories from my father about life on Long Island NY. As a young man he worked on the farms, went out on the water for his calms and other Seaford. How good the local Long Island Sweet corn was. And still is.

I had my 1st boat by the age of 8, and worked my way up to a good sixed inboard by the time I was 14. Even after my senior prom I took a group of my School mates out on the great South Bay for a little moon light cruise. I learned to swim as soon as I could crawl. Growing up and working at the local marinas only fueled my passion for the water. Every dollar I made went into bigger and better boats by the time I old enough to drive I was motoring around in a really nice boat.

It seem almost natural to join the Navy, Traveling around the world by water seemed the right way to go. My 1st tour of duty took me to Naples Italy after 4 years working on an Island just off Naples (Nisda Island) from there on 3 different ships , tours in Mare Island California, Jacksonville, Florida , Cuba yes I did say Cuba after getting my Schooling for Energy Conservation and Saving the Navy over $25,000,000. During this time I was TAD to the Seabees. I think I could right a whole book on that experience alone. The high light was the job as the Energy Conservation Manager in GITMO with 18 hour a day for nearly 16 months it took it toll the worst part was being separated from my family. Since the base made it own water, water conservation was the focal part of my job. I had set the limits to the population for the Island with the numbers I had set for camp population vs. the amount of water we could produce and still have a safety net if the plant failed and still ensure that all 50,000 refugees and base personal had the water required to survive.

All this brought me into Real Estate, having such a diverse back ground enables me to better connect to the prospective buyers and sellers. It has worked out well. I was the rookie of the year for my 1st year. I than started the Eastern Shore Team. It seemed to be the best way to help our customers by combining all our team members’ strengths and providing the resources to better enable us to promote our listing by a larger combined advertising program.

My last 4 years in the Navy I was an Information Technology manager for Fleet Training Center (FTC) Norfolk. I managed a 1,000 computer network both for the hardware side and software. I have training in fiber optics, CD course programming and other IT fields. All this has helped the Eastern Shore Team to be the #1 team on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. In 2007 we were awarded Coldwell Bankers Diamond Society Team Award for 2007.