“Lin had a successful 45-year career in Hawaiian Real Estate. After retirement she volunteered into the Peace Corps and served in Kenya educating Kenyan families on how to develop businesses to provide for themselves and on a water conservation project to bring water to the remote villages. She also participated in building a school in Kenya for children of the Genocide.”
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What a life! I have had so much joy following her adventures on Facebook (on her front page you can see her riding a camel)! She stopped posting late last year and I wondered what was up. The obit says she died peacefully. God speed Lin. You will be missed.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“The PDF was the result of Dr. Warnock’s abiding obsession since graduate school: finding a way to ensure that the graphics displayed on one computer — whether words or images — looked the exact same on another computer, or on a page from a printer, regardless of the manufacturer.
“A chartered accountant by trade, and the third generation of his family to be involved in real estate, Lorne founded Lone Wolf in 1989. Through a combination of passion, innovation, and sheer will, Lorne grew the company into the leading software provider for the residential real estate industry in North America. His vision for Lone Wolf guides us to this day.”
Lorne was a force of nature. He was an incredibly shrewd and talented businessman. Anyone who has been in this businesss long enough has a few “Lorne stories”, I have a couple myself. While our paths never crossed once W+R Studios was acquired by Lorne’s company, Lone Wolf (he had already left the business and board), I can see everyday the impact he made in people’s live. My greatest sympathies to his family and friends.
I can’t express the influence MetroList has had on my career. Rick has been a solid part of the winning team at MetroList and it’s hard to imagine him gone. We all raised a glass and gave a toast to him and Frank at our Omni Lobby Bar takeover. He will be missed. #fuckcancer
“It is with great sadness that I share some unexpected news with the real estate community regarding the loss of one of our beloved colleagues,” Donnellan wrote.
“This past Thursday, Bright MLS Chief Technology Officer Frank Major passed away suddenly. Our hearts are with his wife Aisha, their children, and their extended family. Please keep them in your thoughts.”
What a gut punch. So young. Dan and I havehada few great conversations with Frank over the years. My condolences go out to his family.
It must have been the mid to late 90s, so pre-internet. We were either exhibiting at a CAR trade show or maybe NAR Annual was in Anaheim that year. IRIS was still a relatively new company and we had launched our Lightning product, which gave real estate agents a quick way to log in to different MLS systems (Moore Data and PRC). In the booth next to us was a guy, who was solo at the time, selling software to create flyers and other marketing materials (Flyerware I think it was called) for agents, and it was Mac only. His name was Renwick Congdon.
Typically when you are standing in a booth all day you strike up a conversation with the company next to you. Maybe watch the booth while the other guy goes on a bathroom break. I could tell Renwick was a smart guy, and like us he was a bootstrapper. We started a friendship that would last over 25 years.
We would see each other at shows, check up on how our businesses were doing, grab dinner sometimes, share insights, and he talked about his family and that one of his daughters getting married. He was very proud of his family.
I think he was one of my first interviews on my Listing Bits podcast. We even flirted at joining forces back in 2015. Kind of a “roll-up” strategy that never happens. He didn’t need us. With Imprev he created a monster of a business, I think he had all major franchisors on his platform. He absolutely crushed it. In late 2019 he sold his business to MoxiWorks. I remember Dan and me talking about how great it was that “one of the good guys” got paid. We called and congratulated him on his success.
When Covid hit, he reached out to Dan and me to check in and ask how we were doing. He called to congratulate us in 2020 when Dan and I sold the business.
Renwick passed away last week. I don’t know the details. But, I do know this, Renwick was a true innovator and his persistence should be an example to us all.
My sincere condolences to his family. He was truly, “one of the good guys”. Damn.
