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Dont ask June Rosenthal if she has any plans to retire soon. Someone said I should try to get into the Guinness Book of Records and sell my last house when Im 100, she says, laughing, but I dont know if Ill go that long!
June has been "Ms. Stamford Real Estate" for as long as most people can remember, running her own business with a team of loyal brokers out of the charming old one-room schoolhouse on the corner of Roxbury Road and Long Ridge Road.
My first job out of college was as a copywriter for Town & Country. Then I went to Vogue and sold advertising, but when I got married my husband didnt want me to work, she says, so she busied herself settling into a new home in Stamford, raising two children and helping her husband in his retail stores during the holidays. I knew I could sell, and liked it, so when my son went off to college I decided that real estate would give me the opportunity to get out of the house during the day, but be there when my daughter came home from school. I hadnt realized that selling real estate is a job you do full-time, seven days a week. she added.
June has been selling homes in Stamford for more than 40 years, and shows no signs of slowing down. As a real estate broker you often feel as if youre a psychiatrist. You have the emotions of people in your hands, and thats a very big responsibility. If you do your job properly and responsibly, you feel as if youre solving peoples problems, she continued, I feel like Ive helped people with their lives when Ive been involved in buying or selling a home with them.
June is one of those people who give 100 percent at all times. She wants her customers to be happy. A few years ago she showed a house to a couple and they instantly knew this was the house for them. She called the listing broker to make an offer only to learn that the house had just gone under binder. The couple was devastated. Determined to find them a comparable house, June and the couple spent the next four years looking at other homes, but nothing else measured up to that first house. Finally she decided to put a note in the mailbox asking the owner if he had any interest in selling. By chance it happened he was planning a move -- and so the story had a happy ending. For two weeks after they moved in, June received the same message every day: Were having coffee on our balcony and were the happiest people in the world! Thats how June Rosenthal helps people with their lives.
You can reach June Rosenthal at Juner/William Pitt, Sothebys. (203) 968-1500
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