Dr. Tomy [Tom] Yawkey, Realtor, Ph.D., has been Named a Professional of the Year in Real Estate Services

    STATE COLLEGE, PA, November 19, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Realtor Dr. Tomy [Tom] Yawkey has been named a Worldwide Branding Professional of the Year in Real Estate Services. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only a small selections of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Branding membership.

Dr. Yawkey has 19 years of experience in real estate, and now serves as a realtor. In his position, he works with clients to determine their interests and move them into great situations, establishing trusting, honest relationships, and building bridges between buyers, sellers and agencies that result in win-win situations. His daily responsibilities include listing and identifying properties to sell, primarily residential and resort properties in Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where he is reciprocally liscensed as a real estate salesperson. Dr. Tomy [Tom] Yawkey also works with recreational properties and rural land, deals with foreclosures, and handles his own marketing.

After retiring from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Dr. Tomy Yawkey was granted Professor Emeritus status by the Penn State President and the Board of Trustees. Dr. Yawkey then decided to pursue his current field. He became involved in commercial real estate projects with his wife, Dr. Margaret Yawkey, and enjoyed it greatly.

In 1970, Dr. Yawkey earned a Ph.D. from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Today, he is a member of the National Association of Realtors and the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, and served as Educational Director on the projects he worked on and helped get funded by the Department of Education and the school districts with which he worked. He attributes his success to the mentors he has had in past years, and to his current mentor, who is willing to help and look at his successes. He has had great success with them. In the coming years, Dr. Tomy [Tom] and Margaret Yawkey will continue field testing and continue to develop Our Time Now, LLC. Drs. Tomy and Margaret are also working toward establishing their own real estate agency since Tomy will be taking his Pennsylvania Broker's license and then his Broker's test.

Tomy [Tom] and Margaret Yawkey have worked for some 30 years in commercial real estate. They operated nine buildings in the states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, and sold appropriate properties with licensed realtors.

Tomy [Tom] and Margaret Yawkey were also involved as trainers for many English as a Second Language (ESL) projects across the United States and with ESL programs in Puerto Rico. These ESL programs from kindergarten to high school students focused on developing their English language; communication; and learning skills, and helping students appreciate their native born culture as well as their newly adopted American culture. These many ESL projects, be they school or home-based, were funded by The United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C. For many years as trainers, Drs. Tomy and Margaret Yawkey were very successful at helping ESL students integrate into American schools and helping their ESL parents learn about American culture in home settings.

For more information about Dr. Tomy [Tom] Yawkey, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-yawkey/17/26b/957.

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