Jeanne Slay - Top Agent Magazine
Jeanne Slay - Top Agent Magazine
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Copyright <strong>Top</strong> <strong>Agent</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
<strong>Jeanne</strong> <strong>Slay</strong><br />
<strong>Jeanne</strong> <strong>Slay</strong>, RE/MAX DFW Associates V, learned<br />
the business from the best—her best friend, that is.<br />
Mentored by her mother, REALTOR ® Joye Kuhn,<br />
<strong>Jeanne</strong> put into practice her many words of<br />
wisdom. Her first encounter with real estate<br />
industry began in Houston in the early 1980s.<br />
“My parents had the first relocation broker<br />
business in the city. My pioneer mother created<br />
the ‘neutralization of the house’ concept,”<br />
<strong>Jeanne</strong> recalls.<br />
“Neutralization” meant <strong>Jeanne</strong>, along with her<br />
younger siblings, scrubbed floors and washed<br />
windows in homes, sitting empty for years due to<br />
the bust. This family experience not only provided<br />
new tenants with a “picture-perfect home when<br />
they turned on the lights,” but sealed young<br />
<strong>Jeanne</strong>’s goals.<br />
“I ran from real estate! I was not going to clean<br />
another house,” she says with a laugh.<br />
Her journey back to the industry didn’t come until<br />
years later. A Southern Methodist University (SMU)<br />
business graduate in 1986, <strong>Jeanne</strong> entered insurance.<br />
The five-foot, 10-inch, outspoken <strong>Jeanne</strong> soon<br />
discovered the industry challenges women faced.
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