This was back in the early 80’s, when I was working in mental health directing therapeutic services at the Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital, Westchester Division, running my own private practice, and teaching Occupational Therapy at Columbia, NYU and SUNY. My husband and I would visit on weekend, summer months, or virtually any 24-hour period in which we could escape the City.
This all changed in 1987 when we decided to become what our native East Hampton neighbors refer to as “year round summer people,” and where after a series of endeavors in real estate investment and home renovation I decided to jump into the business outright. My career in brokerage began at Devlin-McNiff Real Estate. Not quite three years later I joined ET Dayton as a partner where we were the first local real estate agency to engage advertising and public relations agencies. In 1994 we formed Dayton Halstead in partnership with Manhattan-based Halstead Property Company. Later, using what was then cutting-edge technology, we grew a three-person office into a three-office, 60 licensee operation. I became a full-time sales agent again in 2005 after we sold Dayton-Halstead to NRT and was soon one of the top agents at the Corcoran Group. Today I’m at Saunders & Associates and I head the Saatchi Team, composed of two full-time assistants and several talented associates.
