When I started as a Spanek Real Estate broker 52 years ago "From a Cottage to a Castle" was the slogan I used. It was indeed a challenge to search out and locate pristine properties all over the West coast. I landed some clients early in my career to seek out waterfront properties anywhere they could be found. We sold Lakefront mountain properties, ocean and river fronts all up and down the California coast, even over to Maui, Hawaii. If it had water lets buy it.

Next came horse ranches in Grass Valley, Ca. Vineyards in Napa and a variety of commercial properties purchases and exchanges. I grabbed on to the coat tails of the pro mentor brokers ahead of me, sat in on all the meetings as we skillfully presented and negotiated transaction after transaction that was found and brought back to the home offices.

The mission was to find the pristine properties, make legitimate offers and close the deals for our clients. I Started as a generator broker in the beginning and slowly grew in learning the art of the sale.

Born in Paris (and consequently multi lingual speaking French, Czech and other European languages in addition to English), communication with people in all corners of the world became second nature and gave me a wonderful balance of understanding cultures and religious challenges…My parents taught us all well.

I’ve been a broker since 1969 and I never seen the kind of opportunities and definition that owning Real estate gives you today. With the roller coaster ride of the stock market today, especially over the last few decades, folks have been aggressively investing in real estate. More so then ever before, it’s a steady growth that just keeps climbing in value. Grab on and hold on is today’s model.

Just look at where home price were when you folks bought and where that home pricing is today. We served the West Peninsula side of the San Francisco Bay area as a real estate broker firm for years through the 70's,80's. Then in the 90’s we moved down the SF Peninsula and continued our real estate exploits to the South Bay where our offices are located today. Today we are global when we need to be, nothing scares us.

Many of you know the Spanek Enterprises world through our culinary adventures over the last five decades. I was indeed proud to be the ambassador for my parents, Anna and George Spanek, whose invention of the vertical roaster was brought to full fruition. I’m sure they are pleased that we were able to make their dreams come true for millions of people today cooking great poultry. We created the vertical roasting category in time….All these people I met on that Yellow Brick road added to my Real Estate contact list. As we opened shops that carried our products we become part of their communities, it was like having family in every state. And in many other countries as we grew over the years, Real Estate has always been a big part of my main life, as that’s what I was, (not a chef) but a real Estate broker that became an ambassador in the culinary world of cuisine.

Learning how to cook better from the Master Chefs I met along the way (as well as what Mom and dad taught us) became a bonus in life. There’s a book coming out soon to enjoy that Yellow Brick road……. Stay tune.

George Spanek Jr., my Brother was in the wine business for over 30 years, representing the finest Chateau wines and spirits from all over the world. We visited many of them and learned that real estate as well. And now you know the wine connection.

The family grew into knowing and learning the best of the best taste combination with the perfect food recipes in preparing the perfect meals. Again another blessing “Bless Brother George.” A class act of a person in life.

There something to be said when the perfect wine meets the perfect chicken dish as served on the vertical roaster, Again that's another story for you to learn if you take the time.

The fine art just kind of found us and joined us along the way—(although that’s a story all in itself) because when you have a perfect food menu set to share with the artist folks and a perfect bottle of wine to go along with the menu, the artists and the friendships find their way to your door.

From that grew the artistic marketing of "Art to the table", "L'art Pour la Table™" with tabletop accessories. Then come the music and friendship and there you have the total value of the arts in life.

It all fits, the divisional elements all work together. Invest wisely in your family's growth and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Through it all, multi-tasking and running several companies, you come to rely on the trust of the family, great marketing associates, friendships and broker colleagues who will help you put transactions together, no matter where your customer base is going or what their needs may be. For us it's Spanek Magic and that’s how we work and blend all our divisions.

It's all about: How ...
"Fine food, finds fine Wine, Finds fine Art, finds fine Travel, Finds fine Real Estate"

All the dots connect and then you are blessed to find all the great folks along the way on our Yellow Brick Road.

Bon Appetit!

Denis
Spanek Inc.