Roby Gardner, Re/Max Checkmate Realtors

RE/MAX Checkmate realtors is a family-ownedand-operated full service real estate agency in Johnson City, TN and that is something broker and owner Larry S. McClanahan is very proud of.Larry moved to Johnson City with his wife and two children in the early 1970's eager to start a career in real estate. At that time, he only dreamed of one day starting his own company.After years of working for someone else, he opened Checkmate Real Estate as an independent firm in 1983 with only three agents. Realizing the need to offer more benefits to his agents and more services to his customers, Larry franchised the company with a national company after only a few years.Since that time, he joined the RE/MAX organization, which has more than 7,000 offices and more than 119,300 associates in 65 countries. RE/MAX is one of the most recognized names and corporate logos in the world.