Long & Foster Ellicott City Branch Manager Brian Lipsky (far left, blue tie and glasses); Long & Foster Senior Vice President and Regional Manager Cindy Ariosa (holding left check in light blue); Prosperity Home Mortgage Senior Vice President of National Sales Randy Krout (holding right check in pinstripe suit); Ellicott City Partnership Board Vice President Tom Coale (standing center between checks in khakis and blue shirt); Long & Foster Columbia Branch Manager Suzi Padgett (right of Randy in blue print dress and navy jacket); Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman (right of Suzi in gray polo and jeans).
Long & Foster Real Estate, the largest privately-owned residential real estate company in the United States, and Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC, a full service mortgage banker and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Long & Foster Companies, donated $10,000 to the Ellicott City Partnership on Monday. Each company contributed $5,000 to support the cleanup efforts after flash flooding caused severe damage to the area in late July.
“Since our founding in 1968, Long & Foster has been committed to giving back to the communities in which we live and work,” said Jeffrey S. Detwiler, president and COO of The Long & Foster Companies. “The Ellicott City community has supported us for many years and now it’s our turn to give back as they repair the devastating flood damage. The cleanup process will take a very long time, but we know the city and its residents are resilient and will take care of one another as they recover.”
Founded in 2013, the Ellicott City Partnership is a nonprofit organization that works to preserve the heritage and vitality of the city’s historic district while also supporting and creating economic growth. Since the flood, the organization has been working to assess the needs of the community, collect donations and organize volunteer efforts.
Long & Foster Real Estate has numerous locations in the area, including its Ellicott City office, Columbia office, Clarksville office and multiple locations in nearby Baltimore. The company ranks as the No. 1 brokerage in Baltimore, as based on the percent of homes bought and sold. Prosperity Home Mortgage, similarly, operates throughout the Baltimore region and is a leading lender in the area.
“At Long & Foster, we know that a community is comprised of both homes and businesses. We’re saddened at the destruction that resulted from the recent flooding, which ravaged Ellicott City’s Main Street, but we hope our contribution can help the community to rebuild,” said Cindy Ariosa, senior vice president and regional manager for Long & Foster’s Baltimore region. “It’s these communities that allow us to flourish as a company, and we want to make sure to support them in turn.”
Tim Wilson, chief executive officer of Prosperity, echoed Ariosa's thoughts. “Prosperity is in the business of financing homeownership and the American Dream, and Ellicott City and the Baltimore region are a vital part of our business,” Wilson said. “We have employees who live and work here, and it is important to us that we help rebuild a community that has treated us well and that we have been privileged to serve.”
For information on donating to the Ellicott City Partnership for flood assistance, visit https://ecpartnership.org/#
About Long & Foster® Real Estate Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., is the largest privately owned residential real estate company in the United States. The company is part of The Long & Foster Companies, which also includes Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC, Long & Foster Insurance and Long & Foster Settlement Services. Long & Foster Real Estate is the exclusive affiliate for Christie’s International Real Estate throughout select parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and it is a founding affiliate of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, a prestigious global network of real estate professionals that includes the Luxury Portfolio International division.
Long & Foster Real Estate has over 220 offices, stretching from Raleigh, N.C., to Princeton, N.J., and from Charles Town, W.Va., to the Atlantic Ocean, and it represents more than 11,000 agents in seven Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, plus the District of Columbia. The company, which has a productive commercial business in addition to its residential side, sold more than $31.4 billion worth of homes and helped people buy and sell homes nearly 90,000 times in 2015. The combined sales and equivalents for The Long & Foster Companies in 2015 were in excess of $56.8 billion. Visit www.LongandFoster.com for more information.
