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Top Producer Agent Network
RELATIONSHIPS, REACH, DILIGENCE AND DEPTH
Our agents are proactive throughout our working circle introducing our region and our clients’ properties to potential
buyers and investors. Our agents have strong backgrounds in construction, appraisals, farming, timber, wildlife/
fisheries, forestry, surveying, education and public relations. These backgrounds form strong networks which in
turn drive our sales.
Richard is the founder and CEO of Foxfire Realty as well as Grist, Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Joseph “Buck” Williams’ career
Inc. Richard is a 1979 graduate of West Virginia University with in the timber industry spans 3 states and 3 decades and 6 years.
a BS degree in Forest Resource Management. He holds real estate President and CEO of the award-winning timber harvesting
brokerage licenses in both VA and WV, is a licensed Auctioneer company, Jayfor Logging, Buck currently works with Foxfire Realty
as well as a Registered Forester. Married for 35 years to his wife as both sales associate and right-hand man.
Mary, they have two children and a grandson and live on Meadow
Mountain overlooking the Williamsburg Valley. Richard’s favorite
saying is “Everything starts with the land.”
Historian and long-time promoter of West Virginia, David Sibray Broker, auctioneer, and personal-property appraiser, Randy
joined forces with Foxfire as a realtor, public relations advisor, and Burdette has for more than a quarter century been a state and
consultant in matters of historic real estate. He is the owner of Sibray national leader in the profession of auctioneering and is past
Public Relations, a member of the W.Va. Press Association, and director of the National Auctioneers Association. He was the
publisher of West Virginia Explorer. founder of Riverbend USA Auction Company and joined the
Foxfire Realty team as a principal auctioneer and real estate agent.
A real estate agent, naturalist and expert in park management,
Realtor and construction consultant Jim Shannon was the founder of Roger Pence recently returned to the region after developing
T.J. Shannon Construction, Inc., of Wadsworth, Ohio, from which he parks in Oregon and Virginia. He has served as a stewardship
retired in 2008, and in that capacity he had been recognized among coordinator for a regional conservation-land trust in North
the top 500 remodelers in the United States. Jim is a Paul Harris Carolina and serves on the board of the Greenbrier Land
Fellow and licensed pilot. Conservation Trust.
Joseph “Butch” Robertson joined the Foxfire group after a career Born and raised in the southeastern West Virginia area, Matt
as a Greenbrier County educator. Robertson brings experience to Hall has been in land title protection and management since his
the group after working as an engineer, chemist and mathematics graduation from Glenville State College. A native of White Sulphur
instructor. He was a charter member of the staff that started the Springs, Matt has called Rainelle home for many years, devoting
Greenbrier Community College that is now a branch of Bluefield a long career with the forestland department of MeadWestvaco
State. Corporation in Rupert. Matt is a professional Land Surveyor and
Forest Technician.
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