{"id":12496,"date":"2014-09-26T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2022-05-23T00:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:40:03","slug":"inspirational-story-from-oakwood-homes-2013-best-company-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/2014\/09\/inspirational-story-from-oakwood-homes-2013-best-company-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakwood Homes : 2013 Best Company Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was not easy to go through the credit crisis in 2013, but Oakwood Homes<\/strong> could stand still and it is no wonder to see the company as the winner of the year\u2019s top company. Back then, the bursting out of housing industry was said to be the reason why the crisis could happen. The crisis itself was the main cause of the recession in the United States Suffice in 2007 to 2009. It was pretty challenging for every real estate company to thrive through such condition.\u00a0However, one company rose to the top and even earned a\u00a0skyrocketing\u00a0achievement during the downturn and hard times. The inspirational story and the huge success\u00a0of Oakwood Homes is what we are going to talk about at this moment.<\/p>\n

During those times, it was pretty impossible for every company to finally survive. Apparently, a company that must be really familiar to us, Oakwood Homes<\/em>, could prove the issue wrong by topping the chart of 2013 Best Company Winner. The company had struggled very hard and owned a well-deserved victory of a sizeable comeback.\u00a0Not only being able to sell products as well as they\u2019d usually done, they were even able to open eight new offices in one year. Three of them were located in Colorado, Omaha and Salt Lake City, making they even gained more and more popularity among people. Another good thing is: they had planned to provide more services through additional markets that are coming to your way as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

The CEO of Oakwood Homes<\/strong>,\u00a0Mr. Pat Hamill, stated before that, \u201cThe key is the well-built communication, both internally and externally. Most companies collapsed because of the lacking communication within the company and outside.\u201d Hamill added, each person working in the company kept the faith endlessly no matter what situation they had to go through. \u00a0With the faith that everyone perceived, they were capable\u00a0of\u00a0paying attention to details, which was very helpful to help the company growing. In 2009, Kova Solutions software was implemented, which let the workers to streamline every administrative task and data entry. The innovation brought them to the\u00a0park for generously offering cost-saving mode and displaying the changes and impacts that the clients could figure out based on a house\u2019s price<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Besides being innovative in the term of technology implementation, the company was the expert in giving new service when it comes to a good relation between the seller and buyers. Hamill proudly said that, \u201cWe had the chance to thoughtfully listen to the customer. What makes us even happier is we can react well afterwards.”<\/p>\n

We can understand what\u00a0the market\u00a0wants and we can\u2019t be afraid of doing something different. However, we do not leave our basic design.\u201d Another contribution that will remain everlasting is the Homebuyers\u2019 Club. It is a special feature acknowledging certain budgeting techniques for the families who haven\u2019t been able to purchase one. Based on the explanation above, we realize Oakwood Homes<\/strong>\u00a0have always been\u00a0great, both in easy and difficult periods.<\/p>\n\n

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It was not easy to go through the credit crisis in 2013, but Oakwood Homes could stand still and it is no wonder to see the company as the winner of the year\u2019s top company. Back then, the bursting out of housing industry was said to be the reason why the crisis could happen. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[4415,4413,4414,4411,4416,4410,4417,4412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viahouse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}