Joan Kaplan, a top selling real estate agent with a focus on the neighborhoods around Emory University and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2014 she the DeKalb Association of Realtors awarded her the prestigious "Clark Harrision Award Community Service Award" for her philanthropic contributions to her community. Joan, along with Marshall Berch and Associates of PalmerHouse Properties earned "Top Realtor Group" and "Top Mega Group" for numerous consecutive years. Resourceful, adventurous and creative, Joan loves to travel, renovate homes and talk (a lot). She was raised in St. Louis MO, attended Bradley University in Peoria IL and lived in Louisville KY before moving to Atlanta in 1988 where she discovered a passion for real estate. Joan began renovating and purchasing investment properties in 1999, became a licensed real estate agent in 2005 and has closed more than 400real estate transactions. In addition to selling real estate, Joan enjoys playing tennis gardening, and cooking. She and her husband of 33 years have two daughters, a pound puppy named Brody and a sweet cat, Princess and in the past have had, 5 backyard chicken and 2 honeybee hives."Involvement in my neighborhood and many community activities has helped me create a very large network which allows me to keep a pulse of new homes that are coming on the market, even before they are advertised or listed." "Whether I’m in the locker room at the health club, scouring an estate sale, in an aisle at the grocery store or at my daughters' school, I’m listening, connecting and contacting potential buyers, sellers and renters. I’m always talking and looking, hunting and scoping out that next great home!"With your help and support I’ve closed more than 400 real estate transactions and I look forward to helping you, your friends and co-workers buy, sell or invest in real estate. I am so very appreciative of your referrals."Specialties: I concentrate on a localized geographic area (5 miles around Emory/CDC) and have become an expert in these neighborhoods. I live, volunteer and sell primarily in my 'home base'. We create community in this area by hosting community charity events including coat drives, free paper shredding events, bicycle collection and much more.