PHOTO: Retiring real estate agents Kevin Mitchell, right, and John Peters sat shoulder-to-shoulder with each other for 29 years with never a cross word said. PHOTO/STEVE RENDLE
PAM GRAHAM and STEVE RENDLE
John Peters and Kevin Mitchell have retired from the real estate industry, having sold more than 2000 houses during their careers at the Professionals in Masterton.
Peters says he started in 1990 and worked there for 29 years and Mitchell was there 38 years.
“We were sitting side-by-side for the whole 29 years,” Peters says.
Mitchell confirms that, but says there were some changes.
“For the first 20 years he was on my right – for the next nine he was on my left.”
Neither will admit to any arguments over that time, even though the job meant you only got paid if you sold houses.
“One month I might take home nothing, and he might get $15,000,” Peters said. “That was just the way it was.”
The office was run entirely professionally, with little socialising involved.
“We never had a beer together unless it was the Christmas function – never went round to each other’s houses,” Mitchell said.
Now, in retirement, they’ll see a bit more of each other socially.
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