Deb moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1978 with her husband Tony to raise their two children Alicia and Bret and to enjoy this beautiful alpine community. She began her career in real estate and her active participation in South Lake Tahoe community affairs shortly thereafter.
With more than 40 years of working in the Lake Tahoe real estate market, Deb still has a passion for being the very best at what she does, staying up to date daily in order to make certain each transaction is completed with the utmost professionalism, and concern for her clients, yet allowing each Team member to do the jobs that they are uniquely qualified for.
Opening the doors of Deb Howard & Co. on January 1st of 2001, allowed Deb to fully implement her Team approach to the real estate business and its benefits for the client. After thoroughly studying this approach and seeing it in action, Deb began successfully using the Team concept several years ago, and as her past and repeat clients will attest, it works to everyone’s benefit. With a seemingly unending supply of energy and enthusiasm, Deb leads her Team by example, to do the very best for our clients, to go “Above and Beyond”.
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The Lake Tahoe Basin is unique in nature, with several local, state, and federal agencies working together and separately to govern growth rates around the lake, maintain Lake Tahoe water clarity, and overall environmental quality, and deal with affordable housing, among a few of the issues. Deb is directly involved with many of the issues that confront Lake Tahoe and surrounding area and maintains an open dialog with those involved in other issues. She believes that being up to date on the local and national issues that confront the real estate industry is of paramount importance in assisting each client that comes to Deb Howard & Co. To say the very least Deb “lives and breathes real estate” 365 days a year.
Among her many past and present Real Estate and Community Achievements:
- CAR Director
- CAR Committee Member – Land Use & Environment, Scholarship & Federal
- Distinguished service award STAOR
- Received Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) Designation
- Pathways Planning Team Member
- Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce South Shore – Board of Directors
- RSPS – Resort and Second Home Property Specialist Certification
- RSPS of the Year
- National Association of Realtors, Presidential Appointee to the Resort and Second Home Committee
- National Association of Realtors, Resort and Second Home Committee, Chairperson
- South Lake Tahoe Association of Realtors; Board of Directors
- South Lake Tahoe Association of Realtors; President, Board of Directors
- South Lake Tahoe Association of Realtors, Workforce Housing Committee Chairperson
** South Tahoe Assoc. of Realtors – Letter of Recommendation
** Tahoe Sierra Board of Realtors – Letter of Support .pdf - Realtor of the Year; South Tahoe Assoc. of Realtors – 1992
- Realtor of the Year; South Tahoe Assoc. of Realtors – 2003
- South Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce; Board of Directors
- South Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce; Housing Committee Chair
- Lake Tahoe Visitor Authority; Board of Directors
- Lake Tahoe Visitor Authority; Chairperson
- South Lake Tahoe Board of Education Foundation; Board of Directors
- Tahoe Tomorrow; Board of Directors
- South Lake Tahoe South “Y” Planning Team
- President of the South Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce
- Community Service Award; South Tahoe Assoc. of Realtors
- Soroptimist International; member 1998-Present
- Member – Sierra Nevada Assoc. of Realtors 2003 to present
- Member – Tahoe Sierra Board of Realtors 2003 to present
- Member – South Tahoe Association of Realtors
