Introducing Rock’s Realty – Annie and Kevin Rocks

28 Dec

Annie and Kevin Rocks are two of the most high performing real estate agents in the Trinity and Starkey Ranch Community. Recently, they formed their own real estate venture, Rocks Realty. See below for their announcement as well as some information on Rock’s Realty.

GRAND OPENING OF ROCKS REALTY

Here we go! Announcing the Grand Opening of Rocks Realty!!! It’s with great pride and bittersweet hearts that we leave our real estate home with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group and launch our own boutique brokerage. We have been blessed in our working relationships within the Berkshire community as well as with our trusted customers and team members. After achieving top 1% in the nation of realtors, we look forward to serving all of your real estate needs as we’ve partnered with the most technologically savvy team of people to help support us in providing the utmost care, marketing exposure, and services to our clients. Stay tuned in the coming days for some beautiful new listings! Starkey Ranch, waterfront canal home in Port Richey, Bradenton Beach home 200 steps from sand, Cheval, and many more coming your way!

ROCKS REALTY

Whether you’re looking to buy or sell in the Greater Tampa area, make Rocks Realty your team of choice! Located at the intersection of Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties, we’re a team of local experts who emphasize luxury at all price points. In delivering appropriate advice and developing a plan tailored to your goals, we lead you to inevitable success. But at Rocks Realty, success isn’t just about guiding you toward a home. It’s about helping you navigate a major life transition, invest in a more enriched future, and build financial stability and strength.

We’re caring, ethical agents who partner with trusted professionals to make your experience seamless and memorable. Clients repeatedly commend us for our honesty and authenticity, and we bolster our genuine engagement with our informative nature, self-discipline, and tactful negotiation skills. With diplomacy and ingenuity, we craft irresistible offers for our buyers and create meticulous marketing strategies for our sellers.

At Rocks Realty, our A-list team members hail from different professional backgrounds. With experience in everything from interior design, commercial construction, and architecture to teaching, health care, chiropractic care, technical training, and operations, our individual perspectives and cross-industry insights bring an invaluable element to our services—and your outcomes.

ROCKS REALTY CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: (727) 777-3264
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://therocksrealty.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therocksrealty

Breaking News: New Little League in Starkey Ranch

14 Dec
Starkey Ranch Little League

A new Little League charter has been granted to the Starkey Little League organization which will be serving the Starkey Ranch, Asturia in the Odessa and Trinity, Florida area communities! This is a huge win for the local community as the closest Little League organization was quite a ways away from the community it serves. 

Check out the press release issued earlier today.

2021 Pasco Teacher of the Year: Ryan Bintz

6 Dec

We are so excited for our community to have someone like Ryan Bintz, teacher at Longleaf Elementary School be recognized as the 2021 Pasco County Schools Teacher of the Year!

Read the article below from the Tampa Bay Times. Author Jeffrey Solochek did an amazing job documenting what an awesome teacher Mr. Bintz is! 

‘He’s fantastic’: Pasco’s top teacher builds confidence through theater.

Teacher of the year Ryan Bintz says he was born to work with kids.
 

NEW PORT RICHEY — Ryan Bintz was walking a group of fifth graders back to their Longleaf Elementary School classroom when he got word to take them back to his theater portable.

The children cheered at the opportunity to return to the deskless classroom, where their teacher gets just as involved in their lessons as they do.

“He tries to make everything fun,” fifth grader Evan Lambert said of Bintz. “He’s very nice to everybody.”

And most definitely worthy of being named Pasco County’s 2022 teacher of the year, according to Evan, his classmates and just about everybody else you can ask on the campus tucked into the Longleaf subdivision of south-central Pasco.

Superintendent Kurt Browning led a group of dignitaries to the school just before Thanksgiving break to make the surprise announcement, which Bintz said brought him to tears.

“He’s fantastic,” said fifth grade teacher Mary Wainwright, who helps Bintz stage multiple live performances each year. “He brought theater to every grade level. That’s what we were missing.”

Principal Jennifer McCormack said Bintz, in his fourth year at the Florida Arts Model Achieve School, has been a “perfect fit” since his arrival. He has a strong rapport with the children, she said, blending arts, creativity, academics and more into a dynamic, welcoming atmosphere.

“You can tell,” McCormack said. “He builds confidence in kids like no other.”

It’s the kind of attention that Bintz, 47, said he needed as a youngster. He recalled being made fun of because of his interest in music and theater — something he loved because of the opportunities to “get out of yourself” and try new things.

He stuck with performing over the years, working on cruise ships and at theme parks and taking parts in shows, until he found it wouldn’t pay the bills. After returning from a cruise ship job, he took a substitute teaching position in Tampa to tide him over and discovered his true profession.

“It was my first time. I was very scared,” he shared. “A kindergartner looked at me and said, ‘I love you.’ It gave me a little fire, that this is what I was going to do.”

Students can sense his passion, whether playing acting games or writing short plays or covering dramatic concepts. Everyone participated in “Spaghetti,” a game that has students act out emotions while entering and exiting the stage, without declaring themselves too cool or shy or indifferent to take a turn.

“It’s always fun,” said fifth grader Brody Gibbs. “You have to step out of your fears.”

Fifth grader Bella LiVecchi said Bintz helped her shed her shyness since she first began taking his classes.

“I was so afraid, super afraid, to act out in front of people,” Bella recalled. “He taught me how to be myself.”

Now she’s claiming lead roles in school performances, as well as parts in plays that Bintz directs in the community.

Longleaf parent Elizabeth Pesce, who also works at the school, said Bintz did the same for her son Jacob.

“He had never performed before,” Pesce said of her son, who has a mild speech impediment. Bintz “brought out something in him that we had never seen before.”

Bintz, a single father of two, said he loves that he can have such a positive effect on children. He dedicates much of his planning and free time to helping the students rehearse for the many shows he organizes. Each grade level gets at least one, as evidenced by the many photos and programs that line his walls.

“It’s what I was born to do,” he said.

Bintz next competes for Florida teacher of the year. His students are convinced he can win it all.

“He teaches us really well,” fifth grader Lianna Phillips said. “I believe in him.”