Professional Profile: Robert Keezer - 1982

Name: Robert Keezer - 1982

Title: President

Company: U.S. Condominium Corp.

Location: Boston, MA

Birthplace: Boston, MA

Robert Keezer was born in Boston in1929. He graduated from Boston English High School, attended Boston Univ. and graduated with a B.S. and B.A. in Business in 1950. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Japan in 1951, then attended B.C. Law School, passed the bar in 1958 and received his Doctor of Law degree. Bob worked for a number of companies prior to settling down in the RE business in 1970. They included Addressograph-Multigraph, Farrington Co., Astro Dynamics and Streater Industries. He was involved in electronics, data processing, point of sales and marketing techniques. He was introduced to RE by a friend who offered him a weekend job selling recreational RE on waterfront property in N.H. Bob found it to be a rewarding and challenging field and began buying his own property, developing and selling it. While in N.H. he ran across a number of lakefront cottage colonies, which were used as vacation spots before the advent of modern motels. He bought them and using his legal background, converted them into condominiums, among the first in N.H. Bob handled his own financing but mainly concentrated on acquisition and marketing. In 1970, with two associates, Bob bought an 82 unit apartment building in Framingham, Prescott Gardens, and converted them onto condos. It was a successful conversion and the partners proceeded to buy more apartments in that town; Bishop Gardens, Bishop Terrace Wilson Gardens and later others in Andover, Boston and Brockton. Although their conversion business continued to mushroom, Bob felt his future was in marketing condos for others and, together with Mitch Goldstein, organized U.S. Condominium Corp. They have marketed over 4,200 condo and co-op apartments, well over $200 million in sales. As an acknowledged leader in condo co-op marketing strategy, Bob is offered many potential conversions each year; he picks only those which he is sure will be successful accepting only one out of three programs offered, which may account for the fact that every marketing program he has undertaken has been successful. Bob is president if U.S. Condominium Corp., the leading condo and co-op marketer in New England. The company sets up a total marketing program for developers and themselves . It sells condos through its own sales brokers. In addition, the company handles advertising, brochures, graphics, signs, sales models, financing programs ans assists in preparation of architectural, condo and co-op documents. As part of its total marketing program it negotiates with buyers and their attorneys to create the passing-All for a commission paid at time of passing. It is truly a “womb to tomb” operation. U.S. Condominium’s reputation in New England is excellent, mainly due to the firm’s great concern for the tenants. When a conversation takes place, tenants are offered a number of options: substantial discounts in the purchase price, relocation programs and selling their apartments to an investor allowing them to remain as a tenant. Bob says the company’s goal is to “maintain its present level of excellence in the condo field and continue, as the leader, to create and atmosphere within the industry which will make condo conversion a positive force in the community.” Bob admits to being a workaholic. He enjoys business related endeavors and finds work exciting, challenging and rewarding. In addition to his home in West Newton he owns condominiums on Cape Cod and in Palm Beach, Fla. During the Christmas season he spends time in Fla. Trying to relax, but says he soon finds himself wrapped up in business. As a result of his inability to relax he is a partner in a 165 room oceanfront motel in North Miami beach and an apartment complex in St. Cloud.