Marilyn Kidder

I began my real estate career in 1983, with a well-respected local firm (Country Houses, which had been purchased from the original owner by a close friend), and then started my own company in 1987 with a partner and secretary. In 1993, we affiliated with Coldwell Banker to bring the benefit of an international brand with an excellent reputation to our clients. This has proven to bring both buyers and sellers to our proverbial doors. I am now the sole owner of the company, having built it to its current number of 8 energetic sales associates/brokers and 3-4 support personnel. While we are always on the lookout for new, qualified agents, because our standards are high, our numbers have purposefully remained low. I also do not want to lose touch with my agents.
Coldwell Banker Milestone is very well-respected in our area, both by potential and former buyers and sellers, as well as our competitors. We can be counted on to be the ultimate professionals, honest, always responsive, detail-oriented, consistent, trust-worthy, creative thinkers, and task oriented. We also have a good time at our jobs, always bringing a sense of humor and calming influence to our transactions. Our goal is always to meet the needs of our buyers and sellers in the best way possible. Over the years, I have also earned a number of prestigious Coldwell Banker performance awards for both sales and management achievements.
Personally, I've lived in the New London/Lake Sunapee area since 1972, and, along with my husband, Bill (who died in 1998 of cancer), raised our two sons, plus several generations of sheep, pigs, and Labrador retrievers on our 1779 farm just outside of town. Outside of running my business and raising a family over the last 42 years, I have also volunteered on countless local and statewide boards including the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests; the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust Board (Chairman for 2 years) and Lands Committee currently; the Pleasant Lake Protective Association, Lake Sunapee Protective Association (Board, 2004; and on its Land Protection Committee); The
New London Historical Society, the Lake Sunapee Area Chamber of Commerce, The WFK Ice House Foundation Board as Secretary/Treasurer; the Citizens' Advisory Committee, Town of New London (appointed 2004), the President's Advisory Council of Colby-Sawyer College, and the Colby-Sawyer College Community Forum; and most recently elected to the Kearsarge Council on Aging Board of Trustees.
For fun, the thing I love most is to spend time with my grown-up family (both sons live in town)-and especially my 10 and 3 year old granddaughters, and my 6 year old grandson-but I also enjoy puttering in my substantial perennial gardens, dubbing around the "farm", reading, attending local events, getting outside in the winter and summer, but especially spending time during the summer boating and beaching on Pleasant Lake with family & friends.