Mims to be Vice President of Georgia’s Business Brokers in 2019

Judy Mims, Qualifying Broker for Childcare Properties, will be the 2019 vice president the Georgia Association of Business Brokers, the state’s only professional association of professionals who help in the sale and purchase of businesses and franchises, in 2019.

Mims formed Childcare Properties in 2014 to provide the highest levels of integrity, experience and service for the childcare industry in the greater Atlanta metro area. Childcare Properties, LLC focuses exclusively on the sale of childcare facilities, preschools, Montessori and private schools. She is an active member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (ACBR), the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the Georgia Child Care Association (GCCA), the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the Southern Early Childhood Association (SECA). She is a member of the Atlanta Commercial Board Million Dollar Club with more than $5 million in sales in 2016 and 2018, and member of the GABB’s Multi-Million Dollar Club in 2017. Prior to her career in commercial real estate, Judy worked as an independent publisher’s representative, selling advertising space in various trade magazines. Judy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Scripps College, Claremont, CA. She is married to Hugh Mims, lives in Brookhaven, and has three grown children and seven grandchildren.

Other 2019 GABB officers are President Dean Burnette, founder of Best Business Brokers, Treasurer Jon Roman, business intermediary, franchise consultant and developer at Transworld Business Advisors; and Secretary Nick Modares, President and Managing Broker of Business Brokers Inc./Atlanta Business Advisors.

Other board members are historian, Jeffery Merry, founder and owner of the Business House, inc. and Matthew Wochele, founder of Preferred Business Brokers, Inc. Michael Ramatowski, CBI, President of Georgia Business Associates, Inc., was the GABB president in 2017 and 2018 and will remain on the board as the GABB’s past President. Kim Eells, Vice President of SBA Lending at Renasant Bank, represents affiliate members on the GABB board.

GABB members represent owners of Georgia businesses and help them establish the sales price of their business, create marketing plans and strategies for the sale of their business, identify and qualify potential buyers, and work to protect the confidentiality of the entire process.

The GABB is composed of professionals who work with owners of Georgia businesses. Many of today’s business buyers are individuals who have decided not to re-enter corporate America, but are ready to control their own destiny by purchasing and operating a Georgia business. The GABB’s monthly meeting is at the Georgia Association of Realtors at 6065 Barfield Road, Sandy Springs, GA, 30328. For more information about the GABB, contact GABB President Dean Burnette at 912-247-3209 dean@b3brokers.com, or GABB Executive Director Diane Loupe at 404-374-3990 or email diane@gabb.org.