Name: Teresa Carleo
Title: President and CEO
Company Name: PFI (Plant Fantasies Inc.)
Years with Company: Founder, 1987
Years in real estate industry: 28
Q: The approximate number of years you have been a subscriber and/or how the NYREJ has been a benefit to you and/or your business:
A: I've written a few OpEds for NYREJ over the past few years and find the editors always seem to know the best way to present them - in their special green/environmental sections printed on light green paper which seems very appropriate since PFI (Plant Fantasies Inc.) is all about green! We look forward to continuing the relationship.
Congratulations to the publisher, editors and the rest of the crew at NYREJ! PFI recently celebrated its 25th, so I know how much dedicated work the milestone represents.
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