James Walker Associate Broker Realty Executives Williams-Sykes Realty
Name: James Walker
Title: Associate Broker
Company: Realty Executives Williams-Sykes Realty
Location: Poughkeepsie
Birthplace and year: Binghamton, N.Y., 1963
Family: Elsie, 20 years
First job outside of real estate: Food industry, restaurant
First job in real estate or allied field: Century 21 Country Bumpkin
Hobbies: Fishing, hiking, night diving
Favorite movie: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Person you admire most (outside of family): Don Welch, SIOR, and Bob Giniecki, CCIM, SEC, Foresite Realty Advisors, Inc.
Key to success: High integrity
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? A captain of my own fishing boat for charter in the Pacific
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