Business Beat: Residential Properties, Ltd (RPL) sales excellence celebrated at annual Top Producers Event

Photo: left to right: Rachel Dotson, President & CEO Sally Lapides, Gerri Schiffman, Jim DeRentis)

Residential Properties Ltd. recently celebrated the astounding 2024 sales success of its dedicated agents at its annual Top Producers Event on Thursday June 12. These agents have refined their skills to a high degree, bringing local expertise and determination to their work each day.

RPL Sales Associate Jim DeRentis was the company’s #1 agent for the year and Rhode Island’s top agent statewide with a total of $112 million in sales volume and 96 sides sold. Sales Associate Gerri Schiffman, a 31-year veteran of Residential Properties with an unmatched record for consistent excellence, earned $58.5 million in sales volume for the year with 50.5 sides sold. Sales Associate Rachael Dotson finished 2024 with an impressive $33.9 million in sales volume and 53 sides sold, reflecting her admirable growth over her ten years in real estate.

“Along with the company meeting, this Top Producers Event recognizes the phenomenal work and dedication to our communities these agents contribute,” RPL President & CEO Sally Lapides said. “In a year which saw the results of the NAR settlements and a subsequent evolution of our business practices, these professionals adapted and thrived due to their total commitment to clients. I am honored and humbled to work with agents who are the very best in the business.”

By office, the recipients of this special recognition include:

Barrington – Kris Chwalk, Lisa Duffy, Kathleen Flaherty, Joyce Hughes, Kerri Payne, Eddie Rayden, Alicia Reynolds, Nancy Ryan, Angie Salem, Barbara Stamp, Laurie Fletcher, Tom Wegner, Kerri Payne, Nancy Weaver

Cumberland –  Ted Bourque, Simone Dupuis, Janice Geddes, Jessica Lavoie, John Bessette, Brett Bessette, Scott Veloso

East Greenwich – Beth DeSista, Toby Kimball, Lisa Pisaturo, Therese Vezeridis, Mark Raymond

Providence East Side – Lexi Cardoso, Ralph Curti, Barbara Dacey, Jim DeRentis, Rachael Dotson, Amanda Mazza, David Hasslinger, Bethany Johnsen, Ellen Kasle, Paula Morrison, Greg Morrison, Gerri Schiffman, Derek Simpson, Ramiro Encizo, Sabine Green, Lauri Lee, Stephen Gaskin

Providence West Side – Jane Driver, Joe Roch

South County – Mary Ann Lisi, Galen McGovern, Dana Zangari, Dottie Nigrelli

Newport – Johanna Mulholland, Lee Scura

Jamestown – Dianne Grippi, Jeremy Krause, Jami Krause, Robin Tregenza, Carol Hopkins,

Westport – Kathy Santos

As a company, RPL achieved the #1 ranking according to State-Wide MLS data for total units sold in 2024 with 1,382.5 and reached a total sales volume for the year in excess of $1 billion. Beyond these numbers, the company’s success as a decades-long part of the Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts community was also highlighted at the event. RPL worked with 38 community partners through charitable efforts during the year in addition to other office-wide and agent-led initiatives.

“Residential Properties has always valued relationships above everything else,” Lapides added. “This event is a moment for us to check in with our producers, let them know we appreciate all they do, and remind them we are here to support them in every aspect of their work. Our top three agents, Jim DeRentis, Gerri Schiffman, and Rachael Dotson, have been with us for years, in Gerri’s case, 31 years and counting, and attention must be paid to their unflappable professionalism.”

The event also included the presentation of awards beautifully designed in the shape of houses by local glass artist Emmett Barnacle.

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About Residential Properties Ltd.
Residential Properties Ltd. is the largest privately held real estate company in Rhode Island and has been serving sellers and buyers of distinctive properties since 1981 through service, innovation, and sheer hard work. The Company, with nine local offices in Barrington, Cumberland, East Greenwich, Jamestown, South County, Newport, Providence, the West Side (PVD), and Westport, Massachusetts, is proud to service all of Rhode Island, the Connecticut shoreline, and southeastern and central Massachusetts. In addition, as founding members of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio International, RPL and its award-winning Relocation Department assist buyers and sellers on transactions throughout the country and around the globe. More information is available at ResidentialProperties.com.

*Information based in whole or in part on data supplied by State-Wide Multiple Listing Service. The MLS does not guarantee and is not in any way responsible for its accuracy.  Data maintained by the MLS may not reflect all real estate activity in the market. Based on information from State-Wide MLS as of June 2025.