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This week something happened that I did not see coming when I traded my skates for a real estate license. My team, the Vernon Vipers, is being inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame on July 11, 2026. We won the 2010 RBC Cup, and that group is going in alongside the 2009 championship team.
I have thought a lot about why that run worked, and honestly the same reasons are why I do well for my clients as a realtor in Kelowna today.
Winning a national championship was never about one great shift. It was about preparation, doing the boring work when no one is watching, and a plan that everyone believed in. A hockey season is long. So is getting the right price for a family home in Lower Mission or a lakeview property in West Kelowna. The teams that win, and the listings that sell, are the ones that were set up properly before the puck ever dropped.
That is the part most people do not see. By the time a home hits the market, the outcome is already mostly decided by the prep: the pricing, the photography, the video, the staging, and whether the marketing actually reaches the right buyer. When a home does not sell, it is almost never the home. It is the plan.
I spent six years playing pro hockey, including a draft by the New Jersey Devils and four years of NCAA Division I at Ohio State where I captained the team. What carried straight over into real estate here in the Okanagan is simple. Show up prepared. Do the work. Tell people the truth even when it is not what they want to hear. Compete for the result like it matters, because for a family moving up into their next home, it really does.
So to my old teammates, congratulations. That 2010 group earned this. And to the families I get to work with across Kelowna, West Kelowna, Lake Country and Peachland, the same standard that built a championship team is the one I bring to selling your home.
If you have been thinking about a move, or you own a home that came off the market without selling, I would be glad to walk you through what a real plan looks like. No pressure, just an honest conversation.
Curtis Gedig
Curtis Gedig Personal Real Estate Corporation
Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty
