About Me
Growing up in a family of carpenters, it’s no surprise that Ricky Russert was so interested in home design. Born in Kennewick, Washington, he was raised in a house built by his father and grandfather, so you can imagine the home building being a part of his daily life. After graduating High School, he received a scholarship to play college baseball and started his major in Business.
It wasn’t until after his sophomore year of college that Ricky Russert hung up his baseball cleats and decided to give acting a chance. Ricky has had a very successful acting career since, guest starring in various projects including, The Walking Dead, MacGyver, and Banshee, as well as movies like Ride Along 2, The Ravine, and I, Tonya. In 2020 Ricky decided to expand his career horizon by obtaining his Real Estate license after 15 years of full-time acting. Ricky is excited to connect people to their new homes, much like building a house from the ground up.
In Ricky’s first year in Residential Real Estate at Engel & Volkers Atlanta, he achieved The Atlanta Board of Realtors’ Top Producer Designation, with over 4 million transactions in less than a calendar year. His first year’s transactions included a premier downtown two-bedroom condominium at The W Residences, the highest recorded single-family home sale in Reynoldstown, and a 5-acre farm (1.4 + million) in Alpharetta. In early 2021 Ricky listed and put a 1.3 million dollar home under contract in Morningside.
Ricky’s teaming up with Julian Rather and Jeremy Smith’s Intown Advisors team at the inception of his Real Estate career has provided him with market insights and 30-plus years of market experience to draw from to help guide his growing client base in their Real Estate transactions. Together, they work as a team and provide backup for each other so that their respective client’s needs are always addressed. Having such a wide range of skill sets to draw from, Ricky, Julian, and Jeremy were able to take on a new construction single-family, residential, and live/work townhome project in Oakhurst in early 2021. It took only one quarter of 2021 for Ricky to surpass his incredible first-year transaction numbers. A significant portion of this was an ever-increasing referral stream from his first-year client base.