Larry Braden

Current

Founder & Managing Broker at WA Brokers
Managing Broker - WA at SellingRestaurants.com

Past

Managing Broker at Braden Realty

Recommended

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Connections

198 connections

Industry

Real Estate

Websites

Larry Braden’s Summary

WA Brokers located at http://www.wabrokers.com is an exclusive alliance of leading subject matter experts in the field of commercial and residential real estate transactions throughout the Western United States. Our mission is simple: We Get Deals Done and Done Right! - while providing exceptional professional and customer service to buyers, sellers, and our member brokers. We have built a compelling business model to aggregate buyer, sellers, and member brokers to execute transactions and provide uncomparable professional service to their clients. The relationships among our member brokers are contractual and long-term. We value our quality relationships of experts and do NOT sell your information or proprietary data to anyone. How do we accomplish this?

We are a people and relationship driven network first and foremost.
We are an integrity driven network that sets only the highest standards and expectations of ourselves to ensure we deliver honest results to all our clients!
Our success is driven by focusing on client needs first and always!
Our broker alliance leverages professional and experienced broker specialists in each market, property type, and condition throughout the greater Western United States.
Our alliance is built on leading experts in every professional field that may be required to complete client transactions right the first time, including real estate brokers, attorneys, lenders, appraisers, escrow companies, estate planners, 1031 exchange coordinators, property swaps, tax planners, franchisors, and CPAs. You name it, we get it done!
We don't accept "can't do"! We leverage our broker alliance network through an innovative internet platform destination, our pre-established relationships, and a compelling user experience that connects buyers, sellers, and their brokers on the right property at the right time.
We compete by helping others succeed. We partner with anyone that places client interests first.

Larry Braden’s Specialties:

Commercial Sale/Lease Transactions, Business Valuation, Broker to Owner/Operator Marketing, Management Consulting, Complex Negotiation

Larry Braden’s Experience

Founder & Managing Broker

WA Brokers

(Real Estate industry)

March 2009 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Larry Braden is Founder of WA Brokers. Larry has a passion for placing clients first and excellence in professionalism with 18 years diverse experience and is the commercial and residential real estate broker, CPA, PMP, MBA-Marketing & Strategy- Anderson School of Management at UCLA, BS-Accounting- USC, and e-pro. Prior to creating WA Brokers, Larry expanded the Selling Restaurants niche to WA and quickly become the leading restaurant broker here in less than 2 years. He also earned increasing levels of management experience in leading blue chip companies as Controller & Director of Finance at Vulcan, Senior Director of Finance at Universal Music Group's Strategic e-Labs Division, Senior Manager of BearingPoint's World Class Finance Practice, Senior Associate at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services Practice, Executive Director of Finance & Operations at Media Holdings Group, Corporate Accounting Manager at Warner Bros., Senior Auditor of Time Warner's International Audit Department, Senior Operations Auditor at Paramount Pictures, and held various Senior Project Management positions such as implementation of CoreFinance with Microsoft's Worldwide Sales and Marketing Services Group (SMSG), and Sarbanes-Oxley for T-Mobile and Fisher Communications. Larry is an experienced Business Intermediary as a finance specialist in many diverse transactions, including expanding Selling Restaurants into becoming the leading restaurant broker throughout WA, several investment and divestiture transactions for Vulcan, and financial due diligence, acquisitions, and integration of MP3.com, eMusic.com, GetMusic and $100 million of investments placed in emerging internet companies by Universal Music Group. He also launched Braden Realty as a residential brokerage specialist in Sacramento. Despite all the hard work, he is a charasmatic leader by example, highly approachable, and attributes his success by surounding himself with great people and helping them succeed.
Managing Broker - WA

SellingRestaurants.com

(Partnership; Real Estate industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Managing Broker

Braden Realty

(Real Estate industry)

March 2006 — March 2009 (3 years 1 month)