Meet the Joe Manausa Team Leadership
Tallahassee real estate agents at Xcellence Realty, helping buyers and sellers across Tallahassee and the surrounding counties.
About Joe Manausa, MBA
Joe Manausa has helped Tallahassee buyers and sellers since 1991. He leads the team that helps people buy and sell homes in the Tallahassee metro area and the surrounding counties. The team also publishes neighborhood sales data, school-zone research and weekly Tallahassee market reports on manausa.com.
A Tallahassee native, Joe earned First Team All-State honors in football at Leon High School and became an Eagle Scout before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Military Science and later earned an MBA.
Joe served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne, Ranger, Infantry Officer. During Operation Just Cause in Panama, he led a platoon of 40 soldiers in combat and was awarded multiple medals. Three members of the team's leadership are service academy graduates: Joe and Ron Rice from West Point, and Andy Elliott from the Naval Academy. Two are combat veterans, and that steadiness helps when a home sale gets stressful.
With Century 21, Joe's office was the number two Century 21 office in Florida, and he has been a featured speaker at RE/MAX and Century 21 conferences. He writes about the housing market for 140,000 followers as @housingreporter on X and is the author of The Digital Marketing Guide for Small Businesses.
As an investor himself, Joe works with single-family homes, multi-family units, mobile home parks, land and residential development. He advises other investors and builders and supplies housing market data to buyers, sellers, developers and financial institutions. His work has been featured by WCTV and the Tallahassee Democrat, and he appeared on My Lottery Dream Home as the real estate agent who helped a lottery winner find a home. He speaks regularly to the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce and the Building Industry Association of the Big Bend.
The Joe Manausa Team has more five-star reviews than any other team in Tallahassee: more than 940 on Google, and over 1,100 counting Zillow and other sites.
Joe lives in Tallahassee and is the proud father of three adult children.
About Andy Elliott
Andy Elliott is a Tallahassee real estate agent with the Joe Manausa Team at Xcellence Realty. He has represented home buyers and sellers in Tallahassee since March 2016, when he joined Joe's team. His Navy leadership career spans 20 years, and he came to Tallahassee from Norfolk, Virginia.
Andy entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 2001 and graduated in 2005 with a degree in Ocean Engineering, focused on coastal structures. He earned his Navy wings in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 2007. He also holds an MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School.
In Hawaii, Andy flew the P-3C Orion with Patrol Squadron Four (VP-4). He served as an instructor pilot, a mission commander and a functional check flight pilot. That last job meant flying an aircraft after major maintenance to prove it was ready to fly again. He logged more than 1,000 flight hours and earned three Air Medals.
His missions included counter-drug operations in South America and more than 60 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights for Operation Iraqi Freedom. On the ground, he led a maintenance team of more than 100 people responsible for eight P-3C aircraft. As a T-6B flight instructor, he trained 12 student pilots, including international students.
On another assignment, Andy led the operation of an airport shared by international and military flights. His carrier tour put him aboard the Abraham Lincoln in Norfolk as Command Security Manager, responsible for the ship's classified material. During the carrier's nuclear refueling, he led more than 100 people, and the work on more than 300 of the ship's spaces finished ahead of schedule.
Each of those jobs depended on finding small problems before they grew. A home sale works the same way. A problem found early leaves more choices than one found the week of closing. To Andy, an asking price is a case built from recent sales nearby, and an offer needs a plan behind it before anyone signs.
Andy grew up in Fayetteville, Tennessee, where he was a wrestling captain and a two-sport athlete. Away from work, he spends as much time outdoors as he can. He is the father of a daughter and a son.
About Ron Rice
Full bio coming soon.
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