Ava Wood: My Summer with Meyer Lucas Companies

Hi! My name is Ava Wood, I was born and raised in Jupiter, Florida and I am currently a rising senior at Jupiter High School. This summer I had the incredible opportunity to intern at Meyer Lucas Real Estate. As a high school student with a passion for marketing, I was beyond excited to step into the world of real estate at Meyer Lucas in order to see the functions of the business. I had expectations of hands-on experience and valuable lessons that I couldn’t gain from the classroom, and safe to say, I did not leave disappointed.

After I was first introduced to Hallie Rosenthal, Chief Operating Officer we were in communication over email. However, once we had set up a google meet interview I received an offer and I was overjoyed to accept. I knew this was a privilege I couldn't pass up on.  Even when looking back on my first day, I walked into a professional environment that dealt with high-end real estate and clients. The environment at Meyer Lucas is fast-paced, and everything produced by it is well thought out: from Reels to website listings. I loved that I wasn’t just observing agents and other interns, despite joining the team late, I was actually involved in projects that affected the business.

One of the first things I worked on was the Home Purchase Anniversary (HPA) gifts. Helping organize, assemble, and deliver gifts to imperative clients gave me eye-opening exposure to the operational side of real estate, as well as the care provided in order to maintain these relationships. Creating social content around these gifts made the project even more invigorating. It was an epiphany to have real connections to the people I had heard about inside the office.

As my time as an intern progressed, I shifted into spending more time working on digital content, blogs, and social media. I crafted an audit of the Meyer Lucas website in order to improve accuracy. Noticing the importance of this project gave me excitement in my daily work. I also had a remarkable chance to be able to attend broker opens which only granted me more personable skills with in-house agents and those from other brokerages. One unique part of the Meyer Lucas brand that I especially respected was their unmatched focus on brand recognition. I saw how Holly not only built her business but built her persona: from every lemon, on every wall, and in every crevice of the office, to outside the office on listings, and even agents branded with the signature lemon.

This opportunity also gave me the clarity I needed to discover my future career aspirations. As I had been a part of the marketing team here, I found my immense love for it.

Meyer Lucas is a top-producing, award-winning real estate team based in Jupiter, Florida. Its founder Holly Meyer Lucas and Hallie blessed all of their interns with backing in any part of the business we wanted to specialize in and explore while supporting us entirely. The level of excellence I’ve seen here has been inspiring, and it has been more than an honor to have the fortune to contribute to it.

Being a summer associate at Meyer Lucas has already given me so many valuable experiences. From marketing and content to operations and client interaction, I’ve learned more than I ever could have expected in such a short summer. I’m incredibly grateful for my time as an intern, and I am ecstatic to see where this role will allow me to reach in my future.