Real estate agent optimistic about diocese auction

NEW MEXICO
Gallup Independent

Published in the Gallup Independent, Gallup, NM, July 10, 2015

By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Independent correspondent
religion@gallupindependent.com

GALLUP — Tucson businessman George H. “Hank” Amos III is optimistic his company will be able to replicate for the Diocese of Gallup what it was able to do for the Diocese of Tucson a decade ago.

And for Amos that means auctioning off every piece of excess real property and getting good prices with each sale.

Amos, the CEO and president of Tucson Realty & Trust Co., has been authorized by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, along with Todd Good, the CEO and president of Accelerated Marketing Group, to conduct the marketing and auction of excess real property owned by the Gallup Diocese.

The auction is part of the diocese’s effort to raise money to help fund its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization.

Amos said Monday that…