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For the past eight years, Paramount Equity has been successful in helping families across the nation significantly reduce their mortgage, insurance, and electricity bills. In the process, the company has completed more than $9 billion in loans throughout California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Utah, and Virginia. The solar division has been growing rapidly and hit a major milestone last May with the sale of its 1000th PV solar panel system. The insurance division, on average, saves clients $200 a year. According to Hayes Barnard, founder and CEO, the desire to create “meaningful savings” for its clients has been the company’s mission since its formation.
In September 2011, Paramount Equity entered into an exciting partnership with Guthy-Renker, LLC, the nation’s largest direct-to-consumer marketing company. With this new endeavor, the company plans to increase the number of employees significantly and is recruiting for sales positions, senior level sales leaders, mortgage processors and key marketing personnel. These positions will be hired for the company’s three divisions (mortgage, solar and insurance), which currently employ 300 people.
“We are looking to hire people who are entrepreneurial in spirit,” says Barnard. “We want people who have a passion for making positive changes in the lives of others and who have a great deal of levity.”
Paramount Equity received the Sacramento Business Journal A+ Employer’s Award (large employer category) for 2006, 2009 and 2010. According to Barnard, this is by far the most gratifying award to receive.
“We really believe in taking care of our employees and treating them like family,” says Barnard. “We value input from team members at all levels of the organization.”
According to Barnard, the company strives to compensate its employees well, maintain an enjoyable workplace and give back to the community. Employees participate in the “Power of One” program and get paid time off to volunteer 20 hours a year for a charity they choose.
“We are growing, thriving and breaking records because of the phenomenal people joining our team,” says Barnard. “Our goal is to continue to grow our business to cover 20 states over the next few years. We want to take Paramount nation-wide and it all starts right here in the Sacramento region.”
By: Allison Hopkins
EDITSBYALLI.COM
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED in COMSTOCK NOVEMBER 2011
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From Fox40:
Mark Demsky
FOX40 News
9:18 a.m. PDT, July 7, 2011
It may just be the biggest no-brainer of all time. Installing solar panels on your home not only is free these days, it’ll save you quite a bit over the next couple of decades.
A 30% tax credit, courtesy of the Federal Government, and a state-wide rebate together are allowing homeowners a chance of a life time.
“Right now to get solar they spend zero dollars,” boasted Kirk Hammersmith, a solar consultant with Paramount Energy Solutions.
No wonder the state saw a 47% increase in residential solar in 2010 from the previous year.
“We are able to reassign the tax credit along with the rebate and give those to the customers immediately,” acknowledged Hammersmith. “There is no property value requirements, no income requirements, they only have to have decent credit.”
For example, a customer who pays $195 per month for his energy bill can instead put zero down, have the panels professionally installed, then pay only $110 per month over a 20-year lease. His energy bill will be reduced to $79 which means he is saving $6 per month. Not a huge savings, but spread out over the length of the lease, taking into consideration the rising cost of energy, and the total savings is close to $10,000.
If you really want a return on your investment you can put some money down first which lowers a homeowners monthly lease payment and greatly increases the amount saved at the end of the 20 years. “We can’t make this stuff up,” commented Hammersmith. “There is no better time to do this than right now.”
via: Fox40 News
Wow! What a spectacular Wellness Fair for Paramount employees in Roseville. Thirty vendors displayed and explained their services throughout our lovely 5 acre property. A Velcro bounce house and a hoopla hoop contest added to the fun. Lots of great raffle gifts from our vendors were given away to winning employees who answered several trivia questions about the attending vendors. The grand prize of a bike was donated by AFLAC. Of course we fed everyone too; have to eat to keep up your strength!
Paramount is committed to helping their employees live healthy lifestyles by events given through our FIT U wellness program. Kaiser Permanente offered free screening for cholesterol levels and blood pressure while offering all participants a $50 gift card just for participating in the screening.
Thrive Paramount!
Special shout out to our Vendors, thank you for making our 4th Annual Wellness Fair such a huge success!
AFLAC, Barclay West, California Family Fitness, Cigna/Great West, Clearvue, Coca Cola, Core Chiropractic Center, Costco, Green Tree Trimming, Health Works, Hoblit Dealership, Integrated Legal Solutions, Johnson Ranch Racquet Club, Kaiser Permanente, Kaplan University, Mark Hold, DDS MS, Merrell Down & Dirty Mud Run, Merrill Lynch/TransAmerica, NewFire Fitness, Nu Skin, Patelco, Sam’s Club, Serenity Spy & Salon, The Studio, Dr. Ty Vardanian – Aesthetic Dentistry, Welness Depot Smoothies, Wells Fargo, West Coast Nutrition, Whole Foods, and Chando’s Tacos! mmmmmmmmm!
We recently sailed passed a 1000 happy green solar customers the first quarter of 2011! Congrats to the clean energy heroes at Paramount Energy Solutions, they passed this milestone in less than 2 years, which is a huge feat! The explosive growth further strengthens our solar division’s position in the residential solar market, and with ally SolarCity® at the ready – we’re set to double the growth this year!
Paramount Energy started with just 7 employees in late 2009 and now employs 28 people in Roseville, CA and serves customers in California, Oregon, Arizona and Colorado. Homeowners who purchase solar from Paramount Energy are able to enjoy the benefits of solar for as little as $0/down through the innovative SolarLease® program. By providing an all-in-one solution, which includes design, install, financing and monitoring, homeowners now don’t need to invest heavily upfront to receive the benefits of clean energy.
Nice write up by Kelly Giblom from the Puget Sound Business Journal about our growth plans in Washington. We’ll be growing our Bellevue office and opening our Spokane branch in the coming months. If you’re interested in a career please check out our new careers page
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2011/03/paragon-equity-expanding-in-wash.html
We recently let our employees know about our intention to partner with Guthy-Renker at our annual company event (Huddle 2011). With news coverage and even Sacramento Mayor, Kevin Johnson stopping by, the atmosphere was electric! Check out the video and head on over to the press room to read the full press release.
TESTIMONIAL sent to our VP today:
Good morning, Mr. Dawson –
I would like to take a second to thank you for Dwayne! He has been such a wonderful help to me over the last several years and I am so faithful to him. I have nothing but the utmost trust and loyalty to him – for helping me when I needed it the most (with a refi 7 years ago in my divorce) to improving my rates. I have gone with new recommended insurance for Home and Auto, and now – my newest ‘adventure’ – Solar!
Actually, everyone I have met and dealt with at Paramount has been awesome. You are all like family to me. Actually, better than family – I turned down family with offers to refinance and stayed with my tried-and-true Dwayne. I count him as a friend. I am crazy about everyone he has point me in touch with along the way … appraisals (Sarah), singings (Sabrina), insurance (Aurora and Jason), Solar (Hana) – and the entire SolarCity team!
And, not you! Thank you for helping me with the ‘Green’ check and especially for having such a great, caring team of people. The attitudes always start at the top and are reflected throughout the organization. Good job!
I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I appreciate Paramount Equity and Dwayne is your great ambassador. Please have a wonderful day! ~karen :]
-Karen M, San Diego
Karen, thank you for your testimonial! We’re happy that all three of our sister companies, Paramount Equity Mortgage, Paramount Energy Solutions and Paramount Equity Insurance Services all delivered and helped you save thousands for years to come!
At Paramount Equity, our team shares a powerful entrepreneurial spirit. We take great pride in bringing innovative solutions to the communities we serve in order to deliver savings made simple.
Paramount Equity was able to give us the complete package-refinance, solar and lowered our insurance rates. The entire transaction took under two weeks. Paramount Equity has staff that is very knowledgeable in all areas, insurance, mortgage and solar and they made it very easy for us. I would recommend them to all of my friends.”
- Cheryl H.
Paramount Equity Mortgage Customer
