Our Team

When you work with the Advantage Group, you’ll have an expert team of managers and associates with extensive experience developing, preparing, marketing, and closing the homes you want to sell! We make sure our agents are the right fit for your properties, your community and your homebuyers.

TAG’s comprehensive recruitment and hiring process ensures that staff can handle all facets of complex real estate operations efficiently and successfully.

  • We arm ourselves with the best industry knowledge to research, prepare, represent, and sell your homes.
  • We keep our sales team abreast of industry news and relevant market research through regular meetings and ongoing training.
  • We provide our staff with in-depth skills training on how to qualify homebuyers, conduct model demonstrations, and close out a community.
  • We understand financial services, investment securities, real estate, and community development and can address the monetary and social impacts of distressed assets.

For over 25 years, TAG has served the needs of area builders, banks, homebuyers and sellers by providing cutting-edge marketing, sales and management support. We realized a long time ago, however, that to successfully sell homes the industry needs informed, enthusiastic and talented individuals who take their jobs seriously.

You’ll find just that kind of seasoned, motivated professionals when you team up with TAG!




Kevin Coates
CEO
P: (916) 348-9000 ext. 110
kevin@taghomes.com

Kevin Coates, CEO and visionary leader of the Advantage Group, has over 25 years of experience in new home sales, marketing, and operations. Kevin’s focus on hands-on involvement and innovative marketing concepts ensures that his clients’ expectations are consistently exceeded. In addition to a strong relationship with clients, Kevin’s enthusiasm and openness to new ideas keeps his operations team inspired and focused on achieving their goals.




Annie Oehler
Marketing & Social Media Director
P: (916) 348-9000 ext. 128
annie@taghomes.com

Annie Oehler, the Advantage Group’s Marketing and Social Media Director, takes the lead in keeping our company connected to the community. Annie is a regular contributor to the Advantage Group’s official blog, focusing her writing on topics that appeal to readers in every stage of the home buying and building process. With over 10 years of experience working in the housing industry, Annie has a trained eye for spotting new developments and market trends and she is ever eager to share what she learns.





Azul Herrera
Community Sales Manager – Horizons
P: (916) 856-9143
azul@taghomes.com

Azul Herrera, Realtor® and Community Sales Manager at Horizons, has a long-standing reputation for outstanding customer service. Since 2008, Azul has been using his expertise in affordable housing programs to help many families in the Greater Sacramento area realize their dream of home ownership. Azul is enthusiastic about volunteering in his community and can often be found inviting his colleagues to join him in supporting local improvement projects.





Christy Hastings
Realtor®
P: (916) 502-7029
chastings@taghomes.com
Web Site: www.christysellshomestoday.com

In her nearly 10 years working in the housing industry, Realtor® Christy Hastings has closed an estimated $135 million in residential real estate transactions in Sacramento and Placer counties. A certified HAFA specialist and certified in NAR’s Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource Program, Christy brings knowledge and expertise to her interactions with buyers and sellers alike. Christy prides herself on open and straightforward communication with her clients and colleagues, and considers her clients’ happiness and comfort as her number one priority.





Kathy Ford
Realtor®
P: (916) 335-3673
kathy@taghomes.com

Over the last two decades, Realtor® Kathy Ford has established herself as a mainstay in the real estate industry. In addition to home sales, Kathy also spent 3 years as a writer reporting on new home communities for “Home Buyers Guide” magazine in San Jose and Sacramento. Her wealth of knowledge on the home purchasing and selling process, coupled with her warm personality and genuine interest in others has endeared Kathy to her clients’ hearts.





Lynelle Coates
Office Manager
P: (916) 348-9000 x100
lynelle@taghomes.com

Lynelle Coates, Office Manager at the Advantage Group, is the person that keeps our office running smoothly and efficiently. Her strong background in Customer Service has proven tremendously valuable in her daily communications with a variety of vendors, clients and employees. Lynelle is valued by the entire TAG team for her great people skills and practical perspective.





Margaret Olmsted
Sales & Marketing Manager
P: (916) 969-8000
margaret@taghomes.com

Margaret Olmsted has spent over 25 years in the sales, finance and development of real estate in multiple markets throughout the United States. Margaret’s experience in construction financing, project development, sales and marketing management, and strategic planning for companies both large and small, has resulted in a thorough understanding of all aspects of the real estate industry. After many years of collaborating with the Advantage Group, in 2007 she officially joined our ranks as a Sales and Marketing manager working with builders and bank-owned properties in several California markets.





Ron Mancuso
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
P: (916) 348-9000 ext. 106
ron@taghomes.com

Breaking into the real estate industry in 1989 with Rookie of the Year honors from the Building Industry Association, Ron Mancuso has long been a pillar in the real estate community. As Vice President of Sales for the Advantage Group, Ron has utilized his practical experience as a foundation for effectively managing many housing communities’ sales and marketing campaigns and has directed and trained the sales staff with great success. Ron’s creative approach and realistic perspective have made him invaluable to our team.





Ruby Alby-Coles
Community Sales Manager – Stone Harbor
P: (916) 719-3525
ruby@taghomes.com

Ruby Alby-Coles has worked in the real estate industry for over 30 years, selling more than 1,500 homes. Ruby specializes in new home sales and currently fills the role of Community Sales Manager at the Stone Harbor community in West Sacramento. Ruby’s optimistic and enthusiastic personality always brings out the best in her clients and associates alike.





Sharon (Sherry) Prater
Broker-Associate (License #00599600)
P: (530) 519-2636
sharon@taghomes.com

Since beginning her real estate career in 1977, Broker-Associate Sharon (Sherry) Prater has worked in both New Home Sales and Resale. Diversified geographically, her business has included areas of Sacramento, Chico, Paradise, Orland, Yuba City and El Dorado Hills. Her clear vision and commitment to details prove Sherry to be an invaluable source of knowledge to her clients.





Tracy Young
Realtor®
P: (916) 348-9000 ext. 122
tracy@taghomes.com
Web Site: www.tracysellshomestoday.com

Realtor® Tracy Young began her real estate career in 2004 as a new home Sales Agent. Tracy puts an emphasis on continuing education in the real estate industry and has extensive training in Sales and Marketing, Customer Relations, Escrow Process, Mortgage Process, Land Acquisition, Land Development, Purchasing and Construction. This education and experience, coupled with her perceptive and service-oriented personality, gives Tracy’s clients confidence as they go through the buying and selling process.