Our Team
Michelle Rich Goode, founder of Rich Commercial Realty, has more than 26 years of experience in commercial real estate and has represented a prestigious list of clients. She established Rich Commercial Realty in 1989 as one of the first tenant representative firms in the Triangle. She has a B.A. degree from Meredith College and an M.L.S. from East Carolina University.
Board Positions:
Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce – Past Board member at Large
Triangle Commercial Association of Realtors, Past Board member, Treasurer
Triangle Area Office Building Association – Past President
Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women (TCREW), Past President
Meredith College Board of Trustees, Past Chair, Past Board member
National Association Women Business Owners, Greater Raleigh Chapter, Board Member
Honors and Awards:
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 CoStar’s PowerBroker Award
2007 Greater Raleigh YWCA Academy of Women, Entrepreneur category
2006 Woman Extraordinaire by Business Leader Magazine
2001 Triangle CREW’s Woman of the Year
2000 Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Business Award
Harold Rich is a commercial real estate broker employed by Rich Commercial Realty since 1997. He has extensive experience in assisting office and industrial clients with build-to-suit needs for distribution, flex space and office space requirements. Harold has served as a board member for the Triangle Area Office Brokers Association and received The Triangle Business Journal’s 2001 Real Estate Deal of the Year award for Top Industrial Lease and a SPACE award in 2004 and 2005 for Top Warehouse Lease. He has a B.A. degree from Elon College.
Tripp Lineberry joined Rich Commercial Realty as a broker in 2002. His valued clients include tenants and buyers in transactions involving travel agencies, law firms, retail service franchises and healthcare related facilities. Tripp graduated from the Cameron School of Business at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a B.S. degree in business management in 2001.
Tawnie Gainer joined Rich Commercial Realty as a commercial real estate broker and office manager in 2006. She specializes in representing tenants and buyers of office, industrial and flex spaces. Tawnie has over 10 years experience in the Research Triangle area in various sales and management positions. She attended North Carolina State University, majoring in Public Relations, is past member of the Triangle Area Office Building Association, is the past Vice President of Education for High Noon Toastmasters and also a member of TCREW.
