Roz was born in England and immigrated to Canada with her parents and three siblings when she was quite young. Her father proudly served with the Canadian navy as a submariner and then worked for the provincial government. Her mother was a librarian at the Dartmouth regional library prior to her retirement.

Roz grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, completing Grade XII at Dartmouth Senior High. She has always been active in sports, fitness activities and music, and she remains an avid music fan playing both the flute and the piano.

In 1984, Roz entered real estate at the young age of 20. Since then, she has worked diligently to become one of Metro’s leading real estate agents both in terms of marketing as well as service. Roz takes great pride in communicating well with her clients along with educating them about market conditions and other relevant factors, thus ensuring a positive home selling and/or buying experience for her clientele.

During her many years as a real estate professional Roz has taken endless real estate courses. Over the years, Roz has continued to upgrade and improve her real estate skills, successfully completing numerous real estate courses. The topics of such courses include (but are not limited to): financing, new construction, ethics, septic and wells, market trends, legal issues, insurance issues and estate law.

At one point in her career, Roz managed a real estate office training and motivating other real estate agents. She has been serving as a member of the Conduct Review Committee of the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors  for over 15 years.

Along with a number of rental properties Roz has personally bought and sold several homes. She has built two homes with two different contractors, and has sold homes for at least 20 builders. Through this experience, she knows a tremendous amount about new construction. Roz has also lived in a number of communities including Eastern Passage, Forest Hills, Woodlawn, Mineville, Porter’s Lake and Dartmouth.

Roz is active in her community. She is on the Board of Directors for the Kiwanis Music Festival . Nearly 8000 children and teenagers participate in this event annually which needs donations in order to continue running as well.

Roz has worked extremely hard to acquire the knowledge it takes to be a professional real estate agent. She is an extremely skilled negotiator which is of major benefit to her clients. Feel free to call Roz at (902) 456-6375, or email rozprince@eastlink.ca for further information on the services she provides or to just to ask questions. She has the experience to look after your all real estate needs!

In the spring of 2003 I had a very rare illness that caused some minor damage to my voice box – unbeknownst to me at the time I already had what is called voice fatigue. The additional damage to my voice box basically finished  me off – the muscles in my throat  no longer functioned the way they needed in order for me to speak well at all. The muscles had changed how they functioned in order to protect my voice box.

Well I was in an interesting state – requiring my voice in order to perform my job as a very busy realtor. The interesting thing about one’s voice is we all do take it for granted. The definition of voice is “a sound formed in the larynx etc. and uttered by the mouth especially human utterance in speaking, shouting, singing etc. and the definition of speech is “the faculty or act of speaking” – WOW – you have no idea what an isolated world you come to live in when you are unable to perform these tasks easily and in some cases for me there were times not at all.

It is incredibly difficult not only physically but also emotionally and psychologically. Our voice is part of our personality and communicates many different things to people. When you are unable to speak in the manner you were used to people react differently. You also tend to talk less which is not a bad thing but there are times you just can’t express yourself in the manner you really want to. It is a very lonely place to be at times. The frustration is immense and actually causes one even more difficulty to speak because the stress goes straight to the throat.

I can not express enough my heartfelt appreciation and respect for the help received at the Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centre.  My first experience with the Hearing and Speech center was at an introductory evening. This is where I realized I wasn’t the only one – in fact there are a huge number of people who have faced and are facing this isolating problem.  After this group event I was able to see a  speech pathologist at the Dixon Centre here in Halifax. She gave me hope the very first day I arrived. I was so overwhelmed by the fact that there was a place where I could learn to speak again I cried that first visit. The sense of relief was unbelievable. I spent a total of 9 months with ongoing visits to the center and my fabulous speech pathologist.. I am still a work in progress – what amazes me is you can not really see the voice problem – the professional has to figure out which muscles to work with in what way. There are muscles in your throat plus one has to work on breathing as well.

I would still have no voice without the center – I would be unable to work, unable to have simple conversations with people I care about – I would be unable to sing – now I sing every day-it is actually part of the therapy!