Fifth-Generation Texan From Copper Canyon Given Texas Realtors’ Highest Award

Of its 150,000 members, the Texas Realtor of the Year is as Texan as it gets — a fifth-generation Texan from Copper Canyon.

Kaki Lybbert was chosen last month by Texas Realtors. It’s the highest honor given by the group and awarded annually to a Realtor who has made outstanding contributions to the industry with involvement in the national, state, and local associations during their careers.

Lybbert received the award at the statewide association’s annual Shaping Texas Conference.

In a news release, Texas Realtors chairman Russell Berry said Lybbert is the ideal combination of vision and action.

“I’m proud to call Kaki Lybbert a colleague and I’m happy to know she is nowhere near done being a role model to Realtors everywhere.”

Russell Berry, Texas Realtors chairman

Lybbert and Berry are members of the Greater Denton Wise County Association of Realtors (GDWCAR).
Lybbert has been buying and selling real estate with Century 21 Judge Fite in Denton since the late 1990s.

As soon as Lybbert joined her local association, she got involved with the Texas Real Estate Political Action Committee (TREPAC). She became the PAC’s chair in 2005 and president of GDWCAR in 2003 and 2004. This year, she’s the National Association of Realtors vice president for advocacy.

In 2018, she was elected chair of the Texas Realtors board of directors.

For all her involvement, Lybbert said being “burned out is not in my vocabulary. It’s not my nature.”

“Even if you told me tomorrow, ‘There is no more real estate to sell,’ I would find something else to do. Going, going, going … it’s just the way I do things. So, I’ve never worried about being burned out.”

Kaki Lybbert

Her father, William H. “Boots” Roberts, was president of the Dallas Homebuilders Association.

She and a business partner got started in real estate by selling plots to homebuilders, individuals, or larger builders.

“We’d done several different projects, and it paid a lot in real estate commissions,” she said told Texas Realtor in 2018. My partner suggested I get my real estate license and we’d work through me. So I did.”