Rose Marie began working for Baxter Laboratories in Alliston Ontario, Canada heading up their Accounting Department.  Ms. Garrison later moved to Evanston, Illinois (a Chicago suburb), where she transferred to Baxter's Headquarter Office in Morton Grove, to work for their Market Analyst in the Sales Division.  She later joined a Chicago Insurance Brokerage firm reporting directly to Mr. Beckwith Bronson of Bronson, Dennehy and Ulseth, and married during this time.   Following her husband's transfer, Ms. Garrison moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina and joined R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in their Marketing Department.  The Garrisons were then transferred to Atlanta in early 1966 by way of her husband's employment.

Ms. Garrison began work in the real estate profession in 1966 when she joined Pope and Carter of Atlanta as an Executive Secretary and in 1967 became Administrative Assistant and later, Corporate Secretary of Crow, Pope and Carter Industrial Enterprises.  In 1970, Rose Marie joined John Hunsinger & Company and continued in an administrative/management position with the firm.  In 1972, she entered the Industrial/Commercial marketing field as an Agent and in 1973 she became the “FIRST Woman” Life Member of the Million Dollar Club in Commercial/Industrial Sales and Leasing.  Ms. Garrison is recognized and quoted by Margaret Crispen in her book titled "How Any Woman Can Get Rich Fast in Real Estate".  She has also been recognized as a "pioneer female" in the commercial/industrial real estate field.

Rose Marie’s annual million dollar production has been continual throughout her active real estate career, as evidenced by her past thirty years cumulative sales and leasing business volume, which well exceeds one hundred million dollars.  In 1993, Ms. Garrison was recipient of the very distinguished and coveted Phoenix Award in recognition of ten (10) years of annual million dollar production achievement in sales and leasing, thereby making her the “SECOND Woman” in Commercial/Industrial real estate to receive this award (preempted ONLY by a 5 year sabbatical taken to raise her daughter).   One of her many major sales was the original historical neighborhood shopping center in Atlanta known as Belvedere Plaza Shopping Center, consisting of approximately 442,000 square feet of retail development on approximately 30 acres of land.

Based on Rose Marie’s annual outstanding accomplishments and expertise, and at the request of the new Belvedere owners, Ms. Garrison undertook the exclusive marketing of Belvedere's availability and, in addition to an 80,000 square foot anchor build-to-suit Kroger Superstore, Belvedere Plaza now enjoys a 100% occupancy over a previous 80% vacancy.

Ms. Garrison's services were also retained by a national California Industrial Developer whose portfolio reflects in excess of twenty million square feet of industrial/distribution properties.  As a result of Ms. Garrison’s exclusive representation of the 41.85 acre tract - 360,000 square foot multi-tenant office-warehouse distribution facility, the Owner now enjoys a 100% occupancy from an 87% vacancy.

Also, Ms. Garrison was recently retained to exclusively represent a Purchaser/Investor thereby successfully completing a $2,000,000.00 sale of a 30,000 square foot office Building on Dresden Drive in the North I-85 Atlanta corridor.

In addition to her very active real estate business, Ms. Garrison has headed up the firm's Sales Training Program for new recruits, along with heavy participation in management of company policies.  Her community activities have included being Council Member of the Dekalb County Parks & Recreational Association, Member of the Mountainview Garden Club, Coordinator of Mountainview Pool and Recreational Association Swim Team and presently, Captain of a Terrill Mill Business Women's Atlanta Lawn and Tennis Association Team where she continues to successfully lead her team to playoffs each season.  Ms. Garrison was a Sunday School Teacher in a pre-school program for several years at the Corpus Christi Church in Stone Mountain.  She presently attends Cathedral of Christ the King and is an active participant hosting one of their Small Christian Communities groups in her Garden Hills neighborhood.  Another of her most recent accomplishments is her Charter Presidency of an organization called Kindred Spirits Singles Over 35 Ministry through the Cathedral of Christ the King.  Kindred Spirits organization's purpose is to provide a spiritual, service and social environment while enjoying good fellowship bonding of strong Christian values, and it is now one of the fastest growing Singles Ministries in the Cathedral presently enjoying 130 strong membership in less than one year under Ms. Garrison's outstanding leadership.  In addition, in recognition of Ms. Garrison's contributions toward education, a scholarship fund has been set up in her name at St. Mary's Elementary School in Kodiak, Alaska to serve the less fortunate Eskimo children.   Rose Marie's hobbies are tennis, music, jogging, antique collecting, gardening, and oil painting.

Ms. Garrison has a daughter, Kelli, who is a former graduate of Woodward Academy in College Park and, presently, a full-time Nurse, an eleven year old grandson, Allen, and a seven year old granddaughter, Haley.

Better known as "R. M." Garrison in the real estate field, Ms. Garrison's proven record of professional commercial/industrial real estate knowledge and specialty in consulting, appraisal, marketing, coordination and negotiating makes her one of today's most outstanding Women Brokers serving the Atlanta metropolitan real estate community.