for bill stelg and dawnette smith, the answer was to form a single four-person agency.id you feel you have to merge in order to keep with some of the other stuff happening in aspen aspen? >> yes. >> it was time. >> we needed to figure out ways we could operate with a critical scale that saved us money and by merging enabled us to do that. we get more bang for our buck in the promotion. >> they share office speeds and share leads on buyers and houses and say together they're each doing much better than they did alone. >> being big isn't better and the biggest problem in my opinion with all that is that the culture changes when you're big. >> b.j. has owned her company for almost 13 years. she says there's not much history how to stay ahead. she says flexibility to react to market change is one of the natural advantages that comes with being small. she says there is the knowledge that comes from being a long time member of the community. >> if i only have one afternoon with the buyer before they go home i only have the opportunity to show them six or ten properties and th