Kendall steered Group’s ship, rallied its crew

FORT COLLINS – Before Harvey Nesbitt died in 2000, he recounted in a Business Report interview how Larry Kendall had changed the course of his career, and his life.

Nesbitt was not quite a cofounder of The Group Inc. Real Estate, the company that under Kendall’s leadership became the dominant residential brokerage force in the region. He had joined the Fort Collins company as a broker in its second year – 1977 – when the unorthodox business was just finding its way in the market.

“It wasn’t always easy, and sometimes it was pretty rocky,” Nesbitt said. “Everybody wanted to manage. Everybody…