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Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Francis & Lemone Ride Off Into the Arizona Sunset Francis and Lemone Hubbard listed their house 20 years ago, and I met them as a rookie agent, representing my first ever buyer. We immediately hit it off and even though their house did not sell at that time, Francis has stayed in touch over the years and consulted me periodically about selling their home. […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Great Offer Despite Cooling Market Janis and Steve Lush found me in two ways: Janis via my monthly postcard mailing and Steve by an internet search. We met in the spring and hit it off, straight away. They were both retired and had lived in their super cute Columbia City craftsman bungalow for 15 years, and now they were ready […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Caitlin Sullivan, a Happy Seller With a Big Heart Caitlin received five offers on her Lakewood/Columbia City mid-century, but she did not accept the highest offer. Sometimes a personal letter can really sway a seller, these are sometimes discouraged by agents as you must be very careful not to violate the fair housing laws. However, I like to give my sellers the choice to […]
Case Study BUYER SUCCESS STORY: When One Door Closes, Another Opens First time buyers, Jeff & Mary Margaret and their daughter Juniper had been long time residents in Seattle and had been saving up for a long time to buy their forever home. They moved to Burien a couple of years ago and made peace that living in Seattle was most likely no longer in their […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Rory’s Capitol Hill Condo Goes For 10% Above List Price   Rory Krout–my first seller of the year–was looking forward to selling his Capitol Hill, Seattle condominium and heading to the California desert for a new life, but he was also anxious about everything coming together as he had to find a place to buy in his new city of Palm Springs and imagined having […]
Buyers BUYER SUCCESS STORY: Amie Found Her Ideal South Seattle House & Beat 6 Other Offers! Amie was one of my first clients many years ago. She was a first-time buyer with a limited income, so we had to look far and wide in Seattle to buy a decent house. Amie is an artist and an interpreter for the deaf and wanted to live in a hip, up-and-coming neighborhood. She finally […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Moving Fast Pays Off with Multiple Offers & $71k Over List Price My client Maureen Chao had been living and working in sunny Brazil for several years and renting out her Columbia City Craftsman. She returned to Seattle in early October to prepare to sell it, as her renters had moved out, and the thought of eventually moving back to the rainy Seattle winters was no longer […]
Case Study SUCCESS STORY: South Seattle Bungalow Sells for 20% Above Asking Price I find that I am often inspired and humbled by my client’s strength and tenacity. Moving is never easy. My client Diane was in her late 70’s with some major health issues, so it was so much harder. Diane had lived in her house for more than 20 years, and we had met and talked […]
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Buyers SUCCESS STORY: 1st-Time Buyers Get Great Lakeridge Home For Less Than Listed Price + Concession! Originally from the Portland area, Carli and Mark were referred to me by some friends of past clients. They had recently moved back to the Pacific Northwest after five years in Brooklyn, New York, and were renting a Lakeridge apartment with a lovely view of lake Washington. Carli was pregnant with their second child, and […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Kassie’s Columbia City Crib Sells for $152K Over List Price I had helped Kassie buy her house in Columbia City back in 2009, and it was quite a fixer. It was a cool house though, as it had been built by a ship builder and was super solid and unique. Over the years Kassie had contacted me about suggestions to improve the property, apart from […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Serena Soothes Storm & Seller Rides Off Into Sunset It’s not just the physical logistics of moving that takes its toll on sellers, as a lot of emotion can also be involved. My seller TS had been talking about selling her home for several months. The winter gloom was really getting to her and she wanted to move to a sunnier place. However, it […]
Case Study HAPPY BUYERS: Persistence Pays Off With $5,000 Credit Towards Closing Costs + More! Janine Bertram and David Fulton were semi-retired and had sold their home in the country in Oregon and moved to Seattle in late October to be closer to longtime friends. They had friends they could stay with but were anxious to find a place of their own, and their older dog Lucie was particularly antsy […]
Case Study HAPPY BUYERS: Sleuthing Reveals Good Deal, Great House & New Roof! Having heard war stories from their friends and colleagues, plus all the news about Seattle’s crazy competitive housing market, Lucie and Chester were preparing themselves for many months of house searching and possibly losing some money with pre-inspections and sewer scopes on houses they would not get! But as luck would have it, their worries […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: A Little Work & Mount Baker Craftsman Sells for $100K Over Asking My friend Jan Denali had talked about wanting to sell her house for several years, but she was having a hard time letting it go, even though she didn’t live there anymore. She had owned her 1919 Mount Baker Craftsman home for 20 years, raised her daughter there and had many happy memories. However, she […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Marcia, Janice & the Messy Renter Two retired but very busy ladies recently needed my help to sell one their rental homes. Janice had owned the house since the 1970s and lived in it for many years, so she was somewhat attached, but also realized that it was time to let go and be responsible for less property. Since they hadn’t […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Client Out of the Country? No Problem! Stuart and his Brazilian wife Amanda had been my clients when they bought there Seward Park dream home back in 2006, but in 2009 they decided to move back to Brazil and began renting the house mostly to friends. However, not being around to manage the property, the house needed a lot of work to […]
Case Study BUYER CASE STUDY: With Diligence & Quickness, It Can Be Done! Tina Capras was not exactly an eager or excited home buyer, having been a happy, long-time tenant In Wallingford, but she was frustrated by a $500/month rent increase, and once her leased expired, she had limited time to find a house before her rent increased by another 33 percent! Tina had a solid downpayment but […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Minimal Investment Results in Maximum Return Jo Goodwin was tired of being an out-of-town landlord. She had been renting out her father’s Seattle house for several years while living in Las Vegas, and she was ready to sell. Jo initially planned to sell the Upper Rainier Beach home through her property manager, but lost confidence after some poor quality fix-it jobs, […]
Case Study CASE STUDY: A Contingent Sale in this Market? No Way! Well miracles do happen, even in the crazy world of real estate! It just takes experienced brokers, excellent communication and faith that it will all work out in the end. My buyer Anita Austin really needed to buy a house before she sold her old one, so she would not have to move twice with […]
Case Study SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Susan Michal & the Case of the Smooth, Fast, Multi-Offer Sale “Serena made it happen. My house sold quickly with multiple offers and without any issues. Serena went above and beyond for me.” Susan Michal is a busy mom who works full-time and lives quite a distance from the home in Columbia City that she’d been renting out for a year. The poor house was burdened […]
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