Julie is an exceptional broker and one that will work harder than anyone to make your dreams come true! This is our second time working with Julie. She first helped us get out first home back in 2016 and our experience with her was absolutely outstanding. Since the purchase of our first home, Julie has stayed in contact with us throughout the years which shows how much she cares about her clients. So it was a no-brainer to decide to reach out to her when we were thinking on buying a bigger home as our first house didn't meet our needs once our family expanded.
We reached out to Julie on early 2021 to ask her about the possibilities to sell our home and buy a bigger property around the area right when the market was already extremely competitive and the inventory was at an all time low. Without hesitation, Julie put together a plan for us and got us in contact with a mortgage loan expert to see what realistic options we had for our budget without leaving us house poor. Soon after we began house hunting, we found out about a new development that would soon be listing new properties in our desired area. Before the first listing became available, Julie was quick to act and found out the necessary information to recommend to us how much we should offer to secure the house. Based on Julie's intuition and expertise, we were able to secure the first house from that community, beating the highest bid by only a couple thousand dollars. While we signed the agreement of sale in May of 2021, the house would not be ready until March of 2022. During that time, Julie remained engaged with the community consultant throughout the development of our future home to keep track of the progress of the construction.
While we waited for our new home, the equity of our first home skyrocketed. And as the closing date of the new house approached, Julie was back in action to draft a plan to sell our first house and make sure we didn't have to move to a temporary location before we could close on the new house. Up to this point, we had only seen the amazing job Julie did when it came to helping us buy a home but not when it came to selling a house and WOW, did she blew our minds.
Julie advised us when it would be the best time to list our first home and came up with an initial listing price that was already $100K more than what we were hoping we could list it for. Before listing the house, Julie got us in contact with a staging agent and helped us get our home in impeccable conditions before it became active. A week before we were planning to list our house, we noticed that our neighbors had just listed their house through Redfin, which happened to be the exact same model, with the same floor plan, same elevation, and on the same street as ours. That home sold over the weekend and sold for just $5K more than its original listing price and got very few offers.
When we learned about that we got really nervous but, luckily, we had Julie on our side. We continued with our plan and listed our home the week after our neighbors did. The only difference is that we got an offer for $95K more than what our neighbor's house sold for just a week before. In addition, the buyer waived any inspections, and agreed to let us stay in the house for a full month for free so that we didn't have to temporarily move to a difference place while we waited to close on the our new home. We might not have gotten the 1% commission discount that Redfin offers but that is nothing in comparison to what you might get with the expertise of someone like Julie. At the end, we received a higher offer for our previous place that what we payed for the new bigger house.
Julie is professional, knowledgeable, charismatic, responsive, intuitive, and honest. Having someone like her on your side is the best decision you could ever make when it comes to buying or selling your home. She makes an extremely complicated and stressful process feel like a breeze. We couldn't recommend her enough and will 100% continue to work with her in the future. read more