HUMPHREY REAL ESTATE

I called Marie immediately and told her we wanted to make an offer. She immediately called the selling agent who told her that he was about to present an offer to the sellers, but that he would delay that meeting until we could get our offer in. The sellers liked the letter I wrote to go with the offer, and it was accepted. The house never had a "for sale" sign on the lawn, and was showing as "inactive" on the Internet 3 days after it was listed. Marie convinced the selling agent that we were responsible, serious purchasers and worth waiting for. Then she worked with us to get our offer prepared and faxed in within hours after first contacting the selling agent. I'm totally convinced that without Marie's help, we would never have been able to purchase the house.

I'm pretty skeptical by nature, but Marie gave us excellent advice that made a lot of sense to me. So instead of insisting on my opinion of what to do at every turn, I took her advice a lot. It really paid off. Our listing price was $1,149,000 which was $125,000 more than a similar house a half a block away. We got two offers within a week of listing the house and made a counter offer. The buyers raised their prices and we ended up getting more than our listing price. Our 30 day escrow went off without a hitch. Marie was very responsive to our questions and called back quickly if she wasn't in the office. She never left anything to chance, which was very reassuring and probably saved us some hassles. Having never worked with her previously, we immediately used her again to buy a house in an area that was totally out of her locale.