By Living Room Realty, April 15, 2020
My friends call me the old house whisperer. I’ve been working on houses for that last 25 years, before I became a REALTOR®. I enjoy restoring them, updating them, changing their flow, injecting them with color — bringing them back to life when they have become worn out. All houses speak to my heart but worn out houses really whisper to me.
A new potential client contacted me on a referral from a dear friend. Steve had already interviewed a couple of great agents before meeting me and was transparent enough to tell me he would likely use one of them. I like transparency, so I immediately liked Steve. He went on to say that since he had promised our joint friend that he would meet with me, making good on that promise – we should have coffee. Suffice to say, that first coffee was the start of our friendship and my commitment to do everything in my power to transform Steve’s tired rental into a profit. (He was swayed pretty easily) I remember much of our first conversation had a lot of “what-if’s” —- ‘Can you really do all the work you say you can do and stay on a tight budget? How do you know the work will really pay off for me? What if I give you money to work on my house and we lose money? Can you really get it all done in less than three weeks? Can you make all the decisions and I stay completely out of it? As in, I wouldn’t even have to come to the project or do ANYTHING and you can work with my tenant whom is living in the home? Can you help me with the move and hire people for me to move of all of the tenants possessions as well?
I said yes to all of Steve’s questions. Then I went to work on his house, spending three weeks beautifying and making it come to life. I’m proud of how it turned out. Proud that I did what I said I would do.
The house listed the house for $429,000 — Six offers received —- Sold for $458,000
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Tracy Dau
971-275-0387
tdau@livingroomre.com
