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CASE STUDY: Serious Buyers Get Down to Business & Buy Great Home

I met Aaron and Breanne at a gathering of Alan’s coworkers, and we made arrangements to meet at another time to discuss the home-buying process. When we met, we discussed what they could expect as well as their criterion for a home. Since getting a pre-approval is the first step of the process, I sent […]
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COBUY SUCCESS STORY: First-Time Home Buyers Get $5k Credit After Careful Inspections

As first-time homebuyers in a very competitive seller’s market, Eric and Valerie’s journey didn’t have to be so smooth. But the Bay Area natives were extremely organized and knew exactly what they wanted, so we jumped right in after being introduced via CoBuy – an online platform that makes it easier to buy a home […]
Buyers, Case Studies

CASE STUDY: Ian & Angela Buy Their First Home in Federal Way

Ian and Angela were first-time homebuyers who were referred to me from a retired broker. I scheduled a Zoom call with them so I could learn their criteria for a home and explain the home-buying process. I referred them to a trusted lender, and they were pre-approved within a couple of days. I set up […]
Case Studies, CoBuy

COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Amber & Nate’s West Seattle Beauty

Amber and Nate moved to Seattle for work several years ago and have been renting all that time. Then they discovered CoBuy and decided to stop paying someone else’s mortgage and start paying their own. We were introduced through CoBuy and started working together to find them a home. The journey was relatively short, especially […]

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Case Studies CASE STUDY: Serious Buyers Get Down to Business & Buy Great Home I met Aaron and Breanne at a gathering of Alan’s coworkers, and we made arrangements to meet at another time to discuss the home-buying process. When we met, we discussed what they could expect as well as their criterion for a home. Since getting a pre-approval is the first step of the process, I sent […]

Buyers COBUY SUCCESS STORY: First-Time Home Buyers Get $5k Credit After Careful Inspections As first-time homebuyers in a very competitive seller’s market, Eric and Valerie’s journey didn’t have to be so smooth. But the Bay Area natives were extremely organized and knew exactly what they wanted, so we jumped right in after being introduced via CoBuy – an online platform that makes it easier to buy a home […]

Buyers CASE STUDY: Ian & Angela Buy Their First Home in Federal Way Ian and Angela were first-time homebuyers who were referred to me from a retired broker. I scheduled a Zoom call with them so I could learn their criteria for a home and explain the home-buying process. I referred them to a trusted lender, and they were pre-approved within a couple of days. I set up […]

Case Studies COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Amber & Nate’s West Seattle Beauty Amber and Nate moved to Seattle for work several years ago and have been renting all that time. Then they discovered CoBuy and decided to stop paying someone else’s mortgage and start paying their own. We were introduced through CoBuy and started working together to find them a home. The journey was relatively short, especially […]

Case Studies COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Sisters Buy & Sell their First Home Together Sisters Tara and Natasha were looking to buy their first home. Once I had my initial buyer meeting with them and got their criteria, I realized that they were good candidates for CoBuy–an exciting new company with an online platform that makes it easier to buy a home with one or more other people–be it […]

Case Studies CLIENT SUCCESS STORY: Homebuying in a Pandemic Mary and Stephen were looking to buy their first home and were referred to me by some of my favorite clients that I consider to be friends. Before COVID, I typically would set up a meeting so that I could learn a client’s criteria, and we could determine if we are a good fit to […]

Case Studies SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear Michael Jarus found me through sales records on a popular real estate search site. He contacted me because I sold the property next door last year, so he knew that I was familiar with the area. Michael lives in Pennsylvania, and had inherited a property in Des Moines from his uncle who recently passed away. He […]

Case Studies COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Mom & Daughter Find Perfect Home to Live Together but Not Too Together Sally and Kate are a mother and daughter looking to buy a place together, who were referred to me through CoBuy–an exciting new company with an online platform that makes it easier to buy a home with one or more other people–be it friends, family members, or both. We met for our initial meeting and […]

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Case Studies COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Creating an Intentional Community Friends Cameron and Isaac are CoBuy clients who wanted to buy a house in order to create an intentional vegan activists’ community. CoBuy is an exciting new company with an online platform that makes it easier to buy a home with one or more other people–be it friends, family members, or both. After the initial […]

Case Studies COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Dan, Briannon & the Perfect Fremont Townhome Dan Mendoza and Briannon Schaeffer are an unmarried couple who were looking to purchase their first home together. They were referred to me by CoBuy–an exciting new company with an online platform that makes it easier to buy a home with one or more other people–be it friends, family members, or both. Due to the […]

Case Studies BUYER SUCCESS STORY: With Patience & Perseverance Comes a Super Cute Condo Jennifer Cotter was referred to me by a former client who happened to be one of her colleagues. She had been working with a discount brokerage and was trying to use her credit union to obtain her pre-approval. She had found a house that she liked that was in her price range, but both her […]

Case Studies SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Elbow Grease & Good Planning Net Full-Price Cash Offer After nearly a quarter century living in her unique, townhouse-style condo in West Seattle, Ann Gilbert was having a hard time navigating the stairs and needed to downsize, so she planned to move in with her daughter in Puyallup. She contacted my longtime partner Dorothy Driver through a mutual friend, and prepared to vacate the […]

Case Studies SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Managed Expectations Make for Happy Endings The holidays were just around the corner when Astrid and Matt Horine reached out to my colleague Dorothy Driver and I about listing her Mount Baker Townhouse, which she had been renting out for some time. The home was bright and spacious and nestled perfectly between the desirable Mount Baker and Columbia City neighborhoods, within walking […]

Case Studies SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Chuck Rides Off Into the Florida Sunset Longtime Mount Baker resident Chuck Valentin approached me last summer with a desire to sell the home his parents built in 1954. His parents had both passed away several years earlier, and Chuck bought out his siblings and had lived in the house since. But he’d recently retired and decided that he wanted to enjoy […]

Case Studies SELLER SUCCESS STORY: Classic Madrona Craftsman Nets More than 10% Above List Price Peter and Kirstin Wright are clients of my good friend and colleague Dorothy Driver, who happened to be out of town when I received an urgent call from Peter. They had been planning for some time to move to Bellingham to retire and had just found their dream home. They had already put an offer […]

Case Studies FROM DON: Cooling Market, Co-Buying & Community Service Hi friends, It’s been another busy month with three new listings: a beautifully updated Kent condo listed at $128,500, a solid mid-century fixer in Mount Baker, and a sweet top-floor Rainier Beach condo co-listed with my friend and colleague Nancy Chapin for $375,000. I expect more of the same next month with four new listings on the horizon, including properties in Tukwila, North Bend, […]

Case Studies COBUY SUCCESS STORY: Spouse & Siblings Purchase Sleek West Seattle Townhome I first started working with Dan and Andrea Vitegleo and their toddler Declan. Once we began looking at homes, they came to realize the importance of good schools, which limited the areas that they could realistically look. They wanted to be in Seattle, but made offers on two houses and were out-bid. They realized that […]

Case Studies BUYER SUCCESS STORY: Lemons Into Lemonade with $20K Off Sale Price After her recent divorce, Sondra Cuban wanted to find a home that was close enough to her old home that her children could walk between the houses. That severely limited her options. She also was not comfortable competing with other buyers, which further limited her options, as we would have to wait until after the […]