{"id":557,"date":"2006-10-20T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2006-10-20T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:34:29","slug":"realty-reality-service-above-and-beyond-mere-real-estate-with-katie-and-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/557\/realty-reality-service-above-and-beyond-mere-real-estate-with-katie-and-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"Realty Reality: Service above and beyond mere real estate with Katie and Bob . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trading email this week with a client whose house I listed<\/a> and sold last week. She’s been under the weather, and I’ve been checking up on her via email and text messaging.<\/p>\n

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Katie was 19 years old, just barely old enough to sign a contract when she asked Greg to help her find a home two summers ago. I wasn’t a Realtor yet, but remembered her from the stories Greg would tell about how impressed he was with the financial finesse for one so young. He helped her find her house, a charming condo in Scottsdale. He helped her write the offer, so that she was able to buy that house with nothing down and even walk away from the closing with a few hundred dollars left over from her earnest deposit. And after she owned her new home, he accompanied her to meet the head of the self-governed HOA at a meeting they called to greet their newest member and to make sure she understood the “rules.” One of those rules, believe it or not, was that she not get pregnant! Greg introduced the HOA to the Fair Housing Act, so they backed off, but I think the whole experience tarnished Katie’s first home ownership experience.<\/p>\n

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She never came to feel a part of her community. But inside her own horizontal airspace, Katie made a lovely home for herself and her beautiful new kitten, Bob.<\/p>\n

Bob was just about two years old this past summer, when Greg heard from Katie, asking for help selling her house. She had waited patiently as she saw the amazing housing market of last summer, then watched the prices flatten out and even go down a little from what houses were getting last summer, before she was able to sell her house without paying taxes on the capital gain<\/i>. She had one figure in mind that she thought she could sell her house for and be happy with the profit. But Greg and I encouraged her to ask for more, and about a month later she accepted an offer for that higher amount plus<\/i> $100 :).<\/p>\n

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I’ve been trading email this week with a client whose house I listed and sold last week. She’s been under the weather, and I’ve been checking up on her via email and text messaging. 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