While most agents are pulling comps and booking a photographer, I'm already running title work, checking permit history, verifying the square footage on file with the city, confirming flood zone position, and hunting for the lot or tax ID issues that quietly derail closings.
I don't like surprises. More importantly — I don't let my clients have them.
I started in this business in July 2007, right as the market was heading into the hardest stretch anyone had seen in decades. That was my education: short sales, foreclosures, deals other agents walked away from. I learned that the difference between a smooth closing and a disaster usually gets decided before the sign goes in the yard — in the research nobody else bothers to do.
"You deserve a strategy, not a template."
No two clients are the same, so no two strategies should be either. Before we go to market or start a search, we sit down and I ask the questions most agents skip — your circumstances, your timeline, your concerns, your real goals. Then I build a plan specifically for you, backed by current Downriver data and the best tools available today.
Nineteen years in one market means I know the streets, the inspectors, the lenders, the city offices, and the pitfalls. When you call, I answer. When it gets hard, I don't hand you off. And when we close, you'll know exactly why every number on that settlement statement is what it is — because we saw it all coming.