When it comes time to make a change in where you live, you take your chances with business cycles and changing cultural landscapes. Regardless of one's circumstances, it is a stressful process and not everyone has the ability or good fortune to be able to "time the market" to advantage.

However, what helps a great deal is to have very good people working on your behalf. And, while it may sound like stating the obvious, to "start by listening," is a crucial step in obtaining the best result in an uncertain marketplace.

Jay Banks and Brenda Kinnear has been the "Family Realtor," for a long time, having worked for us, parents, children and extended family as the circumstances of each group required change - buying or selling. In each case, our needs, wants, desires and budgets were clearly heard and matched with prevailing market conditions and realities. Matching buyer's budgets and seller's hopes is not as easy as it sounds especially when one has put blood sweat and tears into one's "fee simple" piece of heaven!

Throughout, we were all treated respectfully, patiently and honestly even as the emotional biases of being in one place for 37 years tended to put up barriers to rational choices.

Thank you, Jay, for your guidance, understanding, persistence, outstanding salesmanship and friendship throughout the adventure of selling our home.
Cheers!

- Charmaine