As some of you know I was looking for a agent to sell my house back in late august, and melanie leung was one of the realtor i interview and highly recommended by one of our member sfdragonboy
Yesterday we signed the escrow and i’ll be getting my money early next week so i can finally do a full review on her.
When i took back the house back in late august from rental, the house was not in good shape, so i definitely need to find someone to fix it back to original state and do some remodel prior selling. I’ve interviewed a couple real estate agent and only 2 of them are able to fulfill my requirement(fix this up and roll it out in 2 weeks) and melanie is one of them. There’s many reason why i chose her over the others, i like her strategy, planning, connection with mulitple contractor, attention to small details, and her taste, you can tell by going through her listings the staging company she chose and the photograher she chose is just better than the others, some of listings out there i feel the staging overdone it, but her’s is always right on. Knowing the market is slowing down and i have to rush it out in 2 weeks, I have to make my house as nicely presentable as possible, at the end the house has to sell for itself.
After signing the agreement with her that night, she quickly go to work right away. She sent her design team over to my house and quickly gave me a proposal and a calendar timeline. After going back and forth about 2 days discussing , we finally agreed on the items we should work on for remodeling. Once we agreed on her contractor goes to work quickly. Within 10 business days, my house is completed, and you guys can tell how great it looks in the listing. So next is the open house, initially she set up for 2 weeks of open house, but after the 1st week, we have a lot of interest and she recommended to change the plan and take offer early, I love this move, pretty much i think she know what i was thinking. And once she start accepting offers, we have multiple bids on the house while one of our neighbors(like 5 house down the street also on sale at the same time) , at the end their house only got 1 offer and pretty low price. She negotiate back and forth with the top offers and we finally picked the buyer we think will be best for us. No Contingency and i know my house is in good hand.
The final number , listing 888,000, sold 1.16M.
At current market and our house is one of the smaller size on paper(downstairs unwarranted) , i think we did really good. especially this fast.
time to give someone some credit. Thank you SFDRAGONBOY for recommending melanie to me.
