We Built this Home from Scratch…then COVID happened!
When I decided to sell my property, as a real estate investor, Ginger was not my realtor because I already had a realtor for the property I was going to sell and I had signed a listing contract while the house was under construction, however, she was definitely the best choice!
After the first realtor failed to sell my house at the price I needed and was not enthusiastic about selling my house and kept lowering my expectations about the price.
Ginger and I had known each other for couple of years before I asked her to list my property in Montclair. We met through a mutual real estate investor acquaintance, and, since my profession is in Tech and not Real Estate although I am an investor, I would frequently call Ginger when I encountered stumbling blocks or challenges with my real estate portfolio, or in building projects.
Ginger has a wealth of knowledge in multiple areas of residential real estate, not just listing for sellers and helping buyers, but for leasing, Airbnb, Building, short sales, and mortgages. She also has great resources like attorneys, contractors, stagers who are high quality, reasonably priced and very helpful. All of this worked well together, since my situations tended to be a bit complex.
Ginger was always helpful, more of a teacher than a sales agent, and definitely helped
guide our way through a labyrinth of situations to clarity.
When I was complete with a residential build out, and was not happy with the current realtor I was using, I contacted Ginger, and again, she was helpful, but not a salesperson. She advised me on how I could work with the realtor I was using.
But ultimately, my business partner and I decided that we would be best working with Ginger because she was well versed with the situation at hand and it was also during Covid and we needed someone who would go the extra mile.
We were extremely pleased with our decision. Ginger discovered a title issue right away that could have rendered our sale impossible, and as builders, every minute we were spending money and would not want to keep the property. She took some bold steps to remedy the situation without any drama, which we would have had if this had not been discovered.
Before listing with us she helped us explore the numbers if we did an Airbnb, renting it out, refinanced the property to lower the rate and possibly help with cash flow, and other ideas before we decided to sell outright. She was not quick to “get a sale” but to do what is best for us, and for us to feel comfortable with our decision.
Since we listed exactly when Covid happened and we were in shelter in place, I was out of the country in lockdown, and there were other challenges outside the scope of this public testimonial that needed to be addressed in a very sophisticated manner, it ended up being an unusually challenging transaction. Ultimately however, she helped us to negotiate quite a bit of money higher than our that offers came in, having inside information about the buyer’s needs, orientations and desires.
We were very pleased with the outcome, to get the property sold in a timely manner, get an excellent market price, and get on with our lives.
It was a very stressful time, but knowing we had someone in our corner, protecting our money like it was her own, leading, guiding, and protecting us in an area where we were not experts, and there were landmines everywhere, and every landmine would cost us dearly financially, was the one thing that gave us comfort during the transaction and looking back on it, we definitely made an excellent decision in hiring Ginger.
