Bought Atlanta Home Sight Unseen From Out of State with Shannon

Our experience working with Shannon was that she was always incredibly available, really friendly, really took the time to know us, took the time to check in. she was really focused on getting us into the right house and not just getting us into a house. My name is Allison Mickle. I am an archaeologist. I live in Grant Park now, thanks to Shannon, who I bought my house with. decided to work with Shannon because we were looking for realtors. We looked at lists of best realtors. Shannon was right up there on the top. originally we thought that we wanted to rent for a while before buying. We wanted to get to know Atlanta, get to know the area. a lot of the realtors that I contacted said, that's great. Good luck with your renting. Come back to me when you're ready to buy. Shannon was the only one who to us and said that she would help us find a rental in the interim and then would help us buy. I will say she was so good that we ended up buying right away. We didn't end up renting at all. But just her willingness to help something where she wasn't going to benefit financially immediately and build that relationship first, that really meant a lot to me. I mean, Shannon surprised us constantly over the course of our relationship. We have bought several houses by now, and so we've come to expect, you know, a certain level of involvement and service and engagement and availability. And Shannon surprised us constantly by surpassing all of those expectations. There were, you know, hurdles and bumps in the road that cropped up that I would have never expected my realtor to deal with. things like the people that we bought the house from ⁓ left a lock box on the property and I was initially struggling to get it removed and Shannon was willing to get it cut off for us and this was after the transaction was complete so you know really above and beyond. She offered to get our grass cut before we moved the first time that I really was like just raving about my realtor to other people, to anyone who would listen. we bought our house from a distance. We bought it sight unseen. was really helpful that Shannon was there to check in with us along the way to make the process less stressful. There ⁓ are so many unknowns when you're buying a house from another state. Shannon would visit the house or send somebody who she really trusted to go to the house and take video. We also appreciated that it never felt like Shannon was trying to rush us into a decision or rush us into a house. one of the ways that Shannon really helped to reduce the stress was by affirming when we had critiques or complaints or didn't feel like a house was right. She offered a lot of expertise in terms of thinking about whether something was normal in Atlanta, which we wouldn't know because we had been there and so knowing if a backyard was normal or how much storage space was normal, the time to recognize what needed to be done about the house ⁓ before we moved in. The former owners filled the trash cans with construction debris and I'm a very small person and I was having trouble getting the trash cans up the hill to put out the trash and Shannon offered to drive and come and take the trash cans out for me and so I mean these are the things she had no obligation to do was not expecting her to like... take her own time and her own money and solve those issues for us. I'd recommend working with Shannon because I... I've never encountered a realtor that was so eager and willing to help with any dimension of the process. she just made much easier than it would have been working with I really believe anyone else to make a decision, the right place, and then to make the move and seamless as possible.