Hopkins Home Group, KC Realtor

Hopkins Home Group, KC Realtor I’m a USN veteran & Real Estate Agent in KS & MO.

I help clients build wealth through buying, selling, & investing - bringing integrity, dedication, & hands on experience with a strong commitment to service which guides confident and strategic decisions.

🏡 KC BUYERS: What if your next house DIDN’T come with a giant to-do list? 👀I’m opening the doors to two Kansas City metr...
09/15/2026

🏡 KC BUYERS: What if your next house DIDN’T come with a giant to-do list? 👀

I’m opening the doors to two Kansas City metro homes this week that give buyers something pretty valuable at these price points:

Someone else already did a lot of the work. 🙌

📍 9310 NW 68th St | Parkville, MO

Finding a home for sale in Parkville around $300K—in the Park Hill School District—is already tough.

Finding one with a new roof, siding, kitchen, carpet, paint, driveway, fence, sewer line + more already completed?

👀 That deserves a look.

📍 19407 E 5th Terrace Ct N | Independence, MO
Need more space?

This one gives you 4 bedrooms in the Fort Osage School District at a price point that could make a lot of Kansas City homebuyers rethink what they assumed they could afford. 🏡🔑

Two different houses. Two different parts of KC. Two opportunities to buy without immediately inheriting someone else’s renovation list. 😂🙅🏼‍♀️

Want the full listing details for either one?

📲 Comment “PARKVILLE,” “INDEPENDENCE,” or “BOTH” and I’ll send you a DM.



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/14/2026

KC HOMEBUYERS: Mortgage rates might NOT be the most interesting number in the housing market right now. 👀🏡

Yes, rates matter.

But while everyone waits for mortgage rates to give them permission to buy, something else is happening in the Kansas City real estate market.

In August:

📉 18.8% of Kansas City metro homes for sale had a price reduction.

⏰ Median time on market: 50 days.

Translation?

There are Kansas City sellers who have already reduced their price AND have been waiting weeks for a buyer.

That’s where I start getting curious. 👀

Because the conversation may change from:

“How much do we have to offer to win?”
to:

“What can we negotiate?”

💰 Price
💵 Seller-paid closing costs
🔨 Repairs
🤝 Terms that could make the deal more attractive to you

Does every house have negotiating room?

Absolutely not.

Well-priced homes in desirable Kansas City neighborhoods can still move quickly. And available inventory actually remained slightly tighter year-over-year in August, so this isn’t some market where buyers automatically get whatever they ask for.

But there are opportunities hiding in the inventory that’s been sitting.

And if you’re thinking about buying a home in Kansas City, the Northland, Parkville, Liberty, Platte City, Overland Park or elsewhere in the KC metro, I want to help you find them.

📲 Send me TWO things:

1. Your budget
2. Where you want to live

I’ll find 3 active Kansas City homes I think are actually worth investigating and tell you WHY each one caught my attention.

No commitment. No “you have to buy.”

Let’s just find out if there’s an opportunity you’re currently missing. 🔎🏡



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/12/2026

Well… since everyone keeps asking, I figured it was finally time to reveal my highly sophisticated lead-generation strategy.

🎥 Here it is. 😂

FOR LEGAL PURPOSES: I am not actually kidnapping Kansas City homebuyers. 💀😂

The real answer is significantly less concerning:

🏡 I meet people walking into my Kansas City open houses who are “just looking”… and a few questions later we’re talking about their actual plans.

📱 People find me through social media after watching me talk about Kansas City real estate enough times that they finally decide to ask me a question.

💜 And some of my favorite clients come from past clients, friends, and referrals who trust me enough to give someone else my number.

No chloroform.
No tackling unsuspecting pedestrians.
Just a slightly concerning amount of talking to strangers. 😂🤝

And honestly? That’s my favorite part of this business.

So if you’re thinking about buying or selling a home in the Kansas City metro, Kansas City Northland, Missouri or Kansas…

Don’t make me come looking for you. 😂👀

📲 Send me a DM with the words “Ace Ventura”

I’ll take it from there. 🏡🔑 (And everyone remains conscious. 😂)



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

12 years of life happened inside this house. And now, it’s ready for someone else’s next chapter. 🥹🏡When I first started...
09/12/2026

12 years of life happened inside this house. And now, it’s ready for someone else’s next chapter. 🥹🏡

When I first started working with these clients, the goal was bigger than simply selling a house.

Their family had grown. Three generations were living under one roof, and while this home had served them well for more than a decade, they had outgrown it—both physically and emotionally.

Earlier this Spring, I had the privilege of helping them buy a larger home that gave their family the space they needed. 💜

Then came the second part of our journey: getting 6719 NW Monticello Terrace sold.

And that part required some patience.

We listened to what the market was telling us. We repainted the entire interior, installed new carpet, put on a brand-new roof, refinished the deck, moved everything out, and brought the home back to market with fresh photos that allowed buyers to see it differently.

And they did.

Now, after 12 years with this family, this Parkville home is officially UNDER CONTRACT. 🥹🔑

I’m incredibly happy for my clients—they’ve trusted me through both sides of a pretty major transition in their family’s life.

They’re wonderful people with deep roots in this community, and somewhere along the way this became more than just a transaction.

It’s a relationship I hope I get to have for a very long time. 💜

And yes, that absolutely includes getting to watch their ridiculously cute granddaughter grow up. 😂🥹

To my sellers: thank you for trusting me, staying patient, and staying the course. We got there. 🥂

And to the future owners of 6719 NW Monticello Terrace:
She’s ready for you. 🏡💜

📍 Parkville, Missouri | Park Hill School District | Kansas City Northland



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/11/2026

🇺🇸 Your orders say “Fort Leavenworth.” But, they don’t say you have to LIVE in Leavenworth. 👀🏡

If you’re PCSing to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and starting to figure out where your family should live, don’t limit your home search to what’s immediately outside the base.

Depending on your priorities, Leavenworth, Lansing, Platte City and even parts of the Kansas City Northland can all be worth exploring.

The right answer comes down to what matters to YOUR family:

🚗 How far are you willing to commute to Fort Leavenworth?
🏫 What are you looking for in a school district?
💰 What’s your housing budget or BAH?
🏡 What kind of home and neighborhood do you want?
🌆 How important is access to Kansas City?
📈 Could you potentially keep the home when you PCS again?

As a Navy veteran and Kansas City metro Realtor licensed in Kansas + Missouri, I understand both sides of this conversation—and I can help you compare your options instead of trying to figure out an unfamiliar area from Zillow and Google Maps. 😂

Yes, I’ve been there and done that. 🤦🏼‍♀️

PCS orders to Fort Leavenworth? Here’s your first move:

📲 Send me “PCS” + your report date.

I’ll ask you a few questions about your family, budget and commute, and we’ll narrow down where you should actually be looking before you start falling in love with houses. 🔑

📍 Fort Leavenworth • Leavenworth • Lansing • Platte City • Kansas City Northland • Kansas City Metro



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/10/2026

‼️ We’re a couple weeks behind on our Kansas City flip… and I’m actually okay with that. 👀🏡

Because the goal was never to renovate this house fast. It was to renovate it RIGHT.

4641 N Elmwood is looking VERY different from the Grandma house that we bought this summer. 🔨

Walls are gone. The layout has been completely reconfigured. New drywall is up. We opened up the main living space. And instead of squeezing in rooms just to add a bedroom count, we created two REAL-sized bedrooms that actually make sense for the home. 🙌

Add in the double lot, and I think this little house is going to make a pretty incredible home for its future owner when we’re finished. 💜

And if you were paying really close attention to the video…

you may have caught a glimpse of the new exterior color 👀

That’s the only preview you’re getting. 😂

📍 4641 N Elmwood Ave | Kansas City Northland

🔨 Follow along as we renovate this Kansas City Northland home from purchase → renovation → finished product → FOR SALE.

And if you think Elmwood might actually be YOUR future home…

📲 Send me “ELMWOOD.” I’ll make sure you don’t miss it when it’s ready. 🔑



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/10/2026

Somewhere in this video is someone’s “we actually did it.” 🥹🏡

Their first house.
The house they thought they wouldn’t get.
The inspection that made us walk away.
The offer that finally won.
The seller who spent weeks getting their house ready.
The SOLD sign.
The keys.
The closing where a huge financial decision suddenly became real.

That’s what my summer in Kansas City real estate looked like.

A whole bunch of ordinary Tuesdays that were actually really big days in somebody else’s life.

And I got to help navigate them. 💜

Buying or selling a home is obviously about real estate—but it’s also about money, timing, risk, equity, family, and what you want your life to look like next.

That’s why I love this job.

And now I’m looking for the people whose “we actually did it” is still sitting somewhere in the future. 👀

Buying your first home? Selling and making a move? Building wealth through real estate?

📲 Tell me what your “we actually did it” would be. Let’s figure out what it would take to get there.

📍 Helping buyers and sellers throughout Kansas City, the Kansas City Northland, Parkville, Liberty, Gladstone, Overland Park, Johnson County and the surrounding Missouri + Kansas communities.



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/09/2026

When my client apologizes for asking me “too many questions”…

You have severely underestimated how much I enjoy this. 😂

🎶 BACK THAT A*Z UP 🎶

Me: 💃💃💃

Ask. 👏 Me. 👏 Everything. 👏

The financing question.
The dumb question.
The “what does this even mean?” question.
The “am I making a terrible decision?” question.

You’re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You SHOULD have questions.

And I genuinely love answering them. 🫶🏼🏡

📲 So if you have a Kansas City real estate question you’ve been too afraid to ask… send it to me. Seriously. I want the question. 👀

You don’t have to be my client. You don’t have to be ready to buy or sell. Just ask me. 💜



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

09/08/2026

The houses everyone else is ignoring? Those are the ones I want to investigate. 👀🏡

60+ days on the market doesn’t automatically mean bad house.

Sometimes it means opportunity. 💰

Less competition. More negotiating power. A seller who’s ready to make a deal.

Or… there’s a reason nobody bought it. 🚩😂

Either way, I want to know.

📲 Send me a Kansas City home for sale that’s been sitting on the market.

I’ll investigate it. 🕵️‍♀️🏡



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

This one means a lot. 💜When my seller hired me to sell his home at 8100 W 92nd Terrace in Overland Park, Kansas, the goa...
09/05/2026

This one means a lot. 💜

When my seller hired me to sell his home at 8100 W 92nd Terrace in Overland Park, Kansas, the goal wasn’t simply to put the house on the market and hope for the best. 🤞🏼

We focused on preparing the home, positioning it correctly, marketing it strategically, and creating the strongest possible opportunity once it hit the Overland Park real estate market.

The result?

🔥 Multiple offers
💰 SOLD for $45,000 above asking price
🔑 Successful closing
💜 And a seller who felt informed and taken care of throughout the process.

The $45K is an incredible result. 🔥

But the part of this review I’m most proud of is “excellent and timely communications.”

Because whether I’m helping someone sell a home in Overland Park, Johnson County, or anywhere across the Kansas City metro, my clients shouldn’t have to wonder what’s happening with one of the biggest financial transactions of their lives.

Strategy matters. Marketing matters. Communication matters. And who you hire to sell your home matters. 🏡

📍 Overland Park, KS | Johnson County | Kansas City Metro
Thinking about selling your home in Overland Park or the Kansas City metropolitan area?

📲 Text me “SELL” before you start preparing your house. I’ll help you determine what’s worth doing, what isn’t, and how I would position your home for today’s Kansas City real estate market.



Melissa Hopkins, REALTOR®
Hopkins Home Group
Keller Williams Kansas City North
C: (816) 203-0104
O: (816) 452-4200

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