06/28/2024
JUST SOLD!!! 🎉🎉This one has a special story & feels like the culmination of blood, sweat, tears and…fate.
Most real estate transactions are around 30 days…but this story goes back 4 years, to January 2020. We all remember that time right, excited and hopeful for what an amazing year it would be 😳🥴 I found myself at a cross roads. I wanted to bring in some more income for our family. I had two choices, comfort zone or outside my comfort zone. Go back to making coffee-it was safe, I knew it well, the money was good, hours were somewhat flexible. But something told me, it was a step backwards. Coffee was always my fall back. So I thought, option 2. What if I tried something new? But what? So I asked myself, what do I enjoy and what am I good at. I landed on cleaning. I was the child that never had to be told to clean my room. Everything always had a place. In fact, I used to clean my best friends room before we would start playing when I would go to her house 😂. What if I started my own cleaning business?!? I reached out to one of my best friends who had her own business, she let me shadow her on a couple of her cleans, gave me some pointers about what products I would need and that was it. I wonder if anyone would want help cleaning their house was my next thought. Well within a day of posting on Facebook and my neighborhood page I probably had over 30 families interested 😳 I knew I had to meet everyone first and get a feel for the vibe of their home and make sure I felt safe and comfortable.
The moment I met Rachel I felt at ease. We chatted and felt like old friends within minutes. I began cleaning for her family the next week. Of course a couple months later the world shut down and life as we knew it would never quite be the same. I took a couple months off and began cleaning again for family’s who felt comfortable with it in early summer. The Champs are a big family so there was usually someone home when I cleaned there. I would find something to talk about with each of them and enjoyed hearing about what was going on in their life. I cleaned around the fresh rose that Arron always had for his wife in their bathroom and thought “what a love story” 🥰 You know the people that are just good people, to their core, yeah, that’s this family. Blessed to know them and have them in my life!
As the year went on I found myself loving the parts of it of the job, making my own schedule and still being able to be at everything for my kids and also feeling like I was using one of my gifts to bless people- It felt good knowing busy families were coming home to a clean home and that it was one less task they had to manage. But it was also a lot-que the sweat portion of the story 😅 cleaning 4 (2200+ sq foot) homes, plus my own every week.
In January of 2021 I began to think, hmm this is great for now, but what could I see myself doing long term, and what has more potential for growth, as a person and for income. Enter the thought “real estate” I pushed aside the fears and lies of why I couldn’t do it aside and met with a few agents I know. They said “if I can do it, you can do it.” The thoughts of numbers, statistics, legalities and all that scared me, but I love people and I care about people deeply. When it comes to listening to people, helping them and truly caring about their story, yeah I think I could be really great at that.
So I was all in, spent every spare minute studying and completing my course and somehow passed the test on my first attempt! (That test is no joke 😰)
About a month into my new career I got a text from Rachel saying they found their dream home and could I help them write an offer!? I didn’t even know they were thinking of moving! I scheduled us an appointment and we went and saw the dreamiest remodeled farmhouse with the full wrap around porch 🥰 and an ADU perfect for their oldest daughter and her soon to be husband. I wanted them to get it so badly! But this was 2021, remember how crazy that market was 🤪🫠 I think there were at least 5 other offers and we got outbid by 100k. 😭
Over the next 3 years we would look at homes that met their criteria but none were just right. Until this April, the night before my birthday in fact, I was about to go to sleep and opened up my email to Rachel saying they found it! 20 acres in Eatonville, Mountain View. Enough space for all their family! This was the one! The next week moved quickly, we viewed the home and prayed nobody else would come in and compete for it. A few days later our offer was ACCEPTED! 😱🙌🏼🙏🏼 This now meant their current home had to be on the market in 5 days. All hands on deck they got it ready and the house shined! 😍Beautiful listing photos, marketed it everywhere I could & 2 open houses later we had multiple offers & quite the bidding war. We ended up 20k above list price and set to close the end of May. Last week we had back to back closings, their current home on Wednesday and their forever home Thursday! 🎉🙌🏼 This one had a lot of moving parts and the ENTIRE team was amazing!! My cross agents Ronnie Woods and Mike Blue Root Properties brokered by EXP Realty Thank you both for being awesome and communicating so well with me and representing your clients so well. I knew we were all on the same page to make sure this one was as seamless as possible and it was! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Amanda Bleakley for your hard work, and expertise on the lending portion and the title companies (CW)Tami Dittemore
and (Ticor) Sara Tingley
for all you do to get us to the end goal! ❤️
If you’re still reading this and you have an idea, a dream, a goal, this is your sign to go for it! The choice I made to take a chance on something new and unknown vs stay in my comfort zone has brought more growth and opportunities into my life in the last 3 years than I could have ever imagined! I love being able to SHOW my kids that you can do anything if you’re willing to put in work, stand up and keep going after setbacks and minor failures and believe in yourself-even if you have doubts, even if it doesn’t make sense and even when the road seems slow and frustrating and daunting.
Connection-the ties that bind us in life. People who welcomed me, as a stranger into their home to clean it, became friends, who then chose me & stuck with me for YEARS to represent them in the biggest transaction of their lives! Be the good & surround yourself with the good in this world and see how God & the universe respond! Champ family-I love you all! I’m humbled, I’m grateful. CONGRATULATIONS on your forever home- I can’t wait to see all the memories you’ll make there! 🥹❤️🙏🏼🎉🙌🏼🏡🔑
