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Maya Jones- HomeSmart Realty Group

Living my dream by helping you achieve yours 🏡✨
Wife, Girl Mom, Cat Mom 🫶🏼
Oregon Real Estate Agent ❤️
971-218-9784 📲

08/28/2026

🫢 Hot take:

I’m not going to chase you down with scripted follow ups, or automated drip campaigns, or tell you it’s always a good time to buy or sell. Because it isn’t, and pretending otherwise isn’t real estate advice, it’s a sales tactic.

Rates are high. Inventory is up in a lot of areas. That doesn’t mean nobody should move, it just means the decision is situational and needs to be more calculated, and I’d rather walk you through your actual numbers and your actual timeline than hand you a one-size-fits-all pep talk. Sometimes the answer is now. Sometimes it’s wait six months. I’ll tell you which one it actually is for you, not which one gets me a commission faster.

I will sit with you and listen. Tell you the truth even when it’s not the exciting answer, even when it’s the answer that “costs me the deal”.

None of that means I’m hard to reach, it’s actually the opposite. I love this part of the job, getting to know you guys and bonding over such a big and beautiful life event. Text me at 9pm with a question about a listing you’re obsessing over, send me the Zillow link, ask me something you think is dumb, it’s not. I’ll answer, I’ll dig into it with you, and I’ll be genuinely excited to help you figure it out. What I won’t do is manufacture a reason for you to need me. You don’t need me to invent urgency. You need me to show up when it’s real, and I will, every time.

I’d rather build something real with you than sell you a version of the market that isn’t real. “Keeping real estate real” isn’t a tagline for me, it’s the only way I know how to do this and want to do it. If that’s the kind of person you want in your corner, let’s talk. 📲

08/27/2026

Take a look at this closing gift I put together for one of my clients recently 🥰 I love the heartfelt little things, and I always make sure every family member gets celebrated, four legs included.

Here’s what went in the basket:

🏡 My signature “Our First Home” frame, with their new address plotted on the map and the closing date underneath. It’s the first thing that goes up in the new place.

📖 “I’m a Homeowner, Now What?” This is one of my favorite gifts for new owners. It’s a portable guide for logging specs, repairs, upgrades, and the contractors they trust, all in one spot. I always fill in a few pages myself with my go-to local recommendations before I hand it over.

🍝 Artisan gnocchi and marinara, plus a set of wood servers to go with it. Admittedly one of my favorite easy dinners, and exactly what you want on hand after a day of hauling boxes. Quick, warm, and homemade feeling without any of the work.

🫧 Foaming hand soap and dish soap. These are always packed in a box you can’t find for the first week. Having them out and ready on day one is a small thing that makes a big difference.

🍾 Real bubbly for the humans and a champagne bottle chew toy for the pup, because the whole family moved, not just the people.

🦴 A toy box and a bag of Bocce’s peanut butter carob treats, so the dog gets a welcome home moment too. Their dog’s name is Blue, so when I saw these B shaped treats I couldn’t resist.

🧸 A LeapFrog activity house for the littlest member of the family, ready for their first home the same week they got it.

Every closing gift I put together is built around who’s actually living in the house, kids, pets, and all. 🔑

08/24/2026

It’s closing day for these first time homebuyers! 🥳🔑

A few weeks ago I posted that we’d gone under contract with a couple who had a newborn at home and a hard deadline. Dad’s paternity leave was starting soon, so the house needed to be found and closed before then. Today they signed the final papers at the closing table, and it’s officially theirs.

What stuck with me most, then and now, was how many questions they asked before we ever wrote an offer. They wanted to understand every piece of it, not just trust me and move on faith. So that’s what we did. We took the time to make sure they understood the offer we were making, and then we moved quickly once they were ready. This carried on through the transaction, and was so helpful in making sure all of their needs were met and this purchase truly worked for them and their situation.

I negotiated their offer, got it accepted at asking price, with a $15,000 seller credit built in up front to take care of their closing costs AND a rate buy down. When inspections turned up a few things they were genuinely worried about, we went back to the seller and got every one of those items resolved in their favor.

Behind the scenes, it took constant communication and a lot of following up to keep everything moving on schedule.

32 days from offer to closing. For a couple with a new baby and a wedding coming up in a couple months, that timeline wasn’t just convenient, it was the entire reason any of this was possible in the first place.

I think about this family and how easy it would have been for them to decide the timing was wrong, that there was too much going on, that buying a house should wait for a calmer season. It didn’t have to wait. It just meant someone needed to handle the moving pieces so they could stay focused on the decision that actually mattered to them.

Congratulations to this sweet family. New house, new baby, and a wedding still ahead. What a year this has been for them. 🥂🏡

08/17/2026

Taking requests all day, every day. Tell me what you’re looking for in a house and I’ll go find it. That’s the job. 🎧🔑

08/10/2026

‼️Attention Fellow Real Estate Brokers!! ‼️

BROKER’S OPEN THIS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12th FROM 1pm-3pm 🏡

📍4283 Geranium Ave NE Salem

Quick note for anyone outside the industry scrolling by, a broker’s open is a preview specifically for real estate agents to walk through a listing, so they can get a feel for the home and think about which of their buyers it might fit. This one’s agents only for now, but stay tuned for information on this weekend’s public open houses! 4 bed, 2.5 bath, 2,457 sqft, priced at $500K while a couple of comparable homes nearby are still sitting at $520K and $530K. Elizabeth Fisher from Capital Mortgage Source is joining me too, so bring your financing questions along. Wine, charcuterie, good company, come see it in person!

08/08/2026

Visited my listing 4283 Geranium Ave NE Salem today, and I still can’t get over how open and welcoming this space is! Here are just a few highlight videos of some of my favorite rooms 🏡

Has this house been living in your head since my last post, or since you looked it up on Zillow?

YOU’RE IN LUCK! It’s still available! It must be meant to be 🥰😉

📍4283 Geranium Ave NE Salem, OR 97305
💵 Offered at $500,000
🏡 4 bed, 2.5 bath, 2,457 sqft

2,457 square feet with room to actually live in it. Four bedrooms means the home office you keep saying you’ll set up, the guest suite for when family visits, or the playroom you’ve been asking for. The primary suite is the biggest room in the house, which is exactly how it should be.

New stainless appliances in a kitchen that opens right into the living room, so whoever’s cooking is never missing the party. The covered patio is the kind of space you’ll actually use, morning coffee, evening wind down, all of it. Raised planter beds already established if you’ve been wanting to grow something. Two-car garage plus RV and boat parking for the toys. Neighborhood park just down the street.

Move-in ready. Just bring your furniture and your plans.

07/31/2026

Came home from vacation to a fridge that had quietly died while we were gone. Everything in it, gone. We’d been putting off replacing it since we moved in because there was always something else to do first, so in a way I’m relieved the decision got made for us. 🤷‍♀️

Went to Appliance Bargain Center and found a stainless steel one, practically new, marked way down. The only issue was a bent handle, which is a $100 part we can buy and install ourselves in a few minutes. If you’re appliance shopping, ask whoever you’re working with about scratch-and-dent or clearance inventory. A lot of it is cosmetic damage on units that work perfectly fine, and most people don’t even know to ask.

Our old fridge had probably 30 magnets and pictures on it. I’m being a little more selective with this one. Feels like a whole new era over here. 😍

How many things are on your fridge?

07/28/2026

Under contract with another set of first time buyers, and this one had a real deadline. New baby in the house, a short window before dad’s paternity leave, no time to learn by trial and error.

So we didn’t. They came in asking questions, a lot of them, which I loved because it meant the offer we made was one they actually understood, not one they just trusted me on. We moved fast but nobody got rushed into a decision blind. That’s the difference between speed and recklessness, and it’s the whole job.

Two first-time buyer contracts now in the last week. A lot of people right now might assume their situation rules them out- a tight budget, a tight timeline, whatever it is the media spins to make you feel like you can’t do it. It doesn’t. It just means we have less room for wasted moves. That’s why I’m your girl 😉

Congrats you guys! 🥳🥂

Address

3240 Commercial Street SE Suite 100
Salem, OR
97302

Telephone

+19712189784

Website

https://poplme.co/mayajones

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