Moving You HomeWARD started as our tagline, but after 25 years in real estate, it has come to describe the way we work. Every move starts with understanding where you are now, where you want to go and what needs to happen to get you there.
Sometimes that means finding the next home, selling the one you have, or coordinating both at the same time. Other times, the transition is less straightforward, and the right path isn’t always obvious at the beginning. Our job isn’t simply to get you to the closing table. It’s to help you make decisions that are right for you and move forward with a plan that makes sense.
That’s what Moving You HomeWARD means to us. Good representation is about more than getting you from contract to closing. It’s about understanding your goals, explaining the choices in front of you and giving you the information and perspective you need to make your own decisions.
Your Interests Come First
When you hire a Realtor to represent you, their responsibility is to protect and promote your interests. We take that responsibility seriously. Our advice is based on what we believe will help you to reach your goals—not on whether a particular house is purchased, an offer is accepted or a closing takes place.
That means we’ll tell you what we see. If we have concerns about a home you love, we’ll explain them. If an offer isn’t as strong as it first appears, we’ll tell you why. If circumstances change and the plan needs another look, we’ll talk through the options with you. Our role is to give you the information, perspective and advice so you can make your own decisions—not so we make those decisions for you.
Experience You Can Put to Work
More Than Two Decades in Real Estate
We began our real estate careers in October 2001 and transitioned to Coldwell Banker Realty in 2014 after 13 years with another company.
Over the years, we’ve worked through buyer’s markets, seller’s markets, changing inventory levels, interest rates above 7% and below 3%, lender guideline changes and the 2008 real estate bubble and its aftermath. We’ve also worked through plenty of transactions that didn’t go exactly to plan.
That experience helps us recognize issues earlier, put changing market conditions in context, and guide clients through situations that do not always follow a simple plan.
Newtown Is Home. Our Work Goes Beyond It.
Newtown has been our home since 2000 and an important part of our real estate business, but our work has never stopped at the town line. We’ve represented buyers and sellers throughout the surrounding communities and built our knowledge of those markets by actually working in them—listing homes, showing properties, negotiating offers, attending inspections and moving our clients homeward.
If you’re considering a move in the area, our Towns We Serve page is a good place to explore the nine communities where we regularly work.
550+ Buyers and Sellers
More than 550 buyers and sellers means we’ve worked with people at very different stages of life and with very different real estate needs—from first-time and move-up buyers to downsizers, people relocating to Connecticut and families handling the sale of a loved one’s home.
We’ve represented many types of properties and worked through probate, divorce, foreclosure, difficult inspections, appraisal issues, financing problems and other complications along the way.
This means we can bring perspective when your situation has complications or uncertainty.
Two Realtors. Different Strengths. One Goal.
Real estate works best when we’re all working together to accomplish the same goal. We don’t see our clients as people we’re simply representing through a transaction. We’re all part of the same team. You bring your goals, priorities and concerns; we bring our experience, perspective and the work needed to help you get where you’re trying to go. You get two experienced people thinking about the same decision, sometimes from different perspectives.
We each bring different strengths to the team. Bob often sees the house itself—construction, condition, repairs, potential problems and how those things may affect its value. Richelle often sees how all the pieces come together—marketing, presentation, communication, technology and the details that keep a transaction moving. We both know the market, negotiate and advise, but we don’t always notice the same things or approach a problem from exactly the same direction. Sometimes, we even disagree with one another, but we work that out and come together with one answer.
What You See Is What You Get
We don’t have a Realtor version of ourselves that we turn on when we’re working. The people you meet are the same people you’ll see in our videos or run into around town.
You might see Richelle walking our dog, shopping at the supermarket or playing cards with our daughter at Starbucks. You might find Bob at a tag sale, walking into the Newtown General Store or making a stop at the hardware store. If you see us, stop and say hello—even if we’re with other clients. We tell our clients that all the time.
We enjoy what we do, and we think there’s room for some fun along the way. We’ll crack jokes with you and a second later tell you to be careful walking up the steps to the front door of a house. We can laugh together while still paying attention to what we’re there to do. Real estate is serious business, but that doesn’t mean every minute of it has to feel serious.
We’ll tell you what we think and why. If we don’t know something, we’ll tell you that too—and then figure out who does. We are who we say we are, and we’ll do the work we said we’d do. To learn more about us, visit our About Us page.
Next Steps
Choosing a Realtor is a personal decision. You should work with someone whose experience, approach and way of doing business feel right for you.
If what you’ve read here sounds like the kind of real estate relationship you’re looking for, we’d be happy to talk. Tell us where you’re trying to go, what you’re thinking about and what questions you have. We’ll take it from there.