I just received an email from my client, Jim Wentworth and I'm copy/pasting below along with a photo of Jim and I.
We just closed on Jim's purchase June 3, 2008. What he had to say was ... well, downright touching. I am very humbled by and appreciative of Jim's comments. It's a pleasure to have clients like Jim.
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To: Ken Hall
Coldwell Banker
Platinum Properties
From; Jim Wentworth June 14, 2008
29161 Promenade Road
Menifee, Ca. 92584
I want to take this opportunity to write a “thank you” for a “Job well done”. I had given up hope on finding a home period, and then to meet you and to find a home in the Murrieta/Menifee area was a blessing. I want to summaries the experience the best I can so you know how much I appreciate having you as my realtor and friend.
As you know I have owned homes before, but due to a divorce and a few bad stock investments I figured I would rent for many years or forever due to my age. Then the market took a turn for the worst for most investors. A friend told me about the housing market in the Riverside county and how you could buy a home for under three hundred thousand. I did not believe it, so I went on line and hooked up with some realtors. I was so excited to think that I may have a chance to purchase a home again.
As you know I was well qualified to purchase a home. Ten years on the job, a 750 credit score, ten to twenty percent down, no property to sell, never a bankruptcy, and so on. I was ready to buy the home that I thought I would never own again.
I worked with realtors for over three months making multiply offers on homes that I thought would be my dream home. After multiply offers, two short sale escrows and no response from all of my effort I became very depressed that my expectations of owning a home again was slipping away. The realtors keep saying that I had to keep making offers, but I told them that “if we keep doing what we have been doing, that we will get the same result”.
Then I decided to go out on my own, and that Saturday afternoon I meet you at the house on Promenade. Right off the bat I knew I finally meet the right realtor. You explained to me what a great relationship you had with asset managers of banked owned properties and that you could make this deal happen. Well, with my past experience I was a little skeptical, but within a week we were in escrow and I was actually buying a home again. The very first home I made an offer on with you Ken, the offer was accepted and every thing else is history. I found out what all of the other realtors were missing once I meet you, and that was your aggressiveness, your contacts, and professionalism.
Ken, sorry for the long letter, but I want to thank you for the opportunity to own a home again, not to mention a five bedroom, three full baths, on a golf course, and in like new condition. You walked me through the process with professionalism, you keep your word on every aspect of the sale, you and your office were there when I needed them, and I could not be happier with the experience.
Thanks Ken,
Jim Wentworth
Retail Customer Manager
Coldwell Banker
Platinum Properties
From; Jim Wentworth June 14, 2008
29161 Promenade Road
Menifee, Ca. 92584
I want to take this opportunity to write a “thank you” for a “Job well done”. I had given up hope on finding a home period, and then to meet you and to find a home in the Murrieta/Menifee area was a blessing. I want to summaries the experience the best I can so you know how much I appreciate having you as my realtor and friend.
As you know I have owned homes before, but due to a divorce and a few bad stock investments I figured I would rent for many years or forever due to my age. Then the market took a turn for the worst for most investors. A friend told me about the housing market in the Riverside county and how you could buy a home for under three hundred thousand. I did not believe it, so I went on line and hooked up with some realtors. I was so excited to think that I may have a chance to purchase a home again.
As you know I was well qualified to purchase a home. Ten years on the job, a 750 credit score, ten to twenty percent down, no property to sell, never a bankruptcy, and so on. I was ready to buy the home that I thought I would never own again.
I worked with realtors for over three months making multiply offers on homes that I thought would be my dream home. After multiply offers, two short sale escrows and no response from all of my effort I became very depressed that my expectations of owning a home again was slipping away. The realtors keep saying that I had to keep making offers, but I told them that “if we keep doing what we have been doing, that we will get the same result”.
Then I decided to go out on my own, and that Saturday afternoon I meet you at the house on Promenade. Right off the bat I knew I finally meet the right realtor. You explained to me what a great relationship you had with asset managers of banked owned properties and that you could make this deal happen. Well, with my past experience I was a little skeptical, but within a week we were in escrow and I was actually buying a home again. The very first home I made an offer on with you Ken, the offer was accepted and every thing else is history. I found out what all of the other realtors were missing once I meet you, and that was your aggressiveness, your contacts, and professionalism.
Ken, sorry for the long letter, but I want to thank you for the opportunity to own a home again, not to mention a five bedroom, three full baths, on a golf course, and in like new condition. You walked me through the process with professionalism, you keep your word on every aspect of the sale, you and your office were there when I needed them, and I could not be happier with the experience.
Thanks Ken,
Jim Wentworth
Retail Customer Manager
Kraft Foods USA
