Broker Associate · Your Castle Real Estate
I take all the guessing out of the process.
That sentence is the whole job, as far as I am concerned. Buying or selling a home is usually the biggest financial decision someone makes, and most of the anxiety in it comes from not knowing what is going on. I would rather over-explain than let you guess.
Who you would be working with
I like people, and I am genuinely curious about them.
I am a mom of two young kids. I host more often than is strictly sensible, I am happiest when there are people in the house, and I am interested in how other people ended up where they are.
That is not a personality section bolted onto a business page. It is why I work the way I do. I treat clients the way I would treat a family member, which mostly means telling you things you might not want to hear, early, while there is still time to do something about them.
I also think this should be enjoyable. A move is a real moment in someone’s life. It can be stressful and still be a good experience, and the difference between those two is usually just preparation and someone answering your questions.
How I work
Preparation, then plain language.
- She does the reading first
- Goldie researches a home before walking through it, and prepares a comparable analysis so you can see how a price was reached rather than being told what it is. You should never be the least-informed person in the room about a house you might buy.
- She reads the documents with you
- Not a summary of the contract — the contract. Goldie goes through every document with you before you sign it, so you know what you have agreed to. Most of the stress in a transaction comes from signing something you did not fully follow.
- She lays out the options, then stops
- You get the reasonable paths and the trade-offs of each. If you ask what she would do, she will tell you, and she will explain why. She will not tell you what you have to do — that decision is yours, and she means it.
- She picks up the phone
- Goldie communicates directly with the agent on the other side and expects the same in return. When a deal needs movement, someone has to actually call. A surprising amount of what goes wrong in a transaction is just people not answering.
What you can expect
A few things I will always do.
- No pressure, in either direction
- Goldie will not push you into a home, and she will not push you to list. If the right answer is to wait a year, that is a perfectly good answer.
- As many homes as it takes
- Forty showings is fine. So is one. On the way out of each, she asks the same direct question: would you put an offer in on this home today? If the answer is no, you keep looking.
- Scheduling that works around you
- Document reviews and showings get scheduled around your life rather than hers.
- Straight answers about money
- What you will actually net, what is negotiable, and where a number came from. Goldie's view is that the market decides what a home is worth — not an online estimate, and not an assessor.
Where I work
Denver metro, with my feet on the west side.
Most of my work is in Denver West and the west-side Front Range — Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Sloan’s Lake, the Highlands, Golden, Evergreen, Arvada and Westminster.
That is where I know the streets and how homes actually move, not a limit on where I will work. I take clients throughout the Denver metro when the fit is right.
Start with what your home could unlock.
A Home Intelligence Report is the research I would do for you anyway, done early. Or skip it and just get in touch — there is nothing to commit to either way.