What our South Lake Tahoe real estate business is all about.

(Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog) We've been working with a particular buyer recently. It's someone we know who has bought from us before, but that was back in 2004 at the top of the South Lake Tahoe market both in terms of demand and price.

The Buyer contacted us again in September. What's somewhat singular about him is he lives in Jakarta. This time his instructions to us were rather simple: "I know the market is down, there's opportunity to be had, now find me the best deal possible to be had."

We started showing him homes just before Halloween. We spent 10 days with him and his family doing "research." That done, he went back to Indonesia, and as you can imagine the emails that followed were plentiful and informative.

He recently came back to look again last week. And look he did.

We just put the house he bought into escrow, and we'll tell you more about it when it closes, but it was not one of the houses he saw the first time around.  More than suspicious that this was "the one", we showed it to him via email about a week before he got here to look the second time.

Now back in Jakarta, he just sent an email to us that we thought we'd share. It much addresses our approach to doing business, where making friends and being helpful is so much more our focus than just making a sale and getting paid. It's teamwork that always makes the difference. Here's that email, it's short, sweet and very simple, and we hope you enjoy:

Dear Gary and Richard,

I think we make a great team! We accomplished exactly what we set out to do. Amazing house. The best we saw. I am so excited and happy about this. And we will do more together, that's for sure. Thank you Richard and Gary.

Very truly,
Andy