Name

Dick Todhunter

Company

Sound Realty Northwest

E-mail

Contact Dick Todhunter (Sound Realty Northwest)

Website

http://www.aroundthesoundrealty.com/

Office Phone

(206) 898-3776

Cell Phone

(206) 898-3776

Fax

(206) 400-2786

Address

10003 65th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98178

Description

30 years of experience at your service. Imagine the convenience - your expert in all facets of real estate, real estate investment, residential mortgage planner and all around problem solver.

About Us:

 

Meet Dick Todhunter, Please....

Briefly, I am a real estate agent with 20 years of Mortgage origination experience, operating a boutique real estate office.  I specialize in Internet marketing and state of the art technology application to the real estate process.

 

Buying, Selling or mortgage needs is a lot like a full contact sport.  And your Coach makes all the difference!

Whether you are:

1. Looking to buy a home
   
2. Sell a home and then buy another home
   

You need a great coach to get you to the other end, where YOU ARE A WINNER!  Imagine carrying home the trophy to a ticker tape parade, the crowd is roaring to your success and you have participated in a truly successful transaction.

That is my goal in working with all of my clients.  These are truly trying times and you need an experienced coach, in the real estate, mortgage and financial thought process of the transaction.  Meet the Coach.

Onwards! 

By education I wound up with a BA in Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences, a wonderful education but limited options.  Eventually ending up with an MBA in Finance from the University of Puget Sound.  Then along came success as a real estate investor.  Once owning over 50 rental units, including SFR, duplex, triplex up to a 12 unit apartment house.  Authored and marketed a real estate investment software, back in 1983-86 from Seattle to Australia.  Thirteen different rates of return and designed to produce great informative reports. This simply put means that I have a complete grasp of Finance and Investment from the ground up.

Thirty years of real estate sales, brokerage, investment and mortgage experience means that you have a wealth of knowledge available to you.   Following the financial markets for thirty years gives one a perspective on history, cause and effect.  As a nation we have done things with our financing, wars with no tax increase, great society with no tax increases causing runaway inflation and leading to the Savings and Loan debacle and the Resolution Trust Corporation remind one of where we are today.  More wars without raising taxes to pay for them.  A sinking dollar.  A mortgage crisis, a world financial crisis.  And I believe in real estate as a hedge against inflation, regardless of what the current situation looks like.

I started a mortgage bank, United Pacific Mortgage in Feb. 2000 and sold it in 2004.  What a wild ride that was!  By the time it was over I had created a mortgage bank, had about 120 loan officers, 20 processors and completed about 4,500 mortgages for over $850,000,000 in total mortgage volume.

Over the years we have built up a great web presence which attracts buyers and sellers alike.  We know how to market to the Internet (where 72% of home buyers begin their search.

I look forward to your questions and input.  It's all about developing relationships. 

Sincerely,

Your real estate and mortgage Coach

Dick Todhunter

206-898-3776

I look forward to being your lifelong real estate and mortgage planner.

Areas of Expertise

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Testimonials

We tried selling our home ourselves but couldn’t get a buyer.  

Dick introduced himself with his Gentlemen’s Agreement to not harass us or ask for a listing and provide information to help us sell our home.  It was truly an educational experience.  

We eventually listed our home with Dick.  He did what he said he would do- he marketed our home like no other.  Dick is friendly and reliable.  Our house got sold and we are in our beautiful new home.

Tom & Erin

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Dick has great marketing programs!  We called him on a home because he had an 800 number hanging from his listing.  We didn’t want to talk with a real estate agent, we just wanted more information.  We were intrigued enough by the voice message to decide to use him as our real estate agent.

We found a home on Lake Washington that we really wanted, even though it showed many signs of deferred maintenance.  Dick showed us the home and met us to write an offer.  What kind of sales person is he!  He has ethics.  He spent two days talking us out of buying an albatross!!  And he could have sold us an albatross.

After our great disappointment and then satisfaction with his vast experience and professionalism he found us exactly what we were looking for.

Thanks for everything.

Sydney and David  

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My business failed.  I didn’t feel that I had any choice so I declared a chapter 13 bankruptcy and worked at paying off all of my creditors.  The problem was that it would take me forever and I was very unhappy.

That’s when I met Dick.  He showed me how I would be better off by selling my home and paying off all of my bills ending my bankruptcy.

Enough about me and my problems.  Dick worked very hard.  I originally listed the home at a price higher than recommended and the house didn’t sell.  We dropped the price and Dick went back to the realtors who had showed the house.  He notified other realtors of the price drop.  He got the house sold!

Yes, I will work on Tyler’s car for free for awhile!

Thanks for everything.  You will get my referrals.

JT

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   This was my first home purchase.  Dick was very patient and understanding of my fears.  His response was to educate me in how to look at a house and we did look at houses.

He explained things which needed to be done when I became a homeowner and what things I needed to be aware of.  

We made a couple of offers, coming in a poor 2nd, before we were able to get the best of the homes we looked at.

Thanks for your understanding and patience.

King Takee

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Mary Floyd said,

I needed to move to Arkansas.  Dick listed and got two of my properties sold.  

He has a professional attitude towards selling our homes and informing us about the progress of our sale.  He was on top of the transaction from beginning to end making sure that all went well.  

However, the second home sale had problems; it fell apart at the actual closing the first time- the buyer simply refused to close and walked out.  Dick asked for and got me the buyer’s earnest money of $3,000.  The second sale of this home went smoothly.  

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Mr. & Mrs John Lewis say,

Mary Floyd referred Dick to me.  I didn’t use him, listing with a church friend.  My friend listed my property for more than it would sell for, that’s why I listed with him.  

After a time of no activity, and many arguments with my “friend” we cancelled our listing, called Dick and listed with him.  He helped us prepare the house for sale.  He was very enthusiastic in creating a marketing program and implemented it.  

We listed at a fair price and got an all cash offer the same day that the home was listed.  Smooth sailing until the closing.  Mary was right about his professional capabilities.  Thanks for the referral Mary, a referral is the greatest form of flattery.  

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We tried to sell our Lake Stevens home ourselves.  My sister recommended that Dick meet with us to explain how to market our home.  We tried for awhile but got tired.

Dick listed our home at a price higher than it should have been (we shouldn’t have) and after a month we finally got an offer and sold the home.  Dick did a great job, except for our asking price.  

Our house was SOLD!  Now we needed to buy a home before school started.  Dick found out what we were looking for in a new home and did all of the leg work to find homes that met our needs.  We actually purchased our dream home, and it was in a gated community next to a private playfield.  What a mothers DREAM!

Zara L.

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