Metro Broker Mary Kay Irving with Thompson Daviau Realty offers great advice if you are buying or selling your home. Contact Mary Kay by phone or text at 720-217-6450 or by email at MaryKay@TheIrvingTeam.com or visit her online at The Irving Team.
Interviewer: Today in our studio we have Mary Kay Irving with the Thompson Daviau Realty Group. Mary Kay welcome.
Mary Kay Irving: Thank you, nice to be here.
Interviewer: So you've been in real estate since 2005, correct?
Mary Kay Irving: Yes.
Interviewer: Tell me what areas you specialize in?
Mary Kay Irving: I specialize in Boulder County, so buying and representing sellers in Boulder proper as well as the outlying communities of Louisville, Lafayette to Longmont; sometimes I go out to Broomfield as well in the north metro area Thornton, Westminster.
Interviewer: Great. What advice do you have for buyers?
Mary Kay Irving: Well it's still a great time to buy, we've got historically low interest rates. I do specialize in helping first time home buyers and buyers relocating from out of state and my first recommendation for first time home buyers is to speak to a lender, first thing they should be doing is speaking to a lender. And then I always recommend that they buy, hire a buyers agent, this is completely free to them, buyers don't always realize that it's the sellers, the listing agent and the seller who pay the fee for their buyers agent, so it's a free service but it gives them the most protection, once they hire me as to represent them as their agent then I am legally obligated to advocate solely on their behalf and get them the absolute best deal.
Interviewer: Great. What about advice for sellers?
Mary Kay Irving: Sellers actually have a little bit of an advantage in this market currently because we have such a low inventory with the economic downturn, people had been holding off on selling and so right now because of the low interest rates we have a lot of buyers but not enough inventory, not enough property for them, so it's a great time for sellers and my recommendations for them would also be to hire an agent but to make sure that they get a pre-listing inspection done and so that they are not caught by any surprises of work that needs to be done and that the buyers will be asking them to do and also that they make sure, if they've got, money is available to look into getting a consultation from a stager, a professional stager, at the very least they need to be making sure everything is de-cluttered and arranged properly, so sellers who do hire a professional stager actually sell their homes much more quickly and for a higher price, for higher final sale price, so it's in their best interest to actually hire a stager.
Interviewer: Definitely. And what ways do you, would say that you stand out from other agents?
Mary Kay Irving: Well first of all I do not consider myself to be high pressure, I'm not a typical sales person, I'm really about, I come from a family of educators and my background is education and training, so I'm really passionate about providing knowledge to people, empowering them by giving them information to help them in making their own decisions. That's one way that I stand out and I also don't, I don't specialize in everything, I do what I do and I do it well, I don't try to be all things to everyone, so for example if someone is looking to either get a great deal through a short sale or just sell their home through a short sale, I don't do those myself, I've had training and experience in it but I know the experts in it and I refer it to those experts.
Interviewer: And how can clients reach you?
Mary Kay Irving: They can reach me a couple of ways, they can reach me by phone or text at (720) 217-6450 or via my website and email at MaryKay@TheIrvingTeam.com.
Interviewer: Wonderful. Mary Kay thank you so much for joining me today.
Mary Kay Irving: You are welcome.
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