Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Kristin, what a great story, and at this moment, cannot remember my first listing.   I had buyers right off the bat, and it was very exciting!

Nov 15, 2015 01:14 AM
Joyce Marsh
Joyce Marsh Real Estate LLC - Daytona Beach, FL
Joyce Marsh Real Estate LLC - Luxury Real Estate

Thats a great story, and I can certainly remember "very vividly" my first listing and my first sale.  Both fond memories.  I wish I had taken a photograph, that would have been nice to have. Thanks for sharing

Nov 15, 2015 01:35 AM
Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor
Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA
(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Joan Cox 

I bet it will come to you later. I have been so lucky to have many wonderful clients and try to stay in touch with many as well as the agents too. Thanks for stopping by.

Nov 15, 2015 01:38 AM
Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor
Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA
(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Joyce Marsh 

I was sitting in my office this morning staring at this photo and thought it would be a nice photo to share. Good memories and a great friend and lender who was so thoughtful. 

Nov 15, 2015 01:40 AM
Bill Roberts
Brooks and Dunphy Real Estate - Oceanside, CA
"Baby Boomer" Retirement Planner

Hi Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor I do remember my first sale. It was 1975 and I was working with a GI buyer. I sold them a cute little house in Inglewood. The sellers were Italian descent. The house smelled so good from all the Italian cooking. The buyers were black. It was an all white neighborhood. They were the first blacks in the area. Now it is mostly black, but still a very nice neighborhood, near the Forum. The sales price was $35,000.00.

In those days I specialized in VA buyers and sellers. Mostly we did GI NO NOs, which were VA loans with nothing down and NO CLOSING COSTS. Very easy.

Bill Roberts

Nov 15, 2015 03:11 AM
Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor
Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA
(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Bill Roberts 

Wow, that must have been amazing to do with no money down and no closing costs. I remember my parents would always get CALVET loans. I remember they bought a house in 1968 for $54,000 and it was huge and very nice. I bet he was happy not to have all those fees.

Nov 15, 2015 07:17 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Kristin - Nice keepsake. I certainly remember Mary's - she, the seller and the buyer, were all scraping, painting and picking up old paint chips well into the wee hours of the night before. I wish we had a picture of that.

Nov 15, 2015 09:02 AM
Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor
Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA
(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Dick Greenberg 

Oh it sounds like good times for you and Mary.  Many Sellers think we draft a contract and then close with a nice check. Some of the things we do to get the houses closed would make their heads spin. I have cleaned house while doing open houses when they were bad. Carry out trash bags of stuff  in my car to give home a clean look when there was no trash pick up, many other things just to be helpful and make the sale go smoothly. I probably did a lot more the first few years where I now call someone to do it for me. Good times??

Nov 15, 2015 10:39 AM
Dick Greenberg

Good Times!

Nov 15, 2015 10:44 AM