We are delighted to recommend Tina Marie Teraskiewicz to anyone who wants the services of an exceptionally competent real estate agent. During the six months that Tina worked with us in the spring and summer of 2022, she far exceeded our expectations as, working collaboratively with her, we drew upon her expertise, commitment, and full-time effort to successfully prepare our premier home for sale, list it on April 15, and close on its sale a little more than three months later on August 26. Highlights of the experience include Tina’s ability to prepare both us and the house for sale, her knowledge of the local market, her skills in appropriately pricing the property, her prior success in selling homes in The Villages, her on-line and in-person marketing skills, her interpersonal skills in dealing with potential buyers—knowing when to encourage, what to say, and when to back off—and, for us, her sensitivity to our desire to find a buyer who would love the home and its exceptional property and location as much as we loved it for almost 15 years. Two of Tina’s specific recommendations were pivotal to success of the sale: (1) that we initiate our own home inspection shortly after putting the house on the market in order to identify and deal with any possible issues that a buyer’s home inspection might identify; and (2) that we move cautiously on any price reductions either while the house was for sale in a rapidly declining housing market or during negotiations with the folks who eventually bought the property. As a result of these two recommendations, the buyers’ own home inspection identified less than half-a-dozen minor needs, the roof replaced in 2019 is now being totally replaced by the shingle manufacturer because of defective shingles without cost to either us or the buyers, and, despite rising home mortgage rates and declining home sale prices after April 15, the house sold three months later for 94% of its original listing price.
Tina Teraskiewicz
