AMANDA HOUSER

I cannot say enough great things about Amanda and her team. They are there for you through the whole process and after. I bought this home and sold it with the Houser team. I would recommend them to anyone. They use their knowledge of the market area, construction, and repair to make your time as a homeowner as painless as possible.

Amanda was really nice and easy to work with. We sold our first house with her and I would've left a glowing 5+ star review after that process. She had the house staged, really seemed to personally be involved in every step, and things went smoothly. A year and a half later we unexpectedly decided to move out of state and decided to work with her again. We had our initial meeting and felt good about the plan. We were surprised when it seemed like we got handed off to her assistant after that initial meeting, though. Amanda did still involve herself, but it was more in an occasionally touching base sort of way and my impression was that her assistant was mainly running things. I still probably would've called it a 4 or 4.5 star experience overall despite that because we did sell our house for asking price and it went smoothly. But there was one extremely frustrating issue that I honestly should probably rate the experience even lower for. We lived in the house 1.5 years before selling. According to a rule we were not aware of, that meant any profit we made was fully taxable income. After 2 years, something like the first $500,000 of profit is protected from being taxed. So if Amanda had simply informed us about this, we would've 100% waited 6 months to sell. But either she didn't know about it, which I'd argue is her responsibility as the realtor to know, or she chose not to tell us about it. I won't speculate on which of those it was or why she might've chosen not to tell us if she did know. The facts were simply that we profited about $450K on the house because the market was exploding at the time and house values were way up. Because of my income, the majority of that was taxed at the top taxable bracket for the year and we ended up with a total tax bill of $109K out of pocket to the IRS. About half of that was because we sold our house 6 months too early. We could've waited 6 months and saved about 50-60k if we'd just known.

We moved to Florida from out of state. The market was insane, but Amanda and her team were so helpful and friendly. They were so patient, taking us on virtual tours of houses, answering all of our questions, giving us information about the area, and she was incredibly honest. Amanda went so far as to tour us through a house, keep us on FaceTime as she drove from the house to the school our kids would be attending, so we could get a feel for how long of a commute we'd have to make each day. She certainly went above and beyond. I would recommend her to anyone looking to move to St. Augsutine/Jacksonville. She is the best!

Amanda and her Team go above and beyond Being a first time buyer not knowing much they help and explain every step of the way sometimes I ask to explain a again and no question ask they would It was a wounderful experience working with them there knowledge experience goes beyond Amanda and her team are Amazing