Anna K Intown Real Estate Team — Local services in Atlanta

As a first-time home-seller, selecting Ashley Skeen and Anna K Intown to help me sell my Druid Hills townhome was the very best decision I could have made. Here's why.

(1) Experience in my neighborhood: After interviewing several seller's agents, I was impressed by the experience Ashley and Anna K had in selling homes in my neighborhood. I understood how this positioned them to be well connected with buyer's agents who were looking for a home near where I lived.

(2) Listing strategy: All the agents I interviewed produced a comparative market analysis for my consideration, but only Ashley and Anna K presented me with a genuine listing strategy. Ashley helped me to understand how the market really responded to a listing price - and it wasn't at all what I had expected. I started to realize that some of the other agents I spoke with might have been more interested in getting the listing out of the way than in getting me top dollar for my home.

(3) Staging strategy: Since I had the flexibility to move out prior to listing, Ashley encouraged me to consider going ahead with my move in order to allow my condo to be freshly painted and professionally staged. I was skeptical of this at first, worrying whether I'd recover these upfront expenses. But, as it turned out, this was money well spent. I suspect I recovered every dime and then some. Needless to say, it dramatically simplified staging and showing my condo since I wasn't around.

(4) Managing relationships: Not only did Ashley and Anna K come up with listing and staging strategies, they provided me with exactly the support I needed to make it all happen. They identified contractors I needed, solicited quotes, and supervised their work on my behalf. This was accomplished by the efforts of relationship manager Nicky Nixon who coordinated all these activities and kept me abreast of the listing process as it unfolded. I realize now that when you select a seller's agent you are selecting someone who you want to be able to orchestrate the work of a variety of service providers to make your sale happen. All this occurred with an absolute minimum effort on my part.

(5) Recruiting potential buyers: I wasn't privy to how Ashley pulled it off, but potential buyers flooded in to see my home immediately after my listing went live. I was able to monitor this process in real-time with the ShowTime app that Anna K provided. I think that there were around 40 potential buyers who came through from the time the listing dropped on Thursday until the end of that weekend.

(6) Fast results: I ended up with what would turn out to be the winning offer in less than a week after my home went on the market.

(7) Effective negotiation: Another thing I learned is that when you select a seller's agent you are selecting a negotiator, as well as someone who will vet potential offers to make sure that the ones you pursue have a good chance of panning out. Ashley really excelled as my negotiator and was able to put together an exceptional deal for me in just a matter of days.

(8) Getting to closing: I had, again naively, thought that with a deal in hand getting to closing would be a cake walk. But I learned that there was a lot involved in getting all the ducks in a row to make the closing happen. Nicky Nixon, once again, helped me navigate the twists and turns of this document-laden process. And Ashley went above and beyond the call of duty with the wrangling of my HOA and its management company to make sure that needed documents ended up on the closing table. I don't know what I would have done without her.

Suffice it to say, I could not recommend Ashley Skeen and Anna K Intown more highly if you're looking to sell a home in intown Atlanta. The entire team was a pleasure...

Over the past 3+ years, I have been supported by a brilliant, tenacious team of women at AnnaK Intown Real Estate, who helped me make the decision to find a "fireplace with a condo attached" and then to sell my house, which had no fireplace and a large yard that required more maintenance than I could do. I first met my AnnaK team when Jess made a cold contact call to me. In general, I resent these kinds of calls, but there was a strong note of respect in the way Jess asked about my needs. Ultimately, Jess, Kristen, Elizabeth, and other team members helped me and my grandson with one of the most difficult and trying life transitions I've ever made. Jess, who became my buyer's agent, was very patient with my reluctance to buy any condo but the one I most needed. Also, I insisted that my college-age grandson be involved in every step of buying and selling. My reasons were that there is no more accessible and valuable investment than real estate, and I wanted him to know that--and to be ready for the responsibility of purchasing, managing, and selling a home. These are critical life skills that have years of impact on how families live and prosper. Together, Jess, my grandson, and I looked at dozens of condos and we finally made an offer for the right place. Jess launched a persistent campaign to get the sellers to understand that I was the best candidate to buy their condo. Meanwhile, one potential buyer after another tangled our prospective condo in contingencies, each of which fell through. With every frustrating month that passed, I was aware of how much support and training Jess was getting from her agency and then passed on to us. It was truly Jess being there at the right moment that finally got the sellers to say "yes" to us. At last, we closed, on a fireplace with a condo attached! While all this was going on, my grandson and I had been cleaning out 25 years of accumulated stuff and making repairs and maintenance to the house we were going to sell. With every challenge, AnnaK's Kristen and Elizabeth, our seller's agents, offered endless feedback, resources, and support. As time passed, their knowledge of how to respond to challenges, solve problems, and market the house became invaluable. Knowing that I wanted to sell to a couple or family, they ran interference with dozens of low offers that came in from developers. At last--we got an offer for the house, from a young couple with a toddler! Getting through negotiations was very trying, but this was where I saw the guidance I was getting from AnnaK most clearly. It is a uniquely feminine agency that thinks deeply about how best to serve their clients. The market, methods, and laws governing real estate transactions had changed since my last home purchase, and in both buying and selling, AnnaK's agents and team members spared me all kinds of mistakes and ultimately, loss of precious money in a very tight and competitive environment. Everything we asked for or needed, they delivered. And my grandson is now ready to buy his own place when...

TLDR: Go to Anna K Intown for all your home buying and selling needs. You won't regret it. Smooth and easy process when you work with them.

Coming from across the other end of the country, I was referred to Ryan Todd and Anna K Intown for my home buying needs. Given the crazy market and being at the other end of the country at the time, I wasn't able to be available in person to look at properties, which made it challenging for the home buying process. With the amazing help from Ryan, not only was he always on top of his game (immediately providing disclosures and additional information on each property), he was more than willing to drive to all of these properties (I know some were not close) in the metro Atlanta area that I was interested in and gave me a very detailed video walk through of each.

He paid attention to all of my needs and if something didn't seem right about a property, he would do what he could to get additional information without me even having to ask. And not only that, Ryan gave us the education with what to lookout for in the homebuyung process in today's market, on top of his best recommendations on what to offer with our current budget.

There was a stint where I stopped looking for home for a couple months due to how fast homes were selling and me not being able to physically see the properties. But not only did Ryan check up on us from time to time, he was very patient and didn't pressure us to buy a home or write us off.

When I was ready to look again, he was on top of everything, providing us with great service as usual and getting us the best deals possible. I'm proud to say we got an amazing home through Ryan and team. They do all the heavy lifting so everything can be smooth, easy, and stress free for you.

I highly recommend Anna K Intown for their excellent team, excellent service, and all the excellent resources they provide during and after the...