Access
On anything that matters — an offer, a deadline, a decision — you hear from me directly. I have a coordinator who handles paperwork so that I can handle you, not the other way around.
Where are you buying?
The Buyer Consultation
Before we talk about houses, let's talk about you.
Most buyer consultations open with the agent — the team, the awards, the logo. This one opens with you. Answer as we go, in whatever order you like. By the time you reach the bottom, I'll know exactly what I'm looking for on your behalf.
350+
Homes closed
$120M
In volume
8
Years, two markets
Chapter 01
The house is the outcome, not the starting point.
I've closed more than 350 homes across Central Ohio and South Florida over the last eight years — north of $120 million in volume. Almost none of it came from advertising. It came from people who felt understood the first time we talked, and who then told someone else.
Here is what eight years of that teaches you: buyers rarely need help finding houses. Listings are everywhere, on every app, updated every fifteen minutes. What buyers need is someone who understands the thing sitting underneath the search — the commute that's quietly eating your evenings, the family that's about to outgrow the space, the winter you're finished shoveling, the equity you've earned and don't intend to waste.
Get that part right and the right house stops being a needle in a haystack. It becomes obvious. Everyone in the room recognizes it at the same moment.
So this isn't a tour of my résumé. It's thirty minutes on you — and then a plan.
How to use this
Answer what you know. Skip what you don't.
Nothing here is a test, and no answer locks you in. Half of what you write today will change once you walk through the first four houses — that's normal, and it's useful information too.
Your answers stay in your browser as you go, so you can close this and come back. When you're ready, the last section puts everything into one clean summary you can send me.
Chapter 02
Who's buying.
The basics, so I can reach you the way you actually prefer to be reached — and so nothing important lands in a channel you never check.
Preferred contact method
Chapter 03
What you're actually looking for.
This is the question I care most about, and the one everybody rushes. Give it two more minutes than feels necessary.
Not the bedroom count — the reason. What isn't working where you live now? What does the right home let you do that you can't do today? Write it however it comes out.
What kind of lifestyle are you going for?
Pick as many as fit. This tells me which streets to be looking at, not just which houses.
Neighborhoods, cities, school districts, a commute you're trying to protect — anything geographic.
Chapter 04
The home itself.
Now the specifics. These become the search filters — and, later, the things I argue for on your behalf when we're negotiating.
Property type
Style of home
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Garage
Size of the home
Do you prefer a pool?
Open to renovations?
If a house is missing one of these, we don't bother going. Be strict here — it's the most useful thing you'll write.
Chapter 05
The numbers.
The part people brace for. I'm not asking in order to qualify you — I'm asking so I never spend your Saturday inside a house that was never going to work.
Ideally — a range is completely fine.
Not what you'd be approved for. What you actually want to spend, all in.
Do you plan to finance this purchase?
Are you currently pre-approved?
Do you have a current home to sell?
Address, whether it's listed yet, and whether the sale has to fund this purchase.
If you're not pre-approved yet, that's genuinely fine. It's simply the first thing we fix, and it takes less time than people expect. I have lenders in both Ohio and Florida who answer their phones on a Saturday and who will tell you the truth about your numbers rather than the most flattering version of them. Say the word and I'll make the introduction.
Chapter 06
Timing, and when you can actually go look.
Availability is the quiet reason buyers lose houses. In both of my markets the right home can arrive on a Thursday and be gone by Sunday night — so I'd rather know your calendar now than negotiate with it later.
Ideal timeline to purchase
A lease ending, a job start date, a school year, a closing you've already committed to.
What days are you available for showings?
And what times work best?
Pets, family arriving, a relocation, a divorce, a 1031, a lease-back you need — the messy real-life details that shape a deal. Nothing here surprises me.
Chapter 07
What happens next, in order.
Nine steps from this page to your keys. Nothing here is a surprise, which is the whole point — the deals that go badly are almost always the ones where somebody found out about a step too late to do anything about it.
01
This consultation
You and me
We go through everything on this page together, and I tell you the truth about what your number buys in the areas you're targeting. If there's a gap between the two, you hear it now — not in six weeks.
02
Representation and pre-approval
You, me, and a lender
We put our working agreement in writing so you know exactly what I do and what it costs you. In parallel, you get fully pre-approved — not pre-qualified. A real underwritten approval is the single biggest advantage you can carry into an offer.
03
The search goes live
Me, daily
Your criteria go into the MLS in the correct market, and you get alerts the moment something matches. I'm also working the part you can't see: coming-soon inventory, builder lots, and agents I've closed with who tell me what's about to hit before it hits.
04
Showings
You and me
We tour in blocks so you're comparing homes against each other while they're fresh. I'm reading roof, mechanicals, drainage, layout, and resale the entire time, and I will tell you when a house is wrong for you even if you love the kitchen.
05
The offer
Me, with your sign-off
Before we write, you see the comparable sales, the days on market, the seller's likely position, and what I think it takes to win. Then we decide together — price, terms, dates, contingencies. Numbers before emotion, every time.
06
Under contract and inspections
Me and my coordinator
Earnest money is delivered and receipted, and inspection windows open immediately. You get a full transaction summary — every date, every contact, every pending item on one page — so you always know what's due and who owes it.
07
Appraisal and loan commitment
Lender, watched closely
The lender orders the appraisal and works toward final commitment. I stay on the appraisal result and the underwriting conditions, because this is the stage where quiet delays turn into missed deadlines.
08
Final walkthrough
You and me
We walk it one last time before closing to confirm agreed repairs are done and the home is in the condition you contracted for. Anything that isn't right gets addressed before money moves, not after.
09
Closing, and then after
All of us
You sign, you fund, you get the keys. Then you stay on my list — not for spam, but because I track your value, your tax situation, and your options for as long as you own it. Most of my business comes from people I closed years ago.
The four-layer read
Every home I send you gets looked at four ways.
A listing description tells you square footage. It doesn't tell you whether the street floods, what's being built behind the tree line, or why the last two sales on the block closed under ask. So I never send you a house on the strength of its photos alone.
Layer 01
The neighborhood
What's happening around it — new construction, commercial development, road plans, association health, where values have been going and why.
Layer 02
The location
The specific parcel. Orientation, lot position, traffic and noise, flood and drainage, what you can see from the windows and who can see in.
Layer 03
The home
Age and bones. Roof, systems, windows, foundation, past permits and past work. What's been maintained and what's been postponed.
Layer 04
The details
The finish level and the fine print. Materials, layout, storage, outdoor living, plus taxes, insurance, fees, and what the true monthly cost really is.
Chapter 08
What you should expect from me.
Not a mission statement. Four things you can hold me to, and one reason you can trust that I mean them.
Candor
I will talk you out of a house. If the numbers don't work or the resale worries me, you'll hear it plainly, in advance, even when it costs me the transaction.
Preparation
You never see an offer without seeing the comparable sales behind it first. You never hit a deadline you didn't know was coming.
One standard, two markets
Central Ohio and South Florida are completely different animals — pace, inventory, insurance, associations. The market knowledge changes. The way I work does not.
Here's the reason I can promise all of that. My business is almost entirely referral and repeat clients. That isn't a line for a brochure — it's an incentive structure. I'm not optimizing for this one transaction. I'm optimizing for the phone call you make about me two years from now, when someone you care about asks who they should use.
Chapter 09
Send it to me.
Here's everything you've told me, in one place. Look it over, change anything that's wrong, then send it across — or bring it to our call and we'll go through it together.
If your email app doesn't open, hit Copy summary and paste it into a text — either number reaches me directly.
Rather just talk? That works too, and honestly it's the better version. Grab thirty minutes on my calendar and we'll go through all of this live — I'll bring what your number actually buys in the areas you named.