About

I’ve been a licensed real estate broker in North Carolina since 2005. That’s 21 years, which mostly means I’ve watched several different markets convince everyone that this time is permanent. It never is.

I work with buyers, and specifically with two kinds: people using a VA loan and people buying new construction. Both are transactions where the buyer is at an information disadvantage, and both are ones where a general-practice agent can cost you money without ever doing anything obviously wrong.

The VA loan is a benefit people earned, and it gets treated in this business like a complication. I’ve had listing agents tell me their seller “doesn’t do VA,” which is not a thing, and I’ve had to explain the appraisal process to agents who had been licensed longer than I had. Somebody has to know it well enough to argue the point. That’s part of why I do this.

New construction is the other one. Buyers walk into a model home, meet someone friendly, and don’t register that the friendly person is the builder’s employee. There is nothing improper about that — but you should have someone on your side too, and you have to bring them before you sign in, not after.

I’m with NorthGroup Real Estate, based in the Charlotte metro. I answer my own phone. If you call the number on this page, you get me, not a team coordinator.