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"She made us feel like we were her only customers"
Susan Orth is simply one of the top professionals I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with throughout my long professional career. My family and I reside in Seoul, Korea where I am a director in a large organization. After my wife and I decided not to buy a home in the Monterey Peninsula, we picked Santa Fe sight unseen for our future retirement home. I called a realtor friend in Nevada City, CA whom we completely trust and asked if he could recommend an excellent realtor in Santa Fe. Without hesitation, he named Susan Orth as the go-to realtor for the Santa Fe area. I called her and from that moment she became a matchless, full-service realtor and advisor on all issues associated with finding and purchasing our final retirement home. Susan has many strong attributes, but what stood out for us was her total customer focus and rapid follow-through in every instance. We never felt any time pressure to buy a particular home, and Susan had endless patience with us as our tastes evolved considerably in buying a Santa Fe style home. Susan listed attentively and immediately adjusted to our evolving taste in home styles and preferred locale. Susan put a lot miles on her BMW SUV showing us around, and she made us feel like we were her only customers while we searched for a home in two round-trips flights between Seoul and Santa Fe over a period of months. Talk about patience! Over this period, many issues and questions arose. I was amazed at Susan’s immediate follow-up in every single instance. Susan became a trusted friend; she made our house hunting fun, an absolute pleasure, as it should be. Equally important, she completely facilitated a smooth purchase process that gave us no stress, in fact, quite the opposite. Also notable, Susan is a “high-tech,” computer savvy realtor and communicator; this eased considerably the process of receiving and sending all the documents required to purchase a home; she has an excellent webpage, an automatic internet service that informed us daily of homes new on the market (with a picture), and a very helpful internet news letter that provides home purchase tips to consider when buying a home in Santa Fe. She is simply superb in making the internet work to your advantage; she also provides multiple means of contacting her, and she rapidly gets back to you--always. All these factors proved invaluable given that we live 8,000 miles away in Korea. Looking back on our search for our dream retirement home, it was a memorable experience. She has become a good, trusted friend as well. Susan is the “benchmark” for other realtors to aspire. PS: she can recommend an excellent variety of B&Bs to stay in while you look for a house.
Kevin and Yong Sun Willey
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