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I am Michelle Wurtz. I met Linda Carpenter through ... She was recommended to me by my uncles. They knew her through social gatherings. I reached out and asked if anybody knew any realtors that would work with first-time home buyers, and she was the first name that popped up, and so I reached out to her, and she responded to me right away.    
 
 
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:25 DID YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS AS A FIRST TIME HOME BUYER?
 
My biggest concern is everything that I didn't know about buying a house. I had kind of done my own research, but I knew there was a ton out there that I didn't know. I was also nervous in finding a realtor that would put time into helping me find a house because I knew I wasn't going to spend an atrocious amount of money, so finding someone who cared enough about what I needed and what I wanted was a big concern for me.
 
:54 WHAT FEARS DID YOU HAVE AS A FIRST TIME HOME BUYER?
 
My fears were I wouldn't be able to find what I was looking for. I would feel pressured into buying a house that I didn't want or that I would have to settle on something that wasn't perfect for me.
 
1:09 HOW DID LINDA HELP YOU WITH YOUR FEARS AND CONCERNS? 
                      
Linda was great. She was very responsive to me. I would tell her what I wanted, and we would go through a house, and she'd say, "This isn't what you want." We would spend five minutes in there and move on to the next. She was very realistic. We'd walk into a house, and she'd say, "You can't live with this," and that was ... I felt relieved that I didn't have to talk myself into anything. She would help me make that decision and be like, "No. I need ... This house won't ..."
 
1:38 MICHELLE HOW WAS THE BUYING PROCESS WITH LINDA? 
                     
I did find a house that I really liked, and I sat down with Linda. She sat down and walked through the whole offer with me, and I felt really comfortable. She explained everything to me since it was very complicated and my first time. Then she set up an inspection. She met with me and the inspector, and we went over there and sat down for almost two hours to go over this horrible inspection report. It was just a nightmare, and I wasn't sure what to do. I was concerned, and my parents were concerned. There was things we could have done, but Linda, I talked to her and she kind of told me, she said, "I think you should walk away. I'm totally comfortable with that." That just made me feel better that she wasn't ... She didn't want me to make that decision and regret it, so she was totally on board with kind of starting from scratch the next day and keep looking for houses. Then, when I did find the house that I liked, it was kind of a rush because there was already an offer on the house, and so she stayed up late working with me, deciding at 10:00 that we wanted to make an offer and put it together and was very realistic about what needed to be in the offer for us to get the house. When I got the call the next day, it was pretty exciting that it all worked out.
 
2:52 MICHELLE, ANYTHING ELSE YOU LIKE TO ADD?  
                 
I'm really grateful for having Linda. It was her attention to detail, her responsiveness to me. I asked to see a house, and we would literally see it the next day, or we would see it two minutes later. I really, really appreciated that. There was so much attention to detail. She would walk through everything with me, and she took care of all the little details. She called my inspector, got that set up for me. She talked to my mortgage broker. She took care of all those little things that took the stress off of me and kind of took that stress off ...  
 
3:28 WOULD YOU REFER LINDA?  
                     
Yes, 100%, I would recommend Linda to any of my friends or family who are looking to buy a house. The amount of time she spent with me, a first-time home buyer who wasn't spending a lot of money, I can only imagine how great she would be with just about anybody trying to find a house.