Kristen Roy bought her first house when
she was 21 years old. Since then, real estate buying and selling has been her
passion. She owns 13 properties with her husband and doesn’t plan to stop
buying any time soon.
Roy is a broker with Landing Real
Estate, which will open its Windham office soon. She will work out of that
office, but said that her office has four wheels and she is always moving. Roy
does not do commercial real estate, but works with all residential home buyers
and sellers.
“I’m a realtor because of all the buying
and selling with other realtors that I’ve done. Some were positive experiences
and some experiences I would never go through again,” Roy said.
She is the full-time mom of two boys. Working
around her children’s schedule doesn’t mean that she’s unavailable to her
clients.
“I’m obsessed with it. I love what I do.
It’s a fun, natural high,” she explained. Roy loves working with her clients
and she loves to interview them face to face, to find out what they like and
don’t like in a home.
She is a little different when it comes
to a first meeting. She sets up a showing at a house the clients like. “It’s
probably not the first house they’ll buy,” Roy said, but it gives her valuable
feedback moving forward to the next home and the one following that. “I’m
watching, learning who they are. I learn so much more watching them than on a
one on one interaction at the office,” she said.
Word of mouth and her son are her
biggest marketing tools. Her son carries business cards in his backpack to set
up playdates with his friends. He just hands over a card to have his friends’
parents call his parents. Roy said she has connected with many clients that
way.
“People go from trusting me with their
children to then trusting me with their finances,” she said. Roy enjoys helping
families relocate. “I listen to what they are looking for,” she said. Then she
finds the house that meets their needs whether it’s a starter house, a larger
home for a growing family or a retirement house on the water.
“We were first time home buyers and [Roy] is both
knowledgeably, patient and friendly…We spent a lot of time searching for houses
on Zillow and she would quickly find out more information about them and set up
showings... She had set away whole days for just us and we would drive around
to the various houses for showings. She was always upbeat, and honest,” said
one Zillow reviewer.
Roy is the number two realtor/broker in
Raymond because of her involvement in the community and coaching sports. “I’m just me. I don’t hideout. I’m very honest
and open. I love being a broker,” reports Roy.
One of the perks of being a broker in
Maine is seeing the state. Roy grew up in Bucksport and has clients in that
area, in addition to working with clients in the greater Raymond area. She has
a presence on www.Zillow.com and receives leads from potential clients from
out-of-state.
“She
always made time in her schedule to fit our needs and is quite fluent with the
lakes region. Buying or selling, she will have a repeat customer in us,” said
another Zillow reviewer.
Being
a realtor is hard work, she explained. “I want it to be an easy, memorable
experience.” Once she sells a home to a family
especially in Raymond, she is always in their lives. “I’m your forever
realtor,” she said.
For more information, visit www.LandingHomesMaine.com,
email Kristen@LandingHomesMaine.com
or call or text 207-671-8149.
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