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CLIENT CARE TEAM
Dedicated to providing World Class Service and always available to exceed your expectations. Thelma and her team of professionals are committed to assisting you with every detail before, during and after your home sale.
TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN
Nearly 90% of home buyers begin their search on the internet. Thelma heavily promotes her listings online, via her professional and informative personal Google Sponsored website www.Thelma4Harborhomes.com, and globally networked on www.BHGRE.com with the highest luxury home search worldwide, with exclusive partnerships designed to deliver 700 million impressions in an effort to drive incremental brand awareness and direct leads to our network members, including Zillow, Trulia, Realtor,com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Google, YouTube, BBC, James Edition, PropGoLuxury, Luxury Estate, Bloomberg, dwell, Yahoo, TheTelegraph, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Mansion Global, Smarter Agent, Homes.com, Great Homes Network, Hong Kong Tatler and Architectural Digest; and several other syndicated websites, not just one like most agents.
PRINT MARKETING & FREE PHOTOGRAPHY
Thelma advertises in the local newspapers, high-end home magazines like Distinctive Home and Unique Home by Better Homes and Gardens, and community magazines like Canterwood Life providing you maximum exposure. Thelma showcases each of her listings with TLC, providing high-quality custom brochures featuring FREE professional state of the art 3-Dimensional photography, and HD video tours to set your listing above the rest with skillful and multi-faceted marketing techniques.
COMPLIMENTARY HOME STAGING
Thelma provides FREE home staging for your home when you list with her. Studies show staged homes sell twice as fast as those that are not and for over 6% more money. Thelma believes this will greatly enhance your chances of selling your home faster, and provides this key benefit to her clients free of charge.
DIRECT MAIL
Thelma and her staff are highly educated in the art of direct mail and targeting potential buyers in your area by distributing alluring marketing pieces. Thelma regularly distributes quality postcards & newsletters to the Gig Harbor market.
NETWORK OF PROFESSIONALS
Thelma is directly connected to lenders, brokers and financing companies. This ensures that with a qualified buyer, Thelma will get your home closed. Thelma has a trusted Service Directory of Home Stagers, Landscape Architects, Handymen, and more that she works with daily to recommend and help you with any of your home needs.
SOCIAL MARKETING
Thelma stays on the cutting edge of technology, and promotes her listings via social networking sites to engage the community network demographic.
FEATURED LISTINGS
Thelma goes above and beyond to pay to feature your home on sites like Realtor.com and Homes. com, as well as exclusive partnerships with Wall Street Journal and Robb Report through Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. Her tech-savvy staff promote her website and listings online, as well as sponsor by Google, searches so that your home is 500% more visible than the rest.
COMMUNITY TOUCH
Thelma is a highly visible community figure and is an integral part of the Canterwood neighborhood. She matches the upper-end demographic and buyers connect with her and trust her judgment. Thelma has tailored her business to match her lifestyle, and that’s why she’s become an expert in Gig Harbor Real Estate.
EXPERIENCE & RECOGNITION
Thelma is a Recognized Top Agent having negotiated over $250 million in closed real estate receiving Gig Harbor Achievement Award by the Pierce County Association of Realtors in from 2005-2016 as well as the number one listing agent in Canterwood Golf & Country Club. She has been nationally recognized as “Seattle’s Best in Real Estate” consecutively for 6 years, as well as the Top Sales in Gig Harbor by volume consecutively in 2012, 2013 & 2014.

M. Philips

Thelma is an incredible agent and I would highly recommend her. She knows the Gig Harbor market better than anyone – especially if you are buying or selling in Canterwood. She is not only knowledgeable, but she is creative in her deal-making and I trust her implicitly.

Thelma and her team are professionals from start to finish. Her knowledge of the Canterwood community in particular was an advantage for us selling in that neighborhood. Her experience and guidance — from home staging to showings to negotiating and securing a very strong offer–paid off. We strategized about when to put the home on […]

It is extremely easy to write a glowing recommendation for Thelma Channon and Brooke. Over the last 18 years, I have had the pleasure of working with Thelma and her team on no less 9 real estate transactions — on both the buying and selling side. In each and every instance Thelma has been not […]

M. Nesland

Thelma is a Top Notch Agent! She is very knowledgeable and has successfully assisted us in a number of different sales/purchases, one being a very complex short sale. Her expertise and drive is much appreciated and valued.

L. Robbins

Thelma and her team are professional and knowledgeable. We had a great experience selling our home with their help. The whole process was smooth and effortless. We would use their services again!

Thelma and Brooke are consistent, professional and made a home sale/purchase pleasant and effortless. Excellent communication and follow through. Their knowledge of the local market is helpful and honest feedback is invaluable.

V. Shelton

I had a previous agent who let me guide the pricing of my home, which was too high but what I thought it was worth. We didn’t get the house sold. With Thelma, she provided good counsel as to what she thought was needed both internally and externally to get the house sold, as well […]

R. Robertson

I would highly recommend Thelma and Brooke to anyone looking to buy or sell a home in the Gig Harbor area. We listed our home with Thelma and had exceptional results. Not only did we get the price that we wanted but Thelma and her team made sure all of the details were taken care […]

J. Zatzkin

Thelma is a very dedicated realtor with excellent professional and interpersonal skills. I highly recommend her.

D. Ashton

Thelma is personable, and has a great knowledge base of the real estate market in Gig Harbor and especially Canterwood. Thelma provides terrific support in the community, is socially active and well respected. She has many years of experience to draw on which she can leverage for her clients. Thelma is always the first agent […]

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