Karen Richmond

With Karen Richmond, we found the knowledge, expertise, and leadership we needed to sell our house in a timely manner and for a fair price. Using their expertise and knowledge our property sold for more and quicker than other homes in the neighborhood, actually, $30,000 over the highest sale in 4 days. They came in knowing the market, knowing the competition, and knowing the trends.The last thing as a home owner you want to hear is you need to do some type of repair, change, or update. Instead of telling us that we had to do something, items were suggested with rational why the changes should be made and possible alternatives. They treated our money as theirs; do what makes sense. We felt comfortable with their suggestions, and ultimately followed their suggestions. In retrospect, the actions were right on with little cost; significantly less than having the house on the market for another month or longer.We highly recommend Karen Richmond. She will take the time to understand your goals and will guide you through the process of buying or selling your home. If your looking for Real Estate Agent you can trust, look no further.

Karen and KK were an absolute joy to work with. My spouse and I had some challenging moments during the lengthy process of selling our house and buying our dream home. Karen was with us every step of the way. One of the challenging moments was when the house we were selling, appraisal came back significantly lower than we expected. We were so frustrated and upset. But Karen, without hesitation, took the initiative to challenge the appraisal. She spent countless hours of her personal time, researching and sending supporting information to the appraisal management company, and the value of our house was eventually changed. We are truly grateful to have had Karen as our realtor. We strongly recommend Karen to anyone (i.e. especially our family and friends) that wants a realtor who is professional, knowledgeable, and reliable and will go to bat for you if the need arises.

Karen was absolutely invaluable to my wife and I throughout the home buying process, I fear that they have spoiled us for other agents when we eventually move out of the area. Their thoroughness and their attention to detail coupled with their ability to break down industry lingo to a level that the novice can easily comprehend made the experience enjoyable for us because she took out the apprehension that goes with feeling like you are getting in to something you do not understand.She took the time to not only take on our wish list of what we wanted in a home but she got to know us on a personal level so much so that was able to guide us to areas and houses that were well suited for us and cut down considerably on time spent with houses that didnt fit. When we were willing to make some concessions because we thought we wouldnt be able to find what we wanted in our price range she was able to talk us off the ledge and convinced us to stay the course. She got us to keep the faith and she was able to deliver a home that is perfectly suited for what we wanted at a price we can live very comfortably with.What I feel speaks the most about Karens character and work ethic was the way she was able to work with a nightmare seller to finish the deal on time despite adversity that seemed to present itself every step along the way. Its certainly easy to keep a smile and maintain a bright disposition when things are going along smoothly but dealing with this particular seller, who was a rare breed of difficult by the accounts of all parties involved regardless of how brief their contact with him was, would have been enough to cause most agents to steer their clients in any direction that got them away from having to deal with that guy but Karen endured what I can only imagine were days of fighting what must have often felt like a losing battle in order to get us the house that she knew was right for us. While I cannot give her back the years that the stress of this sale has surely taken off of her life I can offer my thanks for what her tenacity and resolve has meant to our family. I will certainly be singing her praises to anyone who will listen and cannot express enough what an asset she is to the K Realty team.

I tried selling my house FSBO for about a month with very few inquiries then I was introduced to Karen Richmond through a friend of a friend and after talking on the phone she agreed to come over to the house and talk with me about listing my house. She walked through the house and gave me some tips for staging furniture and talked me through some of the items I needed to fix before having an open house. She was very confident and told me her average time of having a house on the market was 8 days. There were several houses in my neighborhood which had been on the market for months and I was initially skeptical of Karen's confidence. My skepticism quickly turned into admiration for Karen. We put the house on the market on a Thursday and Karen set up an open house that weekend. Karen works closely with Kathy Kilgore, and between the two of them they had posted flyers of my house at a number of businesses around town. They had a few folks interested at the first open house, but the following weekend they had another open house and we got a couple offers. Unfortunately, and due to no fault of Karen's that first offer fell through. Karen was undeterred and her and Kathy set up another open house for the next weekend, where we received yet another offer. This one better than the last. Luckily for my wife and I, that first offer wasn't meant to be, but Karen and Kathy worked tirelessly to get our contract to closing and sold our house. Kathy Kilgore was the friend of a friend I mentioned above, and I'm happy to say that having gone through the process of selling my house with Kathy, I now consider her and Karen friends. Kathy worked harder than any real estate agent I've ever met to ensure each open house was a successful event. I would definitely recommend them to anyone interested in buying or selling a home!

We listed our home with Karen after having our house listed with multiple agents in the past. Karen came to our house and explained how she would help us stage and market our home. She went above and beyond helping us prepare our home for sale. She is detail oriented and pays close attention to what buyers are looking for when they are comparing homes. Karen was able to sell our home for more than the other realtors we previously listed with by making sure our home was 100% ready for the market instead of tweaking it afterwards. Her staging experience and photography skills were amazing when we compared what she did to other agents that had listed it before.

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication helping us find our first home by navigating us through the home buying process with expertise. We appreciate your exceptional service, knowledge of Northern Virginia neighborhoods and real estate BUT most of all your honesty!

I want to thank you again for all you did to get my condo sold. You are a tenacious lady who went above and beyond the call of duty. I know that if not for you my condo would still not be sold. If you ever need customer references, I'm here for you. You've been a godsend and I can never thank you enough.

Kenneth and Patria Cox Manassas, VA Buyers & Sellers March 2015 Great realtors! We are so happy with our new home and the service Karen and KK provided us with our purchase and with selling our home. We don't know of any realtors who would do so much to help us get our home ready to sell. They personally helped up with things we were not capable of doing and then they staged our home for us at no charge. Then they were able to locate a home homeowner in Oregon that had withdrawn their listing in Colonial Beach. They were able to negotiate a price we were comfortable with and now we live in a home we never thought we could afford. We are so happy with our new home and for choosing the right agents that don't mind hard work!

Karen Richmond, quite simply, is a magician. She achieves the impossible. We sold our house four days after putting it on the market. She did so much more than other realtors. She personally staged and transformed our house with our own furniture, cutting out the cost of expensive staging. She had a reasonably-priced handyman paint and add touches that I would never thought of, but which buyers loved. She found us the perfect house to downsize to. What more can I say? I have enthusiastically recommended her to all my friends.

Karen Richmond is an outstanding agent and was a real pleasure to work with. Some friends of ours recommended her to us and we are so grateful that they did! She has an extraordinary knowledge of real estate and she was very dedicated and proactive in helping us find and purchase our home. She was very prompt in responding to us, whether by phone or email, and she did a tremendous amount of work on our behalf. She's always very well prepared and she made sure that we had all of the information we needed, while also scheduling appointments, doing paperwork, and corresponding with the other agents for us. Buying a home is a very intimidating venture, but she made it so easy! Her friendliness and expertise really made it a fun process. We just closed on our home yesterday and I can't believe how effortless she made it for us! I would recommend Karen to anyone buying or selling a home!

Karen is an amazing realtor. She's professional, experienced, diligent, and always available to help. Karen always put our interests as a focus and helped us find the perfect home for our family. She can offer sound and honest advice through out the whole process. I can't say enough wonderful things about her!