A Year of Firsts

Welcome to the MOVE Realty Blog!

Each Monday a new blog post will feature all things housing. What does that mean? We are the resource for updates in our community, what the real estate market looks like, who to contact to update and improve your home, what is important to know about financing and anything you can think of regarding your home buying and selling experience. 

MOVE Realty stands for Making Opportunities of Value for Everyone! We believe in creating opportunities for everyone in our community, everyone involved in the real estate transaction, all of clients and all those here at MOVE Realty. 

Sometimes our paths in life choose us, and real estate definitely chose me. In 2000, at age 19, I bought my first home. I was determined to move out on my own, and came to know my values at a very young age. I quickly found myself with no car, no cell phone, no money, no job, no college degree and no family support. Due to our misalignment with values, I was cut off. I passed my real estate exam, interviewed with several companies and finally one of them allowed me to hang my license. I sold 2 houses my first week, paid my college tuition for the semester, bought a car on credit and started my career. 

Continuing this trend, I commuted an hour one direction each day for the next four years to college while selling real estate. Upon graduation, I was making more than my professors, had scholarships and was student teacher of the year. Real estate chose me, and the clients who have chosen me since have supported my children, PowerWomen and the agents at MOVE Realty. I am forever grateful!

_{Claire with her children, Henry (15) and Catherine (18)}

After becoming single in 2015 a new journey ensued. Heartbreak lead to Little Rock PowerWomen being launched in 2018 with the only purpose of gaining help with carpool, needing a mom night out and connection. (You can read all about this in my book!) Quickly, my need was every woman’s need, and Little Rock PowerWomen went viral. We are now over 32,000 women, and growing, helping one another every second of the day. Once again, I have the honor and privilege to watch God’s hand move within this community and be the vessel. Being able to fund events for PowerWomen has only been because of the clients and agents with MOVE Realty. You will never know how much you have helped impact our community! I’m more grateful for you than you will ever understand. 

This database of PowerWomen is incredible! Did you know 80% of consumerism in our country is determined by women? Who chose your last home? Not who negotiated or paid for it. By way of PowerWomen and MOVE Realty, we have 20% of the consumer population in our database, and they receive our newsletter each month with all our properties and what our buyers are searching for. We have been given the opportunity to go directly to the consumer. What has been given with PowerWomen is used to help others. This is both within the community at large and within MOVE Realty. It is because of PowerWomen that our database exceeds 40,000 within Central Arkansas. 

It is a privilege and an honor when we are allowed to help during a real estate transaction. The top 5 reasons people MOVE are: Divorce, Death, Marriage, Birth and Relocation. These are some of the most difficult and intimate times of a person's life, and they trust and allow us to walk with them through the journey. Real Estate is not pretty houses, contracts, negotiations, staging or anything you might have heard in a fancy presentation. It is being able to sit with others, hear them, understand their needs, know the details of their situation and property and then have the ability to create the opportunity for them to get their goal accomplished. That is how we MOVE! This only happens through community, experience, education, mentorship and a helluva lot of skill! 

This blog will be only one tool in which we help you MOVE! I am so excited to share with you the upcoming posts from community leaders, local companies, our agents and many others! If you have topics or questions you would like to see or have answered, please comment and let us know! 

It has and will always be my goal to be the Broker/Owner I never had and have always needed in order to grow others and make a larger impact in our community. Let us know how we can help you MOVE! 

With Gratitude,

Principal Broker/Owner

www.themoverealty.com