By Kim Parmon, August 23, 2019
Sometimes, in real estate, we are tasked with making the impossible happen. So it was with Matt and Heidi. After scouring Oregon City (where Matt grew up) for a couple of weeks, we found it: the one! It was on a quiet street. It backed to green space. It had the big garage they wanted. And, best of all, it was below budget. We needed to move fast!
There was only one problem, though: the house they needed to sell before buying wasn’t under contract yet. And the dream house had an offer in! Negotiations with that offer were already underway. When I called Matt to tell him I could hear the defeat in his voice. He was sure we were going to have to start the search all over again.
Sometimes things work out exactly right. As we were strategizing (because where there’s a will there’s a way!) I got a pretty magical phone call: there was an offer coming in on the house we needed to sell. The agent told me what to expect from the offer and it sounded just about perfect. While we waited to officially see it in writing I crafted the offer for the dream house and gave that agent a call to try to halt negotiations with the offer they already had.
The next three hours were tense: we got the offer on Matt and Heidi’s house, went through it, vetted the lender, and accepted it. We submitted the offer on the dream house and held our breath. And then the phone call came in: our offer was accepted! We had pulled it off! We were all giddy from excitement. Days like this are what it’s all about!
Yesterday, Matt and Heidi closed on the house that makes them happy and I couldn’t be more thrilled for them. Congratulations, Matt and Heidi!
Kim Parmon
Principal Broker | Earth Advantage Certified | OR
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Kim Parmon
Principal Broker
Lead Listing Agent
Earth Advantage Certified | OR
kim@livingroomre.com
Oregon is the fifth state that Kim has called home in her life, and this one is sticking! After moving multiple times in her childhood, Kim fully understands how empowering homeownership and having roots is. She loves waking up every day in this beautiful place and wants everyone to experience what it feels like to live in their dream home.
As a kid, Kim spent her free time wandering through open houses and exploring construction sites for the fun of it. After careers in the professional ballroom dance world, the entertainment industry, and the service industry, Kim stumbled into real estate as both a passion and a profession through the purchase of her first bungalow. After renovating it with her husband and selling it for enough of a profit to pay off their debt as well as buy a new house to live in, everything clicked: she decided to get her real estate license and help her community experience the emotional and financial benefits of homeownership.
Kim put down roots in Portland in 2015 and has cultivated a referrals-based business throughout the years. She understands that real estate is a service and the experience she gives her clients is first-rate. She works hard to anticipate needs. She is responsive, thorough, empathic, and a skilled negotiator who enjoys market analytics and strategy as much as she enjoys connecting with her clients. Her ethics and reputation are the cornerstones of her business and the happiness of her clients is the yardstick that she measures success against.
Kim merged her business with the best agents in Portland at the beginning of 2022, which has allowed her to give her clients more resources, more advocacy, and a top-notch real estate experience. She is honored to be a part of her incredible team and feels lucky to go to work every day.
In her free time, you'll find Kim enjoying lazy evenings by the fire with her husband, daughter, and rescue dogs. She loves dancing, live music, exploring all of the beautiful places around us in the PNW, enjoying a cider and a good meal with friends, and browsing Powell's for a great new book.
Andee Ziegler
Licensed Listing Team Operations Manager
andee@livingroomre.com
Loving where you live will change your life. Everyone deserves that joy. For me, real estate has been a way of nurturing my community and doing what I can to help people find stability, grow generational wealth, and create a little space of their own in the world.
For 15 years I found the most joy in helping first-time homebuyers, guiding my peers through their first major investment and dreaming up what home means for them. I’ve done restoration work on homes from a variety of eras, 1894 Victorian farmhouse to classic 1950’s ranch. I enjoy empowering new homeowners with the knowledge I’ve garnered over the years, from systems to finishes.
In 2022 I joined forces with some of the best realtors in the biz and shifted my focus to operation management for listings. This welcome change opened up space in my life: more cake, less pants.
Andee Zeigler | Licensed Listing Team Operations Manager | andee@livingroomre.com
Jessica LeDoux | Lead Buyer Agent | Broker Licensed in Oregon | jessica@livingroomre.com
Karim Alaeddine | Operations | Principal Broker Licensed in Oregon | karim@livingroomre.com
Jenessa VanZutphen | Buyer Operations Manager | Licensed in Oregon | jenessa@livingroomre.com
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