Service:

• Provides the ultimate level of customer service you hope for when you enter into a real estate transaction.
• Utilizes online forms and contracts with electronic signing available to all parties to streamline the process.
• Offers live video tours for out-of-state clients and home tour videos for listings.
• Researches the real estate market for you, negotiates optimal pricing, and coordinates the details of your deal.
• Assists you to make practical and realistic decisions about your real estate sale, purchase, rental or investment.
• Maintains a strong sense of dedication to clients, acts professionally, with a sense of humor, confidence, honesty, and
warmth that will help with negotiating your real estate transaction.

Experience:

• Certified Negotiation Expert ®
• Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR® designation), Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council, Inc.
• Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource (SFR) Certified, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®
• Real Estate Owned Specialist Training Course, American Real Estate University
• Accredited Staging Professional® (ASP®) Real Estate Agent
• REALTOR-ASSOCIATE® Golden Key Realty, Inc., Martinsville, NJ (2009-present)
• Master of Education, Counseling Psychology and Guidance, Rutgers Graduate School of Education
• Distinguished career at Rutgers, The State University of NJ, spanning 32 years
• Award for Sustained Academic Excellence, Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences, 2007
• Significant contributions and impact on both a state and national level with various cooperative education organizations.

Associations:
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®
• SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® and NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®
• Hilton Head Area Association of REALTORS® and Middlesex and Hunterdon/Somerset Board of Realtors ®
• Multiple Listing Services: Hilton Head (including Bluffton), Garden State, Middlesex County, and TREND
Community
• Annual Fundraiser/Walker, CROP Walk for Hunger
• Resume Writing/Job Search Coach
• Member, Chancel Choir and Member, Wesley Ringers Bluffton UMC

Personal:
• After vacationing in the Hilton Head area for several years, moved from Martinsville, New Jersey to Sun City--Riverbend
• Married since 1994 to James Rutgers, Broker Realtor, Keller Williams and Owner, Rutgers Real Estate Photography
• Step-sons, Christopher and Geoffrey, both married, with children
• Pets: Clay (Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier), Gilly (Calico Cat), and Leonard (Goffin Cockatoo)