AMAZING to Work With

Kimberly and her entire team was AMAZING to work with. We were selling our first home and she made the process so simple and easy. Everyone at the Kimberly Johnston Group were available any time of day if we had questions and were immediately calling us with updates. They became part of our family and we will be recommending her to everyone we know.

Kris

Professional Skills with a Kind and Perceptive Touch

Galen and I have moved 10 times in our 37 years of marriage and there is definitely no other agent who has given us the degree of service you have. Not only that, we feel like you have become a lifelong friend. Think about it…we met seven years ago in July and felt strongly enough about the connection we made with you back in 1999 that there was no question that we would ask for your help again. You have an amazing way of combining your truly professional skills with a kind and perceptive touch. You and your wonderful team have figured out a way to provide ‘calm’ in a potentially tense and difficult time, and because of that, we have nothing but great memories of our last two moves with you! You are, without a doubt, a total professional in the job you do, and yet, you have such a kind, instinctively caring side to you… it’s a joy to work with you.

Rosie and Galen Muse

Outstanding Character and Integrity

We have enjoyed working with Kimberly. She is professional and represents her clients with outstanding character and integrity.

Kimberly is very diplomatic yet sincere with her negotiations as she sold our home and helped with the purchase of our new home. We recommend Kimberly without reservation.

Kit and John Ford

Did a Great Job Selling Our House

Kimberly and her team did a great job selling our house that came on the market just as the sub-prime wave hit. Aside from the strong execution on the marketing side, Kimberly gave us the right advice as the market changed. Throughout the entire process Kimberly always said yes whenever we asked her to try something. We also appreciated the team’s tenacity in following up with updates and feedback on a regular basis.

Doug Stotland
Director of Product Management
Microsoft

Appreciated Your Business Acumen and Efforts

You did a terrific job in marketing our townhouse in Bellevue. We both appreciated your business acumen and efforts. We would be honored to recommend you as a professional in the industry.

Don & Linda Viera

You Delivered on Every Promise!

Thanks Kimberly to you and your team for the GREAT job you all did! We’ll take the credit for being wise enough to hire you guys, but you all certainly get the credit for the heavy lifting and delivering on the sale. You delivered on every promise you made…and then some! Sign me up as a referral!

Blessings,
Roger and Barb Van Houten
Microsoft

Thanks for the OUTSTANDING Service!

I just wanted to drop you a quick letter to sincerely thank you for the absolutely excellent job you and your team did on the selling of my home. Initially, I was impressed with your market analysis and marketing strategy that you had outlined for me, and you may recall that I had not even met you. You pulled pictures of my home and had a good idea of the best way to structure the marketing plan in preparation of our first meeting. Well, I must say that made a great initial impression.

As you can probably understand, like most of your first time clients, I was watchful to see if you came through on all your promises. Kimberly, one of the things I like about you most is THAT YOU DO WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO DO! You and your team were fantastic. The service was professional and I am extremely happy with the outcome.

Thank you again! Please know that I will not hesitate one bit to refer you anyone I know that is buying or selling a home. I am completely confident that you will help them to be as pleased with the process as I was.

Sincerely,

Randall T. Becker, CFP®
President
Financial & Estate Strategies, Inc.

You Really Out Do Yourself…

Hi Kimberly, I don’t know if I got the chance to thank you for the wonderful gift about a week ago!!! You really out do yourself and are a perfect example of how to run a business and treat your customers. You really go the extra mile.

Jeff Alfers and Cathy Friis

A Very Dynamic Group

I anticipated that a quick sale at this time of the year and economic situation seemed unlikely and would like to thank you especially for your extensive marketing efforts and resources which made a sale and closing possible in just under 6 weeks after listing. I would also like to praise the whole Kimberly Johnston Group, since you all seem to work as a very dynamic group. I would like to thank Kimberly for her professional and expert advice on decisions and for making me feel completely comfortable in dealing with her during this transaction. I am glad to have found her and I will do business with her in the future!

A. Celli

Great Commitment to Excellence

I have had the pleasure of dealing with Kimberly Johnston through 3 complete transactions, over the past seven years. Plus, there have been other occasions where I have received some advice from Kimberly on other real estate related issues that I have encountered, and she was always able to put me in contact with the correct resources to fully help me with my issues. She always did this with pleasure, even when she had no transaction pending with me.

Kimberly has a great commitment to excellence, and has never exerted any pressure on us to do what did not feel right. Over the years, we have referred many people to Kimberly, and they all have been very pleased with her services. Her commitment to each of her clients continues long after the closing is complete.

K. Adamson
Costco Wholesale
Manager POS/Fuel Systems Development and Support

Kimberly is Perfect for the Job!

Even though I have know Kimberly for years, this was the first time I worked with her professionally. She helped me get in touch with the right resources to get pre-approved for a new home loan which was really becoming quite challenging. It was taking more than three months with the last person I was working with and still had not got approved. With Kimberly’s guy it was two weeks and I was good to go! When I was searching for my new home, she was always available to see properties with me and help me see all the pros and cons so I could make a sound decision. I also used Kimberly and her team to sell my old house. They were awesome! They were always available when I had questions and were on top of things all along the way with constant updates when they happened. Even when we had a minor setback with a buyer and the deal fell through, her team was all over it and reassured me not to worry. A few days later, two full price offers cam in. Kimberly and her team fought for me and that’s what I needed. I needed a strong team to support me through this process since I was doing this alone for the first time. I can’t begin to thank you enough Kimberly for the wonderful job you all did! Next time, you are absolutely my first call! I feel very blessed to have you as a friend and my agent. Elise, Ashley, and I are all so very thankful for all your help and support through this process.

Vicki Wagner

Our Second Successful Encounter with the Kimberly Johnston Group

In 2011, Kimberly and her team helped us sell our Newcastle rental home. Her team helped us make the best of this starter home, helping it to stand out when the market was really slow. In the end, we had 3 offers to choose from, giving us more flexibility to pick the new owner that matched our needs.

More recently, in March, 2015, we again employed the Kimberly Johnston group to sell our Newport Hills house. Candi, part of the group, helped stage the house with our furnishings and our accessories. The house never looked so good. I was thinking that we should have had Candi give us advice years ago. The pictures were gorgeous.

Kimberly showed us reasonable comparable listings, and helped us determine a reasonable price. We are long term Newport Hills residents, so we know the neighborhood well. But Kimberly helped put all our knowledge in perspective.

The weekend our house hit the MLS listings was a full-on blitzkrieg. All the major websites were up Thursday morning, and we had people walking through by Thursday afternoon. The rest of the weekend was a blur, we had an open house on Saturday. Several prospective buyers had building inspectors in on Sunday and Monday. By Monday evening, we had 5 written offers. We were overwhelmed with the response – neither of us expected anything like this. Kimberly’s negotiation skill and knowledge of the real estate transaction process was invaluable, we ended up with an agreement that was 12% over our asking price. I attribute most of this to Kimberly’s arbitration skills.

We are, of course, very satisfied with our relationship with the Kimberly Johnston group. We always got timely responses to our questions. Kimberly also worked to our timeline; we were neither pushed nor neglected. They did a wonderful job.

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Made Us Feel Like Her Only Clients

Kimberly has touched our lives in a very special way by helping us find our perfect home. Our search lasted almost a year, and through the entire period Kimberly’s infectious optimism and energy kept our spirits high. Market conditions were adverse to the buyer when we were looking, with low supply, multiple offer situations, and escalations significantly over list price being par for the course. In these conditions, it was crucial that we responded quickly to any new home that came on the market. Kimberly was greatly responsive in this regard. She helped us view homes at short notice and was always flexible enough to work around our busy work schedules. When she was not in a position to personally help us with a viewing, she was always resourceful enough to find someone– also very pleasant and helpful – to fill in for her.

In addition Kimberly was accommodative of our special needs. For e.g. we had requested data on key market metrics going back several years (price trends, number of offers per listing etc.). Kimberly worked with her associates to get the data to us. Also for some homes we needed to get estimates for repairs needed before we could decide how much we’d like to offer. Kimberly arranged for her personal contractor to help us with this – someone whom we have continued to work with since we bought our home (and he’s been great as well). Our kids loved Kimberly too. As most home buyers with kids can attest, children do not make viewings easy for parents. Kimberly was particularly effective with our daughters, keeping them engaged, and allowing us to view the homes in relative peace.

Kimberly’s effervescence and people skills were a boon to us while making offers and during post-offer negotiations. She was able to leverage her rapport with the selling agents and other realtors in the Seattle area to provide us with key bits of information needed to enable us to make quick offer decisions. She works with an extremely competent support network. Her assistant LeAnne and others in her office we had a chance to work with were all unfailingly prompt and courteous. The mortgage lending team she works with is absolutely top notch. Our loan application closed in two weeks flat. The transaction was very transparent to us from the beginning, and the interest rate we got compared favorably with those offered by the other large lenders in the industry.

In summary, we would be happy to work with her again. While she is extremely busy, and one of the hardest working individuals we know, she made us feel like her only clients.

Girish Subramanian

I Would Not Hesitate to Recommend Her

Kimberly represented us to sell our home. She is always available when I have any questions or concern about any subject which is un expected coming up. Kimberly is pleasant, understanding, reasonable and know the market. She is always there for me from the beginning before I signed the contract to have her as a representative to the end of our home closing. I would do it again with her if I ever need to buy/sell a home in Seattle area and I would not hesitate to recommend her to any one who I know.

Betsy Lou