I had just been transferred from Los Angeles to Orlando and the thought of selling our home in LA and finding a new one in an area that we knew absolutely nothing about was daunting. On doing a search for Orlando area realtors from our home in LA, we stumbled on to John with Centurion Realty Group?s information. He had previous ties to the midwest and was able to work with us in finding a local Orlando community that was similar to what we were used to in LA. During the process of selling our home and buying a home in the Winter Springs area, we had to go in to the new home buying process with contingencies, based on the closing of the home in LA. We made an offer on a house we thought was perfect, way bigger than what we could ever hope to get before. The owners accepted the offer John presented; we gave them a promissory deposit. However, then the house in LA fell out of escrow and the purchaser was not able to secure his loan. That left us in a pinch with the sellers we were working with in Winter Springs. John handled all of the details, we were given an extension to sell the house in LA, and John even worked with our agent in California to get the house sold. Unfortunately, our house sat unsold for a couple of months. We lost the house in Winter Springs, but John was able to get our deposit back, and he continued to work to get us in a home in the Winter Springs area. He called our agent in California frequently to find out the status of the sale. The house finally went back in to escrow with a new buyer, and John coordinated all of the details and timing with our agent to get the timing just right for us to go and find another house to make a solid offer on. He came back to us with a big grin on his face and told us he found the perfect house in Winter Springs, the adjacent town to Rockwall. We were not very happy about it until he told us that due to a quirky county line, the new house was on the Winter Springs county side of the line and we would still be in the Winter Springs school district. We took a look at the house and made an offer almost immediately. We ended up with a very nice house and saved about $40,000 on the purchase price from what we were going to pay on the house that fell out!! John was a rock during the entire process and since buying and selling a home is stress enough if everything goes perfectly, we were very fortunate to have had him as our realtor with all the problems we had on selling our old house. If anybody were to ask me for a reference on a Real Estate professional, I would not hesitate for a second to recommend John and the team at Centurion Realty Group. He's that rare customer service guy that you can only read about from days gone by.
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