Selling your house
I list it, I price it, I book the photographer, I sit through the inspection, and I handle the eighty small things you would rather not spend your evenings on.
Justin Schlachterman · Columbia, South Carolina
Northern Grit with
Southern Charm.
Justin SchlachtermanColumbia, SC
Carolina Yankee Realty
Broker-in-Charge · Residential · Columbia and the Midlands
Where the name comes from.
I grew up in New Jersey. I have lived and worked in South Carolina long enough to know both places well, and the name is the shortest way I have found to say that.
I answer my phone. I give you a straight answer, including when it is not the one you were hoping for.
The Yankee half is the joke. The Carolina half is home.
What I actually do
Residential onlyBuying one
I am in and out of houses all over the Midlands most weeks, so when we walk through one together I already know what the street has been doing and what is getting built nearby.
Moving down from up north
I did it myself. I know which of the things you are picturing will hold up down here and which ones will not, and I would rather tell you now than let you find that out later.
Jersey to Carolina
The numbers do make sense.
I hear that one a lot. Somebody sells up north, drives down, opens a listing sheet, and none of it lines up against what they just left.
They are just built out of different parts — different taxes, different insurance, different lot sizes, different everything. I can walk you through it in about ten minutes, and I will not pretend the answer always lands in your favor.
I look at houses all week.
Most of my week is spent inside other people's houses. That is the appraisal side of what I do, and it is the reason I am not guessing when I talk to you about yours.
Walk into a house and the kitchen is what pulls your eye. I am also looking at the roofline, the grade of the lot, the age of the systems, and what actually sold three streets over.
Ask me before you spend the money, not after.
Call me. That is genuinely the whole process.
If you are thinking about selling in the next year, the useful conversation happens before you list, not after. There is no script on the other end of this and nobody is going to add you to a list.
803.830.9005
Or email justin@carolinayankeerealty.com and I will call you back.