We recently worked with Ryan Cooper to both sell our house and to purchase our new home. Ryan is a highly professional and caring person who carefully listens to your wants and needs to develop a solid understanding of your real estate goals. In selling our house, Ryan's experience and knowledge of the real estate market allowed him to provide a reasonable initial asking price that would attract potential buyers. He provided helpful advice for decluttering and staging the house to ensure that it would show well. He was always available to answer questions and replied in a timely matter. Selling a house is a stressful experience, but Ryan was a calming influence providing sage advice throughout the process. When we received an offer Ryan worked with us to develop a reasonable counter offer. He explained every step of the negotiation process and made sure that we fully understood every step along the way. Under Ryan's confident guidance, we closed the deal at a price above what we were willing to settle for. The added bonus, with 1% Realty we were able to keep a larger portion of the sale price to put towards our new home. In our quest to find a new home, once again, Ryan made himself available any time we found a house that we were interested in seeing. When visiting a house, Ryan would let us wander around on own while he did the same. As someone who visits many houses, Ryan clearly has some "look fors" that he keeps an eye out for. When he spotted anything of concern, he would calmly point it out to us as something we should consider or be aware of. This was very helpful in helping us in our decision making. He was happy to answer all of our questions or would reach out to the listing agent to get answers to from the owners to questions of concern. We never felt any pressure, Ryan truly cared about helping us find the perfect "dream home" within our budget. When we found the house that would become our new home, Ryan's experience allowed us to propose a serious and reasonable offer. To ensure the house was in good condition, Ryan provided us with an excellent certified house inspector who performed a very thorough inspection of the house. During the inspection he pointed out any deficiencies and rated them in terms of their importance (ie; things that should be addressed immediately, things to keep an eye on, things not critical that can wait). After the inspection, Ryan advocated on our behalf with an offer conditional on the owner addressing specific concerns. Again, Ryan ensured that we were fully involved in the negotiation process and understanding each step in the process. His calmness, knowledge and confidence helped keep our stress level in check and allowed us to reach a closing price that was within our budget. Buying and selling a home is a very difficult experience that can be a scary and unsettling time in a family's life. Ryan's kind and friendly personality along with his no pressure approach made the process enjoyable. Ryan's professional knowledge and experience allowed him to efficiently take care of all of the important details behind the scenes which made our life so much easier. My wife and I are very happy that we chose Ryan Cooper to represent us in this important process and we would highly recommend him to anyione looking to buy or sell a home.