Northern Virginia Real Estate

My wife and I have known Earle and Stan Whitmore since December of 2000. They have been our Real Estate Agents and life coaches since we have known them. We have purchased 2 homes and sold 2 homes with them. Earle and Stan are well established agents that do not need clients, they want clients. There is a vast difference between agents who do their jobs motivated by money versus agents who love what they do and make sure their clients are making the best possible real estate decisions. This is Earle and Stan. With Earle and Stan Whitmore as my agents I feel safe knowing that any decision I make at the end of the day will be made with the best possible information to support my decision. They truly take care of business the way things are supposed to be done and with the utmost respect for their clients.

From the first time that I interviewed Earle as a potential agent, I knew that she was the one I trusted to sell our townhouse. She displayed a remarkable knowledge of not only the real estate environment but she had done her homework on our property before we met. Her communication skills are excellent and she listened to what my husband and I wanted but also gave us good advice. After we signed the contract, we knew that we were in good hands as the saying goes. She pays attention to every detail and her support staff is just the best. The house sold in 5 days and it was absolutely hassle free and a wonderful experience. I would recommend her to anyone.

In March 2010, my husband and my Fairfax County, single family home went up for sale in one of the most challenging real estate markets in American history, within 48 hours received interest from several, strong prospective buyers , and went under contract in a matter of weeks for full asking price with the buyer offering to pay all closing costs!

When sharing our story with family, friends and colleagues, we are often asked how we managed to accomplish our objective of selling our home at full asking price in a down market. We tell them we received accurate information regarding market conditions in our zip code and surrounding area, expert knowledge on the state of the local and national real estate market, and wisdom and expertise from one of the industry’s long term and successful realtors, Earle Whitmore. Earle and her team have helped my husband and I buy and sell multiple homes in the last decade. Earle has always supplied us with the proper information, tools, and strategic guidance to help us make successful decisions in prepping our homes for sale, listing at the most beneficial price point, and successfully negotiating on our behalf in the purchase of new homes.

Earle strives for excellence and we are appreciative to have had her as our listing agent. I am confident that we will continue our long term client relationship and log new success stories in the future. We respect and trust Earle and confidently recommend her service to our family, friends, and colleagues.

Earle,

We want to express our sincere appreciation for the tremendous service you and your staff (Stan and Shannon) provided to us in the sale of our townhouse in Springfield, Virginia. You provided conservative, spot-on advise for preparing our home for sale. Your marketing using the Internet and impressive hardcopy documentation yielded near-immediate results - 2 offers within 2 days; 5 offers in 5 days! Your experience and your calming, professional attitude were evident throughout - most especially when you got us almost immediately back on track when our first prospective buyers changed their mind one week after signing their sales contract... and today at closing. And, you never missed a detail.

We MOST appreciated your honesty and candor. You never pulled your punches, and you never failed to keep a promise. We have not - or will not - miss an opportunity to highly recommend you to any prospective client.

Very sincerely,

Rather than just showing me houses to buy, Earle instead took a different approach with me. She took the time to educate me on the Washington DC housing market. She patiently showed me houses that could work, and houses that she knew wouldn't work. By taking this approach, she could quickly gauge what would be the right house for my family. This approach was very time consuming for Earle. But, in the end, it turned out to be the most effective way. We love our new home and couldn't have done it without Earle.

Earle -

I just wanted to drop you a note to express our sincere thanks for the tremendous job you and your marvelous team did in getting our home sold so quickly. Hulda and I certainly appreciate the fact that this didn't happen by accident. At the end of the day, it was the result of lots of hard work by knowledgeable, dedicated and committed professionals.

Thanks to all -

Earle did a fantastic job in helping me buy my first home in the DC area. She was patient as we looked through zillions of condos, and even as I suspended my search for several months. Once we found the perfect place, she and her team of professionals made the inspection, efficient, professional and--dare I say?--fun process.

Thanks, Earle!

Earle,

Thank you very much for your assistance and guidance provided for the purchase of my first home! I could not have done this without you and your team!

Dear Earle, Stan and Shannon,

I want to thank you all for your excellence and professionalism during our home buying adventure. We have been very busy painting, nailing, screwing and measuring since closing. None of which would have been possible without you all. Words cannot express our happiness.

Hello Earle,

I want to thank you, Stan, and Shannon once again for representing me well and for all the work (and specifically, your attention to all details) during the extensive processes of selling our condo, and purchasing our new home. I know you guys all worked hard for Belinda and me, and we truly appreciate it.

Also, I want to let you know that I did receive the "rent back" deposit from Gateway title yesterday.

Earle,

Thank you so much for helping me to sell my condo and find the perfect place to live in Reston. Your full service team felt like a family. I know your recommendations on staging my condo and the timing to put it on the market was key in it selling so quickly. Anyone selling in Pinecrest should be using you as a realtor! Your suggestion for me to find a short term rental until I find the right area to buy a house was right on. I love my new home. The neighborhood is perfect and meets all my needs. Thanks again for everything.

We love our new home! Thank you to you, Stan and Jennifer for all the hard work and attention given to us. From beginning to end (the welcome basket was a sweet surprise) our experience has been 5 Star!!

If you fined yourself nearby, please do give a call--a visit for some coffee or tea and to chat would be delightful.

Two months ago we decided to list our home with Earle and we haven't regretted it! In this uncertain market, we felt we were "testing the waters" by listing, but with Earle's expert help our townhouse sold in just a few days with 3 solid offers! We were very please with the way our home was presented on her website: great photos and a detailed floor plan so on-line browsers could easily envision our house. Earle got us listed on all the best websites to create a lot of traffic on-line and to our property. In the few days our home was on the market we had 20 to 30 prospective buyers and agents visit. Earle presented our offers in great detail and provided insight on pros and cons of each. Our sale and closing went without a hitch due to Earle's great attention to detail.

To Whom It May Concern:
I would like to take this letter to recommend Earle Whitmore and her team at Long and Foster Realty. February 2009 Earle successfully and quickly helped us sell our home during turbulent times in the economy and real estate market. We are very grateful we chose her as our agent.
When choosing the agent to sell our home, we thoroughly and painstakingly researched all agents with experience and listings in the Northern Virginia area. We came up with a handful of candidates with whom we interviewed. All were qualified, but Earle was impressive. She was the first to respond to our call, had many valuable and original ideas for preparing our home for sale, and was realistic about the price our home could receive (several other realtors gave us prices we felt were unattainable and were merely using the attractive amount to lure us into their office, but our home would never sell or appraise for those amounts). The most important aspect of Earle’s team is their communication; we were always able to easily reach Earle. Her office was always contacting us by sending email updates concerning comparison homes for sale in our area and updates on market trends, and calling us with feedback from buyers and other agents. Her communication was invaluable, and looking back I know it made the process of selling our home much easier and more efficient.
Save yourself the time and effort by utilizing our extensive research of Realtors in the Virginia area. If you are looking for a true professional with experience and amazing communication skills, then look no further! Earle and her team are the best Virginia has to offer.

Just a quick but sincere note to thank you. You’re the best Realtor I’ve had in 30 years. In this housing environment you listed and sold my house in one day. Who can beat that record? I “brag” about you to all my friends and business associates. YOU’RE THE BEST!!

Words cannot express my sincere gratitude for the tremendous service you and your staff provided to me. From our very first meeting all the way to closing and after closing, you live by your mission statement. During the down slope of the housing market your guidance, education, recommendation and mostly your honesty, qualities of a true Realtor, who lives by her mission statement. Together all these qualities led to my successful purchase of my new home, I’m very thankful to have been referred to you. I would enthusiastically recommend you to any future buyers or sellers I come in contact with.

We received confirmation from the bank that our home loan is paid in full. We both breathed a collective sigh of relief–you probably heard us. Thank you for looking out for our interests and making what was painful fiscal process for us bearable. It was reassuring to know you and Stan were anticipating the next steps. Hope all is well in Annandale.

I choose Earle to sell my investment property because I felt that if anyone could sell my condo in this scary market it would be her. She was the agent for the person who sold me my current home 10 years ago. I was impressed with how she conducted business then and I was very impressed with how she continued to market her services to me since our original encounter. If you use her and listen to her, you will not be disappointed.

The house is great. Thanks!. Just trying to get settled and unpacked but we are very happy.

Thanks for all your help in this process! We really appreciated your willingness to work with us from day one to find a home that truly fit us. Buying a home is no small task, but you made it feel much less daunting. Your thoroughness and advocacy on our behalf to ensure we were well informed consumers was much appreciated. We were so pleased with our experience with you are so happy in our new home!

We’ll let you know when our baby arrives. Thanks for all the help and good wishes.

Dear Earle and Team–thank you so much for your sustained superior efforts in finding us just the right buyer! You are the BEST!

Now that we’ve worked on the house, moved our stuff in, painted over (most of) the pink, and looked around, we can’t believe we have a house. We know you put in countless hours to make sure we ended up with the right place which we appreciate so much because this was the only house we both agreed on. I am shocked and awed at how much time it takes to go to closing, and know you all did more than we could ever comprehend. We are so thankful that you put in all that hard work. We can’t thank you enough for helping us buy our fist home.

The purpose of this note is to thank you for the excellent professional services that you provided to us in expeditiously selling our home in Annandale, Virginia. Your advertising of the property, compensated for a severe buyers market with an excess of properties for sale and a poor number of sales in the months proceeding the sale of our house. Your superb management skills extended to the closing date where you not only represent our interests but also dealt with a difficult buyer. I have only admiration for you business skills and would seek your assistance if we need to sell another property.

Entering the real estate market as a seller at the worst time ever, I researched the Internet for someone with outstanding credentials and excellent references and fortunately “found” you, highly recommended by all. You knew the market, gave me an honest assessment of what I was facing, whether I wanted to hear it or not, and always kept me informed.

Earle, you are one talented and knowledgeable professional. You advised me what action I needed to take to make my house show as well as possible. You marketed my house wisely to gain maximum exposure using the Internet and appropriate mailings, you sold the house, and you accompanied me to settlement.

While, of course, all this was important, what I appreciated the most, Earle, was you honesty. You never held back, and you kept your promises on all counts. You earned my respect and I would highly recommend you to any prospective buyer or seller.

I have had the pleasure of working with Earle several times both to buy and sell homes. She is extremely knowledgeable and goes the extra mile by providing referrals for your mortgage, home inspection, closing, etc. I would definitely use Earle again and would recommend her to my family and friends.

Earle Whitmore knows how to sell real estate! Earle gave sage counsel in pricing and showing my house so it sold quickly–while other comparable homes were languishing.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work, dedication and professionalism during the most stressful time of our lives. We appreciate your efforts to keep us informed throughout the entire process of selling our home and for maintaining a calm demeanor even when we were beginning to unravel! It was a very emotional and humbling experience for us and we were grateful to have your expertise and guidance in helping us through it.

Earle Whitmore sold my primary residence in the second half of 2008. She did it a declining market. Earle helped me get a fair price and she sold my home on the comparatively aggressive time line I requested. I have worked with Earle for 15 years. She has sold two homes for me. She is about to help me identify and procure a new primary residence.

I do business with Earle and I recommend her without hesitation, reservation or qualification - particularly in difficult market conditions - for the following reasons:

* Earle knows the Washington area housing market, and she knows it cold. In her several decades of experience assisting clients buying and selling homes in good and bad markets she can and does provide exceptional guidance. Earle knows what she is doing, and she represents her clients and their interests exceptionally well.
* Earle values around honesty, integrity, reliability and industry are beyond reproach. I can always count on Earle to do the right thing when I am not looking. No one works harder and with higher standards than Earle.
* Communication: Earle remains in frequent and regular contact with me when getting my home ready for sale, through the marketing period and through closing.
* Expertise: Earle knows exactly how to price and market my home – how to set it apart from competitive properties. Her guidance and recommendations prove unfailingly accurate.
* Confidence, candor and patience: Earle sells homes because she believes in her formidable ability to do so in all kinds of market conditions. Through candor and honesty she manages my expectations. She offers her best counsel and patiently, very patiently, waits for me to embrace here guidance and move forward.
* Creativity: Earle made innovative marketing recommendations that I adopted and that were directly responsible for bringing the right buyer to the home she sold for me in the second half of 2008. Her solution maintained sales price while moving the property within six weeks of putting it on the market.

Your service was above and beyond measure-- not only was your advice calming in a chaotic market, but supported by data and years of experience. I could not have asked for a more judiciously attentive broker. Thank you for all your help and getting the impossible done in such short notice. I would unreservedly recommend you to anyone coming into the area.