La Tierra Properties

Wow. I cannot say enough good things about Carolyn Vatuone and La Tierra Properties.We recently moved to Albuquerque and my husband's company had paired us with a perfectly nice agent, but I wanted to find someone I was more personally comfortable with. A friend of a friend recommended Lisa Giandomenico at La Tierra Properties and we hit it off right away. However, near the beginning of our home search, Lisa decided to take a job outside the real estate sphere, so I decided to try out her business partner, Carolyn. So happy I did.I had been very proactive about my home search, scouring the internet and choosing houses to look at based on the basic parameters we wanted in a home, and Carolyn took me all over the city, and we must have seen nearly 100 homes. She was great, and eventually we chose a home to purchase. Carolyn knew all the right people to help us with that, but I also chose my own people after careful research. We went through an excruciating process with this home, and in the end, the sellers turned out to be nutjobs, the house turned out not to be what it seemed and the whole thing fell through. I was devastated and Carolyn kept me going, encouraging me to continue looking when it seemed I had literally seen every house for sale in the entire city.Just when I began to despair of ever finding anything, Carolyn suggested we look at a home I hadn't even seen online at all. I was skeptical, as it was above our price range, but agreed to see it. It was love at first sight. Carolyn had been with me and listened, paid attention to what I liked and what I wanted, and found exactly the perfect home. It is my dream home, and I cannot believe it's mine. it took almost two months from the first day she opened the door for us, but we moved in three days ago, and I am forever grateful to her for finding it. She knew it was overpriced and we would be able to get it into our range, and she knew it was the house for us. She is brilliant.It was not easy to get this house - Carolyn worked tirelessly and with a smile on her face every moment. I am not usually a difficult person, but when it comes to a huge decision and big dollars like this, I get very picky, very tense, and very easily freaked out. Carolyn was amazing - she knew just how to calm me down, just how to explain everything to me, just how to work through any problem that cropped up. She is truly just amazing, wonderful, fantastic, marvelous - every praising adjective you can think of.When I open the door to my new home I am still amazed it is ours. It took a long time to find it, and it is entirely due to Carolyn's skills as a real estate agent that we ever saw it. I'm sure there are agents out there who just show you houses and do whatever the minimum is to get the job done - Carolyn is NOT one of those people. She is kind, compassionate, caring and an astonishingly hard worker. She was there for me literally every step of the way, and I am frankly not sure what I will do now without her to call on. (Maybe I still will now and then...)You could not do better than to have Carolyn Vatuone as your agent. She is truly amazing and you would be darn lucky to have her find your home. We certainly were.

My husband is in the military which has "given" us the opportunity to work with over 20 realtors in the 32 years, both buying and selling. We have had good and ok realtors so when we came house hunting in the Kirtland AFB, NM area I was just wanting a competent realtor. A friend referred us to Carolyn Vatuone at La Tierrra Properties and boy did we hit pay dirt. Let me just list what impressed us about Carolyn. She was always waiting for us either in the lobby of the hotel or at the properties -- never late! She had a bound booklet (no shuffling of papers throughout the day) which included mls listing, pictures, floor plans, disclosures, and, most importantly, comps of each area. So easy at the end of the day to go to the hotel bar to unwind and review. When we asked for additional information on a listing (like ulitity bills, what the story was on the house next door, property lines, etc.) it was delivered quickly. Never pushy and had just the right amount of input on properties. We are under contract now and excited to be closing soon. You could not go wrong with using Carolyn. Never had a better agent!!!