This is a gentleman that you will love, starting with his multiple calls to you to let you know how your sale is proceeding, to calling you from his vacation in Punta Cana to make sure that everything is proceeding as it should, as he did with us. He always started his conversations with his chipper way of saying “Hello Patricia, who is your friend” laughing all the while. Ahmed never stopped selling our condo, from the beginning he used every avenue to advertise and get people to see what a great property we had. He had a few suggestions to make our place sell better and it did. Before we signed Ahmed to sell our place we were listed with another Realtor for eight months and had two offers both of which fell through on the appraisal. With Ahmed preceded to closing with no problems, he know how to work the system to get top dollar for you. Our experience with Ahmed Arafa has been wonderful. He’s very professional and knows his business, whether to sell a property or negotiate to purchase your ideal future home.

When we went to sell our condo the first time, we had only one offer. We kept it on the market for about three months then we asked our realtor to take it off the market. We almost immediately got a letter from Ahmed. We didn’t pay attention. We fixed up the condo, and were getting ready to put it back on the market, and decided we should hear him out;  doing the same thing (with the same realtor) and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Although we were freshening the place up, we thought a fresh perspective with a different real estate professional was the sane thing to do.

When I met Ahmed the first time, he explained to me his personal metrics; how to judge his performance based on past (charted) results. My old agent never provided anything like this.

Next he started breaking down and analyzing my MLS listing, which by the way, I was astute enough to smell the rat when it came up as “withheld”. Ask Ahmed to explain. When I actually unlisted with the agent, every agent in a 50 mile radius swamped my mailbox. Ahmed was astute enough to smell the rat when it came up as “withheld”.

Then he outlined how to value my property. How simple “by the square foot, by the neighborhood” stuff does not work. Things like relative size and FHA approval actually affect the price.

Next he outlined what he would do differently: in detail. My old agent was a smooth talker, easy to listen to, but was light on details. Ahmed can explain this better that I can.

When I finally listed with Ahmed, I could tell he thought the fixing up I did was overkill (he was probably right), but he never said anything. Whatever; we were under contract within a week after listing with him.

There are several detail points he predicted that came true I will not list here (like who would be offering for the property), but I have already talked on long enough. I wish Ahmed all the best. If you choose to list with him, I think you are making a good choice.